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Let's be an English speaker ! (by Mimi)

English is great. Using English increases the number of your friends
from all over the world. Yes, I English, the power of English very much!

Are you Studying English ? Are you confident with your English proficiency ? Or are you sometimes (or always) afraid of speaking English.....?

Some of you are perhaps native English speakers, and you are very lucky that your mother tongue is chosen as one of the official languages worldwide. However, I have ever heard "English is not spoken globally, but BROKEN-ENGLISH is spoken all over the world." Wow, I think this is quite true, and at the same time, encourage non-native English speakers like us very much.

Well, I don't appreciate the phrase BROKEN-ENGLISH , because who can say which type of English is complete or BROKEN, however if we consider this truth positively, we could be more confident to use English in our daily life so that we could communicate with each other more freely.

My son (a 5 year-old Japanese) lately has much interest in using English. He watches "Cartoon Network in English" on T.V., has met quite a few non-Japanese thanks to my hubby's and my own occupation, has visited a few foreign countries with us. He now has appetite to speak English, and actually tries it without any hesitation even though his vocabulary is very little. It is indeed amazing to see children who are born to be brave to challenge new things, never be afraid of making mistakes. You know, making mistakes is just one step to go ahead for them so I think we adults have to learn a lot from them.

I admit the hard work of studying languanges, I have studied both English and Spanish for a long time and it seems it is an endless task.

I teach English, and I have realized that many people are lack in confidence, because I know my students know much much more than my son. It is only a matter of braveness.

We don't need to speak English like a native English speaker, do we ? We can speak our English proudly (and carefully in order not to creat unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts), the most important thing is to communicate with each other ! (The priority is not the perfection of your English itself.)

One of my friends from the Papua New Guinea once taught me some of HIS English. I really loved it so let me introduce you some expressions. HIS English ordinary English translation You happy ? How are you ? Me happy. I am fine. You hungry ? Are you hungry ? Me hungry. I am hungry. sunup east sundown west

Let us be KIDS-like and try more freely to speak English.

No Try, No Communication..... No Communication, No Friends.....

　

If you are interested in reading more, to become an English speaker,
please click "Taro" CAN Speak English ! (by Kay Hetherly)

　

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