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Hi! I'm Kari, from New Mexico, US. I know English and am learning other languages (mainly Korean and Japanese, presently) in my spare time. I love languages - learning them, comparing them, hearing them - and I want to be able to explore the possibilities that learning more presents me. I'm an undergraduate student and spend much of my time studying for various technical classes or sustaining my part-time jobs, but I'm trying to squeeze in as much time for languages as I can! I'm hoping to find people to talk to, share in different kinds of cultures, and possibly help me or let me help them. Once I have a more stable life (if even in a year or two) I will be taking more advantage of the lesson options available, but I'm not yet stable enough financially to be able to do so.
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    How do I say "to walk east"? My kanji textbook told me that 東の方 means "eastward" or "the way of the East". So, in that case, could I say 東の方に行く to mean "to walk east"? If not, how else would I say this? Also, how else can I use the phrase 東の方?Edit: Oops! I meant "to go East", not "to walk East" (hence 行く). I'm so sorry.
    July 21, 2015
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    For the first sentence, do you intend to use past tense? Because "once too often" implies either past or future tense. I don't know if I've ever seen it used in present tense. That doesn't mean it's wrong, necessarily, so if anyone thinks otherwise, please let me know. If you mean to use past tense, I recommend using "watched" instead of "watches". If you mean future tense, "will watch" may be better. As for the second sentence, it's grammatically correct and makes complete sense. Although, the typical phrase used for heating hands or other body parts is to "warm" the hands, not to "heat" them. Saying "to heat his hands" makes sense, but "to warm his hands" sounds more natural. The third sentence sounds great! It seems natural, makes sense, and looks wonderful overall. I hope I didn't confuse you at all.
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    July 21, 2015
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    Watching a Movie Hello! I have a sentence I'm trying to make: "I watched a movie at the local movie theater." I have a general statement currently, but I don't know if it's right. For now, I'm saying 극장에서 영화 봤어요. Am I correct in this statement? Is there another verb/particle/noun I should be using or one I'm using that I shouldn't be using? I know that 보다 is "to see" but, in this context, can it mean "to watch"? Thank you so much!
    July 19, 2015
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    The answer to this, I think, lies more within the passage itself. The whole passage is in past tense. For example, "I didn't want to go back" as opposed to "I don't want to go back". In a passage where everything was already in past tense, "last night was..." just doesn't sound right to a lot of people. It blends in. Even though you specify that it was last night, the tense matches with everything around it and it sounds as if it's at the same time as everything going on around it. Therefore, to clarify that this is indeed in the past, it uses past perfect tense ("had been") instead of just past tense ("was"). If the rest of the passage was in present tense, you would only need past tense instead of past perfect. Does this make sense?
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    July 7, 2015
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