Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

These days I often visit LingQ. Besides English, I listen to several foreign languages; French, German, and Chinese. Whether I'm really going to communicate in these language I'm not sure, but by the progresses of lessons, I know I'm capable of understand more than one language, which makes me freer, even if I'm not really going to communicate in these languages. This has been the motivation with which I learn English even if I don't have any concrete plan to communicate with anyone.

I slept for 3 hours in the afternoon. I needed to do this to recover from the stress, and today was the only day I could this in a few weeks.

On Sunday I have to participate in a lecture on skiing. If I don't sleep well today and tomorrow, there's no chance for recovery from fatigue from the trip to Nagoya for Abilympics and work after the trip.

So far I've been OK in this week, but I've find it hard to make any idea now. Probably I've been overloaded these days with Abylympics in Nagoya and making a lot of communication at work and people with disabilities of same category as I have. It's not a good idea to tell something by pushing myself too hard when I'm really tired. I hope that my vigor will be recovering soon.

Recently I've been doing well at work. The other staff member looks like struggling with business communications. We both are categorized to developmental disorders, but the way of do things and communicate are quite different. Fortunately I have been able to acquire some tips of business communications, but, as many with developmental disorders are likely to do, the other member seems to struggle with how to effectively communicate in typical communications like making a report, making a question, and taking orders.

Yesterday, on the last day of this holidays, I encountered an ad. It was about an English learning program which focuses on pronunciation with a goal to acquire speech speed of native speakers and understand what is spoken on a movie. My goal wasn't really joining a conversation with a native speaker, so I wasn't one who buy the program. I, however, was interested in the English teacher the ad recommends to take a course of. Seeing his video, I learned that making right sounds is the first step to learn "power-saving" pronunciation native speakers are said to use in their daily conversations. I adopted some of program. When I practiced pronunciation with super slow speed, I was able to be much more conscious of each sound I was to make than ever before. Unfortunately, I noticed that I couldn't really tell the difference of the pronunciations between "L" and "R", or "see" and "she". On other videos, I learned to mak...

As one of people with developmental disabilities, I've believed that we needed some technical terms in order to describe our difficulties. On the other hand, some English conversation programs focus on typical patterns you are most likely to hear or see. One program I saw a little while ago focuses on 60 patterns. I complained to myself that with these 60 patterns I can't describe my difficulties. On second thought I decided to explain some of our difficulties, with developmental disabilities, in expressions I think which is basic. Problems in Input / Output : What you see and hear / What you speak and write Very limited short time memory : When we are told several items or to do several things, we tend to easily forget what is told at the first. Single task : We basically do one thing at a time. Typical office workers can do several things at the same time and often requires co-workers to do so. We're likely to have a trouble when we have to / try to do more...