This is an All-Ears English bonus episode,

How A Kiko created a positive pattern of improvement in her life.

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English.com forward slash subscribe. Today you'll meet A Kiko who was a participant in the Tokyo Power Immersion Weekend in 2018.

Find out how she stopped feeling afraid in English and started a positive cycle of improvement in her life even beyond English as a result of the immersion weekend.

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Hello, Aikko, welcome to All-Eirs English.

How are you today?

I'm great.

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited that you are willing to come on the show.

I love it when we get a chance to have student voices on the show and especially students who have taken part in our big immersion programs like Tokyo, right, Aikko?

Yeah, yeah. Well, tell us about yourself, Aikko, where do you live and what do you do for work?

Okay, I live in Tokyo, Japan, and I work for a pharmaceutical company.

And I live with my family, yes.

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