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こんにちは！私の名前はジャッキーです。はじめまして！ 私は日本語を学んでいます！ 私の日本語は貧しいですが、私はより良くなりたいです！ だから私に日本語を教えてください！ 私は英語であなたを助けようとします！ Hello there! I am a native English speaker, born in the US, and checking out this site to see if it will help me accomplish a long term goal; to speak Japanese fluently and sign comfortably in ASL. I'd love to find friends who share a similar goal as me. Be that person an English speaker learning the same languages as well or vise-versa! I am learning Japanese to possibly make it into a profession, as a teacher or a translator, but I also want to learn just because I desire to know how to read and speak the language comfortably. I like watching movies, reading novels, and sometimes comics/manga too. I'm not a fan of sports, spicy food, or the ocean... the deep unknown scares me. I am really into art to the point that I draw as a profession. It is my way of income. I really like music! I even used to play the flute and piano.
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  • Commented
    This is a interesting discussion one that I have had with myself before. Though, I think I have read a blog on it once as well. I've also thought about how to practice speech and how to improve it and I feel the answer is simple but then I also feel it can be difficult at times. Speaking the language you are learning on a daily will indeed help you adjust and improve - that is the simple answer. It just makes common sense but not a lot people can do that. I also recommend that you have someone who is native or fluent to talk with. You know, just in case you are expressing the phrase/word wrong. You don't want to build any bad habits for those are hard to break. Then comes the difficult part; finding said language partners and time to practice.

    I know some even prefer listening to audio books and practice reading. Like you have mentioned above; even reading out loud. (Again I recommend having someone to listen to you that would be able to point out mispronunciations.  )

    Learning any skill be that an instrument, a craft, or language will take four key components; Study, practice, repetition, and determination.
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    November 26, 2016
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    They are not the same. I met him once can be used as past tense. Met is a past tense of meet. Or can mean that you only met him one time. You may meet him again. I met him for the first time is meaning that you just met a person. It doesn't exactly mean you wont meet them again unless you choose that.
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    November 26, 2016
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    Using the words: I appreciate it or My pleasure in Japanese? I know that in Japan people are very humble and respectful, always trying to be polite, in most cases. I also know that customs that take place in America do not in Japan; such as holding a door open for a lady to give example. So I was wondering, is there a word in Japanese that is used similar to "I appreciate it" or "My pleasure" ? If so is it weird to use? How would you use it? Or would that be odd to say? Should be completely taken out of dialog? So forth?
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    Shuji:

    That is very true that dropping 「です」「ます」「ください」「ですか」 would make it even more casual. I didn't consider that though I did know of it. Learning from text books sort of implies that we must use those to create a proper sentence so I believe that is why I didn't think about dropping them altogether. Simply because my mind has created them; 「です」「ます」「ください」「ですか」as needed particles (?). Are they consider particles?
    As for the English question; either way works. Close friends or family // close friends or in a family. I personally feel the "friends or family" sounds better but both can be used.

    Thank you for the alternatives! I appreciate them. =)
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    November 26, 2016
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    correct these sentences please.

    My son is hooked on Super Dragon Ball Heroes.
    It is the arcade card game.
    I take him to the shopping mall to play the game on the weekends.
    I don't know what is fun about it, but he is looking forward to the next time he can play the game.

    Another option on how to express this:
    My son is hooked on a arcade card game called, "Super Dragon Ball Heroes".
    I don't honestly know why it is fun but I still take him to the shopping mall to play the game on the weekends regardless.
    My son is always looking forward to playing the game which seeing him happy makes me happy.
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    November 26, 2016
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    My the three best friends.

    My the three best friends are Sveta, Lesha, and Vita.
    Lesha and Vita live in Murmansk (I live in Murmansk too) so I see them often.
    But I meet with Vita more rarely less often than Lesha though because of Vita studies in a Musical college.
    She is a pianist and she takes her studies seriously. She studies a lot and hard.
    I love comunicating  *communicating "face-to-face" but my other friend, Sveta, lives in St. Petersburg and  so we mostly communicate with  through onlain  *online messaging.


    I hope that helped. I tried to make it sound more fluent while also fixing some grammar and spelling.
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  • Commented
    Here is a link to an interesting website that shows video's of a transfer student from the first day in class and onward. Like making friends, shopping, conveying feelings, etc. In this website, below the videos, you can study key vocab and also read along in kana, romaji, and English - since the video audio is in Japanese only. Home page: https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/ - First episode: https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/lesson01/basic/index.html
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  • Commented
    Thank you for the article, it really helped!
    Some of these I would of never considered and vise-versa.
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    November 26, 2016
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  • Commented
    Another way I learned their characters; Hiragana, Katakana, and kanji - was through app games you can download on your phone. Most are free though some do cost a small amount of money, or in game purchases. One I recommend for learning hiragana and katakana is Dr. Moku ( http://drmoku.com/ ). It is pretty good app for memorizing and also practice reading. Another app I recommend is memrise (http://www.memrise.com/ ) It can be used on computer and on phone.

    As for advice in speaking. Listen to audio of many different genres. Music, tv shows (anime or drama). Youtube is stock full of "how to say" in Japanese vids. I recommend this channel: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ox9NuTHYeRys63yZpBFuA )
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  • Commented

    Albert:

    They mean the same. They are used colloquially.

    Ja(jaa) means like "then". "Mata" means see you. So "Jaa matane" means - then see you or then bye.
    "Ne" is used to make a sentence sounds softer.
    eg: きょう は てんき が いいです。
    きょう は てんき が いいですね。

    There is also
    Jaa mata, Jaa matane, Jaane, matane, Dewa mata...etc.
    They mean the same like "see you" or "bye".
    ("Dewa" sounds more formal than "ja" or "jaa".)

    Note: if you use Good bye! - Sayonara! さようなら！- it should be used when you know you wont see that person again in the same day or anytime soon. (At least that was how I was taught the use of it)

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    November 25, 2016
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