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- Answers to "How are you?" I'd like to know possible answers to the question "How are you?" I'm a Japanese and people usually do not ask this kind of question in Japan. They usually say just "welcome" in stores or "good morning" in offices. So I get a little bit annoyed when I'm asked "How are you?". I usually say "Good" or "Great", but I'd like to find possible varieties to this question.August 25, 201380
- Sunny weekend Today I woke up around noon, ate tuna pasta and went for a jog. The weather is so nice, not too hot, not too cold, with a beautiful sun. So I went to the beach in the south. A band was on the stage and playing familiar songs. I was listening to it for a while, with a beer. It was a beautiful day. I'll miss these days in the winter. I wanna enjoy the beautiful season more and more. I should work less, probably.August 25, 201310
- In most cases, we can determine the meaning from the context. Let us consider the case of 成功 and 性交. When we use the word "succeed," it usually comes with something one has succeeded in. For example, 「お金を儲けることに成功した」 「ダイエットに成功した」 and so on. It is clear that せいこう is not 性交 from the meaning. Sometimes the word 成功する is used with no particular object like 「彼は東京に来てから成功した」. In this case, 成功する means "make money" or "success in one's career." In this example, too, we can easily see that it's not 性交 since we cannot have sex alone. In the case of 「しがいせんを大好きだよ！」, it is a little bit unnatural from the beginning. If one likes to soak up the sun, we would say "紫外線を浴びるのが大好き". If one really likes "市街戦", the person should be talking about fighting before saying the word "市街戦". In any case, it is not so difficult to determine the meaning from the context.0 votedAugust 23, 20132
- A Wild Sheep Chase I haven’t logged in italki these days. I’m still staying in the Long Island and struggling to learn English, although I’m not sure whether I’m making a improvements or making no progress. Recently, I like to listen to audio books on the bed. I listen to “A Wild Sheep Chase, ” which is written by Haruki Murakami. It is definitely a masterpiece. I really like the story. This book can be recommended to the people who would like to start reading Haruki Murakami. However, the words in this novel is a little difficult for me. Usually I fell asleep before I knew it when I’m listening to the story. For now it’s functioning just as a lullaby...August 23, 201360
Sunshine
写真ではサンシャインといううちの犬です。かわいいと思います。六年間前から飼っています。
いつもドアのそばに座って「散歩に行こうよ」と言いたげな顔をしています．．．散歩から帰ってきたばかりな時にでも！
でも、運動はよくしないと太くなるから大切です。When a person (or an animal) gets fat, we say "太る" rather than "太くなる".
”太くなる” is used for subjects which are objects.
This is my dog Sunshine. I think she is very cute. We have had her for about 6 years now.
She's always sitting by the door telling me that she wants to go for a walk, even after we've just come back from one!
But, it's important that she gets lots of exercise or else she'll get fat.0 votedApril 29, 20131- Weekend This is my first weekend in this visit. It's getting warmer and the weather is really nice. Certainly I feel like going on a walk, lying on a grass and spending my time doing nothing. But for now I'm swamped with work. I really curse it! Sustaining a good balance between work and life is difficult for me. I tend to focus on working, but too much work stresses me out. I hope to become a more optimistic person who do not take mistakes too seriously. However, optimistic people would never think that they should be more optimistic. Life is difficult...April 28, 201320
- Long Island Last Sunday I came to the US again from Japan. I won't have a chance to go back to Japan at least for several months. Here in Long Island, the weather is very nice when it's sunny. Today it is so a beautiful day that I'm tempted to forget about work and just go on a hike, but I don't think i can. Why the life is full of duties? But I'm starting to feel a bit differently talking with people here. People here seem to be more optimistic compared to Japanese people, somehow. I'm curious about why, but have no answer. Talking with optimistic, encouraging people make me feel a lot better even if the amount of work is the same. One reason why Japanese people are pessimistic may be that we lost in the war. American or European industry have been always ahead of us, so we had an inferiority complex to them. The positive side of the feeling is that we worked very hard to catch up with US or other countries. The negative side is that we still constantly feel that what we are is not what we should be. It is quite stressful feeling in this way. I did not realize that feeling until I came to the states.April 24, 201330
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