Why Orange???

Yes, orange is my favorite colour. (Green is also, though.)


Since I have been here in Vancouver, I saw admirably beautiful sunset many times. It is like orange changes to ruby, then melts into navy blue. I feel it so mysterious. In Tokyo, the process of it is nearly same, but feels like orange is more like yellow, and the moment changing into the dark is really short. This is my impression. It is very difficult to express about the things like this by words.

Actually, my blogname is coming from my nickname in my childfood. It means "orange"(as fruits) in Japanese. To be exact, it is more like "tangerine", though "TangerineLife" isn't sound good, is it?



I wrote only about my listening at my first posting, I should mention about the rest of the questions.

There is a typical problem for us as non-native speakers. Of course, I faced this problem many times. When we talk to someone face to face, we can communicate even there are some grammatical, structural problem in the sentences. However, when we talk to someone on the phone, we would face a huge problem just to tell a small thing. What to know from this, when we speak we not only use our voice but many alternative functions e.g. eye contact, actions (body language) ,facial expressions etc...and highly depend on them. When only our voice is accepted to use, we have to speak clearly, fluently and compactly. We should not to put unnatural pauses in a centence many times. We tend to try to create a long complex sentences but we should know that we often fell it and make no sense as a result.

I already have been learning English for long time (I do not mention how long exactly, because you might now my age from it). I have kept tring to improve my English to "natural" level. Actually I feel I am coming little by little. Besides, still I feel there is a huge wall in front of me to get beyond.

After all, the way to improve speaking as well as listening, is just keep doing. More speak, more listen, that make you improved.

It is my first experience of living abroad for a long time. I got a chance to "do" English at all hours. What I have to do first is listen all the time from people around me, in the dorm, in the bus, in the shops and in the town. More important thing is, not to hesitate to talk to people. It is still bit difficult for me, but I try.

At the end of this 10 week course, I hope I will gain all the skills with confident.