It's the Te form of the verb なる、which is the Japanese verb 'to become'. In this case the Te form of the verb is being used to form a conjunction with the clause that follows it: 暮らしています. お世話になる means to be of service (to another person).

I did it.  Took a while.  Was quite a bit of work but I really enjoyed it.  I get the impression that most people bail on it before they get very good because I have yet to meet another foreigner that got all the way through it (though I do see some of them in blogs and so forth).

 

I could write a book of my own on all the stuff I tried, what worked/what didn't.  Happy to share but they don't allow for very long comments in these areas.  Contact me directly if you want to hear all the stuff that I wish someone had told me before I started out.

Osaka

Today I went to Osaka for an entrance examination.. It was harder to solve than I expected.
After that I walked around the city. It was so interesting!

Afterwards I went home and listened to the a CD which I had bought before earlier.
Collecting CDs is becoming my hobby now!!!

 

Jun,--> putting a space after "," or "." is very important. 

--> "solve an examination" is not correct.  "solve a problem" is good.  "take an examination" is good.

A literal translation would be "Why looking down from above behavior!?", where the 上から目線 part is an expression for condescension or arrogance. なんで here is basically "why" - literally it is more like "by what means" but why is the best translation in this case. なんだ is a contraction of なのだ which is hard to translate by itself. It basically takes the preceding phrase, makes it into an adjective and uses it to modify the word "thing" so it would change "arrogance" into "arrogant thing/behavior/action" or it would make "condescention" into "condescending look" or similar. The final よ adds emotional force. That particular sentence your quoting is pretty commonly seen statement in dramatic fiction. A functional colloquial english translation might be "what's with the attitude" or "where do you get off looking down on me".

today i bought a notebook from Taobao

it is a black cover notebook designed and manufactured in Taiwan.

i love the quotations on every page. wriiten in Japanese.

page 1:

中文：我相信人性本善，但是我吃亏了必定以牙还牙，加倍奉还！这就是我的为人原则。
日文：人の善意は信じますが、 やられたらやり返す。倍返 しだ！ それが私の流儀なでね。
英文：i believe that people are basically good.But if suffered,i would return in two folds.That's my principle.

P.S：it seems like originating from <半沢直樹>

 

Hello Peter Pan,

 

Please excuse the long explanation, but I thought the sentence was very interesting and very hard to translate so I became interested in finding a very good translation.  I cannot read chinese, but here is my (fluent english) translation of the japanese sentence.

 

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I believe that people are basically good, but if made to suffer I return it twofold as a matter of principle.

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--> It's important to use "I" and not "i" for first person

--> Using "But" at the beginning of a sentence is not correct, but it is awkward.  In this situation it is better to use ", but" as a conjunction. 

--> After "," the space is very important.

--> twofold is a single word.  It is very uncommon (it is an 800 year old word used in formal  expressions) but it works very well in this sentence because the sentence is a vow.  Also, twofold is an adverb, not a noun, so it cannot be the object of the preposition "in".  

--> "That's my principle." Is correct english, but the phrase "as a matter of principle" is always used in this kind of sentence.  There is no rule for it, but it is always done this way (colloquial expression).

A literal translation is "dropped the hammer" and it can be used as slang for "fire the gun". There is a component within a gun that is colloquially called the "hammer" which, when the trigger is pulled applies a shock to the cartridge to fire the bullet. So when you pull the trigger on a gun you are "dropping the hammer".

Music

Today I listened to music and I found a good song.
It's called 'Style' by Taylor Swift.
The reason why I like it is its rhythm and its beginning.
I want to listen to more her songs!
I wish I could purchase a lot of songs from iTunes!!

 

--> usually "," before "and" is not required, unless is part of list of 3 or more:  "1 and 2" / "1, 2, and 3"

 

--> it is ok to say "the song is named ... " or "the song is ..." but the most natural (一番自然な言い方) is "the song is called ..."

 

--> "It is" has a formal tone (感じは敬語みたいという方がいいかもしれません).  The contraction "It's" is better for this kind of informal writing.

Expressions which include colors.

Today I studied English, and I found an interesting expression!
It is 'out of the blue'.
In the dictionary, it comes from 'a bolt out of the blue'
I'm so surprised and I want to use it someday.

In addition, there are many words that I'm surprised.
For example, 'get a green light', 'see red', and so on.

These expressions include colors, which make me fun.
I want to know more expressions like these, so please tell me if you know!

 

make me fun -> make me laugh (?) or make me smile (?)

 -or-

make me fun -> seems fun (?)

 

probably, "make me smile" is the best

 

very good!