Haruka with her award for being a finalist in the national English speech contest.
Scroll down for English.
こんにちは！皆さんにこのようにして手紙を書くのはとても楽しく、できれば１～２ヶ月に一度、このようなお知らせを書いたりブログを更新したいと思っています。ブログの方は、写真も一緒に載せたり皆さんがコメントを書き込むこともできますので、そちらもどうぞチェックしてください。
皆さんは最近、「三宅遥さん」という名前を聞いたり何かで読んだりしていませんか？というのも、彼女はつい最近新聞に載ったことがあるからです。彼女は附属高松中学校の３年生で、８歳頃からKevinの英会話教室に通っていてKevinの生徒でもあります。９月に全日本中学英語弁論大会の高松市大会で上位入賞し、その後１０月に行われた県大会でも上位入賞（協賛の四国コカ・コーラボトリングから記念の盾も受け取っています）、そして１１月末に東京で行われた「高円宮杯全日本中学校英語弁論大会」に県代表として出場しました。東京では、全国各地から選ばれた１５１人の代表による予選大会で上位入賞し、見事決勝大会まで進みました！！決勝大会へ出場できたのは１５１人中２７人だったそうです。遥さん、本当におめでとう！
今Kevinのレッスンに来ている小学生の皆さんも、少し先の将来、遥さんのようになるかもしれません。今から少しずつの積み重ねが将来大きくなって現れます。私たちも出来る限り手伝いますので、一緒に頑張りましょう！
来月は、遥さんと同じ時期に英語の勉強を始めて、今もKevinと一緒に英語の勉強を続けている他の生徒たちについて書きたいと思います。その他に、小学生クラスの英語の伸びに役立てるために考えているいくつかの小さなアイデアについても説明する予定です。主には、ホームページでご覧になっていただける無料のビデオ（子供向けと大人向けのもので、まもなく始まります）、そしてフォニックス（発音）に関する内容です。お楽しみに！
We wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Kevin D. Cozma
I am enjoying writing to you to and will try to write a small letter and blog entry (the blog has pictures, and you can also comment) every month or two.
Congratulations, Haruka!
Have you heard or read about Haruka Miyake? I am asking you this because she has been in the newspaper lately. She is a 3rd year Fuzoku Junior High School student. She has also been a student at my house since she was 7 years old. Recently, she won a prize in the Takamatsu English Speech Contest. She went on to win the Kagawa English Speech Contest, and was able to represent Kagawa at the National English Speech Contest in Tokyo, WHERE SHE WAS A FINALIST. She also won a special prize from Coca Cola Japan for her efforts and accomplishments. Congratulations, Haruka. Haruka made a great speech, but I want to remind everyone that she didn’t get better overnight. She got better little by little. My other young students can enter the contest in the future and do great, too. Try. Practice. Believe. You can do it. Yukari, and I will do whatever we can to help you get where you want to go with your English.
Next month, I will write about a few other students who started at the same time as Haruka, and have continued studying English with me. I will also explain some minor changes in my elementary school classes to help them get a better control of English faster. Mainly free videos on my website (coming soon for kids and adults), and phonics.
We wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Kevin D. Cozma
Hi,Kevin! Thank you for your blog entry. My comment is so late…
Haruka is so great. Recently I also practice English conversation so hard because I meet British professor in Kobe next week. I am just a little worried about that meeting in English, but will try my best.
You can find my blog if you click my name in this comment.
Hello, Kazutaka. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Yeah, Haruka is great. Your English is coming along very well, too. I checked out your blog. When is the English version coming?
Just kidding.
Waaaaa!
We hard about this homepage today in the school!
宣伝やないかい！まあいいけど。
Look at my homepage too!
Thanks for writing, Zampmann. I checked out your site. Congratulations on the new Shogi table.
Kev
Hi!I’m a junior high school student.
Haruka is my senior.
I respect her very much.
I LOVE my senior very much!
I respect Kevin too!I like your class.
I am looking forward to attend your English class.
I enjoy your class so much.
Hey, nice English, Horn Concerto.
Yeah, I respect Haruka, too. She is a very dedicated and intelligent girl.
I’m very glad that you enjoy my class. I love teaching English. Your English is very good, so please speak a lot in class.
Cheers,
Kev
Congratulations HARUKA!
And I proud.
I can study at same house(school).
Thanks for stopping by, Traveler of Life! I’ll tell Haruka you say congratulations. I’m very happy that both you and Haruka are studying at my house.
Kev