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During my PhD I travelled a lot, which ultimately brought me to Japan, where I fell in love with the country, the culture and the life there. After coming back to my hometown I started learning Japanese, which always drawn me in as I watched countless fan-subbed anime series. I am now studying kanji using WaniKani, and even though this helps me in getting the rough idea of what is written in Japanese it does not really help me in creating sentences or talking. I have been living in Japan since the end of 2017 and it helped me a lot, but I am still not good enough! If you'd like to work on your Italian or English I'll be glad to help.
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Kozo The Translator
Japanese
Nov 23, 2020
ありがとうございました！ロフトがある部屋はカッコいいですが、夏はとても暑いですね。これからは寒くなるので、暖かいでしょうか。風邪をひかないように気を付けてください。とても楽しいレッスンでした。またお会いできるのを楽しみにしていますね！
Kozo The Translator
Japanese
Nov 19, 2020
ありがとうございました！今日は「本」について会話をすることができました。「ダイヤモンドエイジ」を見てみたいです！とても楽しいレッスンでしたね。またお会いできるのを楽しみにしています！
Kozo The Translator
Japanese
Nov 16, 2020
ありがとうございました！イタリアの童謡が聞けてとても楽しかったです。またお会いできるのを楽しみにしていますね！
Kozo The Translator
Japanese
Nov 12, 2020
ありがとうございました！今日は「２０３６年問題」など、様々な事柄について会話をすることができました。とても楽しいレッスンでしたね。またお会いできるのを楽しみにしています！
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    How do you remember new vocabulary words?

    I am struggling with remembering new vocabulary words.
    I am using a vocabulary notebook which that teaches me English vocabulary with sentences.
    In order to remember them I write and read them aloud many times, and I can remember them at the in that moment.
    However when I review them after a whilst while, I forget almost all cannot remember most of them!
    I know I need to use them in my daily life, but unfortunately I don't have any opportunities to use English.
    It seems time consuming, and I would like to know how you remember  vocabulary words.

    ========= Notes =========

    - In this case the word "words" suits the sentences better. "Vocabulary" is the whole set of words that are used by a language, it should be similar to the word "lexicon".

    - When you review words you cannot remember them (as do I with japanese words ;3;). Forgetting is an action that happens before reviewing. At a certain moment you forget the words, that's why you cannot remember them. It's like the moment when you forget your keys at home.

    ========= Comment =========

    Aside from those two corrections the text is very good, as usual! Keep it up like this.

    To help remember words I believe you could use tools that others suggested, like Memrise. Spaced Repetition Systems (SRS) are good, because they ask you to refresh the words just before you would normally forget them. After a while you won't have troubles in remembering them!

    Acutally, as you are already quite good with English I would suggest you to start doing the things you like in English, if possible? If you like to read buy some audio book from Audible and listen to them. If you like to play videogames set them in English. If you like movies set both audio and text in English. If you notice any interesting word just pause and use http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ or http://jisho.org to check what it means, This way the words you do not remember will passively stick after a while :D

    As always great job!

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    March 15, 2017
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    I am using WaniKani and it has been working perfectly up to now. Even though I had a moment of pause I managed to learn over 550 kanji. https://www.wanikani.com/ It's subscription-based, but the first three levels (there are ~60 with N2 placed at level 48) are free. I should warn you that it is a Spaced-Repetition System, which means it can be slow at start (you learn for the first time a radical and you have to repeat it for a couple days before the first kanji). If you are regular with it it can help you a lot! :D
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    March 7, 2017
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    March 2, 2017
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    蒙古タンメンは最高です！

    超辛いでも美味しいだ。

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    March 1, 2017
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    Andare incontro a quello che ti fa paura

    L'altro giorno, stavo parlando con un'amica che si laureerà l'anno prossimo. Così, le ho chiesto cosa voleva fare dopo l'università, e non ne aveva un idea. Dopo qualche minuto di domande incisive incalzanti, la mia amica ha ammesso, 'proprio non lo so e mi fa una paura da morire.'

    'Brava!' Le ho detto, 'se ti fa una paura da morire allora questo significa che stai facendo la cosa giusta.'

    Credo che tutti hanno abbiano paura all'inizio. Hanno paura di sbagliare, paura di commettere un errore, paura di fallire. Ci insegnano che è meglio non prendere rischi, è meglio fare solo quello nel quale in cui sei qualificato. Sii simpatico, resta comodo, e in cambio non avrai paura. Andiamo incontro al conforto, però con il passo di passare del tempo quella zona di conforto diventa una specie di apatia. Ogni tanto ci vuole un bello spavento per tornare al sul percorso giusto (ma questo è più facile a dirsi che a farsi).


    ========= Note =========

    1) In alcuni punti ho rimosso delle virgole. In italiano tendiamo ad usarle in maniera differente. Servono per creare delle frasi subordinate che possono venir tolte senza cambiare il senso della frase, oppure per gli elenchi. Siccome le virgole introducono una pausa nel parlato quelle che hai inserito creerebbero delle interruzioni che confondono i lettori. Ho provato a toglierle, vedi se ti piace di più il testo così.

    2) Ho corretto "hanno" con abbiano, in quella frase sta meglio il congiuntivo, in quanto è una tua opinione (che poi io sia d'accordo con te è un'altra storia ;) )

    3) Ho messo a posto un paio di forme, ma sono minori.

    Woh. Ottimo testo, sul serio. All'inizio mi ero chiesto se tu fossi italiana e volessi solo scrivere un articolo!

    Come avrai notato le mie note sono su cose veramente pedanti. Continua così e scriverai meglio della media della popolazione italiana :D

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    March 1, 2017
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  • Corrected

    Broken dishes

    Yesterday the dishes are broken broke.

    I felt that it like something bad might happen soon something bad things

    Because in my culture is thinking when it something like this happens it calls coming brings bad luck.

    ========= Notes =========

    - In the first sentence you are talking about "the dishes". Normally you would use "the" when talking about something you mentioned before. In this case you could use "some dishes" if more than one dish broke, or "a dish" if only one dish broke.

    - The action of breaking is instantaneous. In the first sentence the dishes broke in the past, even though they are still broken (as in they are not repaired).

    - In the second sentence you can use either "something bad" or "bad things", but not both together. Due to the fact that in English position matters (which is not so much the case in Japanese) you need to put it before the verb

    Good job and keep it up! :D

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    February 28, 2017
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  • Corrected

    Which laptop do you think is better to buy, windows or Mac?

    My laptop has finally broken after ten years of use, and I'm thinking about buying a new laptop.
    So, I want I would like to hear your opinions.
    Which laptop do you think is better to buy, windows or Mac?
    My main purpose of for the laptop is basically making creating/writing documents.
    I live in Japan, but soon I will live in Scotland for to study.
    I will bring it with me while I am at the university.
    My ex-laptop was a  FUJITSU laptop with windows with FUJITSU laptop, but I don't mind which brand I will use.
    I'm glad if you could check my sentences above and recommend the a laptop.


    ========= Notes =========

    - In your post you swapped the article in a couple of occasions. As I am learning Japanese at the moment I can understand why, as Japanese seems to not have any kind of article. The rule behind the use of [a] and [the] is that [a] is used every time you talk about a generic object from a whole (In this case you are talking about a laptop from the hundreds available on the market), while [the] is used when talking about a specific object (for example you might talk about a laptop with someone and then refer to it as "the laptop" as it's a specific laptop both of you know about)

    - In English there is a sentence structure, which uses the conditional of will (would) and can (could) that makes it a polite request. In the two cases above this construction is better to ask for a favour.

    - In the "Fujitsu laptop" sentence you inverted the order of the words. The meaning, in this case, that you bought a laptop that contained Windows operating system, not Windows that came with a laptop ;)

    ========= Laptop =========

    And now to the main part! :D

    I have used both Windows, Linux and Mac and I would advise you to buy a Windows laptop. There are quite a few Apple alternatives that are way more interesting and, possibly, they cost less. The best, in my opinion, is the Dell XPS13 (http://www.dell.com/jp/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC), which is a 13'' laptop, configurable and compatible with both Windows and Linux.


    That's my two cents. Good luck with both your trip to Scotland and your search of the best laptop for you :D

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    February 27, 2017
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