I always feel it a big challenge to write stuff in the Japanese 
language.  Whatever I write about just in Japanese never fails to make me 
feel encouraged.  This is the case also for this book.  As I wrote in the 
afterword of my previous book Nihonjin-no-Eigo, "Even though I have no 
idea how much this book will help those people who want to master natural 
English, I myself have learned a lot from writing this many lines in the 
Japanese language."  Just only having managed to finish the article enough 
for a book also with my present work made me feel quite happy, even though 
that might not be in a very beautiful Japanese. 
	Once I sit in front of my Japanese word processor to try to write 
something, I become keenly aware of my language handicap even now.  Every 
time writing in another language than my mother tongue, I am forced to 
realize how much my position will be weakened.