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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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2006.08.29 Tuesday
Is It Natural?
When I was 13 years old,
school-books of English language for starting learners, used in Japan, had some common things with English through Pictures. "This is a book." "This is a pen." "That is a table." Then someone said: "Americans, or users of English as their mother tonguge, never say in their everyday talks, like 'This is a pen' because everyone sees it as a pen." So we made a discovery that statements like "This is a pen" might be unnatural. But is it? 2006.08.22 Tuesday
Rain of Fire
After a loud outburt, the lights of fire slowly come down from the dark sky. It is like a short rainfall. It is strange but beautiful rain of fire. 2006.08.13 Sunday
Fire and Smoke
When we see a firework come in front of us, and have an outburst over us, we take little note of the smoke made with the fire. The smoke seems only a part of the dark sky. But a camera has a power to get smoke recorded in the picture. It does not go up in smoke. 2006.08.12 Saturday
The Basic Words: Let's Get It Back in Print
The best book for the learner of Ogden's Basic English, after reading through Book 1 and 2 of English through Pictures by Richards and Gibson, is The Basic Words.
The Basic Words, by Charles Kay Ogden himself, was first made in print in 1932. You may see Ogden's advertisement, in Basic, for the book, made online by me, here: http://www2.educ.fukushima-u.ac.jp/~ryota/basic_books.html#5 This book was kept in print by a Tokyo book company named The Hokuseido Press. The sad thing is that the book is now out of print. But I am not giving up. 2006.08.07 Monday
A Flower of Flames
Fireworks seem like flowers. They are beautiful. They come up regularly every year. They are seen for short times. But flowers do not make sound. Fireworks do. 2006.08.04 Friday
Signs in the Sky
Some fireworks give out forms like letters or penciled pictures. It makes sense, however, to the ones looking at them from one side only. 2006.08.01 Tuesday
Dance of Lights
A ball of fire goes up in the sky. And, with a burst, it becomes small lights. Then there comes a loud sound. And the lights slowly goes down like snow, going away into the dark. |
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