Challenger: Private English Teaching in Kyoto
The Fun Factor in Learning English: Movies

The Fun Factor in Learning English: Movies

You’ve been learning English for some time now. You’re still doing great, but lately your enthusiasm isn’t as strong as it used to be. You feel a little tired and find it ever harder to focus. Abandoning the study is not an option, so you’re asking yourself: “Is there anything I can do to regain [...]

Challenger Student Suport

Challenger Student Suport

「チャレンジャーの生徒サポート」はチャレンジャーで学ぶ生徒が、このウェブサイトの中で、コースや英語のレッスンに関する問題やトピックスについて、講師のサポートを求めることができるよう設置されたものです。

633 EIV (633英語不規則動詞)

633 EIV (633英語不規則動詞)

英語は他の言語よりも複雑ではないとはいえ、学習者にとって困難となる点もいくつかあります。不規則動詞の多くがその一つです。
たくさんの動詞、たくさんの異なった形式!
あなたは強くて、決意も固いでしょう。しかし、それらを効率的に処理することができますか?
そこで、チャレンジャーの新しい633 EIV (633英語不規則動詞)のデータベースが役に立つでしょう。

The Communicative Functions of Natural Language

The Communicative Functions of Natural Language

Considerations
1 in 60,000. Consider this ratio for a moment. It’s a low, low ratio, yet it is about you, and me, and every human out there.
Sixty thousand is roughly the number of identified species of vertebrates1 (of which only one tenth are mammals), while one is the exact number of species employing natural language [...]

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part Four

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part Four

Linguistics at Work

SOV & SVO
Suppose you are a Japanese student learning English: chances are that you have already encountered these 3-letter groups. They are called initialisms (not acronyms, by the way). 
Books and teachers told you that unlike Japanese, which is an SOV (Subject Object Verb) structured language, English is an SVO (Subject Verb Object) structured [...]

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part Three

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part Three

What Is Linguistics?
All humans achieve competence in whatever language is spoken around them when growing up, with apparently little need for explicit conscious instruction. This seems to indicate that the ability to acquire and use language is an innate, biologically-based potential of modern human beings, similar to the ability to walk.
However, language varies in many [...]

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part Two

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part Two

Employing the Scientific Method
キーコンセプト
• 外国語を学習するとき、秩序だったアプローチを使うことでいくつかの利点がある。
• まさに基本的な意味では、一定の順序でいくつかの段階を踏むときはいつでも、あなたは科学的な方法を使っているのである。
First off, the scientific method is not a recipe: apparently it requires intelligence, imagination, and even a good measure of creativity from time to time. Well, at least that’s what Wikipedia says…
Anyway, the above aspect duly noted, we can nevertheless talk about a proven and established practical scheme offered as [...]

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part One

On Linguistics in the Study of English: Part One

Did You Know that You’re a Scientist?
キーコンセプト
• 少しの例外もありますが、外国語は、ネイティブとは異なった方法で習得されます。
• 外国語の習得にはいくつかの方法があります。
• 外国語を体系的なやり方で習得することは、科学分野の特徴です。
Do you learn English for fun? You have an important exam ahead? Whatever the reason, you might be surprised to know that you are in fact being engaged in one of the most exciting and rewarding activities a human being can experience: the scientific study.
“How can [...]

About Challenger

チャレンジャーは京都発のプライベート英語指導プロジェクトです。私たちの主なゴールは本物の、測定できる、そして永続的な成果を、日本の学習者に届けることです。
私たちの、順応性があり、レベルに合わせたコースは、日常会話からやりがいのある文法のルールまで幅広く対応できます。そして何よりも、このコースは英検、TOEIC、TOEFLテストの準備にも順応できるのです。

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