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Hello! I was born in Taiwan, but moved the US when I was seven, until now. (18+ years) English is by far my strongest language, but I speak Mandarin fluently as well, and can read a good amount. I grew up speaking English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese Hokkien. Later in my life, I took 4 years of Spanish in high school, and while I did forget a good amount of it, it seems to be quickly renewable, and I can read (my facebook is in Spanish). When I was 18, I set a crazy goal for myself - to learn 10 languages by the age of 30. (By "learn," here all I mean is to be able to have a "Decent" conversation with someone; no rigid metric here) That lasted about...a month. I discovered some cool language learning methods at the age of 24, and I'm now starting Japanese, and have been at it for almost a year now. Been having a lot of fun!
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  • Commented
    In Taiwanese almost every word changes tone based on its position in a sentence. So if you end a sentence with a word, you use the normal tone, but if the word is in the middle of the sentence, you change the tone. 
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    April 27, 2019
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    青春時代の初恋 今日は、晩ご飯を友達の家で食べました。友達が台所を貸してくれて、一緒に自分で作ったかつ丼を食べました。食事の時は、友達が話を言いました。この話をきっかけに…元カノのことを思い出しました。 彼女は私の初恋でした。六年間前に付き合ったけどなぜか別れました。この破局は私の人生の一番づらい事かもしれません。それから、思い出したの時は、悲しくなるはずだと思ったけど全然悲しくなかったです! [I wasn't too sure how to say this - "I thought I was going to be sad, but I wasn't at all."] 逆に、私は懐かしく嬉しいでした。友達から彼女の話を聞きました。今彼女は幸せになったと思います。医大に入って、親切といい彼氏が出来て…この気持ちはちょっと複雑けど私は彼女のためにつくづく嬉しいです。 初恋の事は、懐かしいですね?もし初恋の話が分かち合いたかったら、コメントを投稿してください!
    April 27, 2019
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  • Commented

    For all intents and purposes they mean exactly the same thing, but the difference is this:

    "I will be moving" means that you will be in the state of moving this month. In short: the state of the action being performed will happen during that month.

    "I will move" means that the entire action will occur during this month. So you're talking about the entire action as a whole, not the state of being in that action.

    And if that was confusing, you can completely ignore it because it's such a tiny detail it doesn't really matter :)

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    April 22, 2019
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  • Commented

    I strongly agree with Anna's advice! Everyone learns characters differently. I'll tell you a little about my experience, and maybe that will help you somewhat, but ultimately you'll have to find your own way. My advice would be to look at how other people try to learn kanji, try it yourself, see what works for you, or what adjustments you may/may not need to make.

    When I was learning Mandarin (it's my mother language) in elementary school in Taiwan, they had us just write the characters over and over again, but we would "spell" the characters using radicals. I learned all of the radicals, and this was somewhat more effective, because I was essentially just spelling bigger characters using smaller ones, but it still wasn't that good. Learn why the characters mean what they do in terms of its radicals. Wiktionary is great for this.

    After moving to America, I almost completely lost my ability to read Chinese until last year. My biggest revelation was learning the characters in compounds. Trying to learn individual characters (and, in the case of Japanese, all of the pronunciations at the same time), is inefficient in my opinion. I did this with Japanese as well; I can't tell you every pronunciation of all of the kanji I know, but I know how it's read in context when I see it, and sometimes I can guess.

    Use a flashcard system like Anki, and when it comes up, write it. Nothing internalizes it better than writing it, with correct stroke order. (or as long as you're consistent)

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    April 21, 2019
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    Building Vocabulary Fast:

    Get yourself a frequency dictionary. (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-Japanese-Routledge-Dictionaries/dp/0415610125/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+frequency+dictionary+of+japanese&qid=1555831713&s=gateway&sr=8-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-Japanese-Routledge-Dictionaries/dp/0415610125/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+frequency+dictionary+of+japanese&qid=1555831713&s=gateway&sr=8-1</a>) <---this is the one I use, get the cheapest edition possible. I love this one because it uses each word in an example sentence. Knowing just the first 1,000 words is enough to get me through weekly conversations with the Japanese exchange students my school in a wide variety of topics. The 5,000 words cover like 90-something% of daily speech.

    Here's a free one, but it only surveys online content, and not spoken Japanese: <a href="http://www.manythings.org/japanese/words/leeds/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.manythings.org/japanese/words/leeds/</a>

    Input these words into Anki with pictures and sound (from forvo.com) and you should be able to learn them very quickly.

    Building Vocabulary Effectively:

    There are essential vocabulary lists out there (I use this one, but cut the ones I don't care for at first <a href="https://blog.fluent-forever.com/base-vocabulary-list/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://blog.fluent-forever.com/base-vocabulary-list/</a>), so learn those first, then after that, pick subjects that you like to talk about, and learn all of the words that come up the most in that subject. For example, I know a lot of adjectives for food/cooking, and a lot about music/math, but I can't say much about politics, for instance.

    Message me if you want to talk more about this, I'm always game!

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    April 21, 2019
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  • Corrected

    Couch potato

    Many people are lazy. There are many difference different words for this: procrastination, lazy and joke - , jokingly, couch potato. But* this condition not typical for humans. Power of progress are activites. Activities have the power of progress. There are many differentce activities. Why anybody of us would Why would any of us like to stay in a lack of motion? May be it is step for a jump in a big life or another time for dreaming or thinking about your goals? Maybe it is a big jump between taking a step in life and dreaming/thinking about one's goals? I suppose, hat but this issue has not been investigated before. This is a topic for future research.


    *While not technically incorrect, it's better not to start sentences with "but." So maybe "This condition, however, is not typical for humans."

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    April 21, 2019
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    Thank You: Visiting the laboratory of ○○ university

    Dear Dr. ○○○,

    I am □□□, that acted as a your guide during your visit to the Laboratory at the University of ○○○.
    Thank you for visiting our Laboratory.
    Also, I hope that your visiting was useful to the (the development of/the advancement of?) sports science of in your university or country.

    Please contact me when you come to Tokyo again.
    Kind regards,
    □□□
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    April 21, 2019
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  • Posted
    進路の選択 子供の頃から、純情の時代から、ピアノを弾きます。 八歳の夏、母の友達の家にピアノがありました。あの時は音楽が大好きだったけど楽器を全然奏でれませんでした。それより、ピアノの音が大好きでした。 大人たち居間で喋れた時は、私はピアノを弾き見ました。 母の友人は「あなたの息子は天才だよ!」と言いました。実は、私はあまり天才じゃなかったけど、両親がピアノを買いました。 十五年間後、大学院の入学を申し込みました。でも、あの時は、数学が音楽もとっても好きでした。数学者と作曲家どちらにもなりたかったです。毎日勉強しましたが、毎日ピアノを練習しました、曲を書きました。 でもこの世界は、皆の進路が一つだけあります。 その選択は今まで一番難しい選択です。時々は音楽室に入って、ピアノを弾いて…辛く感じます。私は自分の音楽の半分が捨ててしましました。悲しいけどしょうがないですね… 他の半分が幸いになりました。数学とっても好きです!大学院生の機会にいっぱい感謝しています。 しかも、時々作曲家の人生を想像しています…
    April 21, 2019
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    会話アワー こんばんは! 今カリフォルニアには十一時です。 今日は楽しかったですよ!いろいろなことが起こりました。 最初、昨晩は「トドメの接吻」を見ましたからかなり遅く寝てしまった。(ハマってません!)それから、今朝全然起きられなかったから、大型遅刻をしてしまいました。ちょっと恥ずかしいでした。 学校に着いた時は…40分ほど遅れてしまった。でも今日は宿題を出さなければいけませんから、行かなければいけません。恥ずかしく教室に入って、教授は私に見かけられて、恥ずかしい空気がありました。こんなこと起こったのに、教授はいつも通り教えて続けました。 放課後には、ユーシーデービスの「会話アワー」に行きました。会話アワーは、日本人の留学生とアメリカ人の大学生が一緒に会話する活動です。楽しかったです!いっぱい留学生が会いました。趣味とか好きな食べ物とかアニメとかドラマなどについて話しました。 友達とよく喋りたいから、ペラペラになりたいです。
    April 17, 2019
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  • Corrected

    A logical and psychological.

    Logic and Psychology  (You can name it whatever but I think this title sounds more natural)

    This morning I have some was unhappy things with my father. Later I told my father, "when you are angry, could you please not shout so loudly? You can just explain to me. If I don't obey, you can force to me. I'm fine with that. But when you shout loudly, I really feel bad."
    But it is was useless because of my is father still unhappy. And he denies shouting loudly.
    Looking back, maybe my father was just being himself. My requirement  request can can be kind of limiting for him. [I can also use this kind of 'right method' to require me.]( <--I'm not sure what you are trying to say here, could you clarify in the comments? Thanks! (用中文也可以))

    The world is like a mirror to for showing yourself.* Your relationships with others are like resemble your relationship with yourself. [Behind your limits or demand]**, you treat yourself the same way. If you treat yourself with love and acceptance, the whole world will treat you with understanding and love, and you will treat the world with that as well.

    I support myself in my actions this morning. I will not use the 'method of kindness' to demand myself more more of myself. There is no right or wrong here. You can only follow your heart. Trust yourself and find look inside.

    When I write wrote down the that last paragraph, I felt as though I unwind unwound. 


    *This technically makes sense, but did you mean a "mirror for seeing yourself/oneself" ?

    **Not too sure what you're trying to say here

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    April 15, 2019
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