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はじめまして、杰森と申します。米国から来ました。趣味は柔術です。そして、食いしん坊です。これから日本語を一所懸命勉強したいと思います。宜しくお願い致します！ Hello! I am a TESOL instructor and native English speaker from the USA. If you're looking for practice or help with English, feel free to contact me! I've been teaching myself Japanese since January 2018 (I'm around N4 right now), and have dabbled in various other languages including Chinese, Spanish, French, and German. At the moment, I'm really focused on Japanese, but am also very interested in honing my skills in Mandarin, or maybe picking up some Taiwanese! If you'd like to study together, I use Line and Google Hangouts.

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Sae

Japanese

Feb 26, 2021

Jaysonさん、今日もありがとうございました！とても良い website ですね！Jayson さんの助けになりたいです！がんばります(^^)/

Sae

Japanese

Feb 8, 2021

Jayson さん、ありがとうございました！今日もよく話せていました！お仕事がんばってください(^^)

Sae

Japanese

Jan 22, 2021

Jayson さん、ありがとうございました！今日は、日本の物語を読みました。 I think reading is a great way to improve your ability to make sentences so keep it up and I’m happy to help you anytime!

Sae

Japanese

Jan 5, 2021

Jayson さん、ありがとうございました！冬休みの間、日本語を話していなかったそうですが、今日はよく話せていたと思います。いつも楽しいです😊

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Reconstructive surgery is a field of medicine which includes the treatment of distortions arising from congenital defects, malignancies, <s>and </s>any injuries, or burns. The most common reason why such surgeries are undertaken is to make a patient’s organs work properly again. Sometimes the desired goal is to make a patient look more casual, acceptable, and non-distinctive in <s>the</s> a crowd. <s>The</s> Specialists usually take care of breast reduction, <s>scars and tumors removal</s> the removal of scars and tumors, or wound treatment and injuries.

Great writing, just a few details to focus on:

<ol><li>Watch out for articles, both definite and indefinite (a/the). These can be super tricky in English!</li><li>When listing things, pay attention to the difference between AND and OR. Also, when making a list, make sure to correctly use commas. For example: "I like to eat nuts, fruits, vegetables, and cheese" means that I like to each all of these things, but "I like to eat nuts, fruits, vegetables and cheese" sounds more like I like to eat vegetables and cheese together. </li></ol>

Keep up the great work!

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June 8, 2020
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May 28, 2020
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I have always been fascinated with Cantonese.
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May 28, 2020
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Are you trying to set up trial lessons or just sending them messages? If you're trying to book a trial lesson, they will definitely respond within 48 hours. If you're just messaging them, and they happen to already be very busy with paying students, then I think you'll have a harder time getting their attention. My suggestion is to find teachers with decently priced trial lessons (they can be as low as $1) and use the time during the trial lesson to figure out if they're a good fit or not.
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February 21, 2020
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"I'm not glad with what happened" (which by the by would sound much better when phrased something like "I'm not happy with what happened") is a statement about your displeasure with something. "I'm not comfortable with what happened" gives less a sense of displeasure and more a sense of uneasiness. The difference is that when something makes you uncomfortable (or uneasy), you might feel your skin crawl, your belly ache, the hair on the back of your neck stand up, etc. An example that comes to mind is holding a large spider in your hand. For most people, this is not a comfortable experience. It might also make people unhappy, but that's a separate feeling. When something makes you unhappy (or not glad), you feel angry or upset. When someone cuts you in line, you're not happy, for example. I hope this clears things up!
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February 21, 2020
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February 21, 2020
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My language learning motivations have definitely morphed over time. When I was younger, exploring different languages was something I did because it was fun and interesting. I wasn't particularly motivated (save for when I'd travel), and so I honestly never made much progress. But now that I'm older and I have kids who are <em>very quickly</em> becoming more fluent than I am in multiple languages, I find myself putting a lot more effort into learning and making much more progress. Basically I'm in a race to keep up, whereas before I was just on a leisurely stroll with no destination in mind :D
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February 18, 2020
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I would DEFINITELY prefer to master 4 languages. A skill set like that is almost priceless :)
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February 18, 2020
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Should Minister Guedes Mind His Words?

A few days ago, the minister of economy of Brazil, Paulo Guedes, got himself into a polemic when he said that it is good that it is expansive for Brazilians to buy dollars because, when it was cheaper, even housemaids were traveling to Disneyland more than once a year.
Guedes is a <s>strongman to</s> [I think you meant to say "important figure in" here instead of "strongman to"] President Bolsonaro's government. In fact, part of <s>his</s> [Bolsonaro's] success in the 2018 presidential election was thanks to the announcement that Guedes would be his minister.[end the sentence and start a new one] <s>since large part of the society saw in him the opportunity to</s> [Many Brazilians thought that Guedes could help] improve the Brazilian economy[,] which has still been suffering the effects of its worst recession [in decades? add a time frame].
That was not the first time that Paulo Guedes made polemic statements. Not long ago, he said that public servants were a bunch of parasites and that President Macron's wife was ugly.
All the statements were targets for criticism. However, it's very unlikely that <s>something changes </s>[things will change], since Bolsonaro's government is made of polemic facts. The president himself has made his fame over controversies. So, the most likely [scenario] is that we will have more statements like this in a near future.
Currently, Brazilians need BRL 4,70 to buy 1 USD.

This was written pretty well. Most of the "corrections" I made were just attempts to help your English sounds a little more native. Also, while your use of commas isn't necessarily incorrect (I myself am guilty of often overusing commas when I'm trying to suggest to my readers how I want my prose to sound), it does come across as being in a style that is somewhat out of fashion.

... oh, and one more thing that really stuck out to me was your use of the word polemic. This is a great word, but it really isn't a word that is commonly used (in my reading, at least). Maybe instead of using polemic over and over, try using a synonym here and there.

Anyway, great job! Keep up the amazing work :)
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February 18, 2020
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It's an interesting phenomenon.
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May 7, 2019
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