Day 02 Session Log

Date: 2026-03-21 Theme: Why I want to work in Europe (S13) Time: Evening session

Phase 0: SRS Review

13 items due. Results:

SRS Score: 8/13 (6✓, 4△, 1✗)

Phase 1: Warm-up

Why do you want to work in Europe? (cold open)

User: “Work in Europe because most applications there are widely used — I’d be handling thousands of requests, and that experience would benefit my career.”

Fixes:

• “Work in Europe” → “I want to work in Europe” (missing subject + verb)
• Structure good once corrected

Interleaving (Day 1 pattern):

“As an engineer, I am _____ about working on large-scale systems.”

User: “I am excited about working on large-scale systems.” ✓

• “Then engineer” → “As an engineer” (STT)

Phase 2: Grammar Drill — Expressing motivation and purpose

Patterns: want to / would like to / hope to / aim to

Step 1: Transformation

Change to “aim to”: “I want to gain experience at a company with global users.”

User: “I aim to gain experience at a company with global users.” ✓

• Required 3 attempts (kept dropping “I”)

💡 Key correction: Never drop the subject in English.

Step 2: Fill in the blank

“I _____ to contribute to a product used by millions of people.”

User: “I aim to contribute to a product used by millions of people.” ✓

“I _____ to improve my skills by working in an international environment.” (use “would like”)

User: “I’d like to improve my skills by working in an international environment.” ✓ (after correction)

Interleaving (Day 1 — “managed to”)

Tell me something you managed to do at work recently.

User: “I managed to integrate two APIs into one. It reduced the conflict between front end and back end — before the migration, the front end had to request two different APIs, but now it only requests one endpoint.”

Fixes:

• “two API” → “two APIs”
• “It’s subtracts” → “It reduced”
• “front end has to” → “the front end had to” (past tense + article)
• “It only request” → “it only requests” (3rd person -s)

Content was excellent — real technical explanation. ✓

Step 3: Production

Why do you want to work in Europe specifically?

User revealed real motivation in Japanese:

英語を使っていればどこでもいい。最終的にニュージーランドやシリコンバレーで働きたい。まずはVISAを持っているEuropeで働いて経験を積みたい。

Cleaned-up English:

“I’m open to any country where English is the working language. Ultimately, I’d like to work in New Zealand or Silicon Valley, but since I already have a visa for Europe, I’d like to start there and build my experience.”

User produced: nearly correct — minor STT errors only. ✓

Phase 3: Collocation Drill

Phase 4: Discussion Drill (Alex — London senior engineer)

Topic: Why Europe? What drives you?

Key exchanges:

• Salary in Japan is relatively low compared to Europe ✓
• Wants international environment, broader perspectives ✓
• Not fixed on Europe — open to anywhere with English as working language ✓
• Visa situation is the pragmatic reason for Europe first ✓

Pitch yourself to a European company:

“I can clarify requirements in complex situations between the developer and business team, and break down complex requirements into simpler ones.”

Coach note: Try: "I can translate complex business requirements into clear technical specifications." — sharper framing.

Post-discussion feedback:

• “walking” → “working” (recurring STT issue)
• “more broader” → “broader” (double comparative ✗)
• “share broader views” → “gain broader perspectives”

💡 Collocations introduced:

• translate requirements
• bridge the gap between business and engineering

Phase 5: Pronunciation

Target sentence:

“I want to gain experience working on large-scale infrastructure that meets complex requirements.”

User produced correctly on second attempt. ✓

Phase 6: 5-sentence Writing + Score

Topic: Why I want to work in Europe

User’s sentences:

1. “I want to work in Europe for 3 reasons.” ✓
2. “First, To gain experience at large distributed systems.” → Try: “First, I aim to gain experience with large-scale distributed systems.”
3. “At there, the pressure to handler millions of requests are the one I guess to work for.” → Try: “There, handling millions of requests is exactly what I’m looking for.”
4. “Second, I want to share broader views with different countries because in a sole island Japan, there are scarce situations to share knowledge.” → Try: “I want to gain broader perspectives by working with people from different countries — in Japan, an island nation, there are few opportunities to share knowledge internationally.”
5. “Finally, currently I fill gap between Business and Tech developers that skills help you to gain profits.” → Try: “Finally, I currently bridge the gap between business and engineering teams — a skill that drives real business value.”

Key errors:

• “fill gap” → bridge the gap (missing collocation)
• “handler” → “handle” (verb form)
• “At there” → “There”
• Missing subjects throughout

Score:

Recurring Issues to Watch

1. Dropping “I” — subject omission is the #1 error today
2. STT errors — “working” → “walking”, “struggling” → “traveling”, “multi-tenant SaaS” → completely unrecognizable
3. Double comparative — “more broader” → “broader”
4. Plural -s — “API” → “APIs”, “system” → “systems”, “requirement” → “requirements”

Tonight’s Repeat Phrase

“I’d like to start in Europe and build my experience before moving on to New Zealand or Silicon Valley.”

Say this aloud 3 times just before you sleep — it helps lock it in.