At Hirosaki's "Popular Bar BASK" (Honcho, Hirosaki City, TEL 090-6228-3890 ), a weekly English conversation lesson "Drunk English Conversation with Chris-sensei" is currently being held.

Part-time foreign language teaching assistant (ALT) Chris Raven, who teaches English at elementary and junior high schools in Hirosaki, will be the instructor. Every Thursday, a 2-hour English conversation lesson is attended by ordering a course with one drink and knobs and taking a lesson from Chris, who is resident at the table. It started on May 20th and was the 5th time on June 17th.

Chris is from Minnesota, USA. It is said that he began to be interested in Japan due to the influence of his father who had stayed in Japan. It is said that teens grew up in Japanese animation such as "Dragon Ball" and "YuYu Hakusho" and games of Nintendo and Sega. In 2014 (Heisei 26), he studied abroad at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto at the age of 23.

After graduating from university, Chris returned to Japan and worked as an SE, but decided to go to Japan again because of the desire to know more about Japan and the regret that he could not interact with Japanese people. "I came to Japan as an ALT, but I didn't go to Kyoto and went to Aomori. In the first week, I climbed Mt. Iwaki, saw Hirosaki Neputa and Goshogawara Tachinata, and soon fell in love with Aomori. I look back.

The English conversation lesson will proceed with the prepared slides. The theme of the day was how to answer the phone. We exchanged opinions with the participants about how to greet them and the differences between Japan and the United States when they were late. "It's fun not only for English conversation but also for myself to know the difference from Japanese people," says Chris.

A woman in her 60s who took the course on that day said, "I learned about it on Instagram and started taking it. After Corona converged, I wanted to go on an overseas trip, so I thought I could easily study and started participating. I don't usually have the opportunity, so it's very educational. "

Chris is about to arrive in Hirosaki for two years. He married a person from Hirosaki on June 16 and is not thinking about leaving Hirosaki. Chris said, "I was planning to visit various places I knew in Kyoto and my favorite places in Japan, but I couldn't do it because of Corona. On the contrary, I was able to learn about Hirosaki's deep things and also have English conversation lessons. "Smiles.

"I want Corona to converge at Christmas. I want to go back to the United States and report my marriage to my parents."

The holding time is from 20:00 to 22:00. Participation fee is 2,500 yen for adults and 1,500 yen for students. Advance reservation system until 18:00 on the day.