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I am looking for Language partners. All are welcome - rich, poor, straight, gay, male, female, religious, non-believer, black, white, brown, yellow, red, blue, green, all are interesting to me. I don't have many chances here in Japan to speak other languages besides Japanese and English, so I want to keep my other languages going and even improve them. I am not offering my services on italki for money, but I am a professional English teacher here at a high school. I am also interested in chatting solely in English, simply because I'm starved of people with whom to have an interesting conversation. If you are a native speaker of English, or a non- native who can hold a reasonably sophisticated conversation in English, please get in touch - I would love to chat with you! Send me a message!
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  • Answered
    Hi Quin, It depends what you mean by 'properly', but foreign words/names are usually written in katakana, which in your case would be クイン. You can also have fun 'spelling' your name phonetically with various kanji. Henry
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    December 28, 2017
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    Hi Harrison, It would also be OK to use 'when' here. I understand the confusion caused by the word day, which of course refers to a period of time, followed by 'where' rather than 'when', but this phrase tends to generate a mental image of being in a a certain place, where we felt lonely even though surrounded by people, hence 'where'.
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    October 2, 2017
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  • Answered
    'Are you a Chinaman?' nowadays sounds dated and somehow a little aggressive. It's preferable to say 'Are you Chinese?' or 'Are you from China?' It's the same kind of thing for 'Are you a Frenchman?'
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    September 30, 2017
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  • Answered
    Yes, they are both correct!
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    September 30, 2017
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    Essentially the same. 'Roam' is a more poetic/literary word.
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    September 30, 2017
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    四人に一人 One in (every) four personS / people. 'on' は、間違いです。'every' は、言っても、言わなくても、どちらでもOKです。 五人に二人 Two in (every) five personS / people. Leeさんが言った通り、日常的にpeopleが普通です。複数の ’s’ を忘れないでね。
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    September 30, 2017
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  • Commented
    The pronunciation of 'women' is not 'we-men', but 'wimmin'. For this reason some feminists were using this spelling a few years ago, but it seems to have died out, mercifully.
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    September 30, 2017
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  • Answered
    The expression sounds very odd to me. I suspect it may be a misquotation.
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    September 30, 2017
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  • Commented
    OK! I joined italki a few days ago. What would you like to talk about?
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    September 30, 2017
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  • Answered
    Alternatively, 'what does your brother do for a living?' is also commonly used.
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    September 30, 2017
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