2007/01/05

Changing Names

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On 03/04/05, or March 4th of 2005, this weblog was started as Ryota's Daybook: Language Arts & Basic English . I made a start of an...
2005/11/30

The End

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This online daybook is ended. Ryota's new online writings in English will be put at: http://ryotasan.jugem.jp It's been very kind of...
2005/11/04

Ryota's New Daybook

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I am making a new online pages, testing to see if the system there is better than here. http://ryotasan.jugem.jp/
2005/10/31

New Paper on Basic

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Good news! A new paper on Basic English is now out in an international newsletter on language teaching. " Towards a People's Englis...
2005/10/30

More on the Man Who Was at the Nazi Prison

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August Kowalczyk, in 1940, was a young Polish man with a strong love for his country. He made an attempt of getting out of Poland to be with...
2005/10/29

Leaves of trees are changing

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their colors from green to red, orange, yellow or brown. Time of sundown is getting earlier.
2005/10/24

A man who was at a Nazi prison

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came to our university and gave a public talk on his experience inside the wall of the death houses. He is an old but strong-looking Polish ...
2005/10/22

Been to the Basic English

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Society's general meeting. This society is a small group of Japanese working on Basic. A great number of them are teachers. Some have a ...
2005/10/18

Night School

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Fukushima University, in this April, made a start with a new structure. One of the new divisions in the university is a night school. I myse...

Stand by Me: The Song and the Motion Picture

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If you keep yourself upright, on your feet, you are standing . When you stand by me, you keep yourself upright, on your feet, by me, as my...
2005/10/08

Fall

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is the days after summer and before winter. The position of the sun in the middle of the day has a fall from high to low. The measure of hea...
2005/09/28

The Basic English Society, Japan,

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is a group of Japanese working on and teaching Basic English. Most of them are teachers. This Basic English Society, helped by the GDM teach...
2005/09/19

Another Letter in the Thai Paper

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Mr. Bill Templer's letter on Basic English, printed on The Nation , an English newspaper in Thailand, got a good reaction. Another lett...
2005/09/15

It's not warm today. This may

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be the best time of the year in our part of Japan. The time of sundown is getting earlier. Days are getting shorter.
2005/09/03

Letter in a Thai Newspaper

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Thailand has a long history of being by itself, not dependent on or ruled by another nation. The Thai men and women have their language and ...
2005/08/31

It's a beautiful day with a

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clear sky. A great number of high schoolers are on the street. Days for work have come.

I's cold enough to be working

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early in the morning.
2005/08/29

I said that I was unhappy

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facing a mountain of work. I DO take pleasure, however, in writing if the air is not very wet and warm. One way to get over the trouble is t...

I'm looking for a way to send

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a longer note, longer than one line. Have I got it? It seems that I've got it. Great! Now I'm able to put a longer note. I probably ...
2005/08/28

Summer or Fall?

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The island was very warm, so my skin was frequently wet. But I was happy with my wet skin because there was a soft wind most of the time. Th...

I've been to a small island in

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the southwest of Kyushu, helping my family and making friends.
2005/08/14

We're having very warm days

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with quick and strong rainfalls before sundown.
2005/08/11

Insects

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The air is full of metal-like sound given out by some sorts of insect. The sound is like that of rain. The insect, after the sleep of six y...
2005/08/08

Every day is a good day.

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Dogen
2005/08/07

Off-Work Days

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My birthplace was in the heat of the sun and of the summer event. It was very very warm and my clothings quickly got wet. We had good times...
2005/08/03

Now I'm on a highway-bus to

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the town of my birth, where my mother is still living.
2005/08/02

Yes. It's 12.

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5+7+5=12

No. It's 14.

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Five, seven and five.

It may be good for writing

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haiku, a Japanese verse made of 12 sound-units.
2005/07/31

The trouble with this system

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is that you may send short, one-line, notes only.

Testing

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It's a telephone with radio connetion.
2005/07/30

Testing

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The machine is an F900iC by NTT DoCoMo.

Testing

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This is a test of sending a note from a talking machine.
2005/07/27

Yuzuru's Daybook

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I have been hoping, secretly, that Mr. Katagiri would someday, like me, make his online daybook and give out his day-to-day experience and o...
2005/07/21

Gagagram

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Ogden gave, in the book named Brighter Basic , an account of a strange language game named Gagagram. [ Game is a sort of play with rules. ...
2005/07/19

Open House

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Yesterday was our open house day. Please see my account.
2005/07/11

Zoo

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It's a short word. It's in every boy or girl's knowledge. You may come across it in most of starter-level school-books of Englis...
2005/07/04

The Basic English Society, Japan

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Churchill's days as head of the British government came to an end in 1945, and K. E. Garay says that their interest in Basic English, in...
2005/06/29

More about Empires of the Mind

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Dr. Koeneke's book is an attempt to have a detailed look back at what I. A. Richards did in China, in the light of current political th...