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I'm here to learn English and help other learners with Japanese. I appreciate all the people who help me with English. Thank you very much. Hanji is the name of a female warrior from Attack On Titan. It's not my real name. I love watching soccer and playing ping pong.
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Nikola
English
Sep 13, 2019
Thank you, you did great as always, this time rephrasing sentences and analysing the meaning of Sia's song lyrics. You came up with your own ideas that I hadn't even thought of. The time just flew by!
Irene Colthurst
English
Sep 7, 2019
A nice, natural discussion about iTalki and language learning.
Irene Colthurst
English
Sep 7, 2019
Good to meet you and discuss language learning.
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  • Answered
    • Hey Dog, guess what! This is not a frisbee. It’s the latest spaceship that you can ride on. •• Run after and ride on it, you can fly to the beautiful space. Ready? Go! ••• He’s gone. Great. Yahoo! I don’t have to care of him anymore. That’s a load off my shoulder. •••• I’m back! Bear! I’ve got company. It’s going to be fun!
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    April 17, 2021
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    . I couldn’t fish at all on Monday. .. I did a lot on Tuesday. ... What about today, Wednesday? .... The Crab said, “if I steal them everyday, he won’t fish here. Cutting it every other days is my secret. 3 baits are enough for fish to live for a day. Hey, Fish, take it easy today but watch out a bait on his string on tomorrow.”
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    April 14, 2021
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  • Corrected
    今日と昨日はなかなか忙しくて、絵を描けなくて少し後悔している。しかし、どんなに忙しくても少し時間を作って絵を描けるのに、何もせず一日が終わったのだ。いつも通り、やるべきことをやっていくなんてちょっと甘すぎるんじゃない。なぜなら、人間同士である俺も誘惑に負けてしまって、責任と義理を無視することがあるのだ。ちょっと不思議で、何となく情けないと思う。 ところで、今日は友達に久々に会った。だから、出かける前にちょっと格好を綺麗にしなきゃだめだと思って、自分で散髪し、ひげも剃ったのだ。すると、友達や人に会わないとあまり自分の格好を気にしないんじゃないとふと思った。とにかく、友達に会うために長く散歩することにして、8キロぐらい歩いたわけだ。その距離はあまり大したことじゃないが、今回には大変で足がちょっと痛かった。コロナのせいで、長く散歩することもほとんどしないから、足も弱くなっている気がした。 友達に会ってから、一緒にアジアスーパーに行くことになった。すると、俺が大福とカレーペーストを買って、とても日本のことを懐かしくなって、いくか日本に戻るといいなと思った。その後、友達の家に行って、夕ご飯を食べたり、映画を見たりしたのだ。別に大したことしなくても、とても楽しかった。自分の悩みや不安が瞬間的に忘れるから、友達に会ってよかった。そして、明日は少しでも絵を描けるといいね。
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    March 11, 2021
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  • Commented
    私も以前は男性の英語は聞き取りにくかったです。よく女性の英語の音で勉強していました。高い音の方が聞き取りやすいと思います。聞き取れない英語の音の仕組みが分かってきて、今は男女の音の差もなく聞き取れますが、やはり女性の声が聞きやすいです。日本語でも駅やデパートなどのアナウンスは女性の声が聞きやすいですが、聞く人の耳によるのでしょうか。みなさんはどうでしょうか。

    私の経験だと、発音指導は男性のネイティブ講師、英語圏の友人も男性、同僚もネイティブ男性、でも英会話レッスンは女性ネイティブ講師という具合なんですが、話し方で男言葉とか女言葉の差を感じたことはあまりないです。
    すごくカジュアルな会話になると男性だけ、または女性だけがよく使う単語とか、言い回しは多少あるのではと思いますが、これに関してはネイティブに聞いた方がいいですね。

    Osamuさん、がんばってくださいね!
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    March 12, 2020
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  • Commented
    ローレンさん、
    私はあなたと同時にコメントを書いていたようです。あなたのコメントによると、その論文(またはエッセイ)は学校で合格されたのでよかったですね。では、なぜ、tutorが多くの添削をしたのか。それはその文を読まないとわかりません。
    I was writing my comment as the same time as you. Your essay has accepted. Congratulations. Then why did the tutor correct it a lot? I don't know the reason.

    私の経験を書きます。
    私はItalki で500以上の英語の作文を投稿しました。いろいろな添削がありました。いろいろな添削文を読むにつれ、私の好きな英語の雰囲気があったり、私の作文が全く違うものになって驚くこともありました。本の編集を職業にしている人が添削したあとで、すなわち、プロが仕上げたにもかかわらず、その同じ作文を別の人がカジュアルに添削したこともありました。彼は違う英語の書き方を見せたかったのでしょう。

    Here is my story.
    I posted more than 500 notebooks so far and got various correction. (I appreciate all the help.) Reading those corrections, sometimes, I found my favorite writing style and, other times I was astonished that my essay completely was changed and I had no idea why he did. The most interesting one is that an real editor of magazines corrected mine and later on, even though the professional writer did, another man corrected it again in a casual writing style. It was fun to read the difference. I'm sure and the man wanted to show various English.


    あなたの日本語レベルならば、文が間違っているか否かより、文体の流暢さなどで添削・校正される場合があると思います。そのtutorもかなり上のレベルの添削をしたのかもしれません。もし、そうならば、喜んでいいと思いますよ。(読んでみないと事実はわからないですけど)

    Considering your Japanese level, I guess the tutor might have changed yours to flow well rather than pointing small errors. He might have wanted to give more sophisticated words. If it was so, you could be pleased. ( I'm not sure the fact unless I read it.)  

    そうは言っても、そのtutor とspeaking の練習ができなかったのは残念でしたね。私も多くのレッスンをitaki や外でも受けましたが、すべてが完璧だったわけではありません。これに懲りずに、日本語の勉強、speakingの練習をがんばってね!

    Having said that, I'm sorry that you didn't have time to practice speaking in the session because of the correction. I had many lessons on italki and outside as well. Some lessons were perfect and a few were not. 
    Don't be so disappointed with this experience, please.
     Keep up your practice!  



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    March 9, 2020
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  • Commented
    Hi ローレンさん
    I read your notebooks and I think you are advanced level so if you submit a paper at a university, it is better to correct it by someone who has experiences. 
    If three educated people correct your sentences, you will get three different expressions with their rich vocabularies. It is natural to see the more advanced the level, the more different correction contents vary from person to person. If you are a beginner, their corrections will be exactly the same. One more thing, I think that correcting the wrong words and proofreading, making the awkward sentences clear and beautiful, are two different kinds of instruction.
    Please ask them who corrected your sentences why they did, and you can learn more.

    ローレンさんのノートブックを読みましたが、あなたは上級者です。 もし大学で提出する論文ならば、その経験のある人が添削するほうがいいです。

    もし3人の教養のある人があなたの日本語の文を添削したら、3つの違う文体になるでしょう。上級レベルの語彙は豊富ですから違う表現になります。上級レベルになればなるほど、人によって添削の内容が違うのは当然です。もしあなたが初心者だったら、彼らの添削は全く同じものになります。

    そしてもうひとつ、あなたに知ってほしいのは、
    間違っている文を正すことと、ぎこちない文を美しい文に校正することは、違う指導だということです。
    添削した人に、なぜそのように添削したかを聞いて、いろいろな文体を学んでください。がんばってね。
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    March 9, 2020
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  • Commented
    Som, I agree with your mentioning that children deprived of early human contact grow up. I wrote a similar thing, "people would die due to the lack of love". At this point, we are on the same side.

    You write that our jobs will be stolen by AI. It's definitely true, it is not related to your topic, I think. If you want to say that AI is stealing our jobs so that we can not interact with AI, I'll say that the world of robots forces you to interact with them. It is a paradox. So this is not logical here. ( I can't write logical either though, sorry) It is another controversial topic next time.

    Believe the science-fictional scenarios or not, it is your preference. I'm not talking about films and science fiction novels. My point is, "Did you imagine that we could talk online 50 years ago?" 
    Science and technology have made lots of things happen. You are saying that you can't I can lend credence to. But you are using the part of it.
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    January 17, 2020
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    Som, if your assumption is about you or me, I mean, about people who know the warm hugging of humans, the way of interaction by only things except humans would be useless and people would die due to the lack of love.  
    What would happen if there was a person who doesn't know any human love? Let's imagine that a baby who doesn't have any knowledge of human and doesn't even know he is a human. He is raised by AI. What he knows is the only information from AI. How could he be upset or happy even if he talked with AI? He would be always fine.

    However, I don't think the baby's situation like the sience fiction will happen, but I'm sure humans will be able to live with robots. In reality, already, the world has even sex dolls that humans talk with. The helper-robots at hospitals are appreciated by the elderly.

     Som, you are asking, "what if those were the only things you had to interact with? No humans" Is this question logical?
    I'd like to ask you, "How would it happen? No humans - area? Where would it happen?" That's the question. 
    I'm enjoying this thread. Thank you, Som.

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    January 17, 2020
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    The other day, when I went to Sushi restaurant, AI robot welcomed me at the entrance. S/he said gently, "Welcome, how are you? how many people? Do you prefer the counter or the table?" The voice was very nice and the face doesn't any expression. I didn't dislike it at all. Rather than that, I felt good that I looked the near future of living with robots. My mental status was not bad at the time so I projected myself into it calmly. Thus, human might be able to have less emotion as well as robots if all the environments are taken place by robots.
    Is emotionless life good? it is a different topic from this thread.
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    January 15, 2020
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  • Commented
    Som, your question reminds me of some objects.
    A basketball of Willson. In the movie, Cast Away, Tom Hanks survived on an isolated island, talking to the basketball. 

    A Stain on the wall in an isolated cell of the prison. The criminal there looked at the stain on the wall as a victim's face that he had killed.

    Camp fire. A girl is scared of it because her house was burned when she was little. A boy is excited with the flame because he will have a game of football soon and he has fire in his mind to win.

    Why has the Hello Kitty been so popular in the world? The cat Hello Kitty doesn't have a mouth and her expression doesn't have any meaning. Because you can project your feeling into her face. If you are happy, Kitty looks smiling. If you are angry, Kitty looks upset. 

    Human can put your emotion into any object to survive. After all, your knowledge doesn't help that much to live, but controlling your mentality is the essential instinct in your life.
    Extremely speaking, this is possible in short span, but if the object is AI, the story would change and human would be comforted by robots, so I agree with Emily who posted the first comment.
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    January 15, 2020
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