FREE CONVERSATION（２８６）

You have a friend who desperately wants to give up smoking.
What would you say to help him/her accomplish this?

Actually, I had smoked for about 30 years and completely overcame my bad habit of smoking about nine years ago.
I slowly decreased the number of cigarettes I smoked little by little.
It took me about eight months to reduce the number from twelve to zero.
There is no need to hurry, but the key point is to delay your first cigarette of the day.
Actually, for one month before I completely quit smoking, I smoked my first cigarette just before going to bed.

TODAY'S EXPRESSIONS （１７１）

平和に、調和的に　：harmoniously
幸先の良い　：auspicious
経済的に　：finacially
家父長の、男性に支配された　：patriarchal
熱狂的愛国主義の、亭主関白の　：chauvinistic

Three Sentences （２８１）

Three example sentences of my own composition

　　　　　　　　むしろ～に近い　：more like ～

① She was more like a mother than a wife.

② He said, "Stop it", but "Stupid" was more like it.

③ The actress was more like beautiful than pretty.

FREE CONVERSATION（２８５）

You have just seen a toddler wandering alone in a park.
Contact the police.


Hello, I'd like to inform you that just now I saw a small children wandering alone in a park.
I think she is around two or three years old and maybe about eighty or ninety centimeters tall.
I saw her in Central Park close to the TV tower in Sakae.
She is wearing a red shirt and a black skirt.
I think she should be placed in protective care.

TODAY'S EXPRESSIONS （１７０）

くどい、余剰な　：redundant
習慣的に、通例　：customarily
習慣的に、常習的に　：habitually
自信満々に　：confidently
守るように　：protectively