ESL 1056

The scrip is  HERE

ジェイミー：もし私たちの会社が成長するなら、新興市場を探さないといけないよね。この先２０年以内に発展する国で足がかりを作ることは理にかなってると思うんだ。

ニーナ：けど、ある国の経済が急成長しているからって、今後何年も安定しているとは限らないわ。あまりにリスクが高過ぎる気もするけど。

ジェイミー：確かに絶対的な保証はないけど、どの市場が最も有望で成功するかわかる頃には、チャンスを逃してることになるよ。

ニーナ：何か提案があるの？投資する市場を１つ２つに絞るか、選んだ投資先をヘッジするか、分散して投資する？

ジェイミー：どの国が次の１０年で高い経済成長を遂げるか見極めてから、それに集中すべきかな。

ニーナ：リスクが高過ぎるって意見に変わりはないけど、あなたのアイディアを検討してみるわ。提案書を作ってくれたら見るわよ。

ジェイミー：ほんとに？それはいい！君が受け入れてくれるとは思わなかったよ。

ニーナ：約束するわけではないわ。けど先入観を持たずに考えるわ。ただ、簡潔にね。

ジェイミー：ボクは「歩く簡潔」と言われてるくらいだよ。




emergin market 新興市場
foothold 足がかり・足場、
promising 有望な
receptive 受容性のある・感受性の強い
keep an open mind 広い心を持つ
short and sweet 簡潔・要を得た

ESL 1055

The script is  HERE.


ベルナーデッテ：あなたが仕事場まで連れて行ってくれるって言ってくれた時、まさかバイクに乗ってるとは知らなかったわ。どうしようかしら。

パウェル：いいじゃないか！さぁヘルメットを付けて乗って！仕事場に早くつけるよ！車の間をすり抜けていくんだ。

ベルナーデッテ：それが怖いんじゃない。

パウェル：ボクは経験豊富なドライバーだよ！１０代の頃はモペットに乗って、大学時代はスクーターに乗って、初めてバイクに乗ったのは２２の時なんだ。毎週バイクサークルといっしょに乗っているし、安全面で心配することはないよ。

ベルナーデッテ：いいドライバーだってことはわかってるけど、一歩間違えると道で死んじゃうことになるわ。

パウェル：乗って！ちゃんと運転するって約束するから。　後ろのタイヤだけで走ったり、回ったり、そんなことしないよ。

ベルナーデッテ：リラックスさせようとそんなこと言ってるんだったら、効果なしね！

パウェル：　わかった！じゃあ最後！仕事に行きたいの？行きたくないの？

ベルナーデッテ：分かったわ。あなたの手に命をかけるわ。けどもし死んだら、罪悪感にさいなまれることになるわよ。

パウェル：心配しないで。もし事故を起こしたら僕達両方死んじゃうから。そしたら罪悪感を感じてしまうことを心配するような意識はないさ。つかまって！

The sciences are more important than the arts in Today's society?

Hi everyone.
How are you doing? Today I want to write about the topic I wrote on the title.

I disagree about this topic.
The sciences and the arts are both important and both give us substantial influences to out society. They are two side of the same coin.

These two need creativity. People just use this creativity in different ways. 
Our civilization would be still the same as Stone age if the scientists didn't have imagination to create new technology, medicine and so on.
Also if the artists were not creative, our life would be so insipid and suffocating.

I would like to talk about education system.
Schools always give more amount of time to study math and science than music and arts. Teachers always think students who can get good grade in math and science are better than ones who can get good grade in music and art.
I have this idea from Kevin Robinson who is a famous educator and gave some speeches on TED.
This reality makes children less creative and less happy. 
I believe education system should change so that we can live more enrich life.

Albert Einstein said that "Art without science is blind. Science without art is lame".
So both are very important in each ways.
Thank you.

phychology

Hi Everyone
How are you?

Recently I read a book called "courage to be disliked".
It's written by an author who is fascinated by Alfred Adler,  psychologist.
Adler is known for the study about individual psychology. He is one of the big three psychologist, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and him.

The author was interested in Adler and did some research on him.
Finally he found a professor who also research on Adler for a long time.
They made this book together. It's a dialog style assuming this professor and this author talking. It remains me Plato.

This is a book about having courage to be disliked.
I can't explain exactly what was written in the book since the contents are difficult to understand for the first time, but I learned a lot from the book.

One of the most interesting parts was about separation between my problems and other's. For example it's not my problem even if another person doesn't have a bad opinion of mine and doesn't seem nice to me. It's his problem so that I don't have to be distressed about it. I can be me anywhere. We can't be free if we think we want to be liked by everybody.
This theory is one of the reason why the author and the professor named the book's title "courage to be disliked".

I'm not sure I wrote correctly about the book, but I hope you would understand what I tried to tell.

Thank you for reading.

HACHI

hi everyone

how are you doing?

It's March now but still chilly.

Last night I watched a movie called HACHI with my mom. 

It's a story about a dog which is really faithfull to his owner. He was found on a street one cold day and became a family of a professor acted by Richerd Geer.

When the professor goes to work HACHI always follows him and see him off at the station and around the time he comes back from work HACHI always waits for this owner because HACHI loves him so much. It's really attaching to watch the process human and animals build relationships.

 Good days didn't go on.

One day the professor goes to work HACHI was trying to tell something. HACHI doesn't want him to go so brought a ball to him which HACHI has never fetch with anybody. The professor thought something weird about HACHI  but he had to go work. On that day during his lesson at the college he suddnly fell down on the floor because of heart attack and he died. As usuall HACHI was waiting for him at the station but the professor didn't show up. HACHI was waiting day after day. It doesn't matter if it's a rainy day or a windy day even snowy day. He waited for him for nine years until he died.

This story is real and happened in Japan in 1923.

I have a dog who is really alike HACHI. Her name is SAKURA which means cherry bloosam.

She is one of my family and will be forever. 

 Thank you for reading.

Be unapologetic

Hi how you doing. Tonight I want to share a TED video with you. 

I like to watch TED in my free time. It can help my English listening skills and vocabulary. 

I was looking for something interesting and I found this. 

 Check out this amazing TED Talk:

Ash Beckham: We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open 

Sent from TED app for iOS

http://itunes.com/apps/tedconferences/ted

Once he was a she and he talked about how difficult it was to tell the world who he really is.  

In the last of his talk he said three principles to open your heart. 

I want you to check them out in the video if you are interested. 

The third principle was " Be unapologetic " 

He said 

" you are speaking your truth. Never apologize for that. ~ Never apologize who you are.

 Some folks are maybe disappointed  but that is on them, not on you.

 Those are their expectations of who you are not yours. 

 That is thier story not yours. ~"

This impressed me.  

I sometimes feel unconfident in myself. 

I will remember what he said when I feel like that.

Sorry I didn't quote whole of his talk. 

Thank you for reading.

Living abroad

Hi how are you doing?

Today I was thinking about living in another country. 

Recently I'm into astronomy. I subscribe a magazine called Newton. I also learning terminologies about astronomy in English. 

I watched a tv program about NZ. There're breathtaking beautiful stars and we can observe the southern cross. If I could choose a country I would choose NZ now. I don't know one year later or further future. But I definitely go and live there now. Which country would you like to live?