{"id":285,"date":"2011-06-08T02:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-06-29T02:52:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T02:52:26","slug":"to-be-an-achiever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/2011\/06\/08\/to-be-an-achiever\/","title":{"rendered":"To be an achiever&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6016\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-285-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daiki-.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daiki-.mp3\">http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daiki-.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daiki-.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/?powerpress_pinw=285-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daiki-.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Daiki-.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/conversation1-300x232.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello, my name is Daiki. I\u2019m a junior student in a University in Japan. My majors are Communication and Linguistics. I believe that everyone\u2019s dreams can come true, if each person makes an effort. I\u2019d like to talk about my experience. When I was a junior high school student, I had one dream. This dream was to be able to speak English like native speakers. Do you think this dream is too big to come true? Actually, I thought it was so big for me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We Japanese start learning English from junior high school. I thought,\u201d If I could speak and understand English fully, I might enjoy a lot of movies without Japanese subtitles\u201d. I wasn\u2019t able to speak and understand English during my junior high school life. However, my turning point came when I was a 16-years old high school student; my school invited a couple of exchange students around the world. I was 16; one Germany student joined my class. He couldn\u2019t speak Japanese well, so I decided to work as his interpreter. I always wrote notebooks in two languages, English and Japanese. When we took Kendo classes, I translated traditional sport words, for example <em>suriashi<\/em> as \u2018kendo step\u2019, <em>shinai<\/em> as \u2018bamboo sword\u2019 and so on. To improve my accent and pronunciation, what I did was watch a lot of movies, video clips on YouTube, and animations. And, I was talking a lot with foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Since my campus life started, I\u2019ve been taking a lot of English classes. I practiced grammar and pronunciation every day. Sometimes, I did it with my friends, exchange students, and teachers. At other times, I did it alone. That\u2019s why, some of my friends said \u201cYour accent is like American.\u201dAnd, when I went to America, I was talking to a casher. The casher said \u201cI thought you were a local person\u201d. I\u2019m very proud of this. What I want to tell you is \u201cjust do your best to make your dreams come true! \u201c Mine did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.podspress.com\/spring11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daiki-.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Hello, my name is Daiki. I\u2019m a junior student in a University in Japan. My majors are Communication and Linguistics. 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