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商売運・・・交際が実になる時です。
It means something like It's the time the relationships you built between you and your friends or business partners so far bear fruit.
 
Why is it that sentences which are incomprehensible when I try to figure them out are completely obvious when I read the translations? :banghead:
 
The pitch accent also can be the key to distinguish confusing words.

大金 type0 (flat) /たいきん=/
代金 type1 (the accent is on the first syllable) /だ]いきん/
 
The pitch accent also can be the key to distinguish confusing words.

大金 type0 (flat) /たいきん=/
代金 type1 (the accent is on the first syllable) /だ]いきん/

Oh, I hadn't noticed they have different pitch accents. Thanks.
Also, according to the pitch accent dictionary I used 大金 is always flat (0), but 代金 is described as "10", so both accented on the first mora(1) and flat(0) are possible, but "1" is more likely? 代金 国語辞書 - エキサイト 辞書

By the way, I never went out of my way to learn pitch accents, should I? Or do people usually pick up everything naturally - just by using/listening to the language?
 
People, especially young people tend to say words with flat intonation nowadays. I believe the type 1 is more common and traditional.
Probably I distinguish those words unconsciously.
 
Hello! Can you help me what the meaning of 就職試験 is, please? It is translated like employment exam, but I don't really understand the meaning of it. It's sort of job interview, or what?
 
Hello! Can you help me what the meaning of 就職試験 is, please? It is translated like employment exam, but I don't really understand the meaning of it. It's sort of job interview, or what?
Yes that's exactly what it is. A test to see if you have the skills required for a specific job or company. Most companies in Japan have tests to measure basic skills.
 
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I'm a bit confused about the meaning of 人物網 is something like " network of connections", basically information about the people they know?

何も知らない人々を組織内へ引き込み、その者が持つ財産と時間、そして人物網の全てを吸い尽くす。

Context: this passage is describing a sect.
 

Their network of friends, relatives, acquaintances.

The cult wants to mine their assets as well.
 
Hello! Can you help me what the meaning of 就職試験 is, please? It is translated like employment exam, but I don't really understand the meaning of it. It's sort of job interview, or what?
就職試験/入社試験 usually includes paper or practical tests, such like common knowledge or essay examination. Job interview, i.e., 面接 is just one of them.
 
Hello! May someone more skilled check if my translation for this sentence:
昔は君に私が料理を教えたもの

is correct as:
I was the one who taught you to cook back then?

Both Japanese and English are not my native languages, so I may have used wrong grammar in the english one as well. But, all corrections are welcomed!

Thanks in advance!
 
Is that a full sentence, or something follows it, for instance 昔は君に私が料理を教えたものなのに?
 
I need a help, can you please translate this phrase 'Dono yo ni ai ga watashi no okusama desu' in English. Thank You.
 
I need a help, can you please translate this phrase 'Dono yo ni ai ga watashi no okusama desu' in English. Thank You.
"In what way is love my wife?"

A rather strange sentence indeed, not to mention that "okusama" is used to refer to someone else's wife (the word for your own wife is "tsuma") and the question marker "ka" is missing at the end.

Is your friend a native speaker?
 
I need a help, can you please translate this phrase 'Dono yo ni ai ga watashi no okusama desu' in English. Thank You.

Where did you see that? There's no way a native speaker said that.
 
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