第１話　英語話すのが苦手

　英語は頑張って勉強してきたつもりだが、あまり話せない。（日本国内純粋培養組。海外経験無し）四歳で英語を始めたのに、まだ満足に話せない。恥ずかしい。
　話すこと自体好きじゃない。でも文章を書くのは好きなので、自分の書いたものを英訳すれば上達するんじゃない？と思って始めた創作活動。
　このサイトにも掲げているヘラクレスの難行の台詞は英語で考えたりしています。甘々な台詞を書いてしまうのはその影響だと思います。
　英語版は相当時間掛かると思いますが、やり遂げるのが私の目標です。

　以下、ヘラクレスの難行のサマリーです。折角なので載せたいと思います。

There was a vampire called Hercules in medieval Europe. His mother is human and his father is the Emperor of the vampires. He can keep his youth and live for hundreds of years. One day, he encountered a human girl called Kyrie and fell in love with her. They suffered from a tragic love. She was accused of witchcraft and tortured to death. Just before Kyrie died, she promised him that she would definitely transmigrate her soul into another body after death. Kyrie asked him to find her in her next life. Since then, Hercules has been searching for the reincarnation of Kyrie.
Now he has finally found her in Japan. Her appearance is totally different from the previous Kyrie’s, but she has the same name and the love for Hercules is buried deep within her mind. They want to stay together forever, but someday she will have to die leaving him behind; otherwise she needs to be a vampire to live forever. She is torn between the two options.

　英語修行日記では英語にまつわることを書いていこうと思います。