Mastering Foreign Language

Almost all Japanese people believed that anybody who studied in the US could become a master of English language. Quite recently an advertisement shocked these Japanese people, because it advertised English Studying Materials, which targeted those who studied in the US. It says; If you studied in the US and still you could not be confident about your English, you can use our English Materials for improving your English. It looks that studying in US does not necessarily change a Japanese to be a master of English language.

There are students who learn English fall into the following 4 categories:

1) There are students, who studies in the US, but just hang around with Japanese students like themselves. They are the ones who never make friends with Americans and keep eating in Japanese restaurants with other Japanese. They are in the US for studying with they or their parents spending a lot of money. What a waste it is.

2) Even among company employees, who station in the US, based on their companies' business purpose, there are people who do not expose themselves to English. They use English a little more than the above students in the US, because they need to communicate with American staff. Many of them in lunchtime go out with other Japanese employees to eat in Japanese restaurants. They eat dinner and drink just with Japanese staff. When they go back to home and keep speaking in Japanese with their Japanese family. They do not have either lunch or dinner with American staff. They do not invite American people to their parties.

3) Among enthusiastic English students studying in Japan, there are people who study with just textbooks and cassette tapes. They practice their English only with their teachers and friends. They believe that their English is not good enough to communicate with native speakers.

4) There are people, who take an English Learning Material, which claims that students can master English just by listening their tapes. They say students do not need any memorization, practicing, or trying with native speakers.

Talking with fluent English speakers as foreign or second language, one can find that those who belong to the above 4 categories are the English students who will never be able to master English.

Only ones go ahead and use English will improve their language ability. Ones make mistakes in using English will improve his skills. The one who blush by his mistakes will learn the language. The ones who are afraid of using the language will not be able to develop his language ability. Only people, who use the language, make mistakes, and their face blushed by their mistakes, will improve and master a foreign language. The truth is that there is no easier softer way. There is no loyal road to learning. If there is no pain, there is no gain. If there is no effort, there is no result. Trial and error is the only way.




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3 Methods to Overcome Psychological Obstacles

When one decided to start something new, he needs to break psychological barriers telling him negative thinking. Causes of his negative thoughts are not the difficulties he is facing. The real cause of his psychological obstacles is his own fears. It is the fear that tells him that he may not achieve what he wants to accomplish. Suppose one decided to resign his job and start his own business. He worries about what will happen. He worries about his experience, his ability, his luck, and his money. His anxieties are not groundless. It is natural to worry about these when one starts own business. The key is staying so strong that these fears do not stop him doing what he hopes. Remember all these are inside of one's mind. He will never know what happens until he tries. It may be easier than one thinks.

To cope with his first fear, which his mind creates, one could think the conclusion, first. He can conclude that he can be successful because nobody else has tried it, for example. One can find any reason that he can make it happen. He can stay with the reason, with which he is comfortable. When one does something for his first time, he tends to be fearful. He shows that he is not confident. If he felt fearful, he would conclude that he could be well prepared until he became confident. If one wonders if his experience is enough, he would think it is why he could be unique and creative.

His second barrier would be objections from people who are close to him. They are his families and close friends. Breaking this barrier is not so hard once one established him to be determined in his conclusion of success. 70% of objections from one's family and close friends are not because they believe one will fail, but because they feel one's fear. Once they realize he is confident and comfortable, based on his conclusion addressing his first fear, most of them will be silent and sympathetic. Keep in mind one should not pretend to be confident. He needs to feel confident to convince them.

One started own business. He worked hard and stabilized his operation. He was more relaxed than start-up time. Then something awful happens. His partner resigns. He loses his outside financial supporter. Somebody publishes sarcastic comment in evaluation site, in Internet. He now needs to cope with "middle of success obstacle." Since it is difficult to predict when and how this obstacle arises, most of them catches him in surprise. It will shock him. This shock is the largest problem. The most critical to address and overcome this obstacle is not to surprise. Do not panic. If he did not go panic, it is one of regular business problems.

The followings are the points to overcome ones psychological barriers:

1. Conclude and determined that it will go well. Reason whatever comfortable.
2. Be confidant and stay confident in relation with family and close friends.
3. Be prepared for "middle of success obstacle". Be aware it will come. Do not panic.




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Thinking About Honesty

There is no religion in the world, which allows people to be dishonest. Some philosopher talked about dishonesty of human nature. No philosopher, however, affirmed people to be dishonest. Telling a lie has been almost a crime in some cultures. Parents teach their children to be honest in any occasion. George Washington and cherry-tree story have been famous and popular all over the world. Parents pray for God so serious that their children grow to be an honest person.

The most religions and philosophies has no tolerance even to a little white lie. Priests and philosophers believe in all or nothing with respect to honesty. They believe that either a person is honest or dishonest. Even an honest person in his whole life, if he tells a little white lie, he replace himself to be a dishonest person. It is as an Angel becomes a Demon by small but willful misconduct.

There are reasons to be honest. Honesty will create one's confidence. Honest people tend to be more powerful than dishonest people. A dishonest person is afraid of something or someone find his lies. A lie does harm not only on the other, but also on the people lying. A dishonest person can never be peaceful in his mind.

The human society, however, does not keep favorable environment for human beings to be honest. Society, business, or work environment sometimes drive people not to be honest. One was hiring a web creator for design of his website. The one asked a question to his vendor, if the vendor feels confident about building his site. The vendor needs to be careful about his answer. The vendor lose this customer, if he answers that he is not confident about building the site, even if it is his honest answer. In the same way, one's supervisor will not release him until he answers there is no problem even he sees a lot of issues.

Another iron cold truth in the real world is that sometimes, one is not sure which is truth. One's boss can ask him how is his subordinates are doing. He sees minor problems such as upset customers, lost orders, and unattained sales budget. All of them, however, are not so big as they affect whole business. How one can reply to his boss? Judgment of truth and false are somewhat subjective matter. The same can apply to the above. The web creator could be confident to get the job done, even through difficulties.

There is one point that all need to be aware. It is the fact that not telling something is different from Hiding, Lying, or Cheating. These must be clearly separated. A husband could be kicked out from his home by trying not to be dishonest.

Honesty is not simple issue. It is rather complicated than it appears. There is no black or white. Only rescue for one's mind is if he maintains his faith to be truthful.





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Emperor's Sister-In-Law

Emperor Liu was the first Emperor of Han Dynasty. Han Dynasty was the second dynasty, which formed unified China. It was 2nd and 1st Century BC. Emperor Liu was an ordinary person, who was originally from a peasant family. He was infamous in his young days as a hoodlum in a local city. There is a couple of things notable about him. He always had a lot of friends who could die for him. He was an excellent listener who uses his friends and subordinates opinions.

Liu was a merciful and generous person. He rewarded persons with distinguished services. He tended not to punish people seriously. He forgave his generals, who lost their battles, and gave them a second chance. His policy was merciful to his people and people could work hard for themselves and the Han Imperial. There were lots of talented subordinates supporting the Emperor. They were Zhang Liang for strategy, Han Xing for combat, and Xang He for politics.

Emperor Liu was also kind to his family. His brothers became high level government officers. The Emperor gave positions, jobs, and functions to his family's sons, cousins, and nephews. Liu was extraordinarily generous and merciful ruler. Everybody liked to work for him and worked hard.

This woman's name was buried and lost in history. She was the wife of Emperor Liu's older brother. In his time in China, it was custom for the oldest brother took care of the whole family members. Liu, at that time, was only a young mobster who was hanging in the city. Since his family was farmers, he would have helped farming for his family, but he would not. That was why this wife of Liu's older brother did not like Liu. She hated him.

When this woman married the Emperor's oldest brother, Liu was just a lazy young man who is not helpful for family farming. Instead, he had come back to his home occasionally. He always asked for some foods to eat. Although his brother did not say anything to this problem younger brother, his wife, Liu's aunt in law showed her hatred to Liu candidly. If her husband was not home when Liu came home, she would chase him out saying everybody was busy. She gave Liu dishes and bowls without giving him any food. Because the mother did not like Liu, her sons looked down on him. They cursed and swore Liu.

Liu became the Emperor. He was giving jobs and positions to his farm family. The Emperor's sister-in-law waited for her sons to get some jobs and positions in uncle Liu's government. He did not give any jobs and positions to her sons. She visited Emperor Liu. She asked him to get her sons positions. The Emperor answered to her; "You and your sons treated me badly when I was young. How dear you can expect me to treat your sons nicely?" Her sons had never got any positions. Let us consider again if we are kind enough to the people. Let us think if we have anybody we treated badly.





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