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Stomach check up!
I just / recently had my annual medical check up. I was lucky enough to have it done at a clean and new hospital whose doctors and nurses are nice and kind. It was my first time to have the inside of my stomach checked with a cable camera. There were / are two options. First, to swallow the cable camera. Second, to have a doctor insert the camera from the / your nose. I chose the second option, as I thought it wouldn't be so painful. But it turned out that the path between my nose and mouth is (too) narrow. It was painful and I was bleeding. The doctor told me not to swallow saliva because it caused us (me?) to cough. (...told me not to swollow because it would make me cough) Then I kept it dropping. << Somehow, I was able to swollow it down, etc (sorry for the grossness!) It was so painful and that I was crying and about to grab the doctor's arm. But I was able to stand (stand it / endure it) for 20 minutes. Turns out that, luckily, there is nothing wrong with my stomach. The doctor advised me to swallow the camera next time. (the doctor advised that I swollow the camera next time as well) However, I thought I didn't want to do that and I didn't want to even think about next time. (I don't even want to think about doing that again though, and I really hope there won't be a "next time!")0 votedMarch 2, 20181I am a clerk. My main job responsibilities are wrapping, announcing (announcing what?), telephone operating (OR; operating the telephone), complaint handling (or: handling complaints), and tax refunds.
I always train wrapping and tie a ribbon ribbon tying within one minute. We measure the time and report to my boss.
I live in Tokyo. A lot of customers always say "I'm in a hurry, can you do it faster?" (or: customers are always saying "I'm in a hurry...)
I wonder you can do it faster than I (already) do.
I don't like harassment. I always think that people should buy their gifts earlier.....I agree! Nobody has an excuse to be rude, even when they are in a hurry!
0 votedMarch 2, 20181Pulling out my wisdom teeth
Yesterday, I got my wisdom tooth pulled out. As I am allergic to some type of anesthetic, so there was considerable fear involved. Last summer, I had my allergy checked for anesthetic at a big general hospital, so I already knew that the anesthetic used by that dentistry was okay. However, I still can’t get rid of the intense fear I felt when I first experienced anesthetic shock at the dentist.
My tooth extraction was done with special consideration. The dentist pulled out my teeth while measuring blood pressure and oxygen concentration. My blood pressure was getting very high; up to 190. I was so scared. I breathed deeply many times, and was finally able to lower my blood pressure. Then the dentist was able to start using anesthesia. After that, I didn’t feel any pain at all when I was injected anesthesia or when he/she pulled out my teeth, and my extraction was finished safely. The dentist gave me antibiotics and medicine for pain relief. But I have no pain now (OR: But I didn't have any pain), so all I have to do is to drink antibiotic tablets for 3 days (in English, we only "take" tablets and pills, but can either "drink" or "take" liquid medicine) Now I am relaxed and get back to peaceful everyday life.Take care of yourself! Get well soon!
0 votedMarch 2, 20180About Japanese food #15 February 27
Do you know tempura? Have you heard of tempura?
*It is made of wheat and various foods. types of fish and vegetables.
The foods covered with batter is fried in oil. *Tempura is Japanese fried fish and vegetables.
A Japanese famous famous Japanese shop serves freshly-fried tempuras in front. (There is a / there are many) famous restaurants in Japan that serve freshly-fried tempura at the front of their shop.
The hot tempuras is very delicious.
We eat them with salt and soup.YUM!
0 votedMarch 2, 20181Dear ____, this is Thomas. I am writing because I have a slight issue with the accommodations that have been arranged for me. Although I had stated my preference to live alone, I was given a place with three roommates. Because I am renting this room for my studies at the university, I find that having several roommates is a little too noisy for me to focus on my work. I realize it might be difficult to find a new room at such a busy time, but I wonder if it might be possible to switch to a double room instead of the four-person living situation? On another note, the refridgerator in my current house seems to be broken. Would it be possible to have someone come out to look at it?
Thank you for your time and effort,
I look forward to hearing from you,
Thomas.(good luck Tomoaki!)
0 votedMarch 2, 20181City of YOKOHAMA
I would like to introduce my city, YOKOHAMA, so please correct my sentences!横浜について説明したいのですが
英語の文章添削お願いします！
YOKOMAHA is famous city. It has a / The city has a harbor and amusement parks and a chinese city. OR: Yokohama is a port city that is famous for it's theme park and China town. / Yokohama is famous for it's harbor, amusement parks, and China town.
And the park in Yokohama is a famous place of date spot!
When it's sunny, I often go to the park and spend slowly time as reading a book or talking with my friends . << to spend time leisurely reading books and talking with friends. OR to read books and enjoy my time with friends.
横浜は港町で、テーマパークや中華街などがあってとても有名な場所です！その中には大きな公園があり、そこはデートスポットとしても有名です。天気がいいと私はよく、そこの公園でコーヒーを持って本を読んだり、友達と話したり、ゆったりとした時間を過ごします。
I live in Yokohama too! I haven't been to the famous date-spot park yet, but it sounds really fun!
私も横浜に住んでいます！そのデートスポットとして有名な公園は、まだ行ったことないが、楽しそうです！0 votedMarch 2, 20180About Japanese food #16 March 2
Do you know Have you heard of the (Japanese) rice ball? 自然: Have you heard of onigiri?
*It is made of rice.
*It is shaped rice into triangles and cylinders.
*There are many kinds of rice ball （「おにぎり」を使っても大丈夫と思います） filling.* It's made of rice, shaped into a traingle, and has many kinds of fillings.
I like bonito flakes, kelp, and tuna with mayonnaise.
Recently, tuna and mayonnaise is the most popular in the rice ball filling.
What’s your favorite rice ball filling? (What's your favorite? What's your favorite onigiri? What kind of onigiri do you like?)My favorites are umeboshi and ikura. yum! ^ ^
0 votedMarch 2, 20181Imagery in Foreign Language
I read some (or: a few) articles about the different mental imagery found in foreign languages.
It says shortly One of the articles briefly stated / or One of them claims that you can’t get vivid imagery for things which are expressed in a foreign languages.
For example, if I was told, "Hey, Chizuko. You are ugly, nasty and nobody likes you." in English, my second language.
Next, if I was told the same thing in Japanese, my mother tongue. (you can also connect these sentences for better flow "if I was told, and then told the same thing..." This is a general "if this, then that" rule)
In which language can I get vivid imagery and which harms me more?
Answer is, it's in Japanese. English gives less imagery. (...because it's not my native lanuage)
The article says that this causes people are, therefore, more likely to make immoral decisions when speaking foreign language (because...). I disagree with it. Behaving immoral is not made by languages. It's made by your mind. People know what is moral is. It does not depend on languages.
From the different aspect (assuming the article was correct, however, / Looking at this argument from the positive side) I'd like to write ask an interesting question.
Let’s see opposite, positive expressions, for example, if I was told, “Chizuko, you are nice and pretty.” in English. Next, if the same thing was told in Japanese, how would I feel?
Interestingly, I feel the same. I get vivid imagery from both. They are accepted as compliments. There isn’t a different impression between those languages.
Why?Very interesting! I'd say vivid imagery is sensory imagery, and therefore recalls some sort of color, sound, scent, or emotion etc. If I hear you are nice and pretty in both Japanese and English, I can easily understand the depth of words because they are broad terms that don't have a deeper meaning. So I don't think they're quite words of "vivid imagery." If you were to use an image to convey the meaning of HOW pretty someone is, it becomes much more abstract and difficult to comprehend in a foreign language because you may not have the same cultural association with that image. For example, if someone says "you're pretty as a picture" in English, does it mean anything in Japanese? It probably makes no sense!!
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