NOVA所沢コミュのThe English Only Topic

As an opening gambit.
I'd like to ask you what is your biggest meal a day?
Breakfast? Lunch? or dinner?
As for me, breakfast is the biggest one a day these days.
On weekdays, I get up at 4:50 in the morning, and eat breakfast around 5:00.
I usually eat Japanese buckwheat noodles or Japanese wheat noodle.
I don't need to boil them, just sleave them using tap water.
It's very easy.

Then I'm headed from my apartment to office located at Kasumigaseki via Ikebukuro.
I arrive at Ikebukuro around 7:00 in the morning.
It's very early to go to my office.
My business starts at 9:00, and from Ikebukuro to Kasumigaseki takes less than 30 minutes.
So I go to a coffee shop and have the breakfast special.
Why do I have the breakfast special here even though I ate at home?
Because if I don't have it at the time, I can't hold out till lunch!
Yes, I eat breakfast twice.
I'm still growing up, hehehe.

At lunch, I eat box lunch I made myself.
It's not big.
Quantity of rice is just only 100g, and main dish is almost same gram.

At dinner, I eat little.
Tonight, I ate a cake of tofu, that's all.
Was it enough?
Yes it was.
I realized I don't need to eat a lot at dinner.
Because after dinner, all I have to do is just sleeping.
You may ask me "you can't sleep because of hunger".
I will answer "no problem".
My desire for sleep is stronger than my appetite.

All told, my meal size is getting smaller.
Despite this, my bulging waistline is still here......why?

I posted it to be corrected and improve my writing skill.
So could you correct it please.
And you can make and show corrections to everybody!
I'll never blame you hehe.

Hi!Mc.Hammer! I wonder if I can ask your advice on my writings here.
In my work, I'm corresponding with overseas by e-mails mostly about practical things like price inquiries, delivery etc. But sometimes, I'd have to write official letters under presidents name attention to company representatives. This is what i'm not good at.
I composed one letter to our possible future parter in China. I'll put it here then could you give your advice?

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Dear President,

This is Tanaka from XXX Ltd. Japan. Thank you very much for
your cooperation when I visited you last year.
After the visit, we purchased your XXX to examine your product
performance.

In the last three months, we have rendered various tests on the XXX.
As a result, though we found several things which should be improved, we
are seriously considering to hire your products as one of our main
components.

As we explained before, we purchase several hundreds of XXX per a
year and mount it on ZZZ which is our main
product.

We are expecting that your products could be of great benefit in terms of
cost.

In order to use your XXX as component, several things have to be
modified and improved.

If you are interested in and are ready to cooperate in your product
improvement, we would send you the report of the evaluation and summary of
necessary improvement. Please study the report and prepare your proposal on
the improvement.

We would like to visit you to hear your proposal soon within this
month before the Olympic Games begin.

We hope this proposal would be of your great interest.
We are awaiting your favourable reply soon.

Sincerly yours,
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It took me a lot of time to compose this. (x_x:
Anyway, appreciate your advice and thank you in advance!!

Hi David, how's everything.
I posted this after Yasu.
I read Yasu's writing and it must be urgency.
Mine is not big deal.
If you don't have time, please ignore me and check Yasu.

Yasu, I read your writing.
Sometimes I also have to write E-mail in English.
But yours is better than mine!
I think it's very good!




As usual I attended our English class yesterday.
And after the class, we went to see the movie because two students brought complimentary ticket of movie for us.
We saw "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
Impression?
Well......not so bad......

Anyway, in the English class, teacher asked us "what is your most inspirational movie?".
I answered "Donnie Darko".
It is the fact that "Donnie Darko" is one of the best movies, but I completely forgot the most inspirational movie for me.
It is Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight".



Hereinafter, brief description of the plot quote from Wikipedia(translated by me).


Calvero, once he was a acclaimed stage clown......No.1 in the U.K.
Now, he past middle age, past a peak, and spent his life of drunkenness.
One day he saved beautiful ballet dancer, Terry, who made a suicide attempt and lie unconscious.
Terry became paralyzed on her legs because she found out her elder sister worked as a whore to earned money of Terry's lesson fees.
Calvero cared for her committedly and let her dance again, who was bitterly disappointed and lost any spiritual enegies to live, dance again.

Terry started dancing again and gained a position as dancer, furthermore, musical composer Neville took a fancy to her and Terry was selected as a first dancer.
Meanwhile Calvero, he failed comeback and he was encouraged by her adversely.

Neville fell in love with Terry, and he confessed his love to her.
But she loves Calvero and she told him "marry me".
Cavalero thought deeply about age difference between him and her, his poor circumstances, her good actual condition, then he spurned her approach.
Cavalero left her and come down to street musician.

After breakup, Terry's European tour won a rave review.
Meanwhile, World War I broke out and Neville went to war.
After the war, Neville went back to London and made his court to Terry.
But she couldn't forget Calvero.

One day, Terry met Calvero on the street accidentally, and she prepared for his comeback.
His comeback became successful and he received great applause.
He performed enthusiastically, but he tumbled from stage because of too much enthusiasm.
He was transported to wing of the stage.
Know-nothing Terry kept on dancing on the stage.
Calvero watched her who was basked in the limelight and past away......




It is an American black-and-white film in 1952.
Where I was impressed is..........

Calvero laid down on the bed with his doctor.
He knew that he was going to die.
He knew that he couldn't be survive.

Did he beg for his life?
Did he plead with someone to help him?
Did he bit his tongue despondently?

He started to talk about his future dream.
Go on a world tour with Terry.
She will perform her excellent dancing and I will do a turn.
And we will receive great applause from tons of audience.

Even thought he knew he was going to die, Calvero was talking his future dream pleasantly.

I was impressed very much.


Limelight Trailer

Thank you dave, take your time, no rush needed!
Thanks Hiroshi! I always enjoy reading your writings on mixi. I think you're very talented in writing. Why don't you write some books?

Thank you so much Dave. I noticed that render appears very funny in the sentence. In this kind of letter, commence sounds more formal than begin? Thanks again! I'll keep trying to improve my writings and would ask your advice sometimes again. Yours Sincerely (^v^)/