AKITA JALT meetings in 2003
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June

Naoto Sato talks with a book "Think in English" written by Toru Matsumoto.

"I met Mr. Matsumoto in person and talked to him for 30 minutes in 1979.
I have followed his advice of talking to myself in English
and keeping a diary in English
every single day over the past 35 years."









Guest speaker: Naoto Sato
Date: Saturday, June 28 (2003)
Title: Think in English and Keeping Journals

24 people attended the meeting

4 people registered as new members at the meeting.
Dear Mamoru Abe, Tomoko Handa, Akiko Machida, Takayuki Yoshizawa,
Welcome to JALT Akita!

Chapter Report (to be printed in The Language Teacher) Akita: June Think in English and Keeping Journals By Naoto Sato Inspired in his high school days by legendary NHK learn-English broadcaster Toru Matsumoto, Sakigake English-news columnist Naoto Sato mastered English by keeping English journals, listening to radio, and talking to the rare foreign visitors to his hometown of Noshiro. Mr. Sato explained how Matsumoto's "Think in English" philosophy of language learning influenced him and steered him towards a career as one of Akita's leading simultaneous interpreters. Mr. Sato demonstrated his simultaneous interpretation skills by translating short talks from Japanese to English and English to Japanese. He discussed various concerns for translators, such as problems caused by idioms. Mr. Sato also gave some extremely useful pointers on working with an interpreter. Reported by Mark Cunningham

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