We season bracken with soy sauce and soup stock. We know it contains carcinogens, but we can't resist it because it has a spring taste.
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. Thanks to school teachers instruction that gives caution to the usage of smartphones, many students abide by the rules regarding their smartphones. Most schools prohibit them to turn on the digital gadgets during they are in schools. Students should focus on classes and don't have to watch screens. This rule is common nowadays in high school and junior high school. Teachers also warn the threats of smartphones such as bullying, SNS dependence, online fraud, game addiction, and plazialism to them. As a result, the dangers of smartphones are generally recognized, and children are usually obedient to what their parents tell them. When some children are against to their parents' instruction, they may frequently become victims of online predators. Although it is not easy for parents to have a good relationship with teenagers who are in a rebellious phase, parents should try delaying the time when children have their own smartphones as much as possible. Lending my smartphone to my sons was available alternative choice when he wanted having a smartphone. My wife and I never agree that my sons have their own ones until they become high school students. Thank you for corrections that are useful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I understand that I should have written "a" cartoon when I mean one story. As for the difficulty reading novels is not only for children but also for young adults. As smartphones appeared since around 2000, young adults are also a smartphone generation that make them dislike novels. It is now well-known that they prefer reading cartoons with stories and YouTube videos. Having fun time is not bad, but detailed documents with long texts are necessary when it comes to discuss something important. A lack of reading skill may cause miscommunication and misunderstanding unintentionally. In particular, precise and clear expression is indispensable to make an agreement in businesses. Relying on cartoons and smartphones is a concern for the young to raise their communication skill. Thank you for corrections that are helpful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I understand that I should add "the" when I mention something to be specific. In Japan, solar power can only be used during the day and on sunny days, but by installing a storage battery at home and storing excess power, house owners can use it for your own consumption at night or on bad weather. Due to elevation of oil prices, people worry the bill of monthly oil consumption nowadays. It is said that renewable energy will be a countermeasure to save money. Lowering the price of solar panels is essential for people's lives. Thank you for corrections that are useful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. In the case of my sons, they also didn't understand why they had to learn English in their school curriculum. They had never had chances in speaking English in their daily life. My sons were struggling and annoyed for studying English. All things that they saw and listened to are made with Japanese. As a result, they were lethargy and felt mandatory when they had English classes at school. Particularly, class education were composed of rote memorization of English words, grammertical analysis of sentences, and long text reading. There are few opportunities to practice English conversation that is necessary for English proficiency. Subsequently, they don't use English after graduation and naturally forget most of things that they had learned during school time. Their huge amount of effort to understand English becomes meaningless after all. Under such circumstance, I thought that preaching is useless to help my sons. So I advised them that English is a kind of riddle. I told them that I would give some hints and they should practice grasping the message together. On days when they had English classes, I sat next to my children and worked with them on understanding English until they understood the meaning. By playing the game, they seemed to have become a little more interested in English, and little by little they were getting used to it. Nowadays, my children understand the importance of English and are continuing to study independently. Thank you for corrections that are helpful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Thank you for your feedback and comments on how I can improve my sentences as always!
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. There are two types of charging stations that recharge EVs' betteries. One is for public use and the other is home use. Current Japanese EVs are flexible to connecting these two types. In general, car makers manage EVs can move a whole day by using the home use battery station that needs around 8 hours to finish recharging. However, batteries are weak in Winter due to cold environment due to rapid battery drain. When car owners of EVs may have empty signs of their EVs in cold winter, they have to stop at rapid chargins stations in public for around half one hour. Increasing the size of the storage battery eliminates the need for rapid charging, but increases the weight of the vehicle and reduces energy saving efficiency. I think that local governments should set up comfortable charging stations with free soft drink service so that drivers can enjoy relaxing during waiting time. Thank you for corrections that are useful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
My husband's car is an ordinary one. I want him to change it to an EV.
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I live in Kanazawa city in Noto peninsula now. My place is in urban area that has a lot of women, instead countryside in the peninsula is devoid of young women seriously. In our rural area, as common jobs are farmers and fishermen, many women are not attracted to them and move to cities in search of highly educated men. The relatives of my wife's family lives in the countryside, and they complain there were little office work but those physical labors. They say that it makes sense to help young women move to city where women can work at office. Moreover, many women aspire to be in dependent for their lives, apart from their outdated social norm in the countryside. As a result, many women escape from such old-fashioned circumstance and challenge fulfilling their hope and motivations in urban areas. I don't know how we develop the outdated thought and transform our society. However, I believe that the Japanese government should declare Japan challenge devastating gender inequality and creating gender equality society to stop depopulation in the countryside. Thank you for corrections that are helpful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I understand scenario is a suitable word that I want to express my intention. By the way, while I observe my younger son's behavior that he always focus on the screen. He seemed not to have something to do with his smartphone. He feels bored and is scrolling through the screen looking for something interesting to kill time. I think that he wastes a lot of time by playing with his smartphone for no reason. Directly telling him to spend less time on his smartphones had no effect. Instead, I repeatedly question him what kind of job he wants to do, and what skills he should acquire. I told him these suggestions again and again, advising him that your wishes would not come true unless you acquire necessary skills. He started studying for his skills and ended up spending less time on his smartphone. Thank you for corrections that are helpful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I'm not tired of waiting at all, so it's okay. Thank you for your always kind corrections. By the way, the smartphone addiction of today's children is a big problem. My son also hates writing down his problems on paper. He says he feels annoyed to move his hands. He tries to have a vague image in his head and give an answer in several seconds. Alothough I show how to clarify problems on paper and find countermeasures while focusing on texts, he always complains practicing such a way. Instead, he searches his question on screen so that he can find answers without consideration. I think that smartphone is very convenient but the young should not rely on it too much. Finding their own answers is very important in taking responsibility for their actions. Thank you for corrections that are useful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I am skeptic that social media companies pay attention enough to protect their users. Although C.E.O of these platforms, such as Mr. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, earn huge amount of wealth, they are not cautious to support their users. Therefore, I don't utilize such platforms, instead I join a mobile messanger application "Line" that a reliable Japanese company manages. LINE is warning users of dating services and risky smartphone apps, and is restricting the use of some features for the users who are under the age of 18. Children and juveniles are vulnerable to dangers on the internet, so governments and companies should implement regulating social media platforms. Thank you for corrections that are useful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Your son is very sweet!
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. I understand that shrink fits to mean the decrease of pension allowance. As aging society is now the most serious concern in Japan, the Japanese government should offer a variety of countermeasures that help people. Currently, having good health is an individual matter whether or not ones pay attention to. However, concerning our gloomy future, the government should provide more incentives as people will have more healthy habits. While the government delay the starting age of pension, it should be a virtue for them to be able to work in old age by doing health promotion in their middle ages. It is an effective way that people will have healthy and productive aging so as to sustain Japanese society. Thank you for corrections that are helpful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
Teacher Ellie_P Thank you for kind words as always. Apart from ilicit drugs, side effects of smoking is not obvious in a short duration but it damages people's body little by little. Before WHO cleared the negative impact of cigarette in 1980s, people didn't believe that smoking was very harmful. However, scientific reports cleared that smoking clearly increase of the number of premature deaths. Thanks to their effort, it is common for people to accept non-smoking society nowadays. As ilicit drugs were eradicated, I believe that smoking ban will be realized. Thank you for corrections that are helpful to me. Best regards, 5971mak
