{"id":1628,"date":"2018-06-14T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/?page_id=1628"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T06:59:45","slug":"2017newcastle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/campus-life\/feature-of-overseas-training\/2017newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"vol.8  The University of Newcastle, Australia (3S Ms. Yamagata)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span>The University of Newcastle, Australia<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> 3rd year of the Department of Intelligent System Engineering \r\n<br>\r\nMs. Aoi Yamagata\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>I had a lot of great experiences when I went to study English to the University of Newcastle in Australia for 5 weeks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"img_sp alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special_ep_08_01.jpg\" alt=\"special_ep_01_01\" width=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14459\" \/>\r\n<p class=\"txt-s txt-gray\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gardening Volunteer<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>At university, we had total of 4 hours of English classes a day. We studied listening, reading and grammar by using print out and focused on speaking by doing followings; \r\n1. We made simple conversations with classmates (Korean, Chinese, Saudis), 2. We repeated to record own speaking by reading a short story and checked pronunciations. We did a lot of speaking practices that we usually didn\u2019t in Japan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nLunch break was 2 hours, so I could join some volunteer activities at the university. Also, I practiced English conversation with my Japanese classmates who I met there while we had lunch together. It encouraged me very much that I met people who had a same goal, to improve English.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<br>\r\n<div class=\"img_sp alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special_ep_08_02.jpg\" alt=\"special_ep_01_02\" width=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14458\" \/>\r\n<p class=\"txt-s txt-gray\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Last day of the course<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>I would like to mention about my homestay in Australia as well. I was nervous to talk to the host mother each time, but I managed to tell her my thoughts by doing my best. She took me many local places and cooked Australian meals for me. If I had visited Australia as personal vacation, I wouldn\u2019t have had such a wonderful experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>I could improve not only my English, but myself as I met many people and felt the beautiful Newcastle nature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Studied English at the University of Newcastle, 2017\/08\/26 \u2013 2017\/10\/02)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Newcastle, Australia 3rd year of the Department of Intelligent System Engineering Ms. Aoi Ya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":964,"menu_order":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1628\/revisions\/1745"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ube-k.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}