Message from Our Presidents:  |
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Tsuneo Kato
President of Shonan Toastmasters Club |
Hello Guests
Welcome to our website of Shonan Toastmasters Club.
Our Club is not a school or organization for learning in English.
We do not have any teachers. Our Club is learning public speaking and leadership skill by the support of club members and manuals.
We learn such skills step by step and then, you can make your speech in English
before the audience and you can manage club organization within short.
Our club members have quite a bit of experience. You don’t feel lonely when you join our club because our every club members support you.
I am sure that you can enjoy our club life. Our door is always opened.
You come to our Shonan Toastmasters Club as guest to see what we are doing. I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
Tsuneo Kato
President of Shonan Toastmasters Club
July 2008 – June 2009
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Voices of Our Members:  |
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"What's so good about being a toastmaster in Shonan Toastmasters Club?"
We are sharing our thoughts on the question here with you.

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1. I always consider
something in English, which will help me with aging prevention.
2. Everytime I have some
purposes rhythmically more than routine.
3 I am blessed with a lot of good friends
regardless of gender and generation.(Y.H.)
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1. When we go to foreign
countries, we can visit the clubs in those countries.
We have friends all over the world.
I have so far visited 8 clubs in foreign countries.
2. At a regular meeting, we can listen to various kinds of speeches. It's a lot of fun to listen to them. (N.N)
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I always listen to the radio program to learn English. And by participating
in Shonan Toastmasters club, I can use English and listen to the members’
fluent English. I have many opportunities to progress my English skills.(A.N.)
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Toastmasters:
can use English.
can cultivate communication skills.
get to know various kinds of people.
get good stimulations and activates my brain.
broaden my knowledge by listening to other members' speeches.(A.S) |
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Getting to know the new poeple is one of the advantages of Toastmasters.
Even experienced TMs can learn new things from new members.(Y.H.)
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I can tell my communication and leadership skills I have learned here in
STMCreally make good use of my life,such as jobs,relationship of family
and friends.(Y.T.)
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STMC provides me with the chances to speak English. It also gives me the
opportunity to share the ideas and thoughts with the similar-minded people
in a friendly atmosphere.(A.T.)
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Since I joined this club, I became very enthusiastic to study English.I put my emphasis to increase my vocaburary.
It's very difficult to remember new words because of my age.(Y.M.)
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It has passed just four months since I became a
member of STMC.I had two times for prepared speeches. Drafting speeches, I accessed
the Internet, went to the public library and bought some reference.
I've never studied English hard like that. More than that, it is great
to make the acquaintance of all members.(E.M.)
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1. Toastmasters provide us with opportunities to use real English in Japan.
2. Toastmasters are diligent in learning English and communication skills.
3. In this club, we can meet 
superb and intellectual ladies.(J.A.)
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1. Generally speaking the marital relationship tends to become as thin as
an air when we get older each other. However this doesn’t go for our case.,
because my wife is very much interested in English as well as computer.
My success in this club is due entirely to my wife’s support.
2. To tell you the truth, I’ve
lived rather longer and met many various kinds of people so far. However
nothing is more pleasant than to have been able to meet such many excellent,
attractive and talented people after
joining this club. This is the best things about being a toastmaster for me. If
I haven’t joined this club, my life would have been very boring one in my later
years.
3. I’d like to continue to be a member as far as I can enjoy toastmastering.
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Good about being a toasmaster is that I am winning competitions in real
life by leveraging skills
learned at Toastmasters.
First time, I received a management award for outstanding contribution
to technology from the Vice-President of
General Electric Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio after presenting my technical project to
General Electric leadership at Bangalore, India.
Second time, I received best speaker award from Mayor of Chigasaki
for my Japanese speech. Although all other
participants know Japanese language better than me, but I could receive the
award because of my toastmastering skills. Out of the 8 participants, 6 persons
are from China and one person from Indonesia and I am the only person
from India. Now, as Secretary of STMC, I am not only improving my communication
skills but also improving my leadership skills.(C.N.)
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Evaluation program to improve communication skill was helpful for raising
children healthy.I have two sons. Even when they were teens and were in
a phase of resistance, I was able to consider the trouble objectively,
to evaluate it in a constructive way and
to solve it peacefully.Now that they are in their 20's, I believe a lot
of conversation among family members shows our good relationship.(S.S.) |
Being a Toastmaster is so
good because it makes my life rhythmical.
I belong to three Toastmasters clubs, Shonan, Kamakura, and Tokyo Phoenix
TMCs.
In particular, we have always to prepare something before attending Tokyo
Phoenix, since some special programs are adopted as one of the two advanced
clubs in Japan. Attending the regular meetings of the three
clubs six times a month makes my life considerably rhythmical. On the other hand, I am a little too busy in participating in Tokyo Phoenix
on 2nd and 4th Fridays and Shonan on 2nd and 4th Saturdays in a row.(Y.O.) |
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What do you think? If you would like to get such benefits too, why don't
you join us?
To come and see the meeting as a guest, please read this page. |
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