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Originally Posted by kuroisaiyajin
I answered my own question when a friend of mine was helping me study.
Basically, my question was in japanese, can more than one sentence carry the same meaning like in english, and not just using the same verb stems with different forms, i.e. ~て、～たい、～ます、 or ～おう。. Using your earlier example of why it's difficult to learn english:
All those lead to the basic idea of "Let's spend time together." Can the Japanese language do that exact thing? I've already gotten one point of view, not including my own, but I'd like to get another P.O.V., if possible.
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Sure. Japanese doesn't have slang in the SAME way that English does, but except for the most basic sentences, there are always more than one way to say something. This goes beyond the different dialects (which you don't need to worry about yet) and the different levels of politeness (which you should worry about).
Textbook Japanese can sometimes make it sound like there is one way and one way only to say something, but language study is more like art than math, especially when you get beyond the basics.