Hello everyone – happy September! What a month we had in August, with lots of hot or rainy days. Sometimes I felt like we were having a second rainy season! I'm looking forward to more sunshine this month – let's hope it shows up!

  I often teach business English classes to adult professional workers, many of whom are trying to improve their TOEIC scores. I always remind them that the process of learning English (or any language) is like building a stone wall – it takes patience and it's done one stone at a time. Of course, you also have to continuously work at it. Teaching young students is really no different – they must be taught with patience and lots of practice for them to learn and retain their new language skills. Naturally, this takes time and persistence by the student, but these newly acquired skills will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Our major goal at Oregon Language School is to help our young students develop a solid foundation of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in English. Our study program has been designed to be both effective and enjoyable in accomplishing this goal.

  Have a great month, and enjoy your sports festivals if you have one! See you in class……….

　ハイ 皆さん 9月ですよ！8月はなんて月だったでしょう。暑い日も多かったし雨の日も多かったですね。時々2度目の梅雨ではないかと思ったほどです！今月はもっと晴れの日が続くことを楽しみにしています – そうなるといいなあ！

　私は社会人の専門職の人にビジネスイングリッシュを教えています。多くの生徒さんたちはTOEICの点数のアップを目指しています。私はいつも思うのですが、英語（他の言語も）を学ぶプロセスは石垣を築くようなものであると思います – 根気が必要であり一つづつじっくりと積んでいかなければなりません。もちろん、皆さんの英語の勉強も同じように継続していかなければなりませんね。子供の生徒さんを教えるのも違うものではありません – 根気と繰返し学習するよう教えなければなりません。そして新しい言語を練習しそのレベルを保つことです。当然のことながら時間を要しますし生徒さんは根気が必要です。しかし新たに習得したこのスキルは一生身についてくれます。オレゴン外語スクールの主な目標は英語を読むこと、書くこと、聴くこと、話すことの確かな基礎固めをお手伝いすることです。私たちの英語のプログラムはこのゴールに向かって効果的で楽しめるように考えられています。

　じゃあよい月を過ごしてくださいね。運動会がある人は楽しんでくださいね！じゃあまたクラスでね･････････

Did You Know?

  In the Japanese roots of the word "karate," "kara" means "empty," and "te" means "hand." If you're going to own a camel, feed it, or it'll eat your tent. Camels do that. Halloween's trick-or-treat started in Ireland. Green, blue and purple may look different to the Navajos (native American Indians), but they use the same word for all three. Roman soldiers ate onions. Thought that made them brave. If true, there'd be a lot of brave people. Onions rank No. 1 among vegetables worldwide. Four out of five species of rose come from Asia. An Arabian proverb goes: "If you have health, you have hope. If you have hope, you have everything." Bye!