A high school girl who won the champion on a spelling bee reads at least one English book a day. Her motto is “Read, read, and read.” I read 100 Japanese books a month. From now on, I try to read one English book a week.

We don’t read all articles and sentences even in Japanese newspapers. Also in English papers, it is very natural to skim them. Anyway, reading many English articles is the most important.

Reading them every day, psychological resistance in my mind has been despairing. Although there are many words which I don’t know, I should not consult dictionaries. If we use a dictionary, it takes too much time to read papers. We can’t c…

I subscribe three English papers, “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Financial Times” and “Japan Time.” “The Wall Street Journal” is an American paper. “The Financial Time” is British one. And “Japan Times” is issued in Japan. I think that “J…

There are four aspects in studying languages, “speaking”, “listening”, “reading” and “writing.” I would like to emphasize reading. We can get the world information easiest in English. If I would like to know about the economic and social s…

English was one of the dialects which were spoken in the north German. I think that English has a destiny to be the world common language. I also have to admit the destiny and study English very hard. We, non-native English speakers, shoul…

English has become the global language which is spoken all over the world. If I take a trip abroad by myself, I can’t travel without speaking English. If I do business with a foreign company, English is indispensable. Though French and Chi…