This is a notebook and guide for learners of English as a second or overseas language, all over the earth. Most of the writings here are in Basic English, first designed by C. K. Ogden, using 850 necessary words and a number of international words only.
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Longer Words: In Addition to the 850
Charles Kay Ogden, in
books like The Basic Words or The
Basic Dictionary
,
let the readers see that a
number of longer words like
"straightforward" might be
used in Basic English,
in addition to the
850 listed words.

For more...
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Upcoming: The Basic English Society's Training
The Basic English Society, Japan, together with the GDM group, is going to have a two-day meeting for hands-on training.

Time: From 13:00, 11 February 2006, Saturday, till 12:00, 12 February 2006, Sunday. The ending time might be changed.

Place: Hamakyo (045-531-7161, 7162). This might be changed. Hamakyo is 5-minute walk from the Tsunashima Station of Tokyu To-Yoko line. Tsunashima Springs are between Shibuya and Yokohama.

A part of the training hours is to be a regular meeting of the GDM teachers. GDM is Richards-Gibson system of teaching language.

Payment: 8,000 yen for bed, meals and printed material. 5,000 yen for meal and printed material only. 3,000 for meal and a part of printed material.

What You Will Do: 1. You may take one material from the common book and give a talk, an example of teaching, or have a discussion on it. 2. You will have a training of putting a Japanese writing or a full-English writing into Basic English. 3. You will take part in discussion using Basic English. It will be all right if you are to be in 2 and 3 only.

This 2-day meeting is for ones who are on the Basic English Society or the GDM group. Outsiders may take part in some of the trainings, or you may be one of them there on the day. Overall number of persons will be limited within 20.

For details in Japanese, see the lower part of the bookmarked page:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/BasicEnglishSociety/


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More Snowfall
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 When I got back to my town
 it was snowing again.

 We had more snow on Monday
 and the train was late.

 The sun, however,
 came back this morning.
 But it was still cold.
 The heating system of the
 building was
 feeble.
 But the sunlight was
 strong enough to get the
 snow over the streets
 cleared away.

 The night has come and
 I am going back from work
 to my living place.
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The 850 Words: From Short to Long
I have made a list, or the list, of the 850 Basic words ordered from short to long. The first, and one of the shortest, word is "a." What is the longest?

http://basic850.blogspot.com/2006/01/850-words-from-short-to-long.html
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Going Back
The weekend work is completed. Now I am on the way to my town. The bus is running in the dark. I am very happy to be with my family.
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Uncompleted
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It is a beautiful day but the
wind is cold.
I am going over mountains to a
seaside town for
business through the
weekend,
away from my family.

Now I am on a bus,
looking at houses by the road.
Boy[s] and girls
back from school are
going on their feet.
The bus is going away from
town up into woods over
mountains.

For more...
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Winter Days
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The first rainfall and
warm wind had the
snows on the
road away.

[The picture was taken at that time.]

Then we had
another snowfall and
cold wind.

This morning the
face of the
earth was
covered again.

It was very cold in the
day but the
sun was bright.
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Natalie Goldberg: On Writing
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Like running, the more you do it,
the better you get at it. . . .

All of you is moving;
there's no you separate from the runner.
In writing, when you are truly on,
there's no writer, no paper, no pen, no thoughts.

From Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (11-12).
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Keyboards: Or, Making New Words
Words are sometimes like
men and women.
They make friends,
and two of them have a
fall in[to] love with
one another.
The two who are in love
go out and
seen together
frequently.
When they are together
regularly,
they make it public that they
have a strong connection.
They even become a
family and
have a baby.

For more...
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Animation
Motion pictures generally have actors moving and talking in them. Some of them are stars in the pictures.

There are another sort of motion pictures, in which you see no actors. Those players give voices only. The animals, boys, girls, men and women in this sort of pictures are made of painted colors and lines. They make moves, sometimes naturally and sometimes unnaturally but with a good effect. This sort of moving picture goes by the name of "animation."

Animations, or animated pictures became noted by an American named Walt Disney and his men. He made animations chiefly for the young, from the 1930's to 60's.

Japan, in addition to Disney, has had a number of men seriously making animations, like Osamu TEZUKA, Hayao MIYAZAKI, and so on.





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