1/ All of his expectations have fallen through 2/ He fell through with his expectations “He failed to live up to his expectations” is most likely how we would describe this. “Not following through with his own expectations” would work. The idea of falling and expectations doesn’t go unless it’s something like “his expectations fell away” but that is more of a discarding of expectations rather the not meeting them. Alternatively 3/ All of his expectations/plans/dreams have gone to pot This is an old expression that means to lose something to neglect or distraction. Pot in this case is the slang for marijuana the drug and the saying suggesting someone trading their dreams and ambitions for their vice. This would work but it does sound a little dated to me. Additionally, it makes a little more sense to talk about someone else’s expectations/plan/dreams having gone to pot (particular expectations). Example: “my expectations for him have gone to pot”

Personally I would use “would ring”, but it’s not something that would be wrong either way and the meaning wouldn’t change very much either way. The difference is whether you are allowing for the idea that the bell might not ring. This is phrased like this is an on going request, has asked vs had asked, so the bell ringing is a future event, something we have limited knowledge of. We expect the bell to ring but the future is not certain, so we can show this uncertainty by saying “ would ring” or ignore it. Either way, it don’t effect heart of sentence, the repeated requests, so it probably doesn’t matter.

Both passions and aspirations are forms of desire. Passions are desires for activities or things. I have a passion for good stories or writing. Aspirations are desires to achieve goals. I have aspirations of becoming a author or spending my retirement reading all day.

I actually had to learn them three times. Once 25 years ago, again a 10 years ago when I started learning again, and then most recently about a year and a half ago. The first time I learned them separately. The second time I learned them rushed through and them together. The most recent time i learned them separately. I know that my second and third times don’t really count, but my experience has left me thoughts with how I would approach this if I had to actually start over and I have taken thoughts lessons into kanji. First, there are two main skills wrapped up in “knowing” hiragana and katakana, reading/recognizing and writing. I find that being able to get away from romaji is important and that only requires the reading half. For that learning katakana and hiragana together is just fine and even a little beneficial. Anything to move past romaji fairly quickly and seeing Japanese in Japanese. Writing is another matter. For me, I found that being able to keep the two alphabets distinct learning them sequentially is better. So I would learn to read all letters then go back to work on writing hiragana till I have some mastery and it really sinks in then move to katakana. I find that the multiple passes (when I was doing it with kanji) help cement things better. Plus I would be able to speed though the parts that need to get down before getting to far and spend a bit more time on the parts when concurrently (grammar and vocab) studies are possible.

Yes it does. It’s short for “ yeah, that seems like it is the case.” Yeah -> yes Seems like it (is the case). -> appears to be true Basically, it means they agreeing that what you are saying is reasonable and likely. It’s rare, but I t’s possible the speaker may say this actually disagreeing. If they do disagree, they are focusing what they can agree with. This is because the statement avoids talking about what is actually the case (true) and instead talks appearances.

1. Sometimes I feel the necessity to write.... 2. Sometimes I have a strong wish to speak out... However I feel we are more likely to say 2. Sometimes I have a strong desire to speak out... 2. Sometimes I wish to speak out..

a tactility that is nauseating in a seductive manner. Adverbs are modifiers that don’t directly affect nouns so it makes more sense that it would be modifying the adjective.

“Let’s make a wager”. Which mean let’s make a bet. We also use it in a construction like this. “I wager X is the case“ or “ I wager X is true”. This practically means “I think X is true”, but literally means that we would be willing take the bet that X is true.