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Hi! My name is Robert and I'm 23 years old. I'm a software engineer at Oracle. Two years ago I studied Japanese for about one and a half year, but I had to stop due to difficulties in School. I'd like to pick it up again! I'm into Computers, Piano, Anime, and Video Games, among other things.I'm a native english speak and think I'd be able to teach it, as well as talk about any American culture you might be interested in. Thanks for reading. こんいちわ!私はロバートです。二十三際でオラクル(ORACLE)でコンピュウタポルグラッマーの仕事してますで。二年前一年半ぐらい日本語を勉強しましたけどだ忙しい大学からやめました。今輪また勉強したい!コンピュウタとピアノトゲームとアニメがすきです。英は教えます。ありがとうございます。
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    How do I saw "One of my favorite X is Y" in Japanese I'm having a little trouble expressing a thought in Japanese: "One of my favorite X is Y" for example: "One of my favorite movies is Shawshank Redemption" As my vocabulary in Japanese is comparatively limited, I've been using "like" or "好き”, so I'd also appreciate a word that might better capture favorite. So far I only know: ”Shawshank Redemptionは好きな映画です” Shawshank Redemption is a movie I like and "Shawshank Redemptionは一番好きな映画です" Shawshank Redemption is my favorite movie But I'm not sure how to express the first thought. Any suggestions are appreciated.Grr, The title should read "How do I sa*y* "One of my favorite X is Y" in Japanese"; It's almost like English isn't my first language ^^;
    August 25, 2010
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    英語の発音はとても不便! 英語の発音はとても不便だと思います。 I think English pronunciation is pretty inconvenient. 私は子供の時から英語を話して始めましたが今でも問題をかかえています。 I started speaking English as a child, but I still have problems with it. 「months」などがとても難しくて私の発音は[monts]とほとんど同じでしょう。 "months" for example, is very hard for me; My pronunciation is closers to "monts". しかも英語のスペルはろんりてきじゃなくて「dough」と「cough」と「through」はほとんど同じスペルですが発音はとても違います。 Additionally, English spelling is very inconsistent; "dough", "cough", and "through" all have almost the same spelling, yet they're pronounced very differently. 日本語のスペルはすごくろんりてきだと思いますでも高低アクセントはとても難しいだと思います。 I think Japanese spelling is incredibly consistent. However, pitch accents give me quite a bit of trouble. 以下のとおりに英語のスペルのポエムあって私には難しい。それもアメリカ人がこのポエムを話すYoutubeのビデオあります。英語のスペルはおかしいでしょねえ。 Below is a fun poem on English spelling, it's difficult even for me. I've also included a youtube video of an American speaking the poem. English spelling is pretty strange, isn't it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRe-j2EC1j8 take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough and through. Well done! And now you wish perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead, it's said like bed, not bead- for goodness' sake don't call it 'deed'! Watch out for meat and great and threat (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt). A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth, or brother, And here is not a match for there,sさささ Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there's doze and rose and lose- Just look them up- and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart- Come, I've hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd learned to speak it when I was five! And yet to write it, the more I sigh, I'll not learn how 'til the day I die.
    August 25, 2010
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    Did you have sickness due to the heat wave this summer?

    It's(this is fine, but writing out "it has" is preferable because most of the time an english reader will read "it's" as "it is") been extremely hot this summer. Reportedly many people were taken to the hospital because they were sick from the heat wave.("...because the heatwave made them sick" is a bit more natural)  I haven't gotten <strike>any </strike>sickn<strike>ess</strike> <strike>in </strike><strike>summer </strike>so far this summer, but I got sick and had to take a few days off earlier this year. One day I had three meetings with my clients. It was so hot <strike>day </strike><strike>and</strike>, but I still  had to go out for the meetings <strike>from </strike>in the morning. After the first meeting I took a train and went for <strike>the </strike>another meeting. <strike>It</strike> My schedule was so tight <strike>schedule</strike> that <strike>I could </strike>did not have time for lunch. Moreover, these clients did not serve any drinks even <strike>in the</strike> on such a hot day! I managed to finish the meetings and went for a dinner with my friends. After the dinner, I felt like sitting down in<strike> a </strike>the street because I suddenly felt "kimochiga warui (気持ちが悪い)."(**) I thought I would have to vomit. I could not even get on <strike>a </strike>the train. Even after getting on<strike> a</strike> the train, I had to get off at each station<strike>s</strike>. I finally got to my house but I had to take a few days off afterwards<strike> in the following days</strike>. Now, I'm fine but we still have such hot days. Be careful <strike>for </strike>of the heat wave this year!

    (**) Please let me know if you know how to describe "気持ちが悪い" in English. Is it "feeling bad"?
    (I know this term and I think "I feel sick" has almost exactly the same meaning and can even be used when something disgusts you. "I'm feeling bad" is also fine, but not as commonly said. )
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    August 24, 2010
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    aya's notebook entry: Aug 22, 2010

    昨日、両親と一緒に花火大会に行ってきました。

    日本では、花火は夏の風物詩の一つです。
    夏の風物詩には花火の他にもスイカや海、風鈴などたくさんあります。しかし、私はその中でも花火が一番好きです。

    夏もあと残り10日。
    私にとってこの花火大会が今年最後の花火大会となるでしょう。

    Yesterday, I went to <strike>the</strike> a fireworks festival with my parents.

    Fireworks are <strike>one of the</strike> a summer tradition<strike>al events</strike> in Japan.


    The seasonal traditions are called 風物詩 (Hubutsushi) in Japanese.
    There are a lot of summer<strike>’s</strike> Hubutsushi, such as watermelon, sea and hurin (wind-bell?).
    Of these, I like fireworks the most.
    (風物詩 doesn't seem to have a good english translation. According to my dictionary the closest is "Thing that remind you of the season". Tradition is fine, but "Things that are characteristic of summer" or "things that remind you of summer" might be closer. This is only my opinion though, I could be very wrong!)

    The summer season ends in ten days.
    This fireworks festival is the final festival <strike>this </strike>of the year for me.
    (If you mean this is the last festival you will attend "The fireworks festival is the last festival of the year I will attend" might be better. "The fireworks festival is the final festival of the year for me" sounds more like you are saying there are no other festivals you acknowledge from now until the end of the year (which may be true ^^))

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    August 24, 2010
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    How would I translate this text into Japanese? The text below is an excerpt from a quote I'm trying to translate into Japanese for practice (If you're curious, it is "pale blue dot" by Carl Sagan). It's a bit difficult, but I thought it would be a fun exercise. " On that dot everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." My current guess is そこに会った人と知ってた人と聞いたひとと生きていた人がいました。 But since this is sentence is much more complicated than what I'm used to, I was hoping for some help. Thanks!
    August 20, 2010
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    先週新しい同僚が私の仕事を始めました 先週新しい同僚が私と同じ仕事を始めてわたしが今の仕事をはじめた日のことを考えています。今年の1月にMITのコンピュータサイエンスのしゅうしごうを取って、大学を卒業しました。私のそつぎょうはちょっとおそいけれどもとても嬉しい。(去年の6月に大学を出るはずでしたけど…)出たすぐオラクルの仕事をはじめました。じょうきん生まれて初めてで少し怖いでも他の同僚はとてもやさしい人です。私は同僚に手伝ってもらいましたから新しい人を手伝い
    August 19, 2010
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    August 18, 2010
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    As a quick suggestion: While "do not" is correct, it's more natural to say "don't".

    Do you make confections?

    I like to eat, but I do not cook. So, I do not make confections at home.
    I like sweet food. Especially, I like chocolate. When I went to Austria last year, I had Sachertorte (Austrian chocolate cake) and it was awesome! It was not like a typical chocolate cake (like <strike>ones</strike> those in the U.S.), it had very rich and soft sponge** in it and it was covered with thick and sweet chocolate.
    I know many people like to make <strike>a</strike> cakes at home, especially for their children's birthdays. I, personally, have not been invited to any birthday parties in the U.S. but I saw a picture of a birthday party at an American house. It had a very nice and warm atmosphere but <strike>what I was shocked was the cake </strike> I was shocked by the cake. It was <strike>in </strike>blue! I could not imagine why food <strike>should </strike><strike>have</strike> would be blue <strike>color</strike>. I have seen such blue cakes in supermarkets (when I was in U.S.) so I don't think it was a special case. <strike>think it was not a special case.</strike>

    By the way, recently, we've begun calling confections "sweets (スイーツ)" in Japanese <strike>recently</strike>. It is<strike> a</strike> kind of a buzzword so I do not like it. The proper word for it is "okashi (おかし)." So please be careful, confections are "okashi"! :)

    ** Sorry, but I do not know baking terms very well :( So I'm not quite sure the correct way to say this. I would probabaly say "It had a very rich and spongy center and was covered with a thick and sweet chocolate"

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    August 18, 2010
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    Very hot day

    Today was a very hot day. I live in Tokyo and, reportedly, it was 38 degrees Celsius here. A friend of mine said (this <strike>is</strike> was when we discussed which is more useful, Celsius <strike>and</strike> or Fahrenheit) Fahrenheit <strike>was</strike> is more useful than Celsius because <strike>it could be 0 when people think it is very cold and that it could be 100 when it is very hot. </strike> people would think it is very cold when it is 0 and that it is very hot when it is 100.  And now I totally understand it is quite right!** 38 degrees, which is 100 degrees in Fahrenheit, <strike>can not be</strike> is not acceptable <strike>for</strike>  to me.

    ** I'm not quite sure what you mean here. If you mean your friend is right, you should say "he was quite right". If you're trying trying to say Fahrenheit is better, you might say "it is better".
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    August 18, 2010
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    Please let me help your learning Japanese

    Hi, I am a native Japanese speaker and I would like to help you improve<strike>ing</strike> your Japanese. Please add me as a friend and let me know when you finish <strike>your</strike> a notebook entry. I will correct your notebook<strike>s</strike> entry and give my comments in English. You do not need to be an English speaker, but since I am learning English, English speakers would be preferable <strike>for me</strike>.
    Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions. Thank you.


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    August 18, 2010
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