Justin TS#5

Today, September 29th I met with Yuma. We have been making some good progress each time we have met. Today we focused mainly on reading and pronunciation. Our session began with a fairly easy reading section about bathing and using of restrooms in the United States. Yuma questioned why in English we only have one word to determine a room where you go to the bathroom and also shower. In Japanese they have different words to describe the two locations. Then we read an article about soccer. Yuma did very well in this exercise. He said some words were difficult but he understand a large majority of it. After this we read an article about London. This one was a little bit more difficult due to some of the vocabulary used within the article. However, Yuma did extremely well. He struggles with a couple specific pronunciations like women or clothes but he works hard at fixing those mistakes. Yuma says that he enjoys developing his reading, listening and pronunciation skills. I'm excited for our next session.