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A Japanese currently living in Islamabad, Pakistan. Hobbyist of street photography. Forever beginner of Nastaliq calligraphy (w/ bamboo qalam, yes!). Keen music lover of neither Western nor Japanese but a few specific area's. Loves to learn different languages and cultures since I was very young. Mostly music leads me to the particular area/culture, then start digging more and more like languages or history deeper. So far there are Pakistan and DR Congo. Due to the above reason of the motivation, tried to learn various languages. Some, gave up to learn how many times I tried. Some, I still enjoy learning although not much improved. Currently focusing to learn Urdu as well as interested in surrounding languages like Punjabi, Hindko (not Hindi), Pashto, Persian and so on. (btw, I've noticed that italki's language list is never ever improved for a long time, there's no "Hindko" and "Lingala" (Lang in DRC) which I prefer to learn) === Note: However I'm Japanese, I'm not an anime lover
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    Lingala ezali te? Mawa makasi! Title says "No Lingala? Very sad" in Lingala. Noticed italki's renewal and soon I checked Language list in the profile page. It looks quite many minor languages added in the list. But no Lingala. 😢 I'm now focusing on to learn Lingala. Lingala is the language commonly used in Congo (DRC/DC). Congo is Francophone Africa, hence rare resources in English or even more rare in my native tongue Japanese. So 95% of my study is literally alone with small pieces of resources. The good thing about internet is I can find resources no matter it's major or minor in general. But doesn't seem to language learning platform - maybe it's because such minor language (for major countries) doesn't help them for monetize well. Well, I cannot deny about it though.... Sorry, it's just my mumbling (with training my English, instead of Lingala 😛).
    July 17, 2019
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    First Japanese - 日本語 1

    (私は高校の学生です. 2015年3月30日から日本語を勉強しています)

    * In Japanese, usually YYYY-MM-DD order for dates.

    私はもともと韓国語を学びはじめました.

    * Or 学ぶことを

    でも日本語もすきです. 私は日本に住むか働くことをしたいので, いま日本語を勉強しています.

    * More fluent, 住むか働きたい

    ひらがなとかたかな読めます (と漢字ちょっと, ちょっと, ちょっと >_<)

    まだ今は…多くのことが話せません.

    (sorry if it’s hard to understand! please correct me?)

     

    Well done! Already enable to read/write some 漢字, too? Wow!

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    April 9, 2015
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    Will take Hindi class finally! From a couple of weeks later, I will take a Hindi beginner class. Yay! Once a week after work. 20 times totally. So I re-re-re-re-started to learn devanagari by myself and I've finished most of basic alphabets. Now I can read simple words. I'll have to understand several irregulars before class. It's quite exciting that you become able to "read" letters one by one, which you can't even recognize as words before! Can't wait for the 1st day! :-)
    April 8, 2015
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  • Commented

    私が、学校以外で英語を話すようになったのは、英語が母語ではない外国人と話をする機会があったからです。

    その時はじめて、「道具」としての英語を使うようになりました。

    なので、英語が母語かどうかは、あまり気にしませんよ。

    色々な国のアクセントの英語を比べるのも楽しいですよね。

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    March 22, 2015
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    Weekend is coming with double typhoon, earthquake and tsunami (but nothing damaged here so far!) Sounds totally bad. Two typhoon is now passing right near eastern Japan. Rain and winds are getting strong a few hours ago. Then long earth quake. It wasn't that big around my area (Kanto - around Tokyo), but quite long. It's like sea sickness. Forecast said it was M7.3 earthquake, corrected to M6.8 after a while, and again corrected to M7.1. Sounds huge, but the seismic center was a bit far from the land, and deeper. That's why the earthquake this time was wider but not that bigger hitting. And next, forecast issued tsunami alert. Right now when I'm writing this, alert lifted. Small tsunami was observed at several places, but seems like nothing damaged. Now double typhoon is still right there and blowing out. Actually we had another one last week. It was more violence one. Mudslide at several area, bunch of peoples are dead or missing at an island near Tokyo. Hope no damage this time.
    October 25, 2013
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    僕の新しいアパートの前の借家人はまだそこです。

    僕の新しいアパートの前の借家人がまだそこに（住んで）います。

     

    友達が猫を飼っています。

    友達は猫を飼っています。

    But according to lines after this sentence, you mention that your friend is considering if he/she would keep the cat "as pet", didn't you? In Japanese, 飼う usually means "keep the cat as pet".

     

    猫の毛はいたるところです。

    猫の毛はいたるところにあります。

    If existence (of cat's hair) is main subject of this sentence, you'd better not to skip あります.

     

    いまぜんぜん猫を飼うことができませんと知っています。

    If you meant "your friend can't (don't want to) keep the cat anymore."

    もう猫を飼うことができません or もう猫を飼っていたくありません

     

    物事の上を歩きます。

    物事の上を歩きます。

    Things (only objects) are just 物.

    物事 sounds like objects and happenings.

     

    猫がいつも注目が必要ので

    猫がいつも注目を必要とするので

     

    いまあなたは猫をペットしないとだめです。

    いまあなたは猫をペットにしないとだめです。

    I don't understand what you exactly want to say. In English, ペットにする means ... err discipline training? If so,

    いまあなたは猫を（ペットとして）しつけをしないとだめです。

     

    I used to keep 3 cats for a long time ago. Now they're all gone.

    My favorite one was good at climbing curtains! :-)

    また猫を飼いたいです！

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    October 21, 2013
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    Bye Bye weekend (and about twitter) Now it's already Sunday deep midnight here in Japan. Weekend is over. Blur! This weekend wasn't that bad. Went to movie on Saturday as I wrote previous note. Today I did small exercise, small work and then relax with Congolese soukous music (it's my current favorite music!). Oh, I added my twitter ID on my profile. But I guess if you follow me, my Japanese rubbish tweets might flood your timeline, cause I tweet quite a lot. If you are interested in 日本語 and prefer to catch up what I'm tweeting, I suggest to put me in a list, instead of following me! ;-)
    October 20, 2013
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  • Corrected
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    October 20, 2013
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  • Corrected

    私のかれしい

    私のかれしいは韓国人です。韓国で会いました。名前はスソンです。とても愛してるよ！
    １２月は私は東京に行きます、だからかれしいに会えます！今、私は一人で南アフリカに住んでいます。家族は東京にいます。＞＜

     

    Not sure what you meant the last sentence. If you meant (someone's) family is in Tokyo, my correction is right.

    Long distance relationship is hard. I feel you! One and half month, がんばれ！ :-)

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    October 20, 2013
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  • Posted
    Hello world Well, language I can write is English - excludes my native tongue Japanese. So I write in English here, for now. However my English is not great yet, enough for a minimum of communication/reading/writing for fun, I guess. Currently I'm interested in learning other languages. That's why I signed up here. Hope that I'd be able to start writing in other languages here someday soon. Even English, I'd better to make a small moment to write daily some more. Cause I have less time to talk buddies from overseas recently, and my poor English goes poorer! :-p What else should I write here...? Diary-ish...? Well, I went to Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama pref for watching Telugu movie "Ramayya Vasthavayya". It's one and only screening in Japan. With no dubbing, even no subtitles, but several keen South Indian movie fan in Japan includes me enjoyed it. Apart from the story, my most fav actor/dancer (in Telugu film) Jr. NTR performed great as usual. Usually many Telugu people living in Japan also come to see the Telugu film screenings, but this time, they have plenty of other events. Navratri, Dhiwali and athletic festival. So less Telugu peeps there.
    October 19, 2013
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