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I want to improve my English so I'd like to make friends with native English speakers. But anyone can contact me if you want to make friends with me. I can teach you Japanese too.
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    First notebook entry: Introducing myself

    はじめまして、サラです。日本語をべんきょう<em>しています</em>。私は、英語ができます。<em>一緒に</em>べんきょう<em>しませんか</em>?

    サ ラより。

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    July 9, 2010
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    you mean 絶好調(zekkouchou)? i think it means "couldnt be better". if you are not fine, i think you can say genkijanai or maamaa.
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    March 9, 2009
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    I think the explanation from mikity is more or less correct. I agree with her and my opinion is as follows. I haven't counted how many different endings there are but I'm sure that there are so many!! I think the best way to learn them is to imitate just same as we say and to be corrected when you make mistakes. I think verbs which end u sounds like 見る(miru), 聞く(kiku), or 話す(hanasu) are usually the basic forms of verbs. The ends must be changed according to what words continue after the verbs, when you do so or the events happen, whom you talk to, or etc. For example, 見ない, 見なかった, 見えない, 見たら, 見ると, 見て, 見ます, 見ました, 見た.....etc. I dont think you have to learn them by heart. You will come to be able to use them fluently after you use them many times and make a lot of mistakes. Just relax and enjoy talking with Japanse. Sometimes Japanse might laugh at your mistakes but it's ok because such mistakes are unforgetable so you would never make the same mistakes again. Just laugh together^^ huhuh When I visited Canada, I wanted to say "my mother was pregnant with me" but I said "I was pregnant". I didnt know how to say that correctly at the moment. My Canadian friend told me how to say it. We laughed so much lol, huhuhuh^^
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    March 7, 2009
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    We might use both but I prefer to use 初めまして. I have used it for a long time though I didnt know why. I thought it was because my Japanse sense told so but I checked my Japanse dictionary to confirm the truth. My dictionary says 初め emphasizes the begining of the time and 始め stress the begining of the event. We use 始め as in verbs like 始める or 始まる which means to start or begin something. We dont use 初める and 初まる as verb. So if you use 始めまして, I will feel that you started something or you and I will do something together after greeting. If you mean you met someone you've never met before and wanted to say how do you do or nice to meet you, I think you should use 初めまして. Dose this make sense? I hope this would help you.
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    March 7, 2009
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