TypingSpeedTrial "Typing"

I typed for the first time when I was in elementary school. My family bought a computer and I used to practice typing wit h it. At first, I was very slow but it was fun to type. Some days later I could type faster and more smoothly.

Now I have type very often for school. I write all the reports by typing because typing is much easier than hand writing. I don’t like hand writing because it is a lot of work. It takes time and my hand will hurt. But typing will never make my hands tired and typed words look better.

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Typing Speed Trial "Memorable experience"

One of my memorable experiences in my life is when I went to New York city 2 years ago. It was February and very cold but I still enjoyed it. I went there with my sister. I always wanted to go to New York so I worked hard part time and saved money. I had 2 part time jobs and worked very hard. I chose February because it was the cheapest month in the year. We stayed at Hilton hotel near the times square. We went to the statue of liberty, the Metropolitan museum, and many spots very famous. I like just waling around the city. There were so many different people walking so fast and the city has a lot of energy. I ate the food at the vender and it was very good. Vender is a booth sells food on the street. It was very memorable trip. I would love to go back there again.

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About learning with computers (free writing)

I think learning with computers is very helpful and fun. You can get so much information on the internet. You can exchange opinions with other people, even those who live on the other side of the world by using computers. That means you can know what kind of peole they are, what they are thinking in different worlds. You can understand a lot more about the world.
Computers make it much easier to write an essay. It's easy to edit what you write and typed sentences look good. However I still think writing by your own hand is necessary when you learn kanjis. If you're used to typing with computers too much, you sometimes lose some kanji skills. Kanjis come out by just hitting the keys a few times when you write with computers but it doesn't really help you to remember kanjis. Because there are a lot of Kanjis with the same sound, you should know which is right one for the one you want to use. For that, I think you should practice kanjis by hand writing other it's hard to memorise many kanjis.

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"Culture" TypingSpeedTrial

What I like about Japanese culture is that it’s deeply related to the seasons. We have different events in each season. In spring, we have cherry blossoms bloom and they are very beautiful. Japanese like to eat and drink under cheery blossom trees. And that is called ohanami. In summer, we have fire works and lots of festivals. We have many stands on the street selling the foods such as takoyaki and apple candy. Summer festivals in Japan are very exciting. Many people, especially women wear yukata which is Japanese traditional cloths to festivals. In fall, at school, we have

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Friend TST04

My best friend Ayumi is in Canada now. She saved money all by herself and went to Vancouver to study English. She left Kumamoto in May and she will come back in March. Ayumi and I met at KGU when we were in the first grade. At that time Ayumi was not coming to school very much. She came to school like once a week because she was very busy with the part time job. But she still wanted to study and become an English teacher at a kindergarten. She decided to go Canada because her private English teacher was a Canadian. She said he was very nice and taught her a lot about Canada so she got interested in going to Canada. Now I chat with her sometimes and she seems really enjoying her life in Canada. I’m looking forward to meeting her again.

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Appetite TST 10/17

I love eating so I have a lot of appetites. I like 2 friends I often go eat something with in particular. I like going to eat yakiniku with them usually all-you-can-eat. They eat as much as I eat which usually people don’t so it is fun to eat with them. Last time I went to Aso with them, we ate a lot. We ate BBQ chicken, hotdog, ice cream, on the way.
Besides yakiniku, I like eating 100 yen sushi, pizza, ramen, and ice cream. In fall, we have many good foods such as sanma, fruits, and matsutake. I don’t really like fruits very much but I like Japanese pear. We will have many good pears in fall so I’m looking forward to it. I also like chestnuts.

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School Festival 2 TST3 10/10

I think there will be many people in the university when the school festival. There are going to be a lot of foods and maybe games.

When I was in high school, I was chosen to be a representative of the class to give a speech for the school festival. My speech was about my experience in US where I was an exchange student for 1 year. It was really challenge to me because I had to give a speech both in Japanese and English on the stage in front of a thousand of students and teachers.

Our class made curry and rice and served it to people from outside school; families, neighbors, friends from other school. It was very fun.

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School Festival TST2 10/3

I’m in the forth year of this university and but I have never been to its school festival. Since I haven’t belonged to any circles or clubs, I don’t have any task to do for the festival. So those days for school festival for the most students here will be holidays for me.

Last year, taking advantage of the holidays, I went to Nagasaki by ferry. I ate a lot on the trip and I went to

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Summer Vacation TST1 9/26

During summer vacations, I went to visit my sister who lives in Kamakura and one of my friends who lives in Tokyo. It was a week trip. I went to Tokyo first to meet my friend from my high school. We spent 3 years in the same class. I hadn’t seen him for years so I was excited. I had to get to his neighborhood from the airport all by myself. It was a little confusing because there were so many lines of subways and JR. But I made it. He came to pick me up

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