English Education

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Words help us categorize things around us. Word meanings determine, to a large extent, the way the native speakers understand the world around them. What is referred to by the single word rice in English is categorized in Japanese into sev…

ノルマン侵略 Norman Conquest

イギリス人のノルマン侵略の受け止め 現代のイギリス人は、ノルマン侵略をフランスの部族によるブリテン島の侵略とは考えない。なぜなら、何世代も昔のことであり、このときやってきたノルマン人も今ではイギリス人の一部として吸収されているからだ。また、…

Good Dictionary, Bad Dictionary

What do you think is a good dictionary? This is one of the question I have been considering for a long time. So far as I have know, it is the one which helps users find the right word for what they want to say, or which helps them understa…