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When there is opportunity to communicate in English through tennis, such as oversea
expedition and foreign coach tennis lessons, there are children whose English comes out
of their mouths and children who are not.
In the classroom of the school, where is the difference between the child who can speak
English little by little, and the child that is not so?

Junior players who gradually begin to understand when they only touch English.

At Hakone Tennis Camp, Spanish Esparcia coach gave tennis lessons in English. In order to
raise the understanding of children, I put an interpreter and told accurately the lesson
of the content Esparcia coach. For 5 days lessons day by day, junior players began to
understand not only the interpreter’s words but also the English of the Esparcia coach’s
words.

Even in two weeks of study in Barcelona

Even at the lesson of Sanchez Casal Academy in Barcelona who visited last year, juniors
took lessons in English. Although they confused at the beginning, they got used to it
day by day, practicing listening well to what the coach taught.

We can understand something about tennis in English.

What the coach is talking about in the lesson is just about tennis.
There are also a lot of words that you know such as forehand, backhand, baseline and so on.
In addition to words, the coach shows you a demonstration and explain with gestures and
I think that it was a very good experience for them to get used to English.
For junior players, it is interesting to tennis, so they can listen firmly.

Junior players who are training to talk in English.

However, there were very few juniors speaking in English by themselves.
Juniors whose can speak out in English, was a junior who goes to an international school
and a junior who trains on skype, and use English usually. There were many juniors who
wrote questions in English in the notes, but I could reconfirm that writing and speaking are different.

Hurdles to attend international schools are high, but English conversation on Skype is not
so high that it is recommended as it can be started soon.
If you have the opportunity to contact foreigners with a great deal, you may want to do it
from a while ago. If you do Skype conversation several months before doing overseas expeditions, experience gained overseas will get increasing.
How to do training not only to write but also to speak out?
I think that it is necessary for smooth English communication.