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Hi, I'm Kitty and I'm from the UK. I have been an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher for seven years in Taiwan and I'm looking to learn Japanese and Chinese for my work and travels.
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Gen Ueda
Japanese
May 31, 2018
We covered a lot of materials and learned quite a few new phrases today. We did not have enough time to actually practice using those phrases, so we will take a good amount of time during our next lesson to do that! :) お疲れさまでした！
Gen Ueda
Japanese
May 22, 2018
I'm glad to hear our first lesson was helpful! Looking forward to the next lesson!
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    Check out websites like KanjiDamage. They advise making a story out of the kanji, following in the advice of James Heisig's 'Remembering the Kanji' books. Basically, as kanji are pictograms (okay, they're not, but still) they can be broken down into discrete pictures.
    So 木 is 'wood' or 'tree'. Two 木 together in a kanji means 'grove' and three together means 'forest'. Look, it's late and I can't remember how to type those kanji.

    So the stories would be simple for that. One old cherry tree all alone with long sagging branches that creak moku moku in the breeze.
    Two old cherry trees in full blossom in a grove. [insert the onyomi/kunyomi reading sentence here]
    And so on.
    You need to work the English keywoird and the main reading into the story.


    There are much better examples and ideas on the website as well as any other website that does the story 'story-memorisation' as the RtK book.

    It works better if you make your own stories because it's making you use different sections of your brain and creating your own links to each kanji, giving it more roots to dig into your brain and be remembered. Then as you encounter it more and more the other readings and meanings will be able to attach to your story seed and grow out of it.

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    May 26, 2018
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    While it's extremely rude, you *could* say it. You'd just get into a lot of trouble. I think it also sounds better to say "you don't know fuck all about shit". But don't say that either. Not unless you want trouble!
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    January 30, 2016
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    Hi everyone, I wonder [[HOW TO USE]] this phrase Would it be possible [[TO]] I use this for someone who is troublesome in my family? Like 'He is truly a problematic one in neighborhood"... Not exactly. You could say "X is the troublesome one in the family" OR "X is the problematic one in the family". Most people would use either 'troublesome' or 'troublemaker' e.g. "He's a bit of a troublemaker." "She's the troublemaker of the family." "Are they the problematic students?" Another good idiom to use would be "problem child". With this you can just say "He's the/a problem child in our/the family." (Use 'the'-'our' OR 'a'-'the') e.g. "He used to be the problem child, always getting into trouble, but he settled down when he left university." "The entire school knew of Richard: every teacher he had ever had considered him the problem child." Hope that helps. :)
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    January 30, 2016
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    Usually for marks or results in a test (This also applies to B, C, D, E, F (and, in the UK, G and U), or, as Nader said, to talk about the letter 'a'. Examples of the first: "She's a fantastic student! She got straight As in college!" (America) "You need two As and an A* to get into this university." (For the UK where there's a type of exam called an A Level (graded from A - E, plus U for under 18%) that is important if you want to do a degree) "He did badly in school; he got three Ds and a U. But now he's a pretty successful businessman, he owns his own restaurant." Examples of the second: "How many 'a's are there in abracadabra?" Hope this helps.
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    January 30, 2016
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    put on ice - postponed. Or killed. in the doldrums - depressed or unhappy. You can also say 'down in the dumps' or 'feeling blue'. like greased lightning - fast. Sometimes as a negative meaning. in a fog - confused a windfall - ANY sort of unexpected good luck, usually involving something tangible like money or a promotion. put a wind up - [[put the wind up]] - too feel a little worried. Hardly ever used nowadays. blue skies - while it does mean 'optimistic', this isn't entirely true. When you say "And it's all blue skies from here," it means that you can't see any problems or worries in the future (usually about a specific situation) because whatever problem you had HAS BEEN RESOLVED. So it's not exactly 'I'm feeling optimistic about something', it's more 'And now the problem is fixed, everything will be fine'. You can also say "And from here on it's clear sailing" ('smooth and easy', 'trouble free', 'easy', without difficulty') - always used with some form of 'to be'. Hope this helps. :)
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    January 30, 2016
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    Kind of. It would be better to say "This area is off limits to anyone *WITHOUT* a special pass." OR "This area is of limits to *THOSE WITHOUT* a special pass." The subject of the sentence is actually the 'special pass', so you can use 'without' perfectly fine as you don't actually need any sort of pronoun in it. That said, 'anyone' *is* a pronoun, though you can omit that too, with further rewriting (see below). Examples: "If there's anyone without a waterproof coat, please make sure to borrow one, as tomorrow we're going rafting." "You can't enter without a ticket." "No entry without a special pass."/"This area is off limits unless a special pass is provided." "No admittance without an accompanying adult for those under fifteen." Hope that helps. :)
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    January 30, 2016
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    Second insription [[ - All words in the title should start with a capital except for words like 'and', 'of', 'the' and 'to'. I have no idea what ''insription'' is meant to be. 'entry' perhaps?]]

     

    Hello everyone :)


    Today was a good ((OR nice)) day because I had a day off work. - [[Instead of 'This day' use [['today' when talking about things that happened to you that day.

    [[nicy - 'nice'

    [[i - in English the word 'I' is <em>always</em> capitalised.

    [['day' is singular (only one), so you need 'a' in front of it.]]

     

     

    So I spent my time on learning English grammar, math and programming C++. [[ - past tense of 'spend' is 'spent'.]]

     

    I think math is very hard but I want pass exam. [[ - Instead of 'For me', use 'I find' or 'I think' because you saying how you feel about something.

    [[When using 'want + [verb], you need to use 'to': 'I want to play.' 'They wanted to go home.' 'Do you want to help me?']]

     

    I was very upset when must trening next example. [[ - This is confusing. I don't really know what you mean, but I think you mean something like 'I was very upset when I found out that I had to sit another exam', but I don't know.]]

     

    I guess that some day I will be able to say that "I passed". I would like to pass before I travel to Prague. [[ - 'some day' means it will happen in the future, so you need 'will'.

    [[ With like + [verb] you need 'to': 'I like to eat apples'. 'We like to sing.' 'You thought you would like to eat a spider every day?!']]

     


    I was there a year ago and I feel that it is my favourite city. It reminds me of good restaurants and warm pizza with the taste of ballantine in fresh air. ) [[ - The word 'I' should always be a capital.

    [[''lovely'' is about how something looks, sounds, feels or taste. To say that you really, really like Prague more than any of city you say 'favourite'.

    [[pizzy - 'pizza']]

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    January 11, 2016
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    January 11, 2016
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    Some Methods to Learn English - [[In English all words in titles except 'to', 'and', 'of', 'the' and a few others start with a capital/big letter.]]

     

    I found some methods to help people to learn English - instead of 'in learning' we use 'to learn'. In English, all the names of languages start with a capital letter: Chinese, French, English, Arabic etc.]]

    1. Find out your English level.

    2. Find a good English learner's book, a good English teacher or a good teaching english programme [[UK]]/program [[US]] for your English level. [[- 'kind of' in English is slang of 'sort of' or 'so-so'. Hopefully you want a <em>good</em> book to help you learn! :P When talking about books to help you learn a language or topic we call it either a 'Teach Yourself' book, or (with languages), simply a 'grammar' book.]]

    3. Repeat a lesson sometimes as much as three times untill you almost understand it. [[ - 'sometimes' is one word', 'as much' means 'as many as'. I know the number is correct, but if you sit an exam or have to write a formal essay/letter you need to use the words.]]

    4. Use English in as many different ways as you can. [[ - By saying 'such as talking, reading and writing in English' it sounds like you're repeating yourself. The corrected way is sounds more natural to a native English speaking person]]

    5. Persist in learning English.

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    January 11, 2016
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  • Corrected

    Bind Guardian


    I am a fan of the band Blind Guardian.

     

     

    [[blind guardian]] - In English all names (cities, bands, people, books, movies etc.) start with capital letters.

    [[i'am]] - All sentences start with a capital letter.

    [[i'am]] - Either 'I am' or 'I'm'. 'I'm' is short for 'I am'.

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    January 11, 2016
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