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Originally Posted by pacerier
thanks for the clarification regarding 暑い and 暖かい. i've got that info from a book, but i'd guess its inaccurate. anyway it wrote something like this: "When 暑い is used for the weather, it normally has a negative connotation such that it is too hot to stand"
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I already said "no connotations" like three times in my last post, so I won't say it again. Some people even like it to be hot. I myself hate going to the beach on not-so-hot days.
The phrase "It's hot today." doesn't always mean "Damn, it's too f**ing hot today", does it? It's the context and/or the speaker's way of saying the word "hot" including his facial expression that can give a negative connotation. It isn't the word 暑い.
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Also, in the same book, i found this sentence: この映画は全然面白い and the translation they gave was “This movie is very interesting”. But I’d thought that 全然 can only be used for negative sentences, so i was wondering if this usage is common.
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It's common in colloquial/slanguish speech among younger people but it's obviously too early for you to learn it. You use that sentence in a compo and every single teacher in Japan will correct it. That usage didn't even exist 25 years ago, and you never know how long more it lasts.
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Other than that, is it true that although ゆっくりした田舎の生活 and のんびりした田舎の生活 means a “slow-paced country life”, using のんびりし shows an attached “good” meaning (slow and peaceful)?
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True. The second one is more natural and much more common.