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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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?

For more...
| Basic English | 15:17 | comments(0) | trackbacks(0) | pookmark |
Rain of Fire
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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.
| Fukushima Before | 10:05 | comments(0) | trackbacks(0) | pookmark |
Fire and Smoke
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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.
| Fukushima Before | 14:02 | comments(0) | trackbacks(0) | pookmark |
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.
For more...
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A Flower of Flames
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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.
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Signs in the Sky
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Some fireworks
give out forms like
letters or penciled pictures.

It makes sense, however,
to the ones looking at them from
one side only.
| Fukushima Before | 16:15 | comments(1) | trackbacks(0) | pookmark |
Dance of Lights
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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.
| Fukushima Before | 10:19 | comments(0) | trackbacks(0) | pookmark |
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