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Hi there! Nice to meet you! I've been lucky enough to meet some really talented and kind teachers on italki. With their encouragement, I've been learning Japanese for the past 2.5 years. I'm dedicated to make Japanese a lifelong study. I'm a voracious reader. Right now, I'm reading Mizuki Shigeru's Book of Yokai (水木しげる、妖怪ファイル), a few titles from the 10分で読める series, and the Japanese version of Charlotte's Web (シアーロットのおくりもの). I also like to watch Japanese TV shows for listening practice. My favorite series are The Casebook of the Antique Bookshop (ビブリア古書店の事件手帖) and Galileo (ガリレオ). I look forward to the day I can read a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介) in original Japanese, and write my own short story in Japanese as well. My hobbies (beside reading) are eating, taking photos, and watercolor and digital drawing, My Instagram page is at http://www.instagram.com/kennethwongsf/
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🍁🍁MANA🍁🍁
Japanese
Mar 5, 2025
今日もむずかしい表現がたくさんある文章でしたが、一つ一つをチェックしながら文章わ理解することができましたね👏👏👏 この調子で次もがんばりましょう!楽しみにしています♪ありがとうございました😊
🍁🍁MANA🍁🍁
Japanese
Feb 5, 2025
今日は芥川龍之介の作品「地獄変」を始めました。 今回は昔の言葉づかいが多いので、読みにくかったと思いますがケンさんはすごくがんばりましたね💪 ありがとうございました!
🍁🍁MANA🍁🍁
Japanese
Dec 19, 2024
ついに夏目漱石の代表作「坊ちゃん」を読み終わりましたね👏👏👏👏 長い間、たくさんのむずかしい言葉や文法がある中、ケンさんはあきらめずに自分で文章を作ったりしてよくがんばりました! ありがとうございました☺️
🍁🍁MANA🍁🍁
Japanese
Nov 26, 2024
もうすぐ物語を読み終わりそうですね! ここまでケンさんはたくさん読んで例文を作りましたね👏👏👏本当によくがんばりました! ありがとうございました☺️
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    February 1, 2020
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    Self introduce

    Hi, nice to meet you.
    My English is not very good(I’m still a beginner at English), but I'll try my best.

    I was born and raised in Fukuoka until the age of 22.
    Then, I moved to Tokyo for work.
    After that I worked for 10 years, and I got married.
    I'm a homemaker now, because I'm raising two children:
    a 3-years-old boy and a 2-years-old girl.
    Child care Raising children is very tough, but it’s happy the life with children is a happy one.
    I'm hoping to get back in the my old job when my children become old enough.

    I've been working as a creative director until got marriage.
    I was designing smartphone apps and social games design.
    The work was really hard but rewarding.

    I'm good at drawing.
    I've always drawn pictures since childhood.
    In high school and university, I spent a lot of time drawing pictures and studying computer graphics.
    My best times were spent drawing. Time spent drawing were the best, because That's why I feel relaxed when I'm drawing pictures.

    That is.Thank you.

    素晴らしい作文でした. 私の趣味も絵を描くことです. 頑張ってね.

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    January 28, 2019
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    "Kelly has a knack for painting" means "Kelly is naturally good at painting / she doesn't need a lot of training or lessons; she's just good at it naturally."
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    January 16, 2019
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    Japanese restraunt Restaurant

    Currently, I am working at a cafe also in the evening. I am also working at a Japanese restaurant.

    Both work places are located nearby  my flat.

    It happened Last night, this happened at the Japanese restaurant.

    A pair of customer ordered hot meal and cold meal at the same time. (They didn't mention which would be a starter. Also, the cold meal which they ordered was a kind of main meal.)

    As the restaurant was too crowded, hot meal was served first.

    A The chief  chef who was in charge of cold meals got a lot of orders, so he took a long time to prepare make it.

    Then the customer called me and started complaining about our service.

    She was saying that the cold meal had to be comes should have come first, but even though they finished their hot meals and waited and waited, still the cold meal hasn't still had not been served!!!

    I didn't take their order and wasn't sure what's going on. So all I could do was just apologize to the customer and confirmed the order.

    I didn't know what to say to them because in Japan, It the order of the meals doesn't matter to serve in order(except course  as long as the meals are served).

    While I was thinking what to say, she said "Oh maybe you don't understand me" to me with upset look.

    I said to her "We should have served you cold meal first." She said "YES!"

    If I could speak English better, perhaps she wouldn't had have been this upset like this.

    I thought I was used to working as a waitress but need to level up improve my English and have to manage whatever happens.

    [いい作文です。がんばってね。 --Kenneth]

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    December 14, 2018
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    Sounds quite natural to me. That's how native speakers would say it or write it.
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    June 22, 2018
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    Dear Zar Zar:

    I hope these corrections help!

    --KW

    (僕も日本語が好きです!)


    When I decided to learn Japanese, my Sensei asked me why you I wanted to learn Japanese. for My answer was very simple -- I would like to upgrade my skills. That is totally true for myself. Right now I really love to learn learning Japanese language! 日本語すきです!

    By the way , My name is Zar Zar. I am from Myanmar (ミュアンマーじんです). Nice to meet all of you. I forgot to introduce myself. Sorry about that. I hope I can get along with all of you we can be friends.

    Thank you so much!

    Both English and Japanese correction are welcome !

    ほんとうに ありがとう [emoji]

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    June 22, 2018
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    June 22, 2018
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    The movie called "Joe Versus the Volcano"

    "Life is unpredictable. Live in the moment and appreciate what you have now." That's the lesson I learned from watching that movie.

    I watched the movie because my tutor advised me to watch it to improve my English skills. Besides, he knows that I like "Tom Hanks," who, I think, is one of the most talented American actors.

    Compared to the more recent films, the special effects were quite clumsy and the editing was not good as good.

    At any rate, here are my thoughts on the movie.

    In the movie, Joe has a lousy clerical job in a dreary factory. He works for an unpleasant, demanding boss. One day, he receives the bad news from his doctor that he has "Brain cloud." The doctor also tells him that he may only live for five or six more months, so he should go a trip.

    So Joe quits his job and asks a former coworker to go out with him. The next day, a business man comes to hire him for an assignment. According to their agreement, Joe can spend as much money as he wants, until the day he jumps into the volcano located on the tiny Pacific island of Waponi Woo.

    The residents of Waponi Woo believe that a God guards their island and they must please their God by sacrificing a man -- once every 100 years, someone must be thrown into the volcano. It's now, 99 years 11 months and 11 days since the last sacrifice. The business man wants a mineral essential for manufacturing superconductors from that island and the only way he can get that mineral is by convincing someone to jump into the volcano.

    The business man points out to Joe that he'll die in a useful way. He quotes the saying, "Live like a king and die like a man."

    Joe accepts the offer and starts his journey. Well! let me stop here because I want you to watch that movie and it would not be good if I tell you how it ends.

    I believe you will definitely get some valuable insights and inspirations from watching this film. Perhaps it might change how you perceive your life or how you see the other people.

    Yeah, if you ask me how the movie has changed my life, I'd say, it made me realize life is unpredictable, so I should live in the moment and appreciate what I have now.

    PS: any comment on my writing would be appreciated.

    (Great job! Keep writing!)


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    June 22, 2018
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    June 22, 2018
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    Hi Mis Lu! There are too many American terms for food and sauce. Perhaps if you tell me what kind of place you work at (for example, hamburger shop, breakfast place,  pasta place, crepe place, ice cream place), I can come up with a few useful words.
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    April 1, 2018
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