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    Being a steady  regular customer

    I visit an izakaya everyday. (You could also say "the izakaya," I think, but to me this sounds more natural). They give me special services every time I visit there. I love them! But I sometimes feel an unknown pressure coming from somewhere in my mind. Should I visit everyday? But, again, I love them!!

    (You could also use the comma like "But again, I love them!" depending on which nuance you want to imply, but either sounds natural. If you leave out the comma entirely as you had originally, I think it would make the "again" sound more like 再び or 二回目に rather than それでも or そうなのに...if you can understand that nuance in grammar, I think you would be a better writer than many Americans! でも、本当に細かいことなので、あまり心配しないでください。)


    日記が短いのに感情を感じさせて面白いと思います!

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    March 22, 2016
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    The routine

    I'm on my way home from work in the train. It's very crowded...There are sleeping people, reading people, chatting people, etc. l'm in a nirvana state of mind for some reason. I'm tired.
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    March 16, 2016
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    Nico, making snap judgments is worlds apart from discounting other people's experiences. I think Xingtian hinted towards something like a wider perspective that comes as a result of learning foreign languages. If the previous comments are the only kinds you are capable of making, then I think you have entirely missed the point of learning languages that Xingtian mentioned above: to "exchange good feelings by learning other languages." Your rhetoric above somehow manages to effect a smaller world with perspectives limited to your own.

    Yes, language learning is difficult and takes lots of hard work. But how did you start? Didn't you just learn a couple phrases at first? Every journey begins with a step--and yet you criticize others for taking that first step.


    Although, on the other hand, I myself can differentiate languages I am not learning in depth from languages in which I've picked up words here and there. But I don't think by any stretch of the imagination that such learning is useless or should be avoided because it's merely "memorizing" and not "learning a language." (In fact, dedicating sentences to memory can be an excellent and efficient way to memorize phrases and to learn examples of verb conjugation and pre/postposition/particle usage). Sometimes all it takes is a couple of words to warm someone's heart--you don't need an essay or critical analyses of political discourse (however fun those may be).

    Learning other languages should above all open your mind to other people's views and perspectives. Perhaps in writing your words, so opposed to Xingtian's, you stimulated a dialogue that brought out the heart of the argument for learning languages that Xingtian intended to bring about himself

    Also, I can't speak for law students, but first year medical students have a lot of clinical experience before they set foot in the school; they follow and learn from physicians and have a good grasp of what being a doc is like.

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    March 16, 2016
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    Apologies for having limited experience in Japanese, but here is my feeling: 男子 is more common in formal writing and 男の子 is preferred in spoken language (though not absent in written language). 男子 can also be used in compound words (I'm not sure if there's a word to describe such words?) like 男子用 meaning "for boys" or "for use by boys." Hope that helps!
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    March 15, 2016
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    I agree with Chuy: "Don't chase each other in the classroom." That tip he gave to use as a direct command could really be useful! Danny Aguilar also has a good way to express the same idea, although in a more general sense with the expression "no horseplay." This would apply to more than just chasing each other around the classroom and would include any sort of rowdy or rough behavior in general.
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    March 15, 2016
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    It sounds perfect grammatically! However, for the exact sort of context you described above, we have words like "roughhousing" and "horseplay." So, we would use it like: "No roughhousing or horseplay allowed." You could also say, "Don't be rough or rowdy in the classroom." I personally would not use the phrase "dangerous game," because this would better describe a game in which the level of danger is high or in which the chances of getting hurt are high. A "dangerous game" might be something like jumping from tabletop to tabletop, or a race to climb a bookshelf--so if you are afraid your students would do this, maybe it is the most appropriate term! However, if you are intending to discourage young students from wrestling, running around and chasing each other, or other similarly disruptive behaviors, "No roughhousing or horseplay" might be more appropriate. Hope that helps!
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    March 15, 2016
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    I think "house rules" sounds the most natural. "Family rules" might emphasize how someone is supposed to interact with the family, as opposed to "house rules," which may emphasize how someone is supposed to act while in the house or while a member of the house. "Home rules" will most likely also be understood in context, but I think it sounds the least natural. Hope that helps!
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    March 15, 2016
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  • Commented

    If you provided more context or how this phrase appears in the text from which you got it, we may be able to help you better!


    I will say that the "VS," which can also be written as "vs" or "vs." is short for "versus." It means "in conflict with; against."


    When used in writing, it is usually surrounded by two names (one coming before "VS" and one after). So, like this:

    ___ vs ___

    If you are a boxing fan, you might come across this boxing match: "Muhammad Ali vs Chuck Wepner." If you are into MMA, there was that recent one, "Connor McGregor vs Nate Diaz." A soccer match could be written as "Ghana vs Paraguay." In legal language, it is abbreviated as simply "v," such as "Plessy v. Ferguson."

    The word "versus" also has one other meaning which I will not explain here.

    Hope that helps ان شا الله  !

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    March 15, 2016
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    My first impression was that you meant to write,


    "You're the poem I can never write," which gives a slight difference in meaning as compared to English-Türkçe's suggestion.



    English-Türkçe's suggestion: "You're the poem I could never write" implies that the speaker of the poem ("I") has tried to write about "you," but was for some reasons unable.

    "You're the poem I couldn't ever write" perhaps implies something more hypothetical, meaning something like "Even if I tried, I would never be able to write a poem that describes you adequately."


    My suggestion: "You're the poem I can never write" implies that no matter how much the speaker of the poem may try, "you" will always be a person that poems or words will never be able to describe (because he or she is so magnificent or awesome or lovely...something like that).


    Hope that helps!

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    March 15, 2016
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    To those of us in the US, a British accent sounds pomp, fancy, cultured, and perhaps exotic. It demands respect and classiness within the interaction. Because of its association with classic literature (not to mention its use more recently in popular movies), it also sounds very dramatic.


    I totally agree with Adrian, I think there are really many more than just two accents in the English language, all that have their own unique flavor to be appreciated! If you are learning English, though, I think it might be best just to decide which one will be most useful for you in your situation (or maybe whichever one you simply like better!) and stick with it.

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    March 15, 2016
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