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- Actually the one on the left isn't really used (might be more Chinese...) 日 is the main one. When actually referring to the Sun, you want to say 太陽 （たいよう、taiyou). 日has the meaning of "sun" or "day" but is often used in compound words, for which you'll just have to memorize the meaning... I hope that helps a little bit! It can be confusing but the more you practice, the more you'll get all the little nuances.0 votedAugust 30, 20131
The almighty surrenders
In this text my goal is to describe a scene from a movie.
I choose to describe a scene from the movie “the almighty” with Jim Carrey. First, Bruce sees his wife praying to God and crying out. She prays and says that she is still loves Bruce but didn´t doesn't want to love him anymore, after all this that he did. She cries desperately, asking God to forget him and yells “ I don’t want to live anymore”. While he sees this scene, Bruce's heart sinks and He he (lower case h) realizes that he made his wife suffer a lot. He rushes to the street crying and yelling. It´s night and it´s raining and he doenst´realize that he is in the middle of a highway. In this moment Bruce made makes his first prayer. He talks to God saying that He (usually use upper case H when He refers to God) won and he doesn´t wants to be God anymore. He doesn´t wants to decide about his own life and prefers that God chooses for him. In this moment he opens his arms in a gesture of surrender. Suddenly a strong light covers the body of Bruce Bruce's body. He feels the presence of God and then opens a smile on your face begins to smile. The light becomes more intense… He thinks that it is God but is surprised by when a truck runs over him him over.
So Bruce is then wade wide awake and he thinks that he´s is the in heaven and has having a conversations with God about the meaning of prayers and about faith, but he isn´t instead of being dead, he's actually in a coma in a hospital. After this conversation, God gives him an opportunity to remake his life alongside his wife.You did a very good job overall. Just a few little mistakes here and there, which I think you will get better at with more practice. This sentence was my favorite: "In this moment he opens his arms in a gesture of surrender." I can tell that you want to start using more expressive sentences, and your word choice is great in this regard. Keep it up!
By the way, I love this movie : )
0 votedAugust 26, 20130- They're all actual words, here's their meanings: -くるま - 車 -Car あした - 明日 -Tomorrow こくせき - 国籍 -Nationality おすし - お寿司 -Sushi たべる - 食べる -to east わからない - 分からない -I don't understand さずける - 授ける -to grant/award/teach りくつ - 理屈 -theory/reason たちよみ - 立ち読み -Standing and reading (like in a bookstore) ものまね - 物真似 -imitation ひがえり - 日帰り -day trip ぽんず - ポン酢 -it's like a citrus soy sauce ひるめし - 昼飯 -lunch/midday meal れきし - 歴史 -history ふゆかい - 不愉快 -discomfort/unpleasantness As Sonya_Forest suggested, there are a lot of online resources for dictionaries and the like. If you have an iphone/ipad/ipod, check out either Kotoba or Japanese, two wonderful apps that helped me tremendously when I was in Japan. Also if you use Mozilla Firefox, get the Rikaichan add on. When activated, all you have to do is highlight any Japanese word and it comes up with a box that shows it's meaning and other helpful info. Hope that helps!0 votedAugust 24, 20131
- Helpful tips for language learners of all levels. Share you ideas/experiences!
Hi everyone, my name is Jake. I live in America and have been studying Japanese for a couple of years now. I'm new to italki, but it seems like there are A LOT of new language learners out there. I thought it'd be nice to share some helpful tips in language learning for these people, however some tips may be good for people who are even advanced in languages, too. I'll start with one that helped me tremendously:
I studied abroad in Tokyo for a year, and even though I had 2 full years college course experience in Japanese and was at the top of my class, when I arrived in Japan I was soooo bad at the language. I was by far the worst in my class of other foreigners, and I couldn't seem to get better no matter how I studied. My class mate from belgium ended up sharing one very useful tip that set my learning off on a new course. Here it is:
When using the target language, stop translating from your native language in your head! Think of the abstract idea of what you're trying to say, and then think of how that idea is expressed in the target language without thinking of your native language. For example, think of a car. In English, the machine with four wheels that you drive is called car, which in Japanese is Kuruma. But don't think Car -> Kuruma, think of the idea of "the thing with four wheels that you drive" -> Kuruma. This is hard at first, but once you elimnate the middle man of your native language, you'll learn the little nuances of the target language and be able to spit out sentences that sound much more natural without thinking twice.
Hope that helps, and please share anything that has helped you in your language journey!
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