I like birds and used to take pictures of them often at a nearby river. I don’t take any bird photos these days, but my total number of shots easily exceeds two hundred thousand. Most of them are, as the location suggests, waterfowls like …

I previously wrote that I like writing English in a cafe using a mobile gadget. Yes, I like mobile gadgets, so today I'm going to write about my history of using them, focusing on a few memorable ones, considering the word limit of 500. Wh…

I'm writing this in a coffee shop on the 5th floor of a commercial building in the busy district near a big train station. The shop is full of people who seemingly have just finished the day's work at the nearby office buildings. I’m at a …

現在、読書はほとんどKindle本です。Kindle本は、本文中にマーカーで色を付けたり、メモを付けたり、そのメモの検索、本全体の検索、そして、マーカーを付けた箇所とメモをまとめて読んだりすることができます。これらの機能を英文ライティング力の向上のた…

まず最初に。10年ほど前、同じタイトルのラジオ番組がNHKでありましたが、その番組についてではありません。 村上春樹はこれまで16冊英語で読んでます。わざわざ英語で読んでるのは英語を読むのが好きだからです。日本語ではエッセイを２冊読みました。 小説…

I often have dreams 1) at night, or to be more precise, I remember dreams when I wake up. And 2) I love my dreams because they are often like a movie with vivid images and unexpected stories. Of course 3), not all dreams are pleasant, and …

Just like many people do, I like dolphins, and happened to find an interesting news article about bottlenose dolphins, the most familiar species I think, while surfing the Internet the other day. According to the article, a study conducted…

I think that when people are concentrating on doing something, they often tend to be careless about what’s going on around them. This is true for me, and also seemed the same for a bird, which I encountered on a sunny day a couple of years…

先日、通りを歩いていたら猫が2匹、歩道の上に並んで横になっているのに気がついた。1匹は胸と足先が白い黒猫、もう1匹は銀ぶちの子猫。おそらく母猫とその子猫で、柔らかい日差しの中で昼寝をしているんだろう。 The other day, when I was walking down th…

Bingに、2023年5月2日の英文（添削前）をErnest Hemingway風に、そしておまけで10歳の子供が書いた英文にも直してもらいました。ヘミングウェイの文章が10歳のこどもの文章よりも短くなりました。 （自作英文、添削前） The other day, while I was watching…

I saw an interesting sight the other day while strolling along the bank of the Higashino canal. It was a beautiful day, and I was enjoying the spring weather when, out of the corner of my eye 1), I noticed something flash on the water. I t…

Bingに、2023年5月2日の英文（文章1 新しい年、添削前）をノーベル文学賞を受賞したKazuo Ishiguro風に書き直してもらいました。 ◇◇◇◇◇ プロンプト入力） 次の英文を作家のKazuo Ishiguroが書いたような英文にしてください。 The other day, while I was wat…

The other day, while I was watching TV 1), 2) and happened to see 9) saw Mt.Fuji on the screen, I recalled the New Year holidays spent at an inn by Lake Kawaguchi on at 3) the foot of the mountain. I went there with a friend by motorcycle …