Thanks for all your comments. I hope there are no children reading this, because if there are, they might have been a bit shocked to find out that Santa Claus is not real! To be honest, I wasn’t 100% sure myself, so thanks for setting me straight. I suppose the whole question of Santa Claus must be quite difficult for parents. It’s a nice story for children to believe, but I wonder how they feel when they find out that their parents were lying to them? I was talking to a friend the other day who has a very smart daughter. He said that when she saw her present was something that she had seen before in Costco, she asked her dad, “Does Santa shop in Costco too?”<\/p>\n
Anyway, Here is some feedback on your comments.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it is only for my wife, or in another year, it is only for me. Thanks for all your comments. I hope the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSome years it is only for my wife, and other years, it is only for me.
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\nThe topic is very timely!
\nYou could also say just “That was good timing!”
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\nI don\u2019t know whether most Japanese are same as me or it is just me …
\nI don’t know whether this is all Japanese people or just me …
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\nThe tree seems to shrink every year!
\nNice sentence.
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\nI can\u2019t forget their faces!
\nI will never forget their faces! (This is a kind of \u6c7a\u307e\u308a.)
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\nI buy a lot of Christmas presents \u2013 probably about 25.
\nI have never met anyone who buys so many presents!
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\nI decorated Christmas ornaments.
\nI put up the Christmas ornaments.
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\nbut we don\u2019t do it since then.
\nbut we haven’t done it since then.
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\nAlso, he is not such a type as to give presents
\n“Also, he is not the type to give presents” or “Also, he is not the present-giving type.”
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\nI think I\u2019m going to be into this for a while! (What\u2019s the word for \u3057\u3070\u3089\u304f\u30cf\u30de\u308a\u305d\u3046\uff01in English?)
\nYour sentence sounds fine to me.
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\nMaybe I should have said \u201cI have some postcards of the Saturday Evening Post\u2019s covers\u201d. I\u2019m not sure, though.
\nThis is correct.
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\nAs you said in the blog, advent calender is not famous in Japan.
\nAs you said in the blog, advent calendars are not common\/popular in Japan.
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\nI always make such a mistake, too!
\nI always make mistakes like that, too! (A-Z: such)
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\nWhat would you like to get most for Christmas?
\nA helicopter, please! If that’s too expensive, how about a Ducati Multistrada? In red, of course.
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\nI thought it was a name of a car! lol!
\nI thought it was the name of a car.
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\nWhy do\/did you make your children to believe in Santa?
\nWhy do\/did you let your children believe in Santa?
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\nNot at all. I just happen to have a friend who has one.
\nNice sentence.
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\nI\u2019ve never thought that way.
\nI’ve never thought about it like that.
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\nI gave him a present for St. Nicholas Day without any qualification every year.
\n… without any conditions…
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\nI wonder if you can say this: \u201cTalking about Santa Claus works as if you\u2019re playing your best card to make your children behave well.\u201d
\nIt’s correct, but it sounds a bit strange. I would just say “using it as a tool to make your children behave well.”
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\nWhen I was a child, I interchanged gifts with my family member.
\nWhen I was a child, I exchanged gifts with the other members of my family.
\n<\/strong>
\nsomeone is just wearing a Mickey\u2019s \u7740\u3050\u308b\u307f\u201d.
\nit’s just a person wearing a Mickey costume.
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\nSoon or later children will know that
\nSooner or later, children will find out that… (A-Z: know\/find out)
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\nI like the idea leaving some room( or space?) fantasizing something.(
\nI like the idea of allowing children to fantasize.
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\nThey made me Christmassy!
\nThey made me feel Christmassy!
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\nThat’s it for today. Have a great weekend, and I’ll be back with a new topic on Monday.
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