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I'm a Russian native speaker but have been living in Germany for the last 6 years. So feel free to contact me, if you need any help with any of those two. As to my hobbies and my personality, I'm interested in many many different things like politics, history, geography, current affairs, literature etc. I love almost everything about Japan and it's one of my biggest dreams to finally learn the language! Another huge dream is to become a conference interpreter, which I'm working very hard at every day. Overall, I'm very hard-working and very passionate about things I love, which makes me even more hard-working ;) But of course I also enjoy a good laugh, good company and meeting new interesting people. You can never know where you find a good friend!
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    The first one is the most common. A neutral sentence, nothing special

    The second one is used to achieve some suprise effect. The word order (till "nicht") implies that he doesnt work for money. But adding that "nicht" at the end of a sentence destroys expectations of a listener and creates some comic effect. I think I've heard similar sentences in English as well,  for instance "I like him.... NOT"

    The last one emphasizes that he doesnt work for money, BUT for something else,, so a listener would wait for additional info, like "he doesnt work for money, but because he loves the job/ his his principles/ his girlfriend also works there etc

     

    Btw, I would also say that the most common word order I heard  is "Er arbeitet nicht wegen des Geldes" and not "des Geldes wegen"

     

     

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    November 13, 2011
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    Ольга, я говорю по опыту. Дословно переводить может любой совершенно. I dont play guitar конечно переводится дословно "я не играю на гитаре". Но для любого носителя языка ответ i dont play guitar будет равнозначет "я не умею играть на гитаре"
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    September 25, 2008
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    I cann't play guitar. Or just "I don't play guitar"
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    September 25, 2008
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    I've found a couple of german bands, which I liked very much and so I got my motivation to learn German... :)
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    September 25, 2008
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    Yes, I'm rather fluent in german. But I live here for more than 2 years already
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    September 25, 2008
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    Try to read the book by Павел Санаев "Похороните меня за плинтусом". It's very easy and quite amusing.
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    September 24, 2008
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    What do you thing I must visit in Japan? Next year (2009) I'm going to Japan for a couple of months. Most of the time I'm going to stay in Kyoto. But what else would you recommend to see?
    September 24, 2008
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