My first entry
This is my first post on italki. I was looking for a service like lang-8, which I used to use as I can post something short to practice (and remember) what I learned. Italki seems to be a nice alternative, so I decided to use it.
What did I learn today? It is the word "dashboard'. I wanted to describe an Uber driver I met the other day. He is from Australia. Not only did he speak Australian English, but he had a kangaroo figure on the car dashboard, which helped guess where he was from. But I did not know the name of the space on top of the AC or the car navigation of a car, which is where you can put figures and presumably called a dashboard.
Anyway, I want to practice making sentences like this quickly. Hopefully I can continue and make this a habit.
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Hello, Karaageyoukai! I heard about lang-8 when I first started studying Japanese, but they weren't accepting new members. I was excited to discover that italki offered an alternative. It's nice to meet someone who used lang-8. I hope I can be of help!
I've marked less natural phrases with orange, more natural phrases with purple, and corrections with green.
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This is my first post on italki. I was looking for a service like lang-8, which I used to use as I can could post something short to practice (and remember) what I learned. Italki seems to be a nice alternative, so I decided to use it.
What did I learn today? It is the word "dashboard'. I wanted to describe an Uber driver I met the other day. He is from Australia. Not only did he speak Australian English, but he had a kangaroo figure on the car dashboard, which helped me guess where he was from. But I did not know the name of the space on top of the AC or the car navigation of a car behind the steering wheel / behind the car's navigation system, which is where you can put figures and presumably it is called a dashboard.
Anyway, I want to practice making sentences like this quickly. Hopefully I can continue and make this a habit.
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"Dashboard" is a useful word on the internet as well, since it is also used to refer to the page that contains the user's controls (often the home page or an overview page), just like the vehicle dashboard contains the car's controls. The car's dashboard is sometimes called the "dash" for short. For example, "Don't put the map on the dash — it'll reflect in the windshield."
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