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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Take your time. Effort is the most important after a tiny bit of comprehensibility. Formal letters start off
TO-PERSONへ and end with FROM-PERSONより
Letters also frequently start with some reference to the current weather. I can look back at nearly all my quick catch-up emails with Japanese friends, and they almost all start out with some comment about the leaves changing, or it getting colder, or something like that.
Granted, many of these people are in their upper 20s or 30s, so they are a bit more adult than my college Japanese buddies, who'd probably start an email with "too bad you didn't go to that soapland with me" or whatever. :\
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I still laugh about the "mentioning the weather" part of letters in Japanese. I learned this about 2 years ago and have since applied to any letters I've written (actually, typed and printed...) in Japanese, but it still feels funny.