I worked late today. This morning, with The Charlatans' music, I've read the book "やっぱり英語をやりたい! [Sure, I wanna learn English!]" by a famous Japanese translator Kumiko Torikai [鳥飼玖美子]. I've found it contains really interesting/provoking clues for learning English. In this book, the author Torikai answers various questions as "What can be great clues for keeping on having the motivation?", "If we start learning English again as an adult, how many years will it require us to be able to say the things we want to say freely?" etc.
As you can see really easily/clearly, there are so many, plenty of methods of learning English for us. Therefore we have to find out what kind of ways are proper for us to do by many trials and errors. It can bring us a certain difficulty to learn English I guess. English SEEMS to be too difficult/abstract for us...
Me, I usually enjoy communicating with other users on Discord and MeWe. I also try to keep on writing pieces of my ideas on a memo pad by using English (from 2020.) I can't see how these trials can work for me to add/gain a certain ability of English, but in my daily life I absolutely rarely use English therefore I believe they suit me actually, because of adding my life many opportunities of using English, and also gaining me a certain ability of verbalizing various things.
In this book, Torikai explains we don't have to follow the ways/styles of native speakers too much (we can speak our English as we want, even though we have to try to practice it to deliver our opinions as clearly as possible.) This opinion has made me wondered because my pronunciation must have really Japanese sounds. Therefore it seems that one of this book's main declarations is that we can treat each one's English as an unique one.
In a chat group on Facebook, I wrote about this book. Then, a person who works as a pro interpreter taught us about her job. She said that she has been keeping on working really steadily as a pro. Preparing, learning, looking back, etc. I've been really impressed by her great efforts. In the end, I must need this kind of really steady efforts to keep on learning to become more fluent... I've learned something important today besides the ability of English.
