{"id":7250,"date":"2013-01-11T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2013-01-11T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T09:46:40","slug":"happy-new-year-2013-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/happy-new-year-2013-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2013 (Feedback)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for all the comments, and for all the advice about getting a mortgage. I went to another bank this week. Their interest rate was a tiny bit lower than the first bank I went to, but there were a lot of conditions attached to it. When the time comes, I will apply to both and then choose the one that suits me best. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is some feedback on your comments:<\/p>\n<p>I know exactly what you mean!<br \/>\n<strong>This is a useful sentence to memorise if you don&#8217;t know it.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough we both had nothing to be ashamed of,<br \/>\n<strong>Although neither of us had anything to hide,<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nbut the biggest event this year will be my son\u2019s entrance of kindergarten.<br \/>\n<strong>but the biggest event this year will be my son starting at kindergarten.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m commenting from my iPhone for the first time in my life!<br \/>\n<strong>Congratulations! I hope you like the new smartphone layout.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid, I\u2019m glad to hear you had a nice time in Australia.<br \/>\n<strong>Thanks, and nice sentence.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nand in the lesson, I could talk in Japanese.<br \/>\n<strong>and in the lesson, we were allowed to use Japanese.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI  think trying to speak English as much as possible is very effective to learn the language.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8230; is a very effective way to learn the language.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIt seems like a real dream house!<br \/>\n<strong>Yes, but with a dream price tag too!<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSecond one is to lose weight.<br \/>\n<strong><em>The<\/em> second one is to lose weight. (A-Z: a\/the)<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nBy the way, according to the newspaper today, they say that if<br \/>\n<strong>You can also say, &#8220;It said in the newspaper today that&#8230;.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nand listen to BBC news<br \/>\n<strong>It&#8217;s usually <em>the<\/em> BBC news.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nCould you please put the site here which we can check your books like Amazon site,<br \/>\n<strong>Could you please post a link to a site where we can see your books?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSecond, not to work hard&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>From reading your comments, I would say you failed in that resolution last year quite spectacularly!<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI have gained weight since last year,<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Gain weight&#8221; is okay, but &#8220;put on weight&#8221; is more common.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThank you for asking about my books (English and Japanese are written side by side).<br \/>\n<strong>Are any of your books available as e-books? I would like to get one for my Japanese studies.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you keep studying English, someday you can speak English<br \/>\n<strong>&#8230;someday you will be able to&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThank you for telling us information about your books.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Thank you for the information about your books&#8221; or &#8220;Thank you for telling us about your books.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n>By the way, are there many vegetarians\/vegans in<br \/>\nJapan?<br \/>\n<strong>Not only are there not many vegetarians in Japan, most Japanese people don&#8217;t really understand the meaning of the word. I have a lot of vegetarian friends who say Japanese people often tell them things like &#8220;But it&#8217;s not meat &#8211; it&#8217;s bacon.&#8221; They have no idea about things like meat stock, so most vegetarians who come to Japan find that they have to either cook all their food themselves or allow their standards to slip when they eat out.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m always choosey about what I buy.<br \/>\n<strong>Nice sentence.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all for today. I&#8217;m going to join a new sports club tonight. I went the other day, but I couldn&#8217;t join because I didn&#8217;t have my <em>inkan<\/em> with me. I hate the stupid <em>inkan<\/em> system! The sooner Japan gets rid of this 15th century technology, the better. <\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend.<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for all the comments, and for &hellip;<\/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\/7250"}],"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=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}