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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Cat and Neko
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If you are Japanese
you might have had some
surprise when you saw my
last post saying that
lions were cats.

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Cat or Dog?
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If you are interested in
old Japan and go to places
noted with their artworks,
you will frequently see
animals made of
stone like the one in this
picture.
What are they?

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Smoke or Cloud?
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The air was
very unclear this
morning.

We saw only the
things which were
near to us
because of the
white thing.
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A Picture from South
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Japan is a small country.
It is a surprisingly
long way, however,
from the north to the south,
or from the south to the north.

In this time of the year
things are specially different.
In the south
the daytime heat is
so much that it is
pleasing to be in a
T-shirt.

In the north it is
still necessary to be in an
overcoat.
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One-Rail Train
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 The train which goes on
 one rail only
 is named "monorail."

 "Mono" is a
 Greek word for
 "one."

 Monorail generally
 goes on a
 very high railway like a
 very long bridge,
 over the town.
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Chalk Line on the Blueboard
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An airplane, up in the sky,
sends heated air off its
engines into the
cold air outside.
Because the air outside is
very cold,
white smoke of
water and ice
is formed.

This picture was
taken yesterday,
about the time of
sundown.

"Blueboard" is a
word which I have made up.
It is like blackboard or
chalk-board,
but it is much greater,
with a different color
and up there.
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3C4W
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 The change from
 winter to spring,
 in most part of Japan,
 takes place with a
 number of cold days,
 then warm days,
 and cold days again and
 warm days again,
 going the round
 over and over.

 Generally we have
 three cold days and
 four warm days.

So there is an old Japanese saying which goes like this,
 "Three-cold four-warm."
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Can Is Hard to Make Use Of
Charles Kay Ogden's list of Basic words
doesn't have some fruequently used words
like "can."
This word is very frequently used in
Normal English.
It's more frequent
in Normal English for everyday talk
than for writing.
But Ogden kept it out of the list. Why?

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Today's Picture
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This was taken in 5 of February. A boy-like machine has a brush, acting as if he is putting paint on the ball in front of him.
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How Ghibli Came to Make an Earthsea Picture
The Earthsea Quartet (Puffin Books) Toshio Suzuki, producer of the new animation based
 on Le Guin's
Earthsea books, gave a long talk
 to the
Yomiuri Shimbun, the newspaper with the
 greatest number of readers in Japan.
 The talk in Japanese has been made public at

 Yomiuri Online, 26 December 2006. I have put an
 outline of the talk in Basic English. This is Part 1.


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