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Online lessons with Cafetalk

speaking, writing

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Ryoko Naito from Japan. I am afraid that this texts would be long, I am sorry in advance. I would like to learn "British" English, and my goals are the following: 1. Being able to watch BBC Sherlock and Doctor Who without any subtitles 2. Being able to talk with the UK people ( and on the phone ) 3. Being able to write a fantastic and polite fan letter to British actors -> Being able to write exactly what I mean politely I had taken a lesson on Cafetalk only once months ago. However at the time I was not able to squeeze even one word. Therefore, I thought I would be better to practise writing before listening to or speak British English. I have been practising writing British English almost every day for 10 months. I think my English has improved a bit, so I began to practise listening. I listen to BBC learning English, and some CDs attached with British English text books. I am able to understand BBC English(RP) a little bit, but I am not able to understand what the other ordinary people in the UK speak. Then I happened to hear that being able to speak is a great effect on listening. ***** I wonder if I could take lessons like this: ***** I would like to practise listening and speaking daily, useful and short British English phrases. I wonder if someone could record the voices which speak such phrases, both of slow version and fast( native ) version, and provide mp3 format for me. I will import the voice files into my portable music player, and try to listen to and imitate the phrases with doing something. I have no idea how much this costs, so could you let me know how much it costs as well, please? Thank you for reading this long texts. Best regards, Ryoko Naito

デザイン系の大学院への出願の際に提出するポートフォリオについて、アドバイスをお願いできる方を探しています。 作品につけたコメントの英文の添削だけでなく、 ・どういう風に作品を並べたらいいか ・どういう説明を付ければインパクトがあるか ・特にウェブサイトのプランニングを行うような専攻に出願しようとしているので、作品がメインでない場合はどういうポートフォリオにすれば良いか といった点でのアドバイスを求めています。 できれば、デザイン系の大学を出られた方にお願いできればと思います。

Please let me know some lessons, especially Academic English. I'm going to join pre-sessional English class this summer in the UK, so I need to prepare the lesson and get along in foreign country. My English level is IELTS5.5.