黒山羊さんからお手紙着いた

英語の耳を慣らすために、English as a Second Language Podcast (http://goo.gl/Qih6) を聴いている。
そのなかに、リスナーからの質問に答えるコーナーがある。似ている単語や表現のニュアンスの相違についての質問が多い。
自分でも気になった単語、文法があったので、質問のメールを出してみた。

Hello Jeff
I am listening to your podcast, and it is very helpful to improve my English. Thank you very much.
I have two questions about English.
The first one is what is different between the words work, job, occupation and task.
The second one is as follow.
I heard from a native speaker that sometimes I could use "they" as first-person singular pronoun, when I didn't know someone's gender.
Is it true or common usage?
I will be happy if you answer my question.
Yagian, Japan

翌日には、早速返事が届いた。定形文の部分もあるけれど、完全な自動返信という訳ではなく、私が送信したメールの内容を読んで、それに対する返答の部分もある。なかなかサービス体制がしっかりしていると感心した。

Dear Yagian,
Thank you for your kind message. We're glad you find ESL Podcast useful.
We appreciate your questions, too. If there is time, we will try to answer them on a future Café. We record our podcasts many weeks in advance, so if we include it, it may be a little while before you hear it. (Unfortunately, we are not able to answer all of the good questions we get from our listeners.)
Many of the questions we receive by email have already been answered on either a podcast episode or a blog post. For example, we discussed the meaning of work vs. job. vs. occupation here:
http://tinyurl.com/284b5jd
Also, most questions about vocabulary can be found in online dictionaries such as this one here: http://www.ldoceonline.com/
For future questions, please search our site first before emailing us your question. You may find that we have already answered it!
We really appreciate you taking the time to send us a message. Your support is very important to us, and thanks for listening.
ESL Podcast Team

さっそく、Longmanの辞書のウェブサイト(http://www.ldoceonline.com/)を使っている。