By リスニング向上委員会
The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.
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
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
About six months after I moved into the apartment I now live in, I began to see this woman frequently at the communal spa. We just exchanged hellos for weeks and then started chatting about the weather. She is a lively woman who is around sixty years old and laughs a lot. I secretly nicknamed her ‘Aunt Hearty Laugh’ because of her signature laugh. We don’t know each other’s names, don’t talk about personal matters, but have a friendly chat every time we see each other at the communal spa several times a week.
Since I regularly take a bath with this Aunt Hearty Laugh while I have never done that with my own mother as an adult, she is almost a stranger yet feels so close to me. Two years ago, her pregnant daughter stayed with her for a couple of months. She joined our chatting and I heard about her office work and the relationship between her colleagues that I had no experience of my own. During her stay, her baby was born and Aunt Hearty Laugh became a grandmother. I took a bath with her newborn granddaughter as well. Her daughter visited her with the baby every long holiday and we took a bath together. At every reunion, the baby’s change interested me. She got bigger, taller, started walking and talking, and gave me a high-five the last time I saw her.
Two weeks ago, Aunt Hearty Laugh told me that she was going to move to other apartment nearby. She has her old friend living there and feels secure because she lives alone and is getting older. She said laughing, “That apartment has a spa with thermal springs. Come to take it with me!” She also added, “I’m a lot older than you are but who knows? We could be friends!” which arose a question in my mind. Do I want a friend? I’m constantly short of time for anything and can I spare any time for friendship? I like being alone and can she be an exception? I realized how perfectly balanced my friendship with her had been. I didn’t know that chatting at the spa several times a week was the best relationship for me. To overstep the threshold by visiting her is an unknown territory. I was both curious and terrified. Besides, she said that for just being nice and didn’t really mean it. If she had meant it, she would have given me her information to contact. But, what if she meant it and waits for my reaction? What if she thinks I will give her my information if I want to be in touch with her? On the other hand, suppose I gave it to her, then my gesture would say, “Invite me!” which is so rude.
After two-week’s pondering, I decided to wait for her information as her invitation. The other day, I saw her at the spa and she said she was moving out the next morning. She didn’t give me any way to contact her. Neither did I. We didn’t even tell each other’s names until the end. We just said we would bump into each other soon in the neighborhood since our apartments stand closely, and shook hands all naked. She left. Surprising sadness welled up inside me…
Episode from
My Naked Spa in Japan: Fear, Relationship and A Breakthrough
HidemiWoods.com
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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
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
☆ ★ ☆ 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
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.
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