(Mag2) 感動しながら学ぶ英語・英会話
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何とか毎週1回定期的にこのメルマガを配信しつづけることが出来ている。
継続こそ力なり！
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感動しながら学ぶ英語・英語会話
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● 英語／英会話を自分の物にしたい人のための情報発信 ●
● http://eigo.undo.jp ●
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● チリも積もれば山となる英語力のヨシダです。 ●
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●登録の変更・解除
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■ おすすめ英語学習書
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● コウビルド英英辞典
http://tinyurl.com/2c243c
他の英英辞典とは表現方法がかなり違います。私の英語は、コウビルド英英辞典
のおかげと言って良いでしょう。難しい単語も易しい英語表現で説明して
あります。英語を英語で考える上でこの辞書を使えば自然と英語で考える
習慣が身につきます。
ぜひ、これを座右の辞書としてください。英語がわかる人は、この辞書を
必ず持っています。
● ロングマン現代英英辞典 4訂増補版 CD-ROM2枚付 <上製版>
http://tinyurl.com/2u83ae
すでにコウビルド英英辞典をもっている方は、Second Opinionの英英辞書
としてロングマン現代英英辞典がお勧めです。特にパソコンでお仕事をし
ている方には、CD-ROM付がお役に立ちます。
● Hopes, love and dreams in New York
−NHK CD Book―NHKラジオ英会話ストーリーブック
大杉 正明 (著)
http://tinyurl.com/68ppk
この教材は、一度ＮＨＫラジオ英会話で放送された物を学習参考書として
まとめた物です。私は、この教材を今も時々聞いています。登場する人物
と内容が心に響き、声優の声に恋をしてしまったのです。
物語に喜怒哀楽があり、最後には感激して涙が出てきてしまうほどの
ドラマが演出されています。英語学習書を越えた名作英語会話学習書
です。
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□ 心温まる物語 （自分の意見を英語で表現する訓練）
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You Become What You Want to Be
As a child, I just wanted to be loved. It wasn't until I grew up that
I learned how.
By Marilyn Joan
Growing up the fifth of six children was a challenge, the struggle
for placement and acceptance being the usual issues. Personally, I
never felt I needed to be heard or seen. Taught to be seen and not
heard from the time we were born, when we broke that rule we were
punished severely.
I had several strikes against me growing up. I had very little
self-esteem, if any. Our mother had a hair-trigger temper and we
constantly had to avoid her wrath, learning to fear and not thrive as
children.
Even when we weren't in trouble, we felt like we had done something
wrong. Talking about love or sex in our house was totally taboo. Our
home lacked warmth and my fears of incurring my mother's anger
outweighed my desire to talk to her about very important things that
should have been dealt with as a child, not as an adult.
My childhood was short. I always say I graduated from the school of
hard knocks, and meant it. I was molested between the ages of ten and
thirteen by four different family friends and a family member. I was
an alcoholic by the time I was fourteen and a frequent user of drugs
when I wasn't drunk.
I was not popular in school, my grades were not great and the only
thing I excelled at was spelling, which would not carry me far. My
mom planted the seeds and watered them daily, telling me I wasn't
smart enough or good enough to reach the goals I set for myself in
life.
I wanted to be a teacher, a stewardess or a nurse. At one time, I had
many, many dreams. Not one of them was something my mother encouraged
or thought I could accomplish.
I made mistakes, too many to mention and some so humiliating that I
cringe inside today as I recall them. The drugs, the alcohol and the
self-destructive path I was on were not things I was proud of.
I wanted so desperately to change, but I had no idea how. I just
wasn't good enough to succeed at anything. The only positive thing
left was my desire to try.
I started dating a guy when I was thirteen, falling hopelessly in
love with him. True to form, my mother told me I would never do
better and on my sixteenth birthday we were engaged.
We moved in together after high school and married at nineteen. We
had two beautiful kids together, and that was the turning point in my
life. Being a good mother was something I could accomplish.
Marrying so young was wrong, we both knew it. We were drawn to each
other for all the wrong reasons. It was bad for him, it was bad for
me, it was bad for the children, so I started my road to recovery by
divorcing him.
We never harbored any hate or animosity for each other and frankly I
liked him better once we lived apart. He became a better father and a
better person and I too became a better human being.
I began to reinvent and get reacquainted with myself. I faced my
problems with the help of psychologists and social workers, who
taught me healthy parenting and life skills.
With their help and encouragement I learned to talk with my kids and
to value them for who they were. I am able to guide them toward
realizing their full potential through encouragement and emotional
support. And, I have stayed clean and sober.
During therapy I remembered the sexual abuse and came forward to have
the man arrested and charged with his crimes. I felt wonderful,
vindicated and strong when he was convicted twenty years later for
the crimes he committed against me.
I look back with 20/20 hindsight and wonder why my educators never
picked up on my abuse. The signs were there, I read it in my report
cards.
About a sullen little girl who sulks and wants to be the center of
attention, and cries. No, I don't want to be the center of attention.
I just want to be loved. Can't you see that! I remember all the
incidents as if they were yesterday and have worked hard to move
beyond feeling like a victim.
Today I feel lucky. I have a wonderful husband, two more great kids
and a home in the country, a life far beyond the dreams of a kid
being drowned in the toilet.
I have never beaten my children or belittled them. I overcame great
odds, faced the loathing and shame, and grieved for the loss of my
childhood so that the cycle stopped with me. In its place a life
centered on love and nurturing has taken root and I am careful to
plant more seeds and water them daily.
Reprinted by permission of Marilyn Joan (c) 2004 from Chicken Soup
for the Recovering Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert
Ackerman, Ph.D., Peter Vegso, Theresa Peluso and Gary Seidler.
私の回答はこちらで読めます。
http://eigo.undo.jp/content/view/45/28/
Q1: Do you want to be what you want to be?
Q2: What did you feel after reading it?
Q3: What kind of seeds do you want to plant and water them daily?
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□ 編集後記
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今、Spam Mail Kellerというソフトを使って海外から送られてくるスパムメ
ールだけをメールサーバー上で自動削除する実験を行っている。私の場合、
全ての海外のメールを自動削除とは行かないため細かな設定と実験をしない
と後で困ることになるからだ
もし、読者の中で海外からのメールは100%必要ないという方がいましたら、
このSpam Mail Kellerというソフトは、お勧めです。
ただ、
よく説明を読んで設定方法を学ばないとうまく使えないと言う難しさがあり
ますが。興味のある方は、私までお尋ねください。
Hanji
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●Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
(ペーパーバック)
http://tinyurl.com/27vnoc
Peter Elbow (著)
この本は最近見つけた本だ。Emailで米国の企業とやり取りをする時に
Writing Skillが求められる。Amazonでこの本の中身の閲覧してほしい。
なぜ、私がこの本を薦めている理由がわかる。
●Ready to Write: A First Composition Text (ペーパーバック)
Karen Lourie Blanchard (著)
http://tinyurl.com/2s94db
米国の大学で初めて英語の授業を受けた。まず、習った事は、
パラグラフの書き方だ。その次が、A4１ページのエッセーの書き方だ。
毎回授業がある度に宿題でエッセーを提出させられた。そして、添削
された宿題が点数（A, A-, B+, B, B-など）と共に戻ってきた。
日本で学んだ方法とは、１８０度違っていた。それが新鮮だった。
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電子出版： 英語/英会話を自分の物にしたい人のための情報発信
発行者： Norito H.Yoshida
ご意見・ご感想等： pubzine@gmail.com
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