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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Work and Play: A View of Richards and Plato
絵で見る英語BOOK〈3〉
Reading English through Pictures 3, back in 1978,
I came across a page where I. A. Richards put his
opinion about work, play and learning,
putting words in Greek into his English.

After going through it,
I probably had a change in my
way of learning English.
I made up my mind to take it as a
sort of play. The writing is on the page 140.

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VOA Special English
Basic English would be a good language for an
international radio program.
Having it on the air
was one of the suggestions
put by Charles Kay Ogden,
and in the late 1940's
the United States government got the idea.

It took, however,
a number of years for them
to have something less tightly controlled.
And in the 1950's,
they came up with a language,
which is like a bridge between
Basic and full English.
The name of the radio station
was "Voice of America."
The program was "Special English."
Please take note that
"voice," "of," and "special" are all Basic words.



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A Picture from Kyoto
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I am now in Kyoto,
meeting friends who are
interested in GDM
or Richards-Gibson system.

This picture was taken in
Kyoto Gosho,
a great public garden
which had the house of
the family ruling Japan.
It is warmer than Fukushima.
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400-Year Old Army Base
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This is the top of a mountain
named Nakagusku Jo.
It was used as a
military station,
back in about 1600.
The mountain is full of
walls and steps
made of stones.

It was probably like a
town in the
days of fighters and traders.

Now it is a sort of public garden with an
international agreement to
keep it in good condition.

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A Strange Tree
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Why are you so bent?
Why do your branches go sideways?
Was the wind from the river
so hard that they
became like that?

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