Thanks for all your comments. I noticed, however, that we are starting to get lots of really long comments again. Please try to keep your comments as short as possible so that lower-level English learners will not be scared to join in. <\/p>\n
Thanks also for the advice about my neighbourhood council. I am going to a meeting on Sunday evening. That will be a nice chance for me to introduce myself and meet all my neighbours. I will definitely try to find out a bit more about this \u5165\u4f1a\u91d1 before I pay it!<\/p>\n
Actually, I quite like the idea of being a part of the local community. I grew up in a small village in Wales where everyone knew everyone else. It would be nice to have something like that in Japan. Anyway, I’ll let you know how I get on at the meeting. <\/p>\n
Here is some feedback on your comments. <\/p>\n
many residents of the same family names(4 names ; Sato, Ito, etc..) live in my area. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks for all your comments. I noticed,…<\/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\/8795"}],"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=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThat sounds like the whole of Japan! Actually, “with<\/em> the same family names” would be more natural.
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\n… are in charge of the board members by turns
\n… take turns being in charge of the board
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\nNo wonder why Japanese children start bullying friends.
\nNo wonder Japanese children start bullying one another.
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\n50,000 yen for just joining the neighborhood council?!! That\u2019s impossible.
\n“That’s ridiculous” would be more natural than “That’s impossible.”
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\nI\u2019d never heard that someone has paid an enrollment fee in my life
\nI’d never heard of someone paying an enrolment fee in my life
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\nI wonder if there is any difference between the phrases \u201cwhat kinds of things\u201d and \u201cwhat kind of things.\u201d
\nIt’s the same. Either is okay.
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\nActually, I don\u2019t feel that I benefit from joining ours at all.
\nThis is a really small mistake, but I’ll point it out because it highlights the correct usage of “join.” As I wrote in the A-Z, “joining” is the act of becoming a member, so you can only do it once, and then you are a member. You could write “I don’t feel that I have benefitted from joining…” or I don’t feel that I benefit from being a member,” but not “I don’t feel that I benefit from joining.” Hope that makes sense.
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\nThat’s all for today. Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n