About "による" (according to)

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according to my grammar book( oh well, no pun intended)

ni yoru means "according to" (something)

and you can find it in 2 ways :

によると and によれば , i'm wondering what are the differences between them, since my book offer two example sentences that translate it in such a way that its pretty hard to figure out:

"天気予報によれば、明日は晴れるらしい" according to the weather forecast, it seems tomorrow will be sunny
and
"さっきの地震はテレビの速報によると震度3だそうだ" according to the news flash on TV, the "recent" earthquake had a magnitude level of 3

what is so different about them? or how am i supposed to know when to use them (if these translations are correct of course)


注意してありがとうございましたみんな
 
according to my grammar book( oh well, no pun intended)
ni yoru means "according to" (something)
and you can find it in 2 ways :
によると and によれば , i'm wondering what are the differences between them, since my book offer two example sentences that translate it in such a way that its pretty hard to figure out:
"天気予報によれば、明日は晴れるらしい" according to the weather forecast, it seems tomorrow will be sunny
and
"さっきの地震はテレビの速報によると震度3だそうだ" according to the news flash on TV, the "recent" earthquake had a magnitude level of 3
what is so different about them?or how am i supposed to know when to use them (if these translations are correct of course)
The difference is pretty subtle but ~~によれば would usually imply a lower degree of trust for the info source than when ~~によると is used.
注意してありがとうございましたみんな
This makes little sense. Only Japanese-learners say ~~してありがとう; Native speakewrs NEVER say it. Also, you CANNOT just place みんな at the end of a sentence like that.
 
Even though you answered my main question fairly well, your note about my "thank you" expression was much more appreciated, Thanks again
It was a literal translation from portuguese(. My main language) to jp, and it didnt happen work well

Arigatou gozaimashita
 
Only Japanese-learners say ~~してありがとう; Native speakewrs NEVER say it.

This brings up a good question; why do Japanese-learners learn this construction then? It's beginning to bother me quite a bit that we're taught to do things that native speakers apparently NEVER do. I understand that there will be some errors introduced by way of a speaker not knowing how to construct something in Japanese and so they apply their native language's rules, but what about those phrases/constructs that are taught even though they are apparently wrong?

For example, I was explicitly taught the ~してありがとう construction in my college courses which were taught by native Japanese speakers, from books written by native Japanese speakers.
 
I certainly picked up ~てありがとう by copying a native speaker, although it wasn't a してありがとう expression. (おしえてくれてありがとう probably.)
I have noticed that 何々くれてありがとう is prevalent, but there are てありがとう expressions written by natives with normal verbs rather than humble or receiving verbs. I'm not sure how a learner is supposed to know that there's a line that must not be crossed between those verbs and して. Until this thread I pretty much assumed (to the extent that I thought about it at all) that ~てありがとう was valid even for ~してありがとう and ~てくれてありがとう was a more polite version of the same.
 
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