Regular Meeting 128, Sep. 30, 2025 (Hybrid)

🌿More Than I Thought I Could

Being a Grammarian—the one who observes everyone’s English usage and gives feedback—can be one of the most stressful roles in a Toastmasters meeting, especially for someone who isn’t confident in grammar like me.

I often make grammar mistakes myself, so I wondered: How could I possibly be an appropriate Grammarian?

Fortunately, one of tonight’s speeches, “Ace Your Grammarian Report” by Hideo, helped me ease that tension and offered valuable insights on how to give a professional and engaging grammar report.

Here’s what I learned from his speech and my own experience tonight:

• Mindset: Focus on listening and sharing instead of perfection.

• Technique: Keep notes simple. Notice interesting word choices and note just a few key corrections.

• Focus: Start with common areas like tense or countable/uncountable nouns, then categorize and pick the most useful points.

• Highlighting: When you share good usages, explain why you liked them.

• Delivery: Remember, it’s also a short speech, so structure it with an opening, body, and conclusion will be even better.

I’m grateful that I could learn these tips and try them right away.Though I was busy checking word usages throughout the meeting, it was a valuable chance to sharpen my active listening, information organizing, and delivery skills.

My report was far from perfect, but I was happy to see my small progress. 🌱

At Shin-Osaka Leaders Toastmasters, everyone is willing to share their knowledge and experience—as long as you’re eager to learn. Growth doesn’t come from a giant leap, but from every small step forward.

Every time I join a meeting, I feel myself getting a little closer to who I want to be.And I believe you can, too. Come celebrate your small victories with us!

Vice President Public Relations : Stella