J44xm said:
Mikawa Ossan, thank you for your hard work in critiquing my post. I must admit, there were more errors than that I expected again. Your comments are most useful, though, and I greatly appreciate the effort you put in for me (and those who will read this) after working all day.
No problem! Sometimes I changed things even when it was not technically wrong, but you seem to really want to make it to the "next level". I think you're doing great!
I'm quite curious what other reasons there would be.
Well, the use of ちゃん in general here seems a little awkward to me, because I assume your friend is at least 25 years old or so. That doesn't make ちゃん wrong to use, but I personally don't feel very comfortable using it in such a situation except for certain individuals.
Also, the whole ingroup/outgroup dichotomy seems to me to rear its ugly head when using things like ちゃん and くん . Admittedly, I don't write an informal blog, nor do I read them, so I'm sure I don't have a great "feel" for the proper dynamic at play here.
I had a lot of trouble finding a suitable word for "bored" and I guess I still didn't hit the nail on the head. Could I receive a suggestion? Because I _was_ pretty bored that day, but it needn't sound offensive.
Here's an idea:
今回は、僕はエルドンネマーという友達の家にいますが、意外と退屈です。
The 意外と makes it seem as though you would normally expect not to be bored at her house, and the 退屈 is another way to say you're bored or something is boring. It has a slightly different nuance, though, which is hard to describe...
As for the "からなんです," the explanatory "no" is something I've still got a lot to learn about.
Trial and error, my friend, trial and error!
Hmm. I'm uncertain about the following chunks: "つぶしに," "こうやって," and "かましれない." And by "uncertain," I mean that I haven't a clue what they mean. (I tried reverse engineering "kamashirenai" to find it's base verb, but I can't find anything at WWWJDIC that matches what I imagine it could be.)
hahaha! I love the way you phrased this! Let's go one by one...
つぶしに is part of the phrase 時間つぶしに , which means, "to kill time". つぶし comes from the verb つぶす .
こうやって basically means "like this" in this sentence. "I like to practice to practice Japanese by using it like this" Or for the purists here, "I like to use Japanese and practice like this". こう is part of the set こう、そう、ああ which is analagous to これ、それ、あれ .
Did I write かましれない? ...Oops! I guess I did!
Sorry, that was a typo. It should read か
もしれない . Does that help? :sorry:
Regarding "依然、何を言えますか。いつもちょっとだけ。":
Really? Wow. It's supposed to read "Still, what can I say? Always only a little." Looking at it again, I think that using を might have been out of line. The rest of it ... well, I'm honestly surprised that, even if it's not right, it's not intelligible.
Hmm...well, to begin, 依然 is pretty formal. It kind of has a little different tone to it than the rest of your entry. If you really want to use it, it would be better to use it in the following construct: 依然として
An example of this in use might be,
しかしどんなに練習しても、僕は依然としてあまりできない状態のままです。
Another way to say this instead of 依然 might be あいかわらず as in しかしどんなに練習しても、僕はあいかわらずあまりできないようです。
Regarding "この易しい言葉は億劫ですよ。"
Essentially, I wanted to say that using only easy words to express myself is troublesome. Once more, looking more carefully, I think use of "tsukau" would be appropriate, wouldn't it? (Is "namayasashii kotoba dake wo tsukau koto ga okukou" any better?)
Well, I think 億劫 has a little different nuance to it than you're looking for. You want to express that it's frustrating or annoying, right? How about,
いつもこんな簡単な言葉だから本当にうっとうしいです。
Or, if you want to be more humble,
いつもこんな簡単な言葉しか使えない自分に腹が立ちます。
I believe so as well. That's a best explanation of "you ni naru" I've seen. It makes sense, indeed. Thanks.
Thank you! I'm glad that made sense to you! (At least it made sense to somebody!
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What does "今の僕に" mean? Does it mean what it literally seems to say--i.e., "as for to the me of now"? (That's generally how I read these things. "Koko de wa," for example, might be read in my mind as "as for by means of here" or somesuch. So don't be too put off by the oddness of it ...)
I think you have the right idea here.
Is that "はるか" used as "far" in the sense of "far exceeding" or "far tastier"?
Yeah, that's pretty much correct!
Incidentally, I noticed that your title thing about your avatar says you'll be coming to Japan in April. Does that mean you got your visa? Even if you're still waiting, I'm sure it's a done deal!