By リスニング向上委員会
The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.
英語聞き流そう！English Reading : Christmas party
このお話は、キンドル本、An Old Tree in Kyoto/ Hidemi Woods
に収録されています。
オーディオブック、The Family in Kyoto / Hidemi Woods 京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。 [アップル] [グーグルプレイ] [アマゾン]
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
アマゾンにてテキストキンドル本発売中。
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
The apartment building I live in is far from the city and only few are permanent residents, among which I am. Others use here as their vacation home. It’s crowded with those vacationers in the summertime and the wintertime. Especially the summertime is the worst for me, as many kids stay here.
I use the communal spa of the building and encounter too many ill-behaved kids. They and their parents don’t understand the difference between a swimming pool and a spa. Under a big ‘No Swimming’ sticker, they jump into the tub, splash around, dive and swim. Their parents let them do that happily. They turn the usually quiet relaxing spa into hell. It seems parents have lost a concept of discipline and kids’ manners have gotten worse and worse every year.
I thought their bad manners hit rock bottom last summer, but I was wrong. This summer, they reached a record low. Now they can’t tell a spa and a toilet apart. I saw a boy urinate on the floor beside the tub without hesitation as soon as he rushed into the spa room. Instead of reproaching, his mother watched it smiling delightfully. When I got out and put on my clothes in the locker room, an old woman spoke to me and told me how uncomfortable she was to see that ill-behaved family. We agreed on lack of parents’ discipline.
A week later, I saw the old woman in the spa again. She had got her grandchild visiting and was taking a bath with him. If not urinating, the boy was shouting and shrieking while swimming and diving. The old woman, who had talked with me about bad manners, was saying nothing to her grandson and was just smiling, playing with him. Other residents who had seemed clearly annoyed by noisy kids also acted in the same way, once they were taking their grandchildren with them. A fact I newly discovered is that people go blind when it comes to their own grandchildren…
Episode from
My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
アマゾンにてテキストキンドル本発売中。
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
Episode from
My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
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アマゾンにてテキストキンドル本発売中。
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
I had a nightmare last night that a room flooded and I drowned in the cold water. The sense of water was so real and I actually passed out in the dream when I gulped in too much water instead of air.
I think the nightmare has something to do with my new custom. The communal spa in my apartment building has a sauna. While I love to take a sauna, I had never stepped in a cold plunge sitting next to it. Running water is pouring into the small bathtub and icy water is overflowing. I looked with wonder at some residents jump into the cold plunge after getting out of a sauna. One woman soaked herself in icy water completely from head to toe. I didn’t understand how they could do so without having a heart attack.
I tested the water with the tip of my toe once, and almost screamed with its coldness. But as I regularly saw someone sink in the cold plunge, my curiosity had grown bigger. And three weeks ago, I finally summoned the courage to give it a try. I gingerly put my leg into it and found that the small bathtub was much deeper than I had thought. I lost my balance and my other leg splashed in. Although I was just out of a sauna and very hot, the extremely cold water froze my legs instantly. I tried to get out but the tub was too deep for my height. The fear that I could never get out of freezing water seized me and I began to panic. Swashing water clumsily, I struggled to climb out. I sincerely wished nobody was watching.
Strangely enough, I couldn’t forget the sensation afterward and wanted to try again for some reason. Next time in the spa, I dipped my legs in the cold plunge again. Then, I tried to soak up to my chest. In a few days, I found myself submerge to my neck. Now, taking a cold plunge has become my custom. Every time though, a fear of having a heart attack crosses my mind. It seems I’m attracted with a narrow escape from death. I imagine I might be dead in a cold plunge someday…
Episode from
My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
アマゾンにてテキストブック発売中。
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
A Slipper Battle
About ten months ago, a middle-aged woman complained to me about my slippers at the communal spa of my apartment building. She wanted me to take them off and stay barefoot in the locker room because everyone except for me was barefooted there as a custom.
I refused as being barefoot wasn’t an official rule and I felt much more comfortable and more hygienic with slippers on. I was kind enough to explain to her that wearing slippers was more hygienic on the public floor than barefoot. It’s totally logical, but she didn’t accept anyway because her point was to keep up the custom.
I’ve kept wearing my slippers in the locker room everyday to this day even though sometimes there were other middle-aged women who grumbled to me or darted an angry look at me. Three months after I got the first complaint, I saw a woman wearing slippers in the locker room and I was no longer the only one that wasn’t barefooted. Then, since last month, a mother and her child have been wearing slippers. As I predicted, people began to imitate me and adopt my way.
And the other day, this slipper battle developed a new twist. I entered the locker room with my slippers on as usual, and there was a woman who had gotten out of the spa and been putting on her clothes. She was putting on her socks when I walked past her. Thinking I found the third example of non-barefoot, I said hello to her with a smile as I usually did. She turned to me and our eyes met. I was astounded. It was none other than that middle-aged woman who told me to be barefoot here ten months ago. She herself was wearing socks! She looked startled to see me and her face got filled with embarrassment at once. She returned hello to me in a faint voice. She lost her battle.
Slowly but steadily, a wrong custom such as nothing should change is disappearing. I was shown a proof that to keep doing the right thing can change the world in a better way. For me, though, it’s an extremely trivial thing like wearing slippers…
Episode from
My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
英語聞き流そう！English Reading :end
オーディオブック、The Family in Kyoto / Hidemi Woods 京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。 [アップル] [グーグルプレイ] [アマゾン]
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
Episode from My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough アマゾンにてテキストブック発売中。
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook 1 : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Audiobook 2 : My Social Distancing and Naked Spa in Japan by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
Frantic Washing
I am a germphobic. I never go out without packs of wet wipes and always carry a small spray bottle of sanitizer. Whenever I touch anything that shares contact with others, I wipe my hand right away. It’s especially cumbersome when I go on a trip. My routine after check-in is to spray sanitizer to tissues with which I wipe the door knobs, switches, handles of the wardrobe and the refrigerator, hangers, remote controls, faucets, toilet seat, toilet cover, flush handle. If the hotel doesn’t have a duvet style bed for its rooms, I bring clothespins and wrap the cover with the sheet by fastening them together so that any part of my body doesn’t touch the cover that isn’t washed each time. Then I place two pairs of slippers that I bring from home, one for pre-shower and one for post-shower. As you can imagine, it’s so much fuss for me to stay at a hotel. I just can’t help it.
I took a short trip the other day to a neighboring prefecture. For this trip, I was extra nervous. The local train I got on was near empty and most of the sparse passengers were wearing a medical mask. A 2-hour somewhat tense train ride later, I arrived at the hotel. A big spray bottle of sanitizer was put at the entrance and all the hotel staff at the front desk were wearing a mask. I went out for lunch at a family restaurant and it was also empty despite lunchtime. The shopping mall I visited afterwards had only few shoppers around. Since I hate crowds and a jam, all places turned in my favor. It seemed I bought comfort with nervousness. Back in the hotel room, I worked through my room-cleaning routine and had dinner with my partner in the room with deli foods I had gotten at the supermarket because I am cheap.
Next morning, I used the elevator to have a free breakfast at a small eat-in space inside the hotel. I was off guard and didn’t wear a mask although the small elevator was unexpectedly packed with guests. Nobody was talking and I unconsciously held my breath. After an awkward silence, I was released to the designated floor. The breakfast was a buffet style. I took food with tongs that many guests used, out of plates that they slowly walked by and looked into. Everyone pushed buttons on the dispenser of coffee and juice. Wet wipes didn’t give me usual assurance for this particular trip. I went back to my room and washed my hands frantically.
I have once read an article that says excessive hygiene is counterproductive. It means that being exposed usually to germs builds resistance and thus makes people hard to get sick. If so, my germphobia is not only self-complacent unction but also simply a bad habit. That may be true, but I can’t, just can’t stop for the life of me.
Episode from
My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
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I’m not good at being with people by nature. I always like to being alone and stay inside my room. Basically, any contact with others is uncomfortable. Not to mention phone calls, public places are dreadful for me unless they are near empty with few people. I hate to have a person standing right behind me at the checkout counter in a supermarket. Whenever I take a train, I search for a car that has the least passengers. My so-called ‘body bubble’ seems excessively large. I often almost utter a scream when a person bumps into or even slightly brushes me. Needless to say, chattering with others is excruciating. My apartment building has a communal spa for the residents and I use it everyday. The residents are inevitably acquainted with each other and small talk between them is rampant in the spa. I’m often caught up in it and desperately try to find closure of the conversation by sweating all over. To avoid an ordeal, I’m usually careful not to share time together with familiar residents as much as possible. When I see them, I practically run away. My partner calls me a robot because of my behavior.
The time of recent social distancing shouldn’t bother a person like me. Social distancing has been already my thing for a long time. At least I had believed so. I had thought it wouldn’t hurt a natural ‘social-distancer’ as myself. But I found I was wrong.
One of my favorite Japanese comedians from my childhood died the other day. Until just recently, he had appeared on various TV shows and his funny face had been the norm for TV. The daily TV time in a Japanese living room has changed suddenly, completely. He was a nationally popular comedian who earned the monstrous TV rating. When I was a child, my family gathered in front of TV for his show at 8 p.m. every Saturday and laughed so hard together. Kids at school would talk about the show next Monday and laugh again together. When I was in my early teens, I danced his signature gig called ‘Mustache Dance’ so frantically in the dining room that my foot slipped and I fell hitting my face on the dining table. Those memories made me feel as if part of me was lost with him by his death.
Episode from My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough アマゾンにてテキストブック発売中。
HidemiWoods.com
Audiobook 1 : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Audiobook 2 : My Social Distancing and Naked Spa in Japan by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.
Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks, 43 available distributors in total.
京都や家族、日本を題材にした感動とユーモアの英語エッセイで聞き流し英語リスニング。
日本のミュージシャンを主人公にした面白い、興味深いエピソードを短く、英語で読み聞かせ！
段々と話の内容が分かってくると面白くてくせになる。
ユーモアたっぷりの日本人女子が主役のショートストーリー集。
https://88thpp.com/
英語リスニング攻略ガイド
☆ ★ ☆ お小遣いサイト モッピー ☆ ★ ☆ 累計900万人が利用しているポイントサイト！ タダでお小遣いが貯められるコンテンツが充実★ 貯めたポイントはAmazonギフトやApple Gift Card、 PayPay、現金等に交換できちゃう♪ 簡単１分 無料会員登録しよう♪ https://pc.moppy.jp/entry/invite.php?invite=SkWEe104
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