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Hi I'm Brittany, I'm from BELLINGHAM, Washington, which is not available as a city choice haha. I'm currently a Boston University student majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science, which is surprisingly just one major. I'm planning on a minor in Visual Arts and potentially Japanese(I hope!). Currently I'm enrolled in 4th semester Japanese which doesn't count toward the minor. I find Japanese and Japan really interesting, and I hope to visit there someday. I've also always wanted to go to a country that speaks a native language other than English and be able to speak that language. I'd like to practice speaking with someone because it is probably my weakest area and I would like to meet people!
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    The first sentence, "It had been almost one year since i had seen her" is correct, but only if you are talking about a past event. So if you were telling someone a story about the past. The second sentence, "It's been almost one year since i had seen her" is not correct because "had" is past tense. If you're speaking you could say "It's been almost one year since I've seen her" where the "I've" is "I" + "have". You would use this sentence if you were telling someone right now that you hadn't seen that person for a year(and may or may not have seen them recently). The third sentence, "It's been a year for him to go back to his country since he had left his country" isn't correct. Here are a couple sentences you could use instead: "It's taken a year for him to go back to his country." When you say, "go back to his country" you already know the person left their country, so the second part of the sentence sounds a little weird when you say, "since he had left his country". You should use one or the other. This sentence means the person is back in their country. "It's been a year since he had left his country." This means the person could be back in their country, or they could still be somewhere else. The thing with "has/had/have" + "been" is you are not sure if an event is still happening. If you say "go back" the person has to have already returned, so it's not still happening. Good luck with English! I hope I have explained this well.
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    May 27, 2015
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    勉強することにしています I’m going to try using some grammar I’m learning. Wish me luck! 夏休みに日本語を勉強することにしていますよ。あまり上手じゃないし、漢字があまり覚えないし、毎日練習してみたいです。大変でも、うれしくて、楽しいと思います。日本で日本語で話してみたいですから、日本に行くまで、漢字と文法を習いたいです。覚える方を教えていただけませんか。 Here is a Causative-passive Sentence 先週私は父に手押し車を描かされました。あまり面白なくて暇取ったけど、今手押し車で何も描けますよ。何を描くのしりません。
    May 25, 2015
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    I would agree with the poster above me, but "epic" can also be used when speaking as slang for "awesome" or "incredible". For example, two friends might say: Person 1: "Did you hear Mr. Zurcher yodeling in class today?" Person 2: "I did! It was epic." **this is kind of extra** Using slang is kind of a style choice. Using the word "epic" instead of "awesome" or "incredible" here gives a different feel to the sentence.
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    February 8, 2015
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    simple life

    Yesterday morning, i walked under thea tree, and while a slight bit of sunlight exposure in hit my face,
    I was i 'm thinking that :" Today is a good day!"
    But unfortunately,
    in the afternoon the sky became cloudy,
    and it started to rain.

    At this moment,
    i took out an umbrella,
    and i wearput on my raincoat,
     and went out from my house(*"outside" or "out into the rain"). I'm not crazy, 
    I just wanted to feel some cold airs and the rains.

    When you can hear frogs are singing, and no birds are flying inon the sky; 
    that is a peaceful rainingy day.
    Sometimes, you need a sunny day,
    But sometimes you need a rainingy day to remind you how is the life goes on.
    Nothing is perfect, but sometimes  a defect is good.

     

    *There isn't anything wrong with the phrase "went out from my house" but usually you would say "went outside" or "went out into the rain".

     

    I am from Western Washington, so I like the rain as well =). That was very poetic, nice job =).

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    February 8, 2015
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    Why ~はずじゃない? Recently, I listened to a song called “一輪の花”. In the song, at around 50 seconds in, I think they say the phrase, “のぞんだはずじゃない” and I was wondering why it’s はずじゃない.I just learned the grammar for はず and I thought that the negative goes on the verb. Would someone mind explaining this(unless I heard wrong, which is quite possible :P)? Here is a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQrLZp-BKVw
    February 8, 2015
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    Why I usually mistaken "are" with " do" in the American series(*?)

    Why I usually mistaken "are" with " do" in the American series. 
    such as For example, "What are you doing?" actually(**) sounds like, "What do you doing?"
    and, "What are you talking about?" sounds like, "What do you talking about?"
    especially when they speak very fast.


    *If you meant speech, as in how Americans talk, this should be, "American speech". If you are talking about a TV series, you should say, "American TV series", because if you just say, "American series" it sounds a bit strange and could mean several things. Someone might think you are talking about a series of books, for example.

     

    **Normally you use "actually" to correct a misconception. What follows "actually" should be a fact, not an opinion. If you wanted to use actually here, you could put "to me," before it. Instead it would read, "'What are you doing?' to me, actually sounds like, 'What do you doing?'". You could also just get rid of actually, like you did in the second example you gave.

     

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    February 6, 2015
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