After the medical frontliners from weeks ago, they will start vaccinating the elderly from April 12. That will only happen after the rest of the medical personnel, including the Self-Defense Forces, will be in the middle of March. Following the elderly, however, are people with preexisting conditions, such as diabetes. Finally, the general public will be inoculated.
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Today’s Fill-In-The-Blanks Quiz:
Here’s last week’s song:
(Fast forward to 00:58)
And I know we weren’t perfect but I’ve never felt this way for no one
And I just can’t imagine how you could be so okay now that I’m gone
Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me
Cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street
Here’s this week’s song:
(Fast forward to 00:48)
It’s like I’ve been _________, every rule I had you ______
It’s the risk that I’m ______, I ain’t never _____ shut you out
__________ I’m looking now, I’m ________ by your embrace
Baby, I can see your ____, you know you’re my saving ____
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Today’s Youtube Recommendation:
For this week, we have someone from the US! His name is Dogen and he makes funny videos about the experiences of foreigners living in Japan, as well as what he has noticed within the Japanese society. I think this is best watched with an open mind, but regardless, give his videos a try! (Also, I seriously think his Japanese accent is native level!)
This article might be a little lengthy, but I think it’s worth the read. It talks about how there are certain biases against women, particularly those who have earned titles. According to this article, it comes naturally for people to address men with their corresponding titles, but there are more cases we don’t do it for women, be it “doctor” or ” professor”, etc. Try reading the article and let me know what you think of it!
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「体験はリアリティを作品に生む」
A real experience brings reality into my work.
・bring A into B AをBにもたらす
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漫画家・岸辺露伴の基本スタンスで、自身の漫画作品のクオリティをあげるために、なんでも体験しようと試みます。
次は、ジョジョ第四部の方で、岸辺露伴のセリフで一番有名なこちら。
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「だが断る」
“But I decline”
「この岸辺露伴が最も好きな事のひとつは
自分で強いと思ってるやつに『NO』と断ってやる事だ」
“One thing that I, Rohan Kishibe, enjoy doing is saying “no” to those who think they’re stronger than me”
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そして、ジャンケン小僧との対決で出てくる私の一番好きなセリフ。
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「他人を負かすってのはそんなむずかしい事じゃあないんだ……もっとも『むずかしい事』は！ いいかい！ もっとも『むずかしい事』は！ 『自分を乗り越える事』さ！ 僕は自分の『運』をこれから乗り越える!!」
“It’s actuaclly not that hard to defeat people. The hardest thing is … Listen up. The hardest thing is … surpassing yourself. Next, I want to surpass my own luck”
・actually 実際は
・that それほど、そんなに
・defeat … 〜を打ち負かす
・surpass … 〜よりまさる
「おまえは自分の『強運』だけを頼った、ぼくは自分の力で運を変えた…自分を乗り越えるってのはそーいうことなんだぜ」
“You just relied on your good luck earlier. I used my own ability to change luck. That’s what’s called “surpassing yourself.””
・rely on … 〜に頼る
・ability 能力
・what’s called いわゆる
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もうこのセリフは私の座右の銘です😄
英語学習でも大事なことは「surpassing yourself 自分を乗り越えること」です。本日は岩田がお送りしました。
From next week, selected hospitals and medical institutions will get vaccinations. Over 5000 people would first get vaccinated and in the next batch, the rest of the medical care professionals. For a more detailed list of how the process will be, scroll down the article for more information. While the vaccination will start next week, people younger than 65 and without preexisting conditions would most likely get vaccinated either on the second half of the year, or early next year.
ー初めにー
Today’s Fill-In-The-Blanks Quiz:
Here’s last week’s song:
(Fast forward to 00:07)
You ran away to find something to say
I went astray to make it okay, and he made it okay, darlin’
I’m still in love and I say that because
I know how it seems between you and me, It hasn’t been easy, darlin’
Here’s this week’s song:
(Fast forward to 00:58)
And I know we weren’t ______ but I’ve never ____ this way for no one
And I just can’t _______ how you could be so okay now that I’m ____
____ you didn’t mean what you wrote in that _____ about me
Cause you said _______, now I drive ____ past your street
ー続いてー
Today’s Youtube Recommendation:
Today’s Youtube recommendation is about an Australian vlogger who has been living in Japan for 5 years. I think it’ll be a challenge for some of you who are used to American/British TV shows because Emma is from a different country, and she has a different accent. But her videos are highly entertaining and informative. Also, it’s interesting to see how life has changed for her and how she’s discovering new things in Japan.
This is his latest vlog:
By the way, she first started getting famous after a Youtube channel named, Living Big in a Tiny House. You can check out the video down below:
Following Mr. Mori’s comment with regard to meetings, BBC has published an article that sheds light on women in Dubai.This article shows how women are treated differently in their country. It also tackles their princess, Princess Latifa, and how she’s attempted to escape their country in flee of her father.
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Few people in our nation’s history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we’re in now.
わが国の歴史において、今ほど厳しく困難な時代を迎えた人は少ないでしょう。
A once-in-a-century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II. Millions of jobs have been lost, hundreds of thousands of businesses closed.
100年に1度のウイルスがこの国にひっそりと蔓延し、1年で多くの命を奪いました。第二次世界大戦で犠牲となったアメリカ人に匹敵する数です。何百万人もの人々が職を失い、何十万人もの企業が倒産しました。
A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.
人種差別の公正さを求める声は400年前から続いていて、われわれを突き動かします。すべての人に公正さをもたらすという夢は、これ以上先送りにできません。
A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear.
生き残るための叫びは地球から発せられています。これ以上なく切実ではっきりとした叫びです。
And now, a rise of potential extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.
そして今われわれは、政治的過激主義や白人至上主義、国内テロの台頭に立ち向かい、打ち破らねばなりません。
To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It
requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity. Unity.
これら課題を克服して、アメリカの魂を回復し、未来を守るために、言葉以上に重要なものが必要です。民主主義を掲げる国にとって、もっとも達成しがたい結束が必要です。そう「結束」です。
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