Counted numbers in a bath, and thought why
Saturday: I had lunch at a Chinese restaurant near Rikuzen-Ochiai station.
Then I took bus for the center of Sendai. I didn't take train, on which it takes shorter time, because the store I plan to go shopping is near a bus stop of the bus I take, but if I took train it would take extra 15 minutes to walk to the shop. I went shopping for business shoes, especially for rainy days. I bought three pairs of socks as well as my new pair of shoes. I have been trying socks from many shops because recently the socks I had bought is easy to go bad.
Sunday evening: I had bath. I counted numbers while bathing. I counted from 19,250 down to 18,970. While counting down I also thought about why I've been chosen counting number as a practice of spoken English.
I imagine that many people thinks that the easiest things to say may be their name and some information about themselves, but I feel that the things about myself I really can tell easily is not so many. Even saying my name, which seems the most obvious to me, is not really easy. First, every time I say my name I feel a little bit embarrassed. Second, I feel it difficult to how to pronounce my name and still sound like English.
Then I came up with an idea last December that numbers are as obvious as my name and still many native English speaker says some of those numbers daily, unlike a particular name of a guy from a countryside of Japan. This idea that numbers is always spoken, if not main subject of them, in every-day conversation, has help me to feel that I've taken a first step to have a common ground, by counting numbers in English.
Then I took bus for the center of Sendai. I didn't take train, on which it takes shorter time, because the store I plan to go shopping is near a bus stop of the bus I take, but if I took train it would take extra 15 minutes to walk to the shop. I went shopping for business shoes, especially for rainy days. I bought three pairs of socks as well as my new pair of shoes. I have been trying socks from many shops because recently the socks I had bought is easy to go bad.
Sunday evening: I had bath. I counted numbers while bathing. I counted from 19,250 down to 18,970. While counting down I also thought about why I've been chosen counting number as a practice of spoken English.
I imagine that many people thinks that the easiest things to say may be their name and some information about themselves, but I feel that the things about myself I really can tell easily is not so many. Even saying my name, which seems the most obvious to me, is not really easy. First, every time I say my name I feel a little bit embarrassed. Second, I feel it difficult to how to pronounce my name and still sound like English.
Then I came up with an idea last December that numbers are as obvious as my name and still many native English speaker says some of those numbers daily, unlike a particular name of a guy from a countryside of Japan. This idea that numbers is always spoken, if not main subject of them, in every-day conversation, has help me to feel that I've taken a first step to have a common ground, by counting numbers in English.
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