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It's been almost 2 years since I stopped typing my think piece here

2026年1月31日

How are you going everyone? First of all, I won't promise uploading any new ditty here as I've been sort of feeling a sense of demotivation when it comes to English blog. Therefore, I stopped. Well, what can I say now? Writing something in English surely made me exhilarating as used to be. I didn't really care about the impeccability of English grammar, word usage and tone of the voice when I was typing anything in English. This is the right way for myself to practise English.

But, speaking wise, most of you guys studying English don't wanna be making any mistake in public. This has definitely been badly exemplified by kind of typified perfectionists. Yes, of course, no one wants to be embarrassed to make silly mistakes like basic grammar or pronunciation. Please keep in mind the fact that it's just important to be understood by people even though some intolerant people tend to strain to comprehend you. No one's issue here. For me, however, this is not good. I've been living in Australia more than ten years now, and luckily I've got PR for the duration of this past decade. I've never ever stopped thinking about the way in which I can ameliorate not just living standards, but also English proficiency per se.

I still make grammar mistakes and mispronunciations when I'm speaking and writing as well. But, when I'm talking to someone, I immediately correct mistakes I make, or at least I can realise when I make such mistakes after talking. Have enough knowledge about grammar and pronunciation undoubtedly prevails. So, what I wanna say to you is that making mistakes seem totally fine, but just whingeing about someone's paucity of understanding and listening is horribly wrong. They presumably found your English grammar and pronunciation extremely difficult to discern even though they really didn't want to butcher your conversation. That case often happens actually. I've seen when I'm outside.

Anyway, let's master 'grammar and pronunciation' first!! Everyone can embark upon it from scratch without leaning on any AI translation tech out there. Simply put, let's start reading English newspaper articles without trying to understand the meaning of the sentences in Japanese. Most importantly, knowing five forms/structures of complete sentences, tenses and articles are quintessentially indispensable to reading English sentences. I reckon this makes you motivated to learn and improve English skills.

I'm teaching the PTE exam online, and this is the only source of keeping me motivated to not just teach, but improve myself as well. Good luck, everyone!