今日も雨ですね。残念ながら散歩が出来ませんので、写真が撮れません。パソコンで遊んでいますが、英語の勉強を始めようと思います。ただ年金生活ですから、高い英会話教室の授業料は払えません。
It is also raining today. To my great regret, I can not go out for a walking and naturally can not take a photograph. Although I am playing with the computer, I wish to start the studying of english. However, since I am pensioner, I can not afford to pay expensive lesson fee of english speaking class.
そこで考えたのが、パソコンを使っての無料英会話です。少しばかり英語が出来れば、ヤフーメッセンジャーというソフトをダウンロードし、フリーメールアドレスを入れて登録すれば、相手とチャット（会話）が出来ます。スカイプと同じですね。
Then, I thought out, that is, free english conversation using the computer. If you can speak english a little bit, you can enjoy chatting with freinds, after downloading Yahoo Messenger soft and registering your free email address. It is quite similar with SKYPE.
話すのが苦手な人は筆談で、会話が得意な人はマイクを使って話せば、英会話教室にいる様な物です。私は安いウエブカメラをパソコンに取り付けています。相手の顔を見ながら話せます。便利になりましたね。英会話教室に行かずとも、多少の英語の知識があれば、英語の勉強が楽しめます。
If the person who is not good at speaking, can enjoy by typing and if he is good at the conversation, he can enjoy the conversation by using microphone. It looks like that we are in the english conversation class. I have installed cheap web camera in the computer. I can enjooy english conversation, looking at the partner. It became so much convenient. Without joining to english conversation school, we can enjoy studying english, if he has few knowlege about english.
定年後も英語で海外の人と交信（メールやチャット）をしています。国籍の違う人と友人になると、違う国の文化や歴史を勉強するようになり、頭の老化防止にもなります。
I am enjoying communication ( chatting/exchanging email) with overseas freinds in english, after the retirement from work. If we become friend with different nationality, we start to study the history and culutre of different countries and it might be good to prevent the antiaging of the brain.