英語★できる人＆勉強してる人コミュのLet's write English Diary!

-At first:-
Now I'm studying in English communication school,
and I have to write an English diary every week by homework.
So I try to write it in mixi, too.
If you find an error in it, please tell me and correct!

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2004.08.13 - Summer vacation -

From the end of this week, I was in summer vacation.
So I met my friend in Tenjin, Fukuoka city on this day.
She was waiting in Solaria Plaza building
and I took her to have lunch in Chibo,
the delicious "Okonomiyaki" (Japanese pancake) restaurant.

She said to me with a sigh, "I'd like to marry, soon."
(Important: She didn't say "I'd like to marry with me" - aha!)

Last week, she met a man.
His parents satisfied her, so they wanted their son
to merry with her, and made them meet.

He proposed to her, but she canceled.
Because he said to her,"You should decide in this month."
And she thought that she couldn't decide only in a month
such an important thing - to merry with someone and live
for a long time.

I said to her, "Can't you be with me?" with a little smile.
She didn't answer clearly, but she smiled and said,
"Thank you very much for your confession."
Still now we're keeping good company with each other.

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[1] mixiユーザー 08月20日 13:37

Pretty good English, there, kiyo. Minor 直訳 here and there, but overall very understandable.

[2] mixiユーザー 08月20日 13:43

Agreed. I believe writing a diary in English is a very good practice. You'll never be short of ideas, and you won't have to worry about bad grammar or wrong words as you'll be the only one to read it (unless you decide to make it public like here).

[3] mixiユーザー 08月20日 16:08

Woa! You're a good writer, it's really funny (and fun to read). Good luck with her ;) hope it all works out.

It's all well written, except I dont know what this means: 「His parents satisfied her」
That means that she liked his parents. You probably mean that his parents liked her, so it would be "His parents WERE satisfied WITH her".
"His parents were satisfied with her, so they wanted their son to marry with her, and made them meet."
I hope this helps! Write another diary entry, I want to know how it goes with the girl (笑）

[5] mixiユーザー 08月22日 13:30

> "His parents satisfied her" could be taken in a sexual way, if you want to read it that way :P

That'd be the kind of sordid details I'd rather not get into. ;)

[7] mixiユーザー 08月22日 14:54

Haha. Naughty.

You guys are too harsh! I kind of like "confession," it makes it sound like he's had some burning desire for her that he wanted to get off his chest ;)

まみ姉さん、だいはどさん、write a diary post!

[8] mixiユーザー 08月22日 15:39

I would love to if I had anything exciting to write about. :(

[10] mixiユーザー 08月22日 17:12

It sure sounds like a woman's name, doesn't it? Can you just use your ATM/debit card, or do the Japanese supermarkets not accept debit cards yet?

Whenever I go to Japan, I have a heck of a hard time finding a comparable ATM machine that accepts my U.S. ATM card to withdraw money. OTOH, I had no problem using it to withdraw money from my bank account in the Philippines, Singapore or Thailand. So much for Japan being a "developed" country. :(

[12] mixiユーザー 08月23日 01:00

So you can use your credit cards without signing? That does sound a bit scary... though come to think of it, hardly anyone cares to check the signature.

A friend of mine once decided to have a little fun and signed the bill charged to my credit card at a restaurant. He did put my name down, but it looked totally different than my own signature. It went through!

[13] mixiユーザー 08月23日 07:15

I often use "safeway club card" (there is a supermarket called safeway, and if you have the card you get some discount) but I lost it. So I'm using my roommate's card.

So whenever I use the card, the staff in the register looks at me and say "Thank you for shopping at safeway, Mr Wonderly" and she looks at me again, and like "wtf, you don't look like "Mr Wonderly" at all" but she doesn't say anything :) muahahahahah

Also I often use my business partner's card since I have to buy so many crap... but nobody has stopped me though. strange.

[14] mixiユーザー 08月23日 09:37

FYI, you can give them your phone number instead of using your friend's card. They can look up your information with it. :)

[15] mixiユーザー 08月23日 20:36

2004年08月22日
13:30 5: だいはど
That'd be the kind of sordid details I'd rather not get into. ;)

2004年08月22日
14:05 6: まみ姉
I know, but I couldn't resist ;)

Sorry I don't understand upper 2 sentence. Please teach me what those mean.

だいはどさんの文のget intoの意味がよくわかりません。辞書的には中に入る・・・ですが・・

まみ姉さんの文は、直訳すると、「私は知っている　しかし、私は抵抗できなかった・・・。」？？どうも、文脈上意味がわかりません。

satisfy　の意味が、性的満足も意味するんじゃないかという会話の流れはわかるのですが、それ以降がどうもわかりません。

[17] mixiユーザー 08月24日 02:55

補足すると…：

まみ姉さんのご指摘どおり、"His parents satisfied her" は「彼の両親は彼女を(性的に)満足させることが出来た」と取れますよね。そうなるとかなりヤバい内容になるんで、それに対して私は「そういう話には深入りしないほうがよさそう…」という感じで答えたのです。もちろんまみ姉さんも私もジョークで言ってるんですけどね。(＾＾)

まみ姉さんの "I couldn't resist" は、とてもよく使われる決まり文句です。

[18] mixiユーザー 08月24日 08:55

なるなる成る程・・・。王様の翻訳（翻訳ソフト）だけでは、だめですねー。ありがとうございました。

[19] mixiユーザー 09月09日 22:19

頑張れ頑張れ

[20] mixiユーザー 09月09日 22:48

kiyo さん
a great diary!
good luck with the girl!

my diary,,,

this week,Osaka(,where i live ) had earthquakes,
those were quite big actually,

at that time,
i was just getting off from the car with my dad,
and i thought "ahhh? the car is sinking into the ground?"
while my dad thought "gosh, my car finally got broken , the engine doesnt go off?"

and then ,we saw the tree on the street was shaking, to find out that was an
earthquake.

got in the house , and found out my mom and my elder sister were hiding
themselves under the table,,,,haha
(true story)

[21] mixiユーザー 09月10日 00:15

Woa! That sounds scary. I'm glad you're okay, ijiad. :)

[22] mixiユーザー 09月10日 00:39

thanks, now i 'm still feeling like that the ground is floating in a way,,,
maybe the balancing problem...

those earthquakes were not usual ones , i guess.
i felt the horizontal shakes , not vertical.

yes, i am okay.
thanks for your comment!

[23] mixiユーザー 09月10日 04:19

Yeah, earthquakes can be scary.

Reminds of a few years ago, when we had a moderate quake here in Seattle. It was 6.8 or something on the Richter scale but nothing compared to some of the big ones I'd experienced in Japan.

It must have been catastrophic for most Seattleites, though. I was in the office when the quake hit us. It shook us pretty good since the office was on the 29th floor. I heard my co-workers running around screaming. Some were even crying after it was over. The CEO decided to let us all go home!

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