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Jan 31

EL Competition 2022 奨励賞: Enjoy and learn English with movies! by OTA Izumi

I recommend watching some movies in English. I believe we can learn many words and phrases in the movies. we also can enjoy its story. I introduce my 3 favorites in a ranking format. No.3 is “The devil wears Prada” (2006). The main character is Andy, an unrefined girl. She starts working in a publisher of famous fashion magazine. She grows up there by her very strict boss. She is an unreasonable woman. However, Andy put up with it and turns sophisticated through her hard job. I was excited about how she grows and becomes a nice woman. No.2 is “Aladdin”. As you know, this is a famous Disney movie. …

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Jan 31

EL Competition 2022 優勝: “Joint” Adventure: A Fun and Effective Way to Build Up Your Body and Vocabulary Simultaneously, by K.A.

If your academic supervisor were to ask you to significantly improve your TOEFL score, increase the amount of muscle in your thighs, and defeat an evil dragon trying to conquer the world, all within one semester, you would probably protest that such a request is extremely unfair and irrational, even if offered all your course credits for graduation with the highest grades. However, there is only one way to possibly complete all these tasks at once comfortably. Play a fitness video game with the language settings set to English! I have played the fitness video game “Ring Fit Adventure” by Nintendo for both maintaining my health and learning English. You …

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Jan 13

EL本棚紹介(72) Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, by Naoko Takeuchi

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Dec 16

EL本棚紹介(70) Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History, by Steve Parker

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Nov 25

EL本棚紹介(67) Superman: Earth One, by Shane Davis

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Nov 04

EL本棚紹介(66) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Volumes 1-3, by Bryan Lee O’Malley

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Oct 26

2022/10/31 Intercultural Halloween Party 国際交流ハロウィンパーティー

Join the English Lounge to practice English with: – Games and riddles – Candy – Spooky videos – International students – Wear costumes (optional)  

Jul 01

EL本棚紹介(55) Jughead with Archie, by Stan Goldberg

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Jun 03

EL本棚紹介(48)　Disney Trivia from the Vault, by Dave Smith

[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the tags to find books about topics you might be interested in.] _______ “The Vault” is an imaginary place where Disney locks away all of its knowledge and intellectual properties. Sometimes they used to take old movies “out of the vault” and play them in theaters again. That is how I was able to …

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Jun 01

New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning 3: Language Learning with Parsed Corpora [Prof. Alastair Butler]

English Lounge is happy to announce the third English Lounge Forum: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning. Title: Learning English with a treebank/parsed corpusSpeaker: Alastair Butler (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) Date: June 17 Place: English Lounge and Teams A corpus is a large database made up of samples from a language.  A parsedcorpus is a corpus with linguistic analysis added to the data.  The kindsof analysis added can be quite varied, but analysis often takes theform of syntactic trees.A parsed corpus with syntactic trees is called a treebank.  Treebanks ofquality and size are extremely costly to create and entry restrictionsare normally imposed.  But when you can participate, there is a …

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