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Originally Posted by StripMahjong

あ。

うわ、ちょっと恥ずかしい・・・　まじめに聞いたと思 っていました。　ちょっと馬鹿な間違いですね。　すみ ません！　

（笑）

私の方こそ　わかりにくくて　すみませんでした。

そうですか？　「ままちゃり」を聞いたことがありまし たけれど、今まで意味が分かりませんでした。　勉強に なりました！

それは　よかったです。

んんん・・・　でも、今フォーラムだけで日本語で話せ ます。　僕の返事を書く前に、知らない文法と単語を調 べられます。　だから、僕の日本語はまだまだです。

そっか・・・・。

文法や単語を調べないで書く事は　難しいですか？

今度、何も調べないで書いてみてはどうでしょう？


そのうち、ここのフォーラムのみんなで　直接話せるチ ャットをしましょうね。きっと勉強になると思います。

あれ？　えっと・・・　「優しい言葉を言ってくれて、 ありがとうございます」と言ったら、僕は真由美先生が うそをついていると思うって感じですか？　そうじゃあ りませんでした。　本当にありがとうございます！

そうですね・・・。
「優しい言葉を言ってくれて・・・」というと　本心じ ゃないかもしれない、と聞こえるかもしれません。
もし、相手が本心からそう言っていると感じて、それを 伝えたい時は
「嬉しい言葉を言ってくれて・・・」の等が良いかも・ ・・。

Wow, this is a very good question.
Japanese use a lot of expressions to be
(or to make it sound) "modest",
so it could make Japanese language very complicated sometimes!

I have a few Chinese co-workers at my job. I'll show them your name in kanji and see if they remember the actress.

どうでしたか？
What did they say?

"Female" would sound a bit better in that sentence.

I see. Thank you!

What are some examples of the non-Japanese names Japanese parents are giving their children nowadays? Are western names popular?

Here are some examples,

Rina(Lina),Risa(Lisa),Kento(Kent),Reito(Rate),Rizu(Liz),
Kanon,Sara(Sarah)...

They also have their names in Kanji.
I guess their parents must LOVE to use unusual kanjis,
sometimes it's so hard to figure out how they are supposed to read,
so ふりがな is necessary for their names.
I have no idea if it's a good thing or not very good thing...


Some parents told me the reason why they didn't want any Japanesy name. The mom said cos they wanted people to think their son wasn't a Japanese. They don't like Japan.She feels even ashame of Japan.I don't know what made her and her husband (Japanese) think like that.
I know the only reason why they don't look down on me because I speak English better than they do. She could be very cold and unfriendly to other Japanese. There ARE people just like her.

I remember a Japanese guy who was working for a big company,
making a lot of money, used to come to the restaurant where I worked.

He was not very nice, could be rude when he talked to us(the restaurant staffs),but once he saw me talking with some customers from the USA, he changed!
He tried to get my name and number, and tried very hard to talk with me. He wanted a girlfriend who can speak English because he can show off!
He once asked me why I didn't put more make-up and wear something more girly like mini-skirt and high-heels and all.

I knew he didn't want to know me at all, but he wanted to make me look like what he wanted, so that he can show off to his friends.

I never get attracted by this type of boys, very "shallow".

I usually don't put any make-up on, cos I don't have to get any attention from boys (haha), so I know that my husband liked me just the way I am.



You know, many Japanese girls are very good at "making-up"?
Without their powder and lipstick and false eyelashes and all,
they could look like a totally different person.

This isn't a joke!

My friend (boy), used to date with a girl who never show him her "real face"(without putting make-up).

A few months later at a gym (swimming pool),
SHE found him, so she called his name loudly,
but HE didn't notice and almost walked away,
so SHE ran and came up to him and said
"hey, you didn't hear me?"
but HE didn't smile or anything, cos

HE COULDN'T RECOGNIZE HER FACE!

She suddenly realized that her face wasn't the "making-up" one,
so she said
"Sorry, it was a mistake, I don't know you and you don't know me, bye!"
and running away.


They broke up in a few months later.

He told me that
while the girl was calling his name he was trying to remember who she was,
but he couldn't think of anyone with " no eyebrow".
When she came up to him, he saw them closely and realized that there WERE eyebrow but they were totally shaved.
When he saw the girl very close, but still didn't know who she was.

It wasn't her shaved "eyebrow",
the reason he broke up with her.
He said he felt like she was "lying".

After the day he saw her real-face, he said
SHE changed.
She kept asking him
"Don't you love me anymore?" too many times.
She lost her confident and sounded+looked like a different person to him.


Recently, some young boys put on make-up,
did you know that?