I suppose you're right. It is no use crying over split milk, it would only make matters worse if I made a complaint. You may be right. What has done cannot be undone, my complaint would make only matters worse.
May I ask the purpose of your call? I'm afraid Mr./Ms. Tanaka is out right now. Would you like to give him/her a message? Thanks for your call. Good-bye.
>>68 Great efforts on learning grammar and words does not necessarily enable you to master English. What counts is memorising as many model sentences as possible.
Even if you know English grammar and a lot of English words, most of you still won't be able to use English well. I recommend the following way to study: Try to memorize whole sentences as many as possible.
Learning tons of grammar and vocabulary doesn't give you good command of proper English. Its important to learn English text by heart as much as possible.
People posting here are really practicing >>68. I'm also working hard on sentence drills but it's saturated with patterns I've already seen before. Indeed if you don't do this, you'll end up with just reading English.
No matter how earnestly you learn grammar and vocabulary, it doesn't mean that you are going to be able to use English appropriately. It is important to memorize sentences as many as possible.
We have had much hotter March than usual this year. When March comes around, I usually feel like sleeping in bed in the morning. However, I look forward to going out when I wake up in the morning this March.
It's been a warmer day this March than usual. Every year this month, I tend to stay in my futon in the morning, but this year, I look forward to going out every morning.
On the morning of March 29, ex. president Mr. Takahumi Horie has experimented to launch small type rocket, but it had exploded soon after ignited, and experiment had failed after all.
On the morning of the 29th Mr. Takahumi Horie, who was a former president, experimented on launching a small- sized rocket in Hokkaido, but it ended in failure because the explosion occurred just after firing.
You may sometimes wonder if what you are doing really leads your goal or not. At such times, you should consider it best to believe that everything goes well at last and continue doing what you can do by the time the goal comes true.
You may sometimes wonder whether you are now doing is worth-while. The best thing you can do at such moment is to continue to work till accomplished trusting that everything will turn out alright in the end.
Sometimes you may wonder all that you do is just for nothing. Then, its most important for you to have a faith that all your effort will be paid off in the end and go through with it.
Three units were damaged on arrival. When is the earliest you can ship the replacements? We'd like to A Corporation throw in free shipping at the corporation's cost.
I took a taxi at the Tokyo station to go to Haneda airport, but the trafic was busier than expected and could not arrive in time to catch the flight, and I ended up in missing the meeting in the U.S. I could have make it if only I had left home a bit earlier.
I took a taxi from Tokyo Station to go to Haneda Airport. However, the traffic was more heavy than I had expected, so I couldn't get on my plane on time. After all, I couldn't attend the meeting in the U.S. If I had left home a little sooner, I could have been in time for the meeting.
I got in a cab at the Tokyo station to go to the Haneda airport, but the traffic was heavier than I thought it would be, so I missed my flight. After all, I couldn't attend the meeting in the U.S. If I had left home earlier, I would have made it to the meeting...sigh.
The other day I went to lake Biwa with my friends. We were surprised at a large amount of trash(empty cans and plastic bottles) over there. Pollution in lake Biwa has been in the news recently, however, pollution of the mind of people who trash nature, is a more serious problem.
I went by taxi from Tokyo station to Haneda airport, but the traffic was so jammed, than I thought, that I missed my airplane. After all I couldn't attend the conference in USA. If I had left home a little earlier, I could have attend the conference.
The other day I visited Lake Biwa with my friend. We were astonished at a large amount of trashes, empty cans or bottles, which were thrown away there. Pollution of Lake Biwa is a current popular topic, but pollution of people's mind is more critical.
I got so sleepy and it seemed too much to get undressed. Without troubling myself I just got into the bed, and once hit the pillow, fell into sleep without feeling anything.
I felt so sleepy that to undress was even an effort. I crept into my bed, as I was, and was fast asleep almost as soon as my head dropped on the pillow.
Please focus your attention on the area highlighted in green on the printout. It represents the number of our sales. I firmly believe that our products are highly competitive in the global market.
>>172 Shogi match was held on the 30th between professionals and computer software at Shogi Kaikan Dojo in Sendagaya, Tokyo, and coputer won. This is the first time ever that an active player has lost to artificial intelligence. The victory was achieved in the second round of the battle, fought in groupe between five pros and five systems. The prors had won the first round, and the total score ended up in one win to one defeat
A professional player versus computer program Shogi game match was held in the Shogi-Kaikan, Sendagaya, Tokyo, 30th, and resulted in program's win. It is the first time in the history that active professional player lose program in the official match. The match was the second round of the group match between five different professionals versus five different programs, a professional player side had won in the first round, current total result is one win to one lose.
Every country has its own culture and customs. To take alcohol and cannabis for example, Muslim countries prohibit drinking but in Japan they love drinkers. In Japan cannabis is prohibited while it's prescribed as a medicine in America. Common sense, once you're in another country, easily changes.
Different nation has different culture and custom. Take, for instance, alcohol and cannabis. In Islamic nations, drinking alcohol is forbidden, but in Japan, it is preferable custom. In Japan, cannabis is forbidden, but in the USA, it is prescribed as medicine. Our commonsense, once we are in another country, can easily be changed.
Different countries have different cultures and customs. Take for example what people think about alcohol and cannabis. People in Muslim countries must not drink alcohol, while in Japan those who love drinking can get along with others. In addition, Japanese people must not have cannabis. However, you can buy one as medicine in some states in the U. S. Once you go abroad, your life will change easily.
>>212 The wind from the desert was roaring on full rage that night, raging down on the trails in the mountains, tousling the hair, irritating on the nerves and itching on the skins. Hot and dry - that's typical of Santana air.
Desert storm was heavily blowing in that night. The wind blew paths between mountain down, disturbed our hair, made us nervous, hurt our skin, and that was the Santana's speciality, dry hot blast.
there was a desert wind blowing that night, I t was one ofthose hot Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair make your nerves jump and your skin itch.
Any booze party on such a night could not avoid a dreadful ending. Even faithfull wives would cast a scrutinizing gaze over their husbands' neck line with trying a finger over the cleaver's blade.. Anything could happen. An order for beer would be acceptable even at the counter under the name of cocktail lounge.
On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife a nd sturdy their husbands' necks. anything can happen. you can even get a full of glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
On an evening such as this, every booze party end up in a scene of carnage without fail. Virtuous wives, testing cleaver to see how well it cuts, also stare at husband's neck line. Anything can happen. Furthermore you can order a beer at a cocktail lounge.
Lapland and Cyprus can't be any more far from in Eurozone area. They are situated just opposite edge. But on a spring daytime, the sunlight of Lapland reflected on endless snow field is as bright as mediterranean sand beach of Cyprus.
Lapland and Cyprus are farthest apart from each other in Europe. Their location is polar opposite to each other and almost at the edge of the area. Nevertheless, the sunlight in the sprin noon, reflecting on the eternal expanses of Lapaland's snowfield, is dazzling as that in the sand beach of Cyrprus in the Mediterranean.
It was gettting one in a flossy new place across the street from the apartment house where I lived. It had been open about a week and it wasn't doing any business .
Every night on the 6th of August in Hiroshima they float Toro (paper lanterns) down the river to soothe the spirit of the victims of A-bomb. Toro is usually made of colored paper, bearing each name of lost family members. They are drifting on the night river, so beautiful, yet with full of our mourning.. Probably because we see them like suffering souls from the blast.
you were too sharp tongue. you know, there are the wrong what not to do and right what to do in this world. I bet good enough muture man like you must know that, no? huh ?
Be that as it may, you're saying too much. There're some things you can say and some things you mustn't say in this world. You are old enough to know better, aren't you.
Just a typical question you find in top page of a English composition workbook. Stupid ordinary stuff. It is too boring anymore spice. Are you kidding me?
You have an image of pawnshops as gloomy and damp, haven't you? But you know, nowadays they are totally different from they used to be. It is a story in olden times wrapping up a precious kimono in "furoshiki", a kind of wrapper made of cloth
You reckon a pawn shop is a dim-lit place with stale atmosphere? Well, it's not today. Completely different. Taking your special kimono in furoshiki to a pawn shop -- that's a thing in the past.
Pawnshops have a pretty dark and gloomy image, you know? Well, they're not like that at all these days. Customers don't bring in their precious kimonos wrapped in a cloth, like they did in the old days.
The popular image of IEYASU is a clever tactician, however it's only among his old age. In fact, among young and middle age, IEYASU is very faithful even to call "Richigimono", Foolish faithful man, by his alliance partner.
IEYASU is known as selfish and steady strategist, but In fact, he showed their characters only in his last years. In his young and middle ages, he was so straight that his alliances called him "Richigimono", which means loyal and honest person.
Ieyasu is widely known for his calculating cunning, however, the reputation was established and shown only in his old age. Younger and middle-aged Ieyasu was so stubbornly honest that his allies called him "Honest-proof Ieyasu."
Generally, a standard temple is closed without their "Danka", But the Honganji-Temple is opened for everyone, so that I use to come to and taking at ease.
When you look back your life in concluding years of your life and only find it covered through with disappointments, why you should complain in dismay! You've lived your life!
Kousa--composed from thin sand--drifts from continent and covers car white. It is inevitable natural phenomenon, so nothing can be done about it. The problem is that the sand is polluted artificially.
"Kosa", fine sand dust, comes from the continent and covers cars and others in white. We can live with it as long as it remains purely natural phenomenon, but what concerns us is that the sands are polluted.
Its not that she had been faithfull wife before committing adultery, but the typical case that man was just blinded to her true color and nature by her looks so right on one's taste
Its not that she had been faithfull wife before committing adultery, but you had thought so. A typical case that man was just blinded to her true color and nature by her looks so right on one's taste
It was just a his illusinon that his wife had been faithful before having affair, and in fact she has been not. When we love figure of our wife, we are apt to blind to her character and narure.
Bathed in warm sun light, The barley feelds are lush green, Young and beautiful are the leaves on the trees over there, High above the skies is a song of a lark.
Bathed in warm sun light, The barley feelds are lush green, Young and beautiful are the leaves on the trees over there, A song of a lark - high in the skies.
Warm sunshine is flooding over pale blue barley fields, beyond which stand cloves of trees whose young green leaves are beautiful. High above in the sky comes the music of skylarks.
Unfortunately during my recent trip, the weathers were bad most of the days, especially in Switzerland we couldn't see snow covered Alps with mists, so I didn't have as much fun as I expected.
I strongly urge that president Obama demand IRS commissioner's resignation, immediately if possible. No government agency which made such an awful mistake can receive confidence and respect by American public.
Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of Japan Restoration Party, said "For group of soldiers who get excited in circumstance where bullets are flying in torrent, they need comfort women system. That is clear to everyone. "
The UK still remains considerably rich country even though accroding to the survey, published today by ONS, its ranking in disposable income per capita by country was downgraded to the 12th from the 5th.
Britain remains sitll an extraordinarily wealthy nation, even though another analysis ONS published today shows that Britain has slipped from 5th to 12th in disposal income per head in the international league table.
The success of Sir Alex is based on his enthusiastic embrace of globalization. He inherited squad with two Danes, four Irish men, eighteen Britons. And he left squad with dozens of foreigners, including Serbia, Ecuador, Japan.
The Japanese GDP growth ratio in the first quarter of 2013 has jumped to 3.5%, proving the rightness of Japanese government effort to beat deflationary psychology and to drag the country out from 20 years of glacial era. 'Abe's kick start appears to have succeeded.' says an analyst.
Japanese economy recorded a rapid growth during the 1st quater of 2013 at the rate of 3.5%, opening a crack in deflationary mindset of the people, and it proved the government was right on the way in its efforts to pull the nation out of "Glacial decads" over the last 20 years. "Abe's kickoff strike seemed to be a success.", said an analyst.
One in six American is Hispanic. In politics, to neglect Latino voter is suicidal. This is why Democrats has seriously tackled immigration reform. In business, it is also daft to neglect taste of Latino residents. This is why American companies are at last seriously pursuing Hispanic money.
Ok, world seems to simple enough. Usually, coffee will pour from pot into cup, sphere stuff will roll and square won't, stuff that goes up will fall. But some sort of physics, peeling off skins that covers world, gives us a glimpse of insight that astonish phenomena are occurring behind surface and are turning to driving force of most simple process.
Obama said, "My success was not because of my Ivy League degree, but much more depends on my sense of duty, a moral obligation that I feel as a black man that I should help those who in needs. Now it's yout turn, Push your circle of concern outward."
President Obama said, "My success depends more on special obligation I felt as a black man, obligation which helps who needs it, than degrees and grades I got in Ivy league. It's up to you. Let's widen our circle of concern!"
I have no idea with what is in his mind. But if he stturbonly still keep distrusting me, then I will say good bye to him for and all. The reason why, frankly speaking, he has received my help, he should not forget this fact easily.
Still, establishment of objective study criteria to judge mental illness has a far long way to go. APA stated that DSM-5 will be constantly renewed by responding new discoveries. But, now patient's treatment will be lead by incomplete guide, DSM-5. "The DSM is nothing but a pure reflect of our present state of knowledge. Our knowledge is not perfect."
A Hello-work's stuff beat a citizen job-seeker. So I do demand Hello-work for as follows : official apology, apology in news papers, appropriate compensation and dismiss of the stuff.
My assessment of recent Japanese effort for economic recovery is good. Let us hope that they would maintain this assessment and furthermore enforce it. The success of abenomics will achieve two targets. For Japan, it will give her needed boost, for other countries, it will give them more needed counter method to policy lethargy.
My eyes itchy. I don't wanna scratch because get more itchy as I scratch more, but I'm gonna scratch. The white of your eyes become soggy, don't they? Absolutely! They do.
When I went to the storeroom of our basement, something rattled noises, although no one in there and I was so scared! I guess if there is a rat or something.
I've never seen rats before. I've seen at grandfather's home. The rat was caught in a trap. In midsummer, the rat was executed in the way to be exposed to the direct sunlight. Get out! It's cruel, kind of.
It has been increasing that stores displaying prices with tax excluded. Yes, at Tsutaya, 5CD's rental price used to be 1,000yen with tax included, but now, it's 1,050yen with tax excluded display. It will be 1,080yen in April. This is a big price hike.
Well•••, Masao's car. His own car? Why? During driving, he was pissed off at the car to cut in his car, and punched the windshield of his car in a fury. How ridiculous! lol
What's a kotatsu? It's Japanese heater, usually we sit and put only our legs into it, but lie and get into it up to around our chest and close our eyes, it takes us to paradise.
When I browsed 4chan, I found the thread "Do you like pineapple on pizza and burger? yes or no" Oh! Interesting. It's in subuta in Japan. Americans feel same with us, sort of lol.
We should plan of GW soon. What're we gonna do? Where're we gonna go? This year, let's think about that beforehand. We are always hectic and tired because we plan that just before GW.
>>548 Mom was giving Dad some cookies the other day, and you know what? Those were cookies for dogs! What?? But why? She was playing a prank on him. How vicious!
>>546 We'd better make a plan for the GW now, hadn't we? Yeah. Got any good idea what to do or where to go? We should prepare beforehand this time, because we always get rattled at the last minute.
>>523 Microsoft is ending Windows XP support soon. Yeah. They'll discontinue it on April 5th. What a bummer, since my Windows XP PC still works just fine.
Packages of strawberries are getting smaller and smaller in size every year. Yes! It's seemingly same but the bottom of it becomes small when viewed from side and under! It used to be much bigger. It's so petty.
It seems we can watch penguins, seals, whales at super close range. Oh that's nice if it's not cold lol. There is Antarctica tour means that there is Arctic tour isn't it? Yes I think probably so.
How many zeros dose 8hundred million have? One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, 8zeros! How much is 8hundred million yen in US dollars? 1dollar is 103yen•••It's 8.24million dollars!
I got a really terrible headache yesterday. Oh what happened? Because of low atmospheric pressure. Low pressure? Yeah I get a headache sometimes when low pressure is developing.
Why do you get a headache because of low pressure? A decrease pressure has an effect on pressure inside of my skull. So blood vessels in my brain expand, and that stimulate my trigeminal nerve.
The other day I cooked raw bamboo shoots for the first time! Bamboo shoots? Yes I boiled them gently 2hours to remove harshness. Wow it's such an effort!
This is a news story, a 2year-old girl was attacked by a dog, pit bull, and her mother to save her daughter shoved her fist into the dog's mouse, then bit at its ear and bit off. Wow, quite a story!
So what has become? The mother made a 911 call to police during the fight with the dog. Seriously!? Yes and both of them were saved. That's good. Mother's love is amazing!
May 4th is the Star Wars Day. What? Why? There is the series's phrase, "May the force be with you", and "May force" & "May 4th" sound similar, that's why. Huum, is that so? I didn't know that at all!
Speaking of which, the other day I went to the Head Spa for the first time! Oh, that's nice! It's the beauty salon I always go, has started the new service lately.
I was pissed off today, too. What? About your boss? Yes. He really disgusts me. Go to hell. Whoa whoa drink this. Ahh I've been under huge stress and my head gonna go Wahhh.
Ahh I wanna have a cup of bitter green tea. Bitter green tea? Yes. Because of the kakiage-soba I just ate was a bit sweet, maybe. Ahh wanna have a cup of bitter green tea. I wanna drink something carbonated.
Ahh this bitter green tea tastes really good! Good for you. You know what, it's quite common to have green teas with sugar or honey in other countries except Japan. Ahh I've heard about something like that. We never put sugar in green teas. Yeah! But powdered green tea with milk and sugar taste good.
I like jasmine tea, the bitter one. You like bitter stuff lol. Okinawa's sanpin tea is same as jasmine tea, isn't it? Yes. Jasmine tea is 香片茶(xiangpiancha) in Chinese, that's why.
Speaking of Okinawa, I ate bitter melon for the first time in this season. Goyachanpulu? No, lightly pickled. Ehh that's bitter, isn't it? Not so much. I like tempura of bitter melon.
I hate myself. Why am I so stupid? Why do you think so? I've been studying this for a long time and I don't feel like I'm making any progress . Hmm I know the feeling. But it takes time to achieve something. No matter what it is. もうやだ。なんてこんばかなの。 なんでそう思うの? ずっと勉強してるのに、全然成果が出ないんだよ。 うーん、その気持ちは分かるよ。でも、何事も時間がかかるものだよ。
今日もクラス休んじゃったよ。だめすぎる。 また?今月何回目? 分からん、五回目くらい? やばいよー I missed my classes again. I'm too lazy. Again? How many times have you missed classes this month? I don't know, about 5? That's not good.
やばい、携帯なくしたかも。 ええ?ちゃんと探した? うん、車の中にはなかった。 コートのポケットは? うーん、あ、あった!騒ぎたててごめん! 大丈夫だよー!携帯見つからない時って焦るよね Shit, I think I lost my phone. Really? Did you look well? Yeah. It wasn't in the car. Did you check your coat pocket? Let me see...ah! Here it is! I'm so sorry for the fuss! No it's fine! I freak out when I can't find my phone too.
私って思いやりがないのかな そんなことないよ うーん、でも時々残酷な考えが浮かぶんだよね うーん、でも人間みんなある程度、意地悪なとこがあるものだよ Maybe I don't have compassion. That's not true. Well sometimes a cruel thought comes to my mind. Hmm I think everyone has a mean side to some extent though
いい天気だね ほんとに。 こんな天気だと、中で授業うけてる時間がもったいないね あはは。授業終わったら、公園に日光浴でもしにいく?ほら、学校の近くのとこ It's a really nice day isn't it? It really is. In this nice weather, the time spent sitting in classroom feels like a waste. Haha. Do you want to go sunbathe in the park after class?you know, the one nearby school.
Speaking of Naomi, she didn't know that the moon revolves around the earth, until quite recently lol. Seriously!? We've learned that at elementary school or somewhere haven't we? It's hilarious lol.
The size of the moon is 1/400 of the sun. The distance between the earth and the moon is 1/400 of the distance between the earth and the sun. Oh is that so!? That's why, the moon and the sun look like same size, and a solar eclipse occurs.
Then, is the Kaguyahime a true story? Maybe so. Speaking of which, we can't see the back of the moon, can we? Why? The moon rotates on its axis once same cycle as it revolves around the earth once. So we can only see one same face from the earth. Heee you know, it's unnatural!
Did you bake it without fail? Yes. I succeeded big! What kind of bread? A normal loaf of bread. It tastes good of course and it smells so good when it be baked. It takes about 4hours from I set the machine to start, it finished baking at 3am, and I woke up because of it's marvelous appetizing smell! Like "What is this good smell?"
Hey hey what happened to stag beetles? A collector of insect send Amami sawtoothed stag beetles hunted in Amami-oshima by Yu-Pack, and the package was delivered in error, all the 240beetles went dead, the carcasses were dumped by the post office.
Eh, were the beetles dumped? Yes, the post office dumped them without permission because of they went dead and rotten. Then, the collector sued Japan Post Co., Ltd. for \192,000. Hee. But, is that OK hunting no less than 240beetles? Yeah, it's indiscriminate hunting.
Today is the Movie day! Let's go see something! Oh, today's date is 1st. Let's go see X-Men:Days of future past! Yes that's good. I'm gonna buy the tickets on the web. •••Wow, the fee is hiked to \1,100.
Which mutant do you wanna be? Scarlet Witch. But, after I saw "Days of future past", I thought Quicksilver is good, too. Yeah yeah, he is good. I wanna play tricks with my supersonic move!
Look at this picture. What? A bear? In a residential area of Florida, a wild bear relaxed in a hammock of a house's garden, for about 20minutes. Kidding me?! How could someone take the picture like this!
I ate watermelon for the first time in this summer. Summer hasn't come yet! But, it's hot everyday. It's taste good, sprinkle crazy salt over watermelon. Hee, I'll give it a try!
Is Edward Snowden in Russia now? Why? I read the book written by Glenn Greenwald. It's quite interesting. Ah, Greenwald is the person Snowden entrusted confidential documents to.
What is FIFA? It's Federation Internationale de Football Association ••• International Federation of Football Association. It's headquarters are in Zurich, Switzerland.
We started drinking at noon, so I got a terrible headache within night, I had writhed in pain. Why did you drink so much? Some members were late, so we had another toast with them and started drink again.
Fruit Ninja? What's that? It's a video game for Xbox. Did you get muscular pain from the video game? Yes, it's played with physical move. Kinect Sensor scans our body's move, so controller-free.
Please correct my follow english mistakes. -- 13 Ms. Sato summarized the difficult long texts into plain Japanese. It was very easy to understand for us.
The sticker be sold that "Electricity bill will come down if put this on the breaker" Here it comes, how much? 3~50,000yen. My mom is gonna buy this maybe lol. They think various tricks.
Gee••• it's gross••• I can't take it! Well, it tasted pretty good!! No way. It's true. The banana was cold and delicious. But it was very sweet, so if you don't like sweet stuff, you can't eat it.
"Game of Thrones" will be go on air tomorrow, all episodes of season1, on Star Channel of SKY PerfecTV! I have not subscribe to Star Channel. I have not, too. it will be broadcast at no charge. Really?! I'm gonna preset my recorder!
It's a good practice to speak to Siri. You can't have an interactive conversation but at least you can check if your pronunciation is correct or makes sense. Unlike when you are just speaking into the air, you can see what you said so you'll notice when you make mistakes and you can correct them on the spot.
The bag I bought in the US is totally rad. It's tough and holds a lot of things like all of my textbooks and binders. Also it looks expensive for its price. It's made out of vegan leather but it looks like real leather. It was really a good buy.