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- They're just two ways of asking the same question. I think that the former may be ever so slightly more formal, but the distinction's pretty mild. However, the second sentence ends in a question mark. That's colloquial. In Japanese, questions are formally written with periods.0 votedNovember 17, 20150
I started to learn Germany!
I love Germany since I feel like we have something in common, with it (you could also say, "I feel like I have something in common with it;" "with" means "as well") though I don't know what it is, lol. (The politics or the attitude, maybe?)
Here is what I have learned so far.
...And then the rest is German. Your English is very good, though. :)0 votedNovember 16, 20150I need more time!
During summer vacation, I was incredibly busy. I thought I would be able to rest more (while it's grammatically correct, "take rest" is an old-fashioned phrase; people usually just use it for phrases like "take rest in the shade" or "take rest under a tree") over the summer, but I had to give students a special summer course at my work place. I had so many things to do.
The summer passed, but we need to prepare for a speech contest next! I need to add practices to the normal curriculum. It's pretty hard because I have to replace some of the contents of the normal lesson. I don't want to cut out any more because the curriculum always has a lot of things that I need to do, which means that it's all very important stuff for students to learn. It's very difficult to decide what I should cut out. Halloween is coming, so I have to prepare for the Halloween event as well. More stuff to do!
Since I have some good language exchange friends, I want to communicate with them more and study English, but the time is limited. I need 36 hours of time every day!That all sounds very rough. Good luck!
0 votedNovember 16, 20151First notebook entry.
(A notebook is usually the book overall, or the ノート. A notebook entry is a piece written into the notebook.)
This is my first notebook entry.
I went to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles; people sometimes say license center, but DMV is much more common) to update my license today. I was caught for speeding before, so I needed to take a two-hour class on traffic rules (remember to say "a" or "the"; while "a class about" something makes sense, "a class on" something sounds a bit better). I felt it was very long and I got sleepy... The enlightening movie about traffic rules was playing. The story was about a happy family. The father was telling (outside of a church, preaching tends to suggest desperation) his son to be an honest person. The mother was expecting a second baby. They looked very happy. But soon after that, the father drove his car into a motorbike because he ignored the stop sign. Although the road was very familiar to him and he would usually stop there, this time, he didn't stop... Then, the driver of the motorbike was killed (died is a past tense verb, not an adjective, while killed is an adjective). His wife got sick because of it. He was blaming his fortune, but he didn't blame himself. His wife blamed him who didn't admit to his mistake. And she said, "We killed a person. We don't have the right to have a baby!!!" He also lost his job.
On the other hand, the victim's family did not accept his apologies. The victim had 2 kids. His wife thought that they had counted very much on the husband. She had to stay in a hospital because of the stress. Their kids were separated. The older brother went to a protective institution. Everything was crushed.
After watching the movie, I feel gloomy, because there were a lot of points that I couldn't agree with.0 votedNovember 16, 20152
