2012年1月30日「モバイル英語学習]第138号(エッセイ): Active students

Notes:
nationalities: 国籍、民族;
reaction: 反応;
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I have a dream. I want all students in Japan to be more social and to bond more with one another. So in order to realize this dream, a senior student and I went to Tottori. In Koyama, Tottori, we met up with students from Tottori University. They belong to ‘Gakusei-jinzai-bank’ a Non-Profit Organization (NPO) which is active in the Tottori area. We discussed how students can become closer to one another and decided to build a new group which as yet remains unnamed.
The group’s mission is to improve the chances for students from abroad to meet other nationalities. In the not so far future I will approach students of Shimane University to see their reaction. Are you interested in this movement? 
(Written by student Mr. Y, edited by Prof. Simon Smith)
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2012年1月6日「モバイル英語学習」第131号(エッセイ): Who Works the Hardest?

Notes :
OECD 経済協力開発機構;
‘Society at a Glance’『図表でみる社会』(OECDの報告書);
rate ~を評価する,見積もる;
unpaid 無給の,無報酬の;
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publication ‘Society at a Glance’ shows who works the longest among the 26 OECD members. They rated work according to 2 types: unpaid and paid. According to the study Mexicans work the longest, at 595 minutes or 9 hours 55 minutes per day, but a lot of that is unpaid work such as cooking at home, cleaning, shopping, etc. If you look at who does the most paid work then it is the Japanese! (by Prof. Simon Smith)
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