Hi,
Do you ever feel your English accent is all right?? To be honest, I didn't care about it cuz I might have had a fixed confident in my English accent.
I have actually been oversea for about 3 years since I graduated university in Japan. I don't wanna talk about how much English I can speak or something like that, but I'm now focuing on letting my accent improve a lot more by asking my friends who born or grew up here how to pronounce some words properly that most of Japanese(I'm) are not good at or reserching it on a english website which can find it out.
The reason why I began it is that I realized that I have so many words and phrases which I can't pronounce. For example, last month when I was talking with my coach about... I forgot the details but I tried to tell his "on Thursday". I guess I wanted to tell him I wouldn't be able to join a training session on Thursday or something, but sadly, he didn't understand what I told him. That wan only exactly the word of 'Thursday'!! Then, a week ago, I went to gym and I asked a receptinist to borrow a volleball as anyone can use any kind of balls: volleyball, basketball and Rugbyball so on cuz there is much space to play as a individual or team exercise.
However, she can't also understand my 'V' accent that is unconfident. Japanese are usually bad at pronouncing those letters such as 'V' and 'Th' accent as Japanese doesn't have a similar accent to these letters. In particular, we are really bad at having two tougues for 'R' and 'L'.
Honestly, I had had really bad scores of every single English test until at the end of high school. I actually hated the subject. That's the reason even now I sometimes discover an embarrassing rule of its grammer... I'm still really good enough for English, actually.
But fortunately I can enjoy studying English now in spite of English was my most allergic subject in the world.
Life is mistery!!
ども！
さてさて、もう海外（英語圏）に来て丸３年以上経ちます。別に自分の英語レベルがどうとかの話はしたくないですが、ちょっと最近徹底的に意識して勉強いている分野があります。それは「発音」。
正直な話、結構自分は日本で高校の終わりから英語を意識しながら生活をしてきた方だと思います。まだ日本にいた頃も、どうにか英語を使いたい（外人と喋りたい）と常に思ってたし、そういう環境にできるだけ置くようにしてた。音楽も洋楽を昔から聞き、発音の練習になるからよく見よう見まねで歌ってました。カラオケで歌ったり。
そんなせいもあってかどうなのか、本格的に海外に住みだしてあまり発音に対して悩んだことはなかった。が、しかし！！！
最近ほんまに英語の発音しらんかってんなぁと感じてます。例えば自分の場合、文章で言う際には相手に伝わるんやけど、単語一言だけ言いたい時。これがなかなか伝わらない。この前監督と話してたときは、「木曜日Thursday」が伝わらない！！そしてちょっと前にジム内で「Volleyball」が伝わらなかった・・・。両方とも日本人には苦手とされている「TH」と「V」の発音。よく発音で日本人が言われるのは「Ｌ」と「Ｒ」の発音やけど、それ以外にもたくさんある。
今は一から勉強してしっかりマスターできればと思いながらやってるけど、まぁ簡単ではないねぇ・・。最近は一人でいるときも自分が苦手な発音を一人呟いて口を動きを慣らしてるけど果たして・・・。
自分は高校まで英語の成績ダメダメやったんで、英語をほぼそっから独学（ほぼ会話）で覚えてきたんで、なんにしても基礎がないんやと痛感。やけど、英語を勉強してて嫌にはならない。あれだけ学生時代キライやったのに、ほんまに人生って不思議。
Do you ever feel your English accent is all right?? To be honest, I didn't care about it cuz I might have had a fixed confident in my English accent.
I have actually been oversea for about 3 years since I graduated university in Japan. I don't wanna talk about how much English I can speak or something like that, but I'm now focuing on letting my accent improve a lot more by asking my friends who born or grew up here how to pronounce some words properly that most of Japanese(I'm) are not good at or reserching it on a english website which can find it out.
The reason why I began it is that I realized that I have so many words and phrases which I can't pronounce. For example, last month when I was talking with my coach about... I forgot the details but I tried to tell his "on Thursday". I guess I wanted to tell him I wouldn't be able to join a training session on Thursday or something, but sadly, he didn't understand what I told him. That wan only exactly the word of 'Thursday'!! Then, a week ago, I went to gym and I asked a receptinist to borrow a volleball as anyone can use any kind of balls: volleyball, basketball and Rugbyball so on cuz there is much space to play as a individual or team exercise.
However, she can't also understand my 'V' accent that is unconfident. Japanese are usually bad at pronouncing those letters such as 'V' and 'Th' accent as Japanese doesn't have a similar accent to these letters. In particular, we are really bad at having two tougues for 'R' and 'L'.
Honestly, I had had really bad scores of every single English test until at the end of high school. I actually hated the subject. That's the reason even now I sometimes discover an embarrassing rule of its grammer... I'm still really good enough for English, actually.
But fortunately I can enjoy studying English now in spite of English was my most allergic subject in the world.
Life is mistery!!
ども！
さてさて、もう海外（英語圏）に来て丸３年以上経ちます。別に自分の英語レベルがどうとかの話はしたくないですが、ちょっと最近徹底的に意識して勉強いている分野があります。それは「発音」。
正直な話、結構自分は日本で高校の終わりから英語を意識しながら生活をしてきた方だと思います。まだ日本にいた頃も、どうにか英語を使いたい（外人と喋りたい）と常に思ってたし、そういう環境にできるだけ置くようにしてた。音楽も洋楽を昔から聞き、発音の練習になるからよく見よう見まねで歌ってました。カラオケで歌ったり。
そんなせいもあってかどうなのか、本格的に海外に住みだしてあまり発音に対して悩んだことはなかった。が、しかし！！！
最近ほんまに英語の発音しらんかってんなぁと感じてます。例えば自分の場合、文章で言う際には相手に伝わるんやけど、単語一言だけ言いたい時。これがなかなか伝わらない。この前監督と話してたときは、「木曜日Thursday」が伝わらない！！そしてちょっと前にジム内で「Volleyball」が伝わらなかった・・・。両方とも日本人には苦手とされている「TH」と「V」の発音。よく発音で日本人が言われるのは「Ｌ」と「Ｒ」の発音やけど、それ以外にもたくさんある。
今は一から勉強してしっかりマスターできればと思いながらやってるけど、まぁ簡単ではないねぇ・・。最近は一人でいるときも自分が苦手な発音を一人呟いて口を動きを慣らしてるけど果たして・・・。
自分は高校まで英語の成績ダメダメやったんで、英語をほぼそっから独学（ほぼ会話）で覚えてきたんで、なんにしても基礎がないんやと痛感。やけど、英語を勉強してて嫌にはならない。あれだけ学生時代キライやったのに、ほんまに人生って不思議。