Nutrition in food

Today, I learned how to talk that which food is good or bad and why.

• Eating Brabra's hamburgers is bad for you because they are loaded with bad fat.
• Egg yolks are high in cholesterol so you should cut down on them.
• Kelp is a good source of iodine so you should increase your intake of them.

I also learned following words;

• saturated fat - 飽和脂肪
• polyunsaturated fat - 多価不飽和脂肪
• protein - タンパク質

I make a list of nutrition that are often used.

• carbohydrate - 炭水化物
• sugar - 糖
• trans fat - トランス脂肪
• vitamin - ビタミン

I learned how to use "while" and "during." "while I work", "while working" and "during work" are good but "during working" sounds  something strange because "During" is followed by words that mean a period like "the day."


While talking about food, I took mistake that I said "I asked my wife not to enter the meet" where I should say "I asked my wife not to put meet in my lunch box."


Countable and uncountable are difficult to use. For example, "food" is uncountable but "foods" are used when we talk about kinds of food.  

Discrimination in workplace

In English conversation class, we learned how to talk about discrimination in workplace. I think that aging, gender bias and sexism are discrimination often seen in Japan.

We might have idea that which gender is favorable for specific occupation. For example, Nurse is suited to women. Bus and taxi driver is for men. But actually we could see male nurses and female drivers. We can not say like that you can not be the occupation because of your gender.

Although, there would be chances that we want to choose the gender of service person. For example, we want to be taken care of by doctors who are the same gender. we can not refuse their service for sake of their gender but we would choose service person by gender if it was allowed because it would be more comfortable for us.


We talked about aging. It would be difficult to get a new job if we were above  about 40. I think that age does not matter but companies would concern about age because older people have higher risk of being ill than younger people. 

Reminiscences

I learned about how to talk about reminiscences.

If someone says something that makes you remind, you start your story following key phrases.

• That reminds me of (something to remember.)
• I used to (do something.)
• I must have been (about/around) (age) years old because (reason why I was the age.)
• The thing I remember the most is (how /the way)  I ( used to / would ) ...

For example;
The picture of the hotel building where we held our wedding party reminds me of that time.
I used to prepare the party every night and day. The thing I remember the most is how I would call people to invite the party.

As I am sure how old I was at the moment of the story, I don't use "I must have been ..."