I never thought this before, but the view from the Yurikamome is so amazing that it looks like a futuristic city. After moving to the suburbs of Saitama for three months and coming back, it felt like I was seeing it through a new filter.
It has been a year since I started Cambly! The number of lessons I took has reached 247 and total hours have reached 208 hours. I'm proud of keeping lessons so far.
Rather than feeling tired from hard work in my job, I find exhaustion comes more from the frustration of important tasks not progressing. Conversely, completing significant tasks leaves me completely devoid of fatigue, even after putting in hard work.
When I'm reading a book in English and come across words that are unfamiliar to me, I wish there was only one possible meaning for them. If this were the case, reading English would become more efficient. I hope Amazon Kindle will implement this using AI.
Another word like this is 'castle.' It is pronounced as 'カスル' (kasuru), but I initially remembered it as 'キャッスル' (kyassuru). As a result, it took me a long time to understand when I first encountered the word 'castle.'
Yesterday, I encountered the word 'Burma,' which is the name of a country. This word is pronounced as 'バウマ' (bauma). So, I couldn't understand it at all when I first encountered it. In Japanese, it's pronounced as 'ビルマ' (biruma).
Sometimes I come across words that have a pronunciation completely different from Japanese. I need to come across many words like this to improve my English listening skills accurately.