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I've been studying Japanese for about 2 years, I'd like to improve both my speaking and reading skills in Japanese and thing that this would be a great way to do so. I'd also like to do a language exchange as I think that's the best way not only to improve my speaking but help someone else improve theirs! If you would like to do a language exchange with English & Japanese please let me know! ボビーと言います。26歳で学生です。専攻は言語学です。趣味は描くことです。よろしくお願いします。2年ぐらい日本語を勉強しています。 皆んなさん、英語を練習すれば連絡してください。私達は英語と日本語で話せます。 よろしくお願いします。 ボビー
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    Hi Andy, Do you have some context? The proper meaning is to grow weak, however an example might help more. We often see this word used in older contexts. For example a common thing you would see/hear would be "languish in agony" which would kind of mean to be in so much pain/agony you cannoy go on an give up. Its a difficult to explain but hopefully this helps with what you've found.
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    May 29, 2018
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    Hi David, As much can kind of mean the same, however I would say a better way to describe it as "equally". As for using as much, we generally use it when talking about or comparing quantities of close to or equal amounts, for example "How much money does John have?" "John has as much as Jane" To summarise, just think of as much and as much as, as different :)
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    May 29, 2018
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    It would depend what you are wanting to say, when we say Blue and Green house, it will often mean literally blue and green so some parts are blue and some parts are green.

    When we say blue-green or blue/green we wouls often mean a combination of the two so the house is one colour that is blue-green. In saying that the more natural way to say it is blueish green, greenish blue for example. We will add a suffix (-ish,-y are the most common) to show approximation. Blueish green would mean the colour is green with some blue in it and greenish blue would mean its a blue work some green in it.

    We can do this with all adjectives as well! Just be careful as this is mostly used in informal speech!

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    April 26, 2018
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    My is the "possessive adjective" so we use it always with a noun, where as mine is a <em>possessive pronoun</em> meaning we don't use with a noun, it's often used alone. An example would be "<em>This is </em><em>my</em><em> car" </em>vs <em>"This car is </em><em>mine</em><em>" </em> There isn't a different meaning however, using mine often has a stronger/less polite tone to it.
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    April 25, 2018
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    You can say "We had a fight and I'm not sure what will happen next" You can change not sure with don't know, but I feel "I'm not sure" has a more passive/softer tone to it
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    April 21, 2018
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    I would read them to have the same meaning, but tense is a strange word in that I naturally am inclinded to say "You are too tense" or "You are looking quite tense"
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    April 20, 2018
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    Hi there!

    Quite a difference actually! Modest often means humble and you don't show things off where as Stylish can be seen someone who is keeping up with current trends and looks good in the clothes and style :)

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    April 20, 2018
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    I think "retrace your footsteps" alone is ok. It has a notion that you're already going over something already done, so there isn't much of a need to include it :) I hope this helps!
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    April 20, 2018
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    I'm not sure about that.... my mind when hearing something looks or is visceral goes straight to gory or bloody.

    Viscera is where the word comes from which I understand is a word for guts/intestines in a casual usage. Visceral can mean that its relating to that. Do you have context?

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    April 18, 2018
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    I think English dialects are very evident in how we speak, accents and as you mentioned even vocab.

    I'm a native Australian English speaker and we have quite a different accent and vocab to other English speaking countries. A good example is how we say "er" at the end of words like Father, Mother, Water, Centre etc. If you're familiar with IPA we often end them with ə.

    Also the soft R, and our dipthongs are quite fascinating.

    From the history of Australian English, its quite interesting how all the dialects from England formed how we speak today. Especially considering now we even have 3 distinct accent/dialects now.

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    April 18, 2018
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