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Sunday Aug. 6thThis day my morning English lessons are cancelled and soI spent a few hours in the morning listening to Jazz ina very relaxed mode.In the afternoon, I had two hour-long English seminar.This time, I focused on English conversation.I stressed the importance of "parroting" and "quick response", demonstrating these skillswhile I was conversing the participants.For example, if your partner said to you"I was the club leader at that time."You should respond to him/her, saying"You were!" This is a small but important thing.If you want to take the initiative in the conversationwhile your partner is talking, you can use this expression:○○○ reminds me of ----There are so many other techniques to help youhave a better conversation.I would like to show them all to you all someday.In the evening, I had a dinner with a deshi of mine.This was the first time for me to have a dinnerwith her alone. I have wanted to have this goodopportunity for a very long time. At last this day has come.For me it has been greatly important to be able to havean excellent communication with this young person, since this guy has been a great drive to me.Honestly speaking, I've felt some degree of difficultyin communicating this guy due to gap in age and otherthings, but I have to accept my poor communicating capability especially with younger generation and havedecided to try my best to improve myself in thecommunication. So I asked her to dine out with memonthly.Ken Suetsugu