2013/11/29

Haiku in English 2

Hi, how have you been ?
Thank you for your coming
to our event in the culture fest.
We really enjoyed it
and hope to see you guys again
at Togura Sozokan !





It's getting colder...
never seen snow flakes yet, but freezing at night in Togura !
Cold wind blasts away the scent of autumn
It tells us that winter's coming closer.
And here's our Basho's second work!
(His first Haiku is HERE !)






"Mantis,
 strikes pose
  in the middle of street."



「蟷螂や 道の真ん中で 見得を切り」























See you !

2013/11/09

Event "Music in English" Nov 10th Culture Festival in Togura , Chikuma City

Flickr : Culture Fest in Chikuma Togura English Club event
Togura English Club event poster Culture Fest Nov.10th 2013 戸倉英会話クラブ イベント 11月10日 第21回戸倉文化祭 千曲市 音楽 de English

Facebook page Event : 戸倉文化祭 千曲市 Culture Fest 2013 in Togura
in Japanese [日本語のイベント告知はこちら] 音楽de English

Event Information
Togura English Club (E.Y.S.Club)
Event (workshop)
"Music in English"(音楽deEnglish)
Let's try translating English lyrics into Japanese!
Enjoy Listening and talking them !

When?
Nov 10th (SUN) 2013
Morning: 10:30-11:30
Afternoon: 13:30-14:30

Whrere?
at Togura Sozokan(戸倉創造館)sousaku 2(2F)
in Chikuma City
(10-15 min walk from Togura Station)


大きな地図で見る

Who?
Anyone interested in English or Japanese!

Reservations?
No appointment necessary.

*Free drink service (tea,cofee)



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Hello,we have a big event TOMORROW (Nov, 10th) !!!
"Music in English"(Original 「音楽 de English」
(means...what to say...
translating English lyrics into Japanese...?)
at Togura Sozokan in Chikuma city

Our circle members love Karaoke,
sing songs both Japanese and English
so we chose this idea.
(We are glad if you are good at in English
and help us !)

Let's enjoy listening to English numbers
(The Beatles, Carpenters)
and discuss about them.


I'm thinking to take some songs too
like;
Carly Rae Jepsen
Eminem
Linkin Park
Taylor Swift
Daft Punk
Cold play
Enya
Dido
Nirvana
Blur
the Killers
Avril Lavigne
Celine Dion
U2
Madonna
Sarah Brightman
Rocks, Pops,Swedish, Dance musics,
etc...
latest smash hits to oldies
and You can listen them.



There're also some free drinks
(tea, cofee, etc...)
so make yourself at home...

Which English song do you like the best ?
See you at Togura Sozokan /:)))


2013/10/30

DOWNLOAD Happy Halloween image wallpapers for iPhone 5/5S

Happy Halloween !

Here are our original illustrations of
Halloween wallpapers
for mobile (iPhone 5/5s)
size : 1136x640

There are two characters
and each has 4 colors.



Togura English Club in Chikuma City
Original Character wallpapers


Pumpkin : Anne (apricot) O' Lantern
Flickr : http://flic.kr/p/h4BpVH
Togura English Club character Halloween wallpaper for mobile iPhone 5,5S  organic cotton 戸倉英会話クラブ キャラクター ハロウィン かぼちゃん(あんちゃん) 携帯待受壁紙 千曲市 生成り 
"Trick or Treat ?"





Witch : Tama (white kitten)
Flickr :http://fli c.kr/p/h5BMLk
Togura English Club character Halloween wallpaper for mobile iPhone 5,5S  witch cat  juicy apricot  戸倉英会話クラブ キャラクター ハロウィン たまじょちゃん(たまちゃん) 携帯待受壁紙 千曲市 オレンジ色
"I can cast a spell !"


SOME RIGHTS RESERVED
[Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works, and No Distribution]




Download images from this page (ameba blog)

温泉あんずと月あかり 長野県千曲市広域情報ブログ-戸倉英会話クラブ 画像ダウンロード 千曲市 togura english club download chikuma
※Click the orange button[DOWNLOAD]
and save the file



Hope you like them /:)

2013/10/19

Haiku in Engslish

Hello, it's getting much colder
in Togura.How about your town ?
Here is a HAIKU
written in English.
One of our club member made this.
Hope you like his work !


"Monkey takes a bath
in such a cold night
with the Moon."

「いてる夜は 月と野猿が 同じ風呂」





2013/09/13

The Beatles - Let It Be and Yesterday Are they American English or British English ?


tada---:0
The Beatles Let It Be



Listening to this song, I found Paul's pronunciation is so interesting. They are from the UK but it sounds more like...well, much closer to American English.(for US market?)

The first I thought someone...,an American or a Canadian singer covered this on this video but it wasn't like that. Paul McCartney is singing this, for sure!
yes,I knew this song (of course!) but I've never listened it carefully before.

So the Beatles was always like that...? Are they Americanized British Group?
Despite they are the symbol of the British pop ?


But listen to the below !

The Beatles Yesterday


It sounds like British English....
Same singer, Same group.But they are so different...

So...I think they change (arrange) their pronunciation by songs, for some reason.

I'm not sure if it's true or not.But as if there is an answer fot this ?
Maybe the answer will be "Let it be !"


What about us ?
Maybe...We use Japanese English:)


In addition to this topic : These two songs have one thing in common that both are considered about Paul's mother named Mary ( not about Virgin Mary) who passed away when he was young.
"Let it be" is the words from his mother in his dream when he really was in trouble with other band members.
And "yesterday" is his missing and longing for her.But it also sounds like an experience of his heartbreak. How do you feel ?

2013/09/11

Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games ! illustration of Japanese flag

Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games !
Congratulations,Tokyo !

and here's my illustration of Japanese flag.
Flickr: http://flic.kr/p/fLYLgV
Tokyo Olympics 2020 東京オリンピックおめでとう!日本国旗 日の丸 千曲市 温泉あんず 

Tokyo Olympics 2020
東京オリンピックおめでとう!日本国旗 日の丸 
千曲市 温泉あんず 

2013/09/03

Gif animation on Blogger ; how it looks? try! There are always troubles.

Test: ... I failed ! There are aloways some troubles when i try to upload images on blogger. This service always like this?...lol... (I put some of my original widgets on the left of this site. But it took so long because of this problem) Okay... Let's try it again... come on...! nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! They are already in uploader (I succeeded it) but just cannnot put it HERE !!! Why?
"Why don't you come to Chikuma City?"
(adobe Illustrator & Photoshop drawing)

I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I switched the view "HTML" to"SAKUSEI:create". and thistime I made it.But I still don't know why...
Is this just an error or we always have to choose "SAKUSEI:create" When we put any images ? Hope there's someone familiar with the kind of problem,thx.

2013/09/01

A Brief History of the United States of America

I put some widgets on the right of this page. And... I found a movie.
This is the histry of the USA ! It looks funny but it also contains cynical jokes include some social problems like guns, race discriminations.(The guide is a bullet !)



hope they can help your studying English on the Web.

2013/08/29

Which is the better ? Blogger vs Wordpress

Hello, We are members of a English speaking and learning club from 千曲市; Chikuma city, Nagano, Japan and now thinking which blog service is the better...blogger or wordpress. We once tried wordpress(cuz it was free...hehehe) .Yes, it was nice, there are many simple,cool and stylish templates that we can use free but we needed to pay some money for cusomize them... (we can't even change the font size !...sigh...) So... how about blogger ? Let's try !

長野県 千曲市 戸倉英会話クラブ キャラクター 温泉あんず 杏ちゃん Chikuma city English Club character Anne