Forum: English Questions 
Oct 3rd, 2012, 08:15 pm
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Views: 3,634  Re: what's the English equivalent of 口頭禪?
Oh, really?
I'm glad to hear that. :)
You know, I'm a non-native English speaker, as you know, and I hope that a native English speaker will make a comment for you, or you know, for both of us! ...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 2nd, 2012, 08:55 am
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Forum: English Questions
May 14th, 2011, 08:26 pm
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Views: 7,007 Re: Leaning Tower of Pisa
Thank you, for your detailed answer, susan.
I misunderstood why my "huge" was wrong.
Now it is clear.
So Sumo-wrestlers in Japan are described as "huge", for sure.
Thank you for the picture of...
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Forum: English Questions
May 14th, 2011, 12:14 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,007 Re: Leaning Tower of Pisa
Hi, susan53, I want to ask one more thing, OK?
It is about "huge".
From your lesson in the previous post,
I thought that the adjective "huge" is used for non-living things.
I thought that "a huge...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 26th, 2011, 06:56 am
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Views: 41,822 Re: I wouldn't prefer to or I would prefer not to
Thank you, susan53, for your detailed explanation.
I think I got it.
I agree that "strongly" is the problem.
So I create a new sentence D).
How about D) as the synonym of A)?
From your lesson, I...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 25th, 2011, 04:09 am
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Views: 41,822 Re: I wouldn't prefer to or I would prefer not to
Hi. Thank you.
How about "believe" as in the following?
A) I strongly believe that Japan was wrong at that time.
B) I strongly believe that Japan wasn't right at that time.
C) I don't strongly...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 10th, 2011, 06:03 pm
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Views: 5,966 Re: Motivating Adults to Speak
Of course!
I don't think it is good thing to drink at every your lesson in school, either.
After school. Only once.
If a person has enough knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, yet he/she can't speak...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 10th, 2011, 06:56 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 10th, 2011, 06:34 am
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Views: 5,966 Re: Motivating Adults to Speak
Oh, I think so, too.
I used to hesitate to speak, but when I drank alcohol, I could speak very smoothly.
So if it is allowed, having a party may solve the problem.
I just wonder if you are allowed...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 10th, 2011, 05:23 am
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Views: 9,290 Re: long hair/mane
OK. I got your point, and I agree with you. :)
Thank you for your kind suggestion.
BTW, I'm not so clever enough to correct learner's dictionaries, and it is not the matter of language, but I wonder...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 9th, 2011, 06:27 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,290 Re: long hair/mane
OK. I got it.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.
I've learned the difference.
It is the completely same thing as in Japanese-language, you know?
In Japanese language, we just use the...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 9th, 2011, 04:43 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,290 long hair/mane
Hi.
I can't tell the gender of a tiger, or a panther when I just look their face, because I'm not a zoologist. Yet I can tell which gender a lion is, because a male lion has XXX, while a female lion...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 1st, 2011, 06:39 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,007 Re: Leaning Tower of Pisa
Thank you very much, susan53, for your detailed explanation.
I got it. I could understand every detail, and it became crystal clear just now.
Thank you again for taking your time to correct me. :)
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 31st, 2011, 10:10 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,007 Re: Leaning Tower of Pisa
Hi.
According to a native's advice, I corrected it myself.
Improved? :)
This is a nice photo of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. A man who I think is a tourist on the right side might be huge enough to...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 30th, 2011, 09:38 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,007 Re: Leaning Tower of Pisa
Thank you very much for your reply.:)
I understand your suggestion, and I will practice it from now.
I'm very happy to know that my sentences make sense, maybe as international communication...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 13th, 2011, 05:02 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 7th, 2011, 03:12 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 7th, 2011, 03:11 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 6th, 2011, 03:10 am
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Views: 10,050 resembles/resemble
Hi.
Please forgive me, if this is silly question. I've forgotten basic English grammar.
Which do you choose, resembles or resemble?
I think No. 1, 2, 3, and 5 are correct, because the subject seems...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 10th, 2010, 01:12 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 10th, 2010, 08:25 am
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Views: 5,456 Where is the rest room?
Hi.
Could you explain why the definite article must be the definite article, instead of the indefinite article?
(context) If you go to a new restaurant, and you want to go to the restaurant's rest...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 17th, 2010, 05:57 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 11,462 Re: The adjective to modify "vocabulary"
Thank you, for your patience.
Probably I finally got it.
It seems that I will never encounter "vocabularies" in my life.
I am a complete stranger about machine languages.
Thank you very much,...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 17th, 2010, 05:09 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 11,462 Re: The adjective to modify "vocabulary"
Thank you, I got it. (Maybe, this time. :))
In brief, I don't have to use the plural of that word in my daily life myself, because I'm not a computer programmer or a dictionary-editor.
I only have...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 16th, 2010, 04:12 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 11,462 Re: The adjective to modify "vocabulary"
Thank you very much, susan53, for your detailed explanation and the information about Google. It became clearer now.
I just searched;
"English vocabulary is XX"
XX.........numbers...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 16th, 2010, 07:49 am
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Views: 11,462 The adjective to modify "vocabulary"
Hello. :) I'm new here.
I would like to know the proper adjectives to modify the noun "vocabulary".
(Wanting to mean "small" )
I have poor vocabulary in English.
I have poor English vocabulary.
My...
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