English Diary 2026
☆ March 16 It is only natural that there are people who are superior to me. So what? I would simply laugh it off and say that I will surely overtake them all in the end. Because I woke up early at 5:30 a.m. and did one hour of listening practice, I felt sleepy in the morning today and took a 30 minute nap. In the afternoon, I’ll get back to studying English energetically. After I make good progress with vocabulary, I plan to do listening training and close reading. I sometimes wonder whether this kind of intensive, focused study might actually be more effective than studying abroad. Studying abroad probably provides an enormous amount of listening exposure, though. Today I did four passages for listening training. However, I felt sleepy during the fourth one, so it took about an hour and a half in total. I also did around three hours of listening practice using Eiken materials. I read five English news articles that my smartphone recommended to ...