Dear Teacher Mr. David san Thank you very much for your kind and witty corrections. ＠I just feel that I would use "from" (or "with") with the name of a service. "By" (or "from" or "with") would be used with the teacher. I see. It is interesting. I understand that BY and WITH would be used with humans or someone, while FROM would be used with organizations or a company. @"I enjoy using IDIY to have my essays corrected." I love this, because it sounds to me an advanced sentence. @ because I would describe this as an action that you purposefully avoid doing, not a passive state that the sentences themselves do I see your point and I remember I was told many times by you about this point--namely an action and a passive state. Let me think this point in my diary. @) "So so" is an adjective that means "not good, but also not bad." I see so so has such a meaning. @"I recently read an article about how to communicate more directly." "Just a little while ago, I read an article about how to express things more explicitly." I see. If you talked about communications with other people except the Japanese, you could simply teach them how to communicate by using words such as ''directly or explicitly.'' It is only the Japanese that makes English natives dare to write an article titled "communication without assuming" all the way, not just with words ''directly or explicitly'', which are simple and clear words for everyone except the Japanese. @ and the more graceful the implications are. I see. I love this because it sounds sophisticated. @This tradition would make sense ｛ would be reasonable and practical ｝ if we still lived in a society with high cultural and racial similarity or equality. I love reasonable and practical, because these two are easy to understand Best regards
Teacher MR. David san Thank you very much for your advice. Your considerations on my ambiguous sentences are really appreciated. "That sounds like a bad idea to me." My remark: The verb "sound" sounds like an interesting word to me. In a physical meaning, it is used by a word. "The buzzer sounded" In a figurative meaning, it is used in a phrasal style with "like, to me" "small-minded " My remark: a good expression. I wander if we could say big-minded, cute-minded, or clear- minded. "win" sounds like a verb here, "victory or defeat" noun My remark: I have been feeling that a verb has a special position in English. Verbs and nouns are treated intentionally differently in English. "a defeat is ultimately a victory." The verb "defeat" requires an object My remark: Verbs are to be cared specially also with regard to objects. "I'm a little unsure what "it" refers to here, so the sentence is ambiguous." You could be saying "the fact that Westerners don't understand this is nonsense to me" or "the Japanese way of thinking you've just described seems like nonsense to Westerners" My remarks: Thank you very much for your notes. I mean both, but a second thought tells me the latter is closer to what I meant because I think that Westerners have difficulties in understanding the Japanese way of thinking. "to lose the battle but win the war." "to win the battle but lose the war" (win a smaller victory, but lose overall). My remark: Interesting. Thank you very much. Best regards,
Dear Teacher Mr. David san Thank you for your good advice and an answer to my question. ""The number one is a tough position" sounds a little awkward to me. A more natural expression is "to be one number," for the subject "being number one."" My remark: I see. "The number one " is an abstract idea or a solid and dry concept, which has nothing to do with human sense like tough or easy. A tough or easy thing must be being number one or being a boss or hard. "Being number one is a tough position because you must receive every criticism, while number two can avoid these attacks and do the jobs which they are good at." ""Being number one is a tough position because you must receive every criticism, while I can avoid these attacks as number two and do the jobs which I am good at." To talk about your own role, it would be necessary to change the focus of the clause onto yourself. My remark: Your advice on this point seems to me very logical. A change of seeing position is very sensitive. ""The white person" only sounds to me like you're talking about skin color." My remark: I tried to talk about " A white Kight" in a merger and acquisition case in a share market. I see the white person means only skin color like a black person or a yellow person. "savior" and "saver" My remark: It was a very short time before I started laughing after looking them up in my dictionary. Saver is a man not spending money, while savior is Superman. Best regards,
Hello David, The other day, I visited a department store and saw an ugly scene, that was a few days before the Valentine's day. A young girl and her boy friend was choosing a package of chocolate. There were surprisingly expensive, lavish chocolates only, and I thought who would buy such an absurd priced package. She said " which one would be nice?" in a sweet tone of voice, pretending she, herself, would pay money to buy some. But, I knew she was pestering her boyfriend for chocolate and certainly she knew he would. She seemed like just an innocent teenage girl, but looked like a professional hostess at a bar. What a pity boy! He was trapped. Thank you for the corrections. I enjoy reading them. I learnt many things from the line 4, Thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Take care, Yoko
Teacher Mr. David san Thank you very much for your many pieces of advice. The difference "odor" versus "perfume/cologne" interests me much. And "deodorant" does too. "I found his cologne overwhelming." It is my first time to see to express strong smell using "overwhelming." I am interested in it. "The garbage was giving off a very unpleasant odor." "Give off" is a strange phrasal verb to me because in Japanese we have no verb to be used good smell and bad smell. In your answer to my question, I know that you have been in Japan several times. I am glad to know that you like travelling in Japan. I hope you have good memories of Japan.
Thank you for your feedback. As always, your detailed explanations were easy to follow, and the alternative sentences you offered me were very useful. I will be more careful about when to use determiners.
Thank you for your feedback. Your comments were very easy to follow.
Thank you for your feedback. As always, your detailed explanations were easy to follow. You also showed me a lot of alternative useful sentences. Thank you again!
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Thank you for your feedback. I did not expect that you knew about the JR Group companies. Did you look them up online, or did you learn about them from your Japanese textbooks? As always, your detailed explanations were easy to follow, and the alternative sentences you offered me were very useful as they included new words!
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