Hi David,

I'm sorry to stick a minor point in your comment.

You wrote;'Did they say the same thing as me?' in your entry.

I suppose the sentence, 'Did they say the same thing as I do?'

Can we do the phrase' as me' in grammatically correst way?

If you don't mid, please answer my question.

Thanks.

•  Gussan
• 2009年5月25日 21:26

Hi David,
I know I'm late, but I like your idea in the last entry!
I'm glad if you correct our writings, because it's always very helpful for us, Egnlish learners.

I had the same questions as Anne about "one of the Outliers", but now I understand. Thank you!

As for the topic, I haven't had discussions with any Westerners about masks. I've heard that they feel starange when they see people wearing masks, but I didn't know why they feel so. Like thieves and robbers?! Humm...I don't like wearing masks, but I think that people, include me of course, should wear them when we have the flu, because it's useful not to give it to other people. I have doubt whether it's useful to protect me from it, though.
Anyway, I don't think that Japanese people change
masks that often as well.

Talk to you later,

Maki

•  Maki
• 2009年5月25日 21:59

Hi David

I have never had discussions with Westerners about masks, but I have heard somewhere that the things like you had read.
When I lived in Okinawa, I hardly saw people wearing the masks.
That’s why I was so surprised to see many people wearing masks when I moved to Tokyo.
I am not used to wearing a mask, so I don’t wear a mask even I have a cold.
I used to watch old American movies when I was a child. I remember that bad guys covered their face with a scarf. Maybe that image is still somewhere in my head, so I don’t like masks.

Bye for now

•  amo
• 2009年5月26日 00:17

Hi David,

This is an interesting topic! Actually, I talked about masks with my Japanese friend who lives in the US the other day, and she said that American people don't wear masks in their everyday lives and you can't buy them even in a drugstore. I was surprised to hear that because in Japan, you can get them everywhere, even at a supermarket. Well, they are sold out at many places at the moment because of swine flu, though. Actually, I needed to get some masks for my son the other day. As I mentioned before, my son was going on a school trip to Kyoto this month. I got a handout from his school last week, and it said that the students needed some masks for their school trip because swine flu was going around in the Kinki region, so I had to go to lots of stores to get them.(but I couldn't..) Well, in the end, the school trip is postponed to July, so they don't have to wear masks when they go to Kyoto in July.

The idea you came up with is interesting! Westerners associate masks with thieves and robbers? I never thought of it like that, but I think there is some truth in that image.

I want to write more, but I'm getting sleepy.. I'll make another comment later.

Good night,

Tomo

PS Gussan, I checked my dictionary and found this example sentence, ‘Just do the same as me (=as I do).’, so I think both ways are okay.

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月26日 00:35

Hi David,

I've never thought it as you said,"Westerners associate masks with thieves and robbers." It's interesting!
Yes, I remembered watching old Americans movies . Cowboys and bank robbers covered with their nose and mouth with their scarf.

Recently because of the spread of swine flu( or new flu) a lot of people are wearing masks in Japan and every time I read articles on the Internet, I saw photos that a lot of people were wearing masks in the news and reporters always mentioned this situation; some of them were suspicious about the effect of masks.
After the announcement that a patient infected by new type of flue was found in Osaka, a lot of people rushed to drugstores to get masks, but I was so lazy that I went out to get them IN THE AFTERNOON , and went about searching for it at five stores, but I could get nothing! I was very surprised at this result.
Luckily , I had some stocks which I had bought this winter, it's OK for my family at the moment.
Usually, I don't like putting on a mask, and I don't wear it. I am not so nervous about recent situation, so I don't use it when I go out now.
Anyway, to describe the type of Japanese , you say' glasses, cameras and MASKS'!

Have a nice day,

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月26日 06:02

When I was wearing a mask, my co-worker was preparing a lunch yesterday.
He have a microwaved a curry.
At that time, I smelled it.

I thought that the molecular of swine flu is smaller than the molecular of smell.

So I wonder if the mask is useful or not.

This time's topic is interesting.

Kazu

•  Kazu
• 2009年5月26日 07:58

Hi David,
Western people associate masks with thieves and robbers, so most of them don't wear a mask? I think we have a time we should wear a mask. If you have a cold, you might give it someone, so you should wear a mask. Of course, it is not perfect, but it has effect that prevent droplet infection. If I see someone who have a bad cough without a mask, I don't want to come near. Sometimes I wear a mask even if I don't have a cold. As you know, I'm a singer, so I need to protect my throat. When I take a plane, I always wear a mask because the air in a plane is dry. In winter, I sleep with a mask. When my student has a cold, I wear a mask because most of them don't wear it. So I always need a mask. Probably I can't live in Western countries....., because most of western people might have image of me who is a thief!

Amica

•  Amica
• 2009年5月26日 11:46

Hi David,

My sister and my father have hay fever, so they usually wear masks in spring. When I was a child, there were not many people who were suffering from hay fever, so I hardly saw people wearing masks in their everyday lives. It was a bit strange to see people wearing masks, but now it's not strange at all. I see many kinds of masks at a drugstore or a supermarket like for adults, children(There are also ones with lovely characters), colds, and hay fever.
I don't like wearing a mask, but I don't have any bad images of the idea of wearing masks. Actually, we have a lot of chances to wear them in childhood. You know, public elementary and junior high schools in Japan serve lunch which is called ‘kyuushoku’, and some students serve their lunch in turns.(We call them ‘kyuushoku touban.’) I don't know about the rules in other schools, but at my sons' schools, the students who serve lunch have to wear an apron, a cap(It looks like a white beret.), and a mask. I also wore them when I was in elementary and junior high school. I think Japanese people are used to wearing masks or seeing people wearing them much more than Western people, but I'm not sure how many people know about the effect or how to wear a mask properly.

As I mentioned, masks are sold out at many places at the moment because of swine flu. I watched the news on TV last night that some elementary students in Hyogo or Osaka(I don't remember which.) were making their masks from kitchen paper. Their homeroom teacher taught them how to make it in the class. I wondered whether the masks they made work for the flu or not.. Well, I think it's better than doing nothing. I don't know much about the effect of wearing a mask, but I also think it's a good idea to wear a mask not to pass your flu or cold on to others.

By the way, I couldn't buy any masks the other day, but my father has extra ones, so he gave me some. The box says that these masks have to be changed once a day in order to give protection and from the aspect of good hygiene.

See you soon,

Tomo

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月26日 13:52

Hello everyone
I think every Japanese are very timid.
and then I can't understand use mask once
and then throw it away.
If you are person who works medical
facilities,I will agree it.

thanks

•  stranger
• 2009年5月26日 15:12

Hi David and everyone,
The weather is just right,it's not hot,it's not cold.
I was relieved at David's idea about feedback. I began to at ease about writing comments.

I have had a discussion with a friend of my friend from Canada about masks a few years ago. He came to Japan in February ten years ago and looked
out of the window on the bus heading for the town.
He was surprised to see a lot of people wear masks.
He thought that the air in Japan must have been thick with pollution.It's common for Japanese people
to wear masks in February. I was surprised at the story.

Hi Tomo,
Thank you,you wrote what I was going to write.
あのようにいいたかったのです。

By for now

•  May
• 2009年5月26日 15:24

Hi everyone

How's everything?

Today, I come home without finishing all jobs.
That's why, I feel a little bad. Haha...

>Mie
I agree with your opinion and suggestion about David's idea. We shouldn't relay all on him! But I can't find and point out some mistakes easily because I'm not confident with my English. And pointing out someone's mistakes in their comments in real time sometimes disterb active discussion.
So we have better indicate others' mistakes after our talks about the topic. How do you think? (I think, however, it's really difficult because we often pay attention to a new entry.)

By the way, as for a mask, it's interesting idea!
I also heard that Western people think a person wearing it is a bit strange. It may comes from the reason as David mentioned, masks remind them thieves or someone stranger. The idea, Western people looks people with mask strange, is caused from familiarity with masks.

As Tomo mentioned, We, Japanese, can find out and get them everywhere and we saw them almost every weekday at lunch time in elementary school but Western don't, do they?
That's why, Western people who isn't familiar with them may look upon people with them as strange.

In addition, I think mask have some effection for preventing some virus from entering our body.
In fact as you can easily imagine, mask ins't perfect things for virus. Net of mask, made from some fiber, can't stop all virus from going through the mask. But we can protect ourself from others' '唾液' which comes from petients with mask. The point is concentration of the virus. '唾液' of patients has more virus than the breath of them! So we have better wear a mask!

Sorry for my long comment.

Speak to you soon

•  yuu
• 2009年5月27日 00:43

Hi David and everyone,
It's cloudy today, but it's good season in Japan, not too cold or hot.

Already, lots of comments are saying, I agree with them.
I just want to write my opinion about this entry.（上手く書けませんので箇条書きで）

1. The article, David read, said "people wearing surgical masks".
I thought that's one of surgical maskes but it's called hygiene item mask（？） (衛生用品）, or domestic mask （？）（家庭用マスク）. (私が言いたいのは、普通に使われているのは、医療用とか手術用マスクでは無いということ。広い意味では医療用かもしれませんが。）

2. You hate talking with people wearing person.
I don't think so, I only want the person getting well.
3. we usually use masks for ourselves health, so I don't associate masks with bad person.
4. The article what saying, I don't understand that it wet and have to chang so often.
5. I have never had discussion with Westerners about masks before.
6. I think the masks are very useful for with keeping my health, while flu season, and take a walk for keeping warm my body in winter.

Finally, I am afraid of changing, into porson to porson, the swine fle's virus to chang strong poison virus.

This is my opinon.

Everyone have a good day!
eeko

•  eeko
• 2009年5月27日 11:25

Hi everyone,

I think it is Amo's birthday today. Is that right?

•  David
• 2009年5月27日 14:25

Oh my god! I didn't know that!
Thank you for letting us know, David.

♪♪♪♪♪　Happy Birthday ,amo !♪♪♪♪♪

Hope a lot of good things happen to you!

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月27日 15:16

Hi David,
Is it? Sorry, I'm not sure about that.. You said we asked everyone's birthday at the blog event, but actually I didn't. Maybe I was talking to the others or was I just drunk?? （笑）

Hi Amo,
Is it your birthday today? If it is..

☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;:*☆

　　　❣Happy Birthday❣
　　　Many happy returns!

☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;:*☆

Tomo

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月27日 15:20

Hi David and everyone,

Again about wearing masks, as Amica said, even though it might not be perfect, it would be effective not to convey viruses or to protect yourself. At the moment, if a person coughs or sneezes, people are so nervous about that, and everyone wants to get away from him or her even though he /she are not infected, I think.
By the way, the day before yesterday, when I went out, I dropped in 'Tokyu Hannzu, and there were a lot of masks! (But it was not a non woven fabric mask,but a woven fabroic one.)

>Tomo,
I watched the same news on TV;
Their homeroom teacher taught them how to make it in the class. I'm also wondering if it's effective or not.

By the way, I don't mean to say much here, but if you are interested in the interviews of American Idol, have a look at Larry King Live.
Just type 'Larry King' on the search box, and you'll get to the home page, and on the left,you'll find some videos. I think ' American Idol wrap up' is interesting.

Speak to you soon,

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月27日 16:30

Hi amo,

"Happy Birthday, amo!" (^^♪

eeko

•  eeko
• 2009年5月27日 16:37

Is it amo's birthday today? I didn't know that!
Thanks. David!

Hi amo,

☆☆　Happy Birthday!!　☆☆

Hope everything is always going very well with you!

Hi Everyone,
Did you see the google logo today? It's related to UEFA Champions League. The final game is kicking off tonight(5/27 in Rome). Have a look at the logo!

By for now,

Maki

•  Maki
• 2009年5月27日 22:06

As for the masks, my thought is quite simple. It is because the general public in Japan is much more careful about the public health than people in western countries due to the health education at grammar schools.

Westerners' prejudice against masks should be abolished.

As far as I am concerned, I have never ever worn any masks except a Halloween mask though.

Yuu: Thank you for the reply you have done for me. I am relieved to know that I was not ignored at all.
I think you can freely make a correction on other's comments if you feel like it as our end and aim have got to be improving our English fluency.

I am really crap at English, but I will try to make my attempt as much as possible.

The phrase pattern using the verb "agree"or "rely" should be "someone agrees with someone on/about something"or "someone relies on someone for something," I think.

May: a friend of my friend,
I am quite not sure of this use, but I guess it should be "a friend of my friend's" or "a friend of a friend of mine - if you have not only one friend.

I hope David will help me with this.

Mie

•  Mie
• 2009年5月27日 22:16

Hi amo,
☆☆Happy Birthday!☆☆

Hi Lily, Anne, Yuu
As you said, the question my student asked me was innocence. My students often ask me such a question. The other day, my student asked me. "You are an adult, right? In spite of it, why don't you have a child?" Kids are sometimes cruel!

Hi Maki,
I saw the google logo. It's cool!

Amica

•  Amica
• 2009年5月27日 22:54

Hi everyone

As David mentioned, today is my birthday.
Thank you for the birthday messages.
I thought it might be a good idea to dress up for own birthday, so I put on one of my favorite clothes. It made me feel good, but it isn’t my day.
I was so depressed this morning after I found out that I got into a train delay due to an accident. I was supposed to get to the office by 8:45, but I got there around 9:30. I was already tired when I got to work.
So it’s not a good start, but when got home and my friend prepared a delicious dinner for me made me happy, and also found your messages for me on the blog made me happy, too. Thank you again everyone.

Hi Maki

I saw the google logo today. It’s nice.

Hi Mie

Welcome to the blog.
I am sorry I did not notice your last comment. I don’t check previous entry after David update new entry.
I agree with your idea and we sometimes do that, when we find mistakes we correct them, but not for sure David helps us.

Good night and sleep tight

•  amo
• 2009年5月27日 23:30

Hi amo,
I know it's already the next day, but...

♪♪ Happy Birthday, amo!! ♪♪

•  Lily
• 2009年5月28日 01:18

Hi amo,
Your start of the day sounds bad, but as you know.'All's well that ends well', right?
Did you have nice time with your friend? I hope so.

Hi Mie,
You have never put on any masks except at a Halloween party? I'm curious to know one thing; at the Halloween party, people put on masks? Sorry, I don't know well about these kinds of things .

Hi Maki,
Thanks for the information. I checked it, and it was nice.

＊昨夜はアクセス不可ではじかれましたので再度コメントしました。

See you soon,

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月28日 05:27

Mie ＆stranger,

Nice to have you here!
strangers, looking forward to your next comment.

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月28日 05:30

And today it's Kazu's birthday - happy birthday Kazu!

•  David
• 2009年5月28日 12:26

☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;:*☆

Happy Birthday, Kazu!!
Hope you have a great day!

Tomo

☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;;:*☆*:;;;:*☆

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月28日 12:35

Hi Mie and Stranger,

Welcome to the blog! Sorry, I couldn't say this sooner.

Mie - As for your suggestion, I'm more with Yuu on it. Of course, we should help one another, but we've been trying to do it on this blog. If someone asks a question, we try to answer it even if we are not sure about it. Ｉｆ no one can answer the question, David will help us, but unfortunately, David doesn't have time to answer every question or respond to every comment especially when he is busy or there are so many questions on one entry.

As for your corrections, here are my ideas.(*sb=someone, sth=something)

agree: I think your version is right, but I think it can be 'sb agrees with sth'(it also can be 'sb agrees to/on sth'), so I think Yuu's version is okay.

rely: I agree with your idea, so I think Yuu's sentence should have been "We shouldn't relay on him for all things" or "We shouldn't relay on him all the time". （Yuu、言いたいことが違っていたら sorry!）
According to David's book, the verb pattern is 'rely on sb/sth'.

a friend of my friend: I don't think you need to put " ' "(apostrophe) before the "s" because I think "a friend of my friends"= "one of my friends" = "a friend of mine". (I guess you wrote 'a friend' twice by mistake, though.)

By the way, you said, “I am really crap at English”, but I don't think so. Your English is great.

Hi May,
I'm glad I could help. Actually, I read some comments there on You Tube and learned how to say that.

Hi eeko,
この間友達から聞いた話では、私たちが「マスク」と呼ぶものを surgical mask と呼ぶそうですよ。　日常でマスクをつける習慣が全くないからなのでしょうね～。

Hi Anne,
Thanks for the information!

Hi Maki,
I had a look at the the logo last night, thanks!

Hi Amica,
You are right. They are so pure and innocent, and sometimes they can be very cruel.(苦笑）

Hi amo,
Glad to hear our messages made you happy:)

See you all soon,

Tomo

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月28日 12:43

Hi Kazu,
"Happy Birthday, Kazu!"

Hi Tomo,
やはり、surgical mask と言うのですか、surgical　は "外科的な" だし、手術の時に使うようなマスクをイメージしちゃいます(-_-;)　、masks　ｓが有ったかな？　コメディ映画思い出しちゃった、そういう感じなんでしょうね。マスクを日常的に愛用しない国では不思議な物なんでしょうね。まぁ、surgical mask と言う事になるのですね。
情報、ありがとう。

•  eeko
• 2009年5月28日 19:31

☆・:。.。・'゜☆・☆・:。.。・'゜☆・☆・:。.。・'゜☆

happy birthday Kazu!
hope you have a gread day!

☆・:。.。・'゜☆・☆・:。.。・'゜☆・☆・:。.。・'゜☆

•  amo
• 2009年5月28日 21:14

Happy birthday Amo and Kazu !

Hi Mie and Stranger,
Great to have you with us.

Appoh

•  Appoh
• 2009年5月28日 21:44

Hi Kazu,

☆☆☆　　　　　　　　　　☆☆☆
　　　　Happy Birthday!!
☆☆☆　　　　　　　　　　☆☆☆

Maki

•  Maki
• 2009年5月28日 22:11

Anne:
Halloween masks such as full head or half face horror masks made of rubber are used not only inside but also ouside the house in the night of October 31st, in particular in the US.

Tomo:
There seems to be a long history of this blog and the mutual correction activities which I did not know.

Anyway, thank you for your opinion. After I had read that, I found it to be a phrasal verb "agree with" at the end of a Longman dictionary on the Internet in which I looked it up, and I remembered that I ha known that. I cannot be too careful when I make an opinion about corrections. Thanks to you, I was able to learn one thing again today. Thanks a lot.

I am afraid not. As to the phrase "a friend of my friend", this sounded odd to me, I understood it as "my friend's friend", so I added an apostrophe, and again, if May's friend was unknown to others and May had more than one friend, I thought it would be better to express it as "a friend of a friend of mine" to specify it. That's it.

I know my English is "great", which means so god damn awful. Native speakers of English often ask me "Why are the Japanese - I hate this word; I would rather be called "Japs" than "the Japanese", though- so crap at English as well as you," I always reply "Don't ask me." I actually do not know the reason why. If I knew, I would.

Now that I am determined to study a grammar book of English which I have never had because I hated studying grammar and am going to buy it on this weekend, and manage to learn basic grammar of English through it. I will...

Mie

•  Mie
• 2009年5月28日 22:36

correction

gread day >great day

•  amo
• 2009年5月28日 22:51

♪♪ Happy Birthday, Kazu!! ♪♪

Whew, I made it this time! ;-)

•  Lily
• 2009年5月28日 23:18

Hi David,

Thank you so much.
It's my birthday today.
Today was as usual but I'm happy.
Because I got a nice word from everyone in this blog.

Hi amo,
Thank you for your nice word and also it was your birthday yesterday,
Happy birthday, amo.

Hi eeko,

This is the first time to talk with you, isn't it?
Nice to have you in this blog.
And let's have fun on this blog.

Hi Tomo Appoh and Maki,

Thank you so much for nice word for my birthday.
I'm pleasure to hear your kindness word.
As I mentioned at above, Today was not so special, but I'm happy because of you guys.

Thank you soooooooo much!

Kazu

•  Kazu
• 2009年5月28日 23:22

Hi Kazu,

♪♪♪Happy Birthday♪♪♪

Amica

•  Amica
• 2009年5月28日 23:28

Hi Lily,

Thank you, Lily.
You made it ;-)

Kazu

•  Kazu
• 2009年5月28日 23:38

Hi Amica,

Thank you soo much Amica.(^_^)

Kazu

•  Kazu
• 2009年5月28日 23:42

Hi Kazu,

☆☆☆Belated Happy Birthday, Kazu !☆☆☆

It's already next morning.....

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月29日 05:32

Thank you Anne,
I've just waked up.

•  Kazu
• 2009年5月29日 05:45

Hi Mie,

It was not a mistake, sorry! I thought May wanted to say ‘私の友達の一人’, but I may be wrong. If she meant ‘私の友達の友達’, I would say, "a friend of another friend of mine."
Anyway, it was good study for me as well, so thank you too.

Tomo

•  匿名
• 2009年5月29日 08:24

Hi Lily, Appoh, and Kazu

Thank you for your messages

Hi MIe and Tomo

I was trying to comment last night
アクセス不可でできませんでした。

a friend of my friend: if you want to say 友達の友達
　you say "a friend of a friend" not "a friend of my friend"

仕事が始まるのでこれで失礼します。

•  amo
• 2009年5月29日 08:49

Tomo:
Let's give an example;
You indicated a frined of yours : A at first and after that, maybe you can say,
B is a friend of another friend( one of your friends other than A) of mine, I guess.

amo:
Yes, I am for you. That must ba a option.

Mie

•  Mie
• 2009年5月29日 09:06

Hi Mie,
Thanks for your information.
I've watched the scene related to the Halloween onTV, but I had no idea about what you said. Thanks!

>Yuu,Mie and Tomo ,

I know what I'm going say is is sidetracked, but while reading your comments related to 'rely on', another idea occurred to me, so can I share these ones with you.

*ここでは、私たちはいつもいつも、彼にばかり頼るわけにはいかない（なぜなら彼は忙しいのだから、or other reasons)

いつもいつも（すべてを）をどう訳すか、がポイントだと思うのですがその意味があるもの、ないものふくめていくつか考えてみました。*sb=somebody *should not rely on→頼るべきではない/頼ってはいけない
1.We should not rely on sb.→頼るべきではない。のみ。時には助けを求めてもてもいいのでは、という意味が含まれないない。また、ｓｂへの信頼性も疑っている可能性あり。

2.We should not always rely on sb.→いつも頼ってはいけない　or 頼るべきではない。（時には自分たちで解決しよう）。It's rather ambiguous.

3.We should not rely all on sb.(すべてをsbに頼ってはいけない.all の位置がこれでいいのか、これがポイントだと思います。 all を副詞ととらえて使えるのか？I really want to know if the position of 'all' is correct or not.

4.We should not rely only on sb.→ｓｂのみに頼るべきではない。（I tried to make a senence instead of NO.3'all'.

5. We should not rely on sb for his/her advice.→ｓｂのアドバイスに頼るべきではない。（ｓｂ　のアドバイスを否定しているようにもとられる。）

6. We should not rely on sb all the time.→いつもいつもsbのアドバイスに頼るべきではない。

7.We should not rely on sb for everything.→なにからなにまでsb頼るべきではない。（少しは自分たちで解決しなくちゃ。）

So, I think " we should not rely on him for everything" or "we should not rely on him all the time" would be good here.

Sorry, I know I sticked to trifle things too much, but I sometimes think this way when I write sentences.

私はそそっかしくてタイプミスも多いので、rely onのつもりでreply on と書く可能性大です。all の意味をどのように表したらいいのか考えていました。
Even if it is grammatically correct, it could be natural, and I really want to improve his point.

Yuu, sorry,if I misunderstood what you meant.

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to think.

See you soon,

Anne

3.

•  Anne
• 2009年5月29日 09:11

Sorry,I made a mistake !!(^^;)
*it could be natural→it couldn't be natural
*his point→this point

Anne

•  Anne
• 2009年5月29日 09:16

Hi Amo and Mie,
友達の友達 = a friend a friend, and 'a friend of another friend of mine' means 'one of your friends other than A', I see. Now I understand. Thank you!

Amo, you couldn't post your comment last night? Me, neither! Actually, I couldn't post my comments from my computer all day yesterday, so I posted the two comments from my cell phone.

Hi Anne,
Wow, you came up with a lot of ideas! Thanks for sharing them!

Tomo

PS Oh no, アクセス不可 again..

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月29日 10:17

【訂正】
友達の友達 = a friend a friend　→　友達の友達 = a friend of a friend

•  Tomo
• 2009年5月29日 10:22

Hi David,

I'm very happy to have your correction of my English sentences. I've had almost no chances to get the pointing out in my written English from
others.
Therefore, your a new idea which corrects for the blog sentences is really useful and helpful, I think. I've noticed that your English words and
phrases were made me to study how to use it when I make the comments.
However, almost of them didn't stay in my memory. Then I've been wondering since starting this blog. On this time, I realized the situation that I made the mistakes why.
Then to tell the truth, I've been expecting like this unique idea for the serious English learners.
By the way, reading your entries and member's comments need my time, so I can not make comment constantly. I'm trying to hearing and looking of English sounds and scenes with radio, CD and web site for spending a lot of time. I'll never give up try to challenge to become a good English speaker.

Hi Anne, Tomo and everyone,

I enjoyed the sport day with many kids. They were all powerful and cute. What's more, they are really expert in their play world even a moment. In addition, my grandson's color got a win by one point, 954-953.

See you,

Kiyoko

•  Kiyoko
• 2009年5月29日 11:37

Correction

I've noticed that your English words and phrases were made me to study how to use it when I make the comments.
-----delete 'were'

•  Kiyoko
• 2009年5月29日 11:54

Hi David and Everyone,
The day before yesterday I heard frogs in the rice fields croaking for the first time in years. It is within five-minute bicycle distance of my house. I associated the croaking of frogs with rain and it was
raining yesterday.

Thank you,Mie and Tomo,
私の友達の友達、と書きたかったのです。
your advice was helpful to me. I found an example in 英辞朗,"he is a close friend of a friend of mine.
いろいろ考えてくださって感謝しています。

Hi Anne,
I checked the interview. You seem to enjoy
a lot of web site. Your information stimulates me to check them.
By the way,there was an article about the author Malcolm Gldwell in the newspaper. You said that 勝間和代was a translator of "outliers" into Japanese.I'm sure the book will become a best seller in Japan too.
それにしても　Gladwell なんて、いい名前とか思ったんですけど、違う？

Amo,Kazu,
Belated Happy Birthday!

By for now,

•  May
• 2009年5月29日 13:55

クレジット現金化比較できます。
よろしくお願いします。

•  クレジットカード現金化比較
• 2009年12月21日 16:24