☆NihonJack⇔日本ジャック☆コミュのLong compound sentences in Japanese?

Sorry to make my first topic a question, but it's been nagging me for a while...

In English, it's not uncommon to join several sentences together by commas and auxiliary particles to convey one "extended" idea. I wonder if it's as common (or possible at all) to do the same thing in Japanese.
Here's two examples:

1. I thought about it for a while and made a decision that, while traveling in Japan, I'll make sure to visit Kamakura, as well as some other popular tourist attractions.

2. After some serious pondering, I finally realized that, as long as age is concerned, it's nothing but a number to me.

P.S. I picked quite complicated examples so that I can try to grasp the pattern. I appreciate any info on structuring such sentences...
Thanks in advance

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[3] mixiユーザー 10月29日 21:45

つまり、「接続表現を教えてください」っていうことですね。素敵な大人っぽくて長い文書を聞きたいと言っているでしょうね。
(In other words, Yugi is asking you to share some conjunctive expressions. Yugi wants to be able to write nice, long, complicated sentences.

[4] mixiユーザー 10月29日 23:03

ひろきさん、酢七面鳥さん、ありがとうございます

Yes, that's part of what I want to learn. I also wanted to know whether I *should* write long, complicated sentences in Japanese. I mean, it could be uncommon in Japanese language or even considered a bad style that needs to be avoided.

By the way, in the second example, I was considering an abstract, hypothetical age and not my own. So that in conversation, it could apply to anyone.

Thanks again.

[6] mixiユーザー 10月30日 03:50

ああ、わかりました！

どうもありがとうございます！　　m(_ _)m

[7] mixiユーザー 10月31日 11:15

So, any tips on how to make mistake-free, long sentences for the adventurous Japanese learner?

Mine would be to start to try and read news articles online - you can use the firefox and rikaichan (see the community description) to read kanji and words you aren't familiar with. There are some LONG sentences in news articles (and news also has some stylized grammatical forms that take some getting used to).

I'm actually about to start 2 month long course that focuses on exactly this topic. I'll let you know how it goes ;-)

[8] mixiユーザー 10月31日 20:04

Hmm... interesting idea. I'll look around. ^_^

Thanks!

[9] mixiユーザー 10月31日 20:37

Have you ever looked into Japanese literature?
There are some very nice, long sentences...
In university, we had to translate a short story of Abe Kobo where there was like no sentence under three lines and we were all despairing trying to find out how the single parts relate to each other @_@

[10] mixiユーザー 10月31日 21:53

I'm not *that* good yet. I'd most likely be lost in all that kanji. ^_^

[11] mixiユーザー 11月01日 20:02

Various ways to construct compound sentences are discussed here:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/compound.html

For a look at compound sentences that this non-native speaker has made, you can read through ゆきの物語 at:
http://www.citlink.net/~richvh
(Full furigana available for those that need it.)

[12] mixiユーザー 11月04日 12:42

thank you for introducing me ゆきの物語

I really want to learn Japanese by reading a Japanese story but I am so lazy to open up a dicionary.

[13] mixiユーザー 11月04日 13:40

PEAR: In addition, might I suggest Rikaichan? http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1230268 It makes reading any Japanese website a snap!

[14] mixiユーザー 11月04日 15:44

みんなさん、どもうありがとう！

> PEARさん： welcome here and feel free to use the info *grin*
(If you're not familiar with Rikaichan, it's Firefox add-on.)

> 酢七面鳥さん： not that much of a snap, but it helps tremendously. I use it a lot and so far, it's a great tool.

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