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Hi, everyone! How was your Valentine’s Day?<\/p>\n
As we already mentioned, we had a great week doing Valentine’s day lessons!<\/p>\n
Here is a photo of the best message written by a junior high school student on her Valentine’s Day card.<\/p>\n
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One of the purposes for our event lessons is to experience the language in a real context. Unlike textbook learning, making cards for someone you like is a real experience and it’s a great opportunity for learners to say something meaningful in another language. It is very challenging and most of our students only used the expressions we introduced. But if you stop worrying about making mistakes and take a step forward, you get to know how to say what you really want to say in English. This process is very important in language learning. Who cares if you make one or two (or even 10!) mistakes? We are all here to learn a new language and without trying to speak, it will be harder to speak English. So please try to express yourself in English and make mistakes. It makes you realize what you can\/can’t say in English. You might be able to understand what’s written\/said quite well, but that doesn’t mean you can speak like that.<\/p>\n
Here’s an example. You watched Kei Nishikori play tennis at the Australian Open and got inspired. You read many books about tennis and became very knowledgeable, but can you play like Kei on the court only by book-learning? Absolutely not! Speaking English is like playing sports. You need to actually get your words out of your mouth and physically practice using them.<\/p>\n
Going back to my lesson with the junior high student, I asked her if there is anything she wanted to say other than “Happy Valentine’s Day” and “Thank you, always”.\u00a0 She said, “OK, I’ll try,” and she tried her best to put the words together with as few mistakes as she could. I could totally understand what she wanted to say and helped her a little bit so it sounded natural in English. She said, “Oh, that’s how you say it!” If she had decided not to try, she wouldn’t have learned it. Plus, she will probably remember these sentences more than any sentences on the textbooks because they are meaningful to her and they came out of her thoughts.<\/p>\n
We are here to help you, so please try out your English and most importantly: make some mistakes!<\/p>\n
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