Sunday
Spent most of the day revising.
I’m sure we’ll have a couple of ’suprise’ tests tomorrow, so I want to make sure I’m prepared.
Mama-san was still at work this morning, so she couldn’t help me revise.
I took some tests on the computer, and wrote a few essays.
Mama-san came home in the afternoon, and was very tired, so I made dinner for her, and let her rest. Grandpa had called so she called him back in the evening once she woke up.
Later we watched some television together and she was telling me that the car accident people on the news had been taken to her hospital but their prognosis looked good. She told me some of the symptoms to see if I could guess the best course of treatment I got four out of five.
It’s me again! I hope you’re not upset, but seeing how dedicated you are to learning, I don’t think you’ll be. Where you say, “she was telling me that the car accident people on the news had been taken to her hospital”, this phrase is very confusing. It’s not clear at first that you’re talking about people who were in the car accident that was on the news.
I wasn’t able to catch the news, myself. Who was it in the accident?
- S. V.
Comment by Seres Victoria — October 14, 2004 @ 3:05 pm
I’m not upset with you at all. We don’t have the opportunity much to interact with native speakers, and I don’t think we will until we’re in High School so I appreciate very much that you are helping me.
What would be a better way to phrase it? and if you don’t mind me asking where in England are you from? How is it you came to stumble across my journal?
Comment by Ami — October 14, 2004 @ 10:45 pm
I’m a London girl. ^_^ /,, My parents are Japanese who moved there, but they want me to go to school in Japan to make sure I’m comfortable with my ‘other native culture’.
Your English is very good, by the way. But instead of “she was telling me that the car accident people on the news had been taken to her hospital”, I would say “she was telling me that the people who were in the car accident that was on the news had been taken to her hospital”.
Comment by Seres Victoria — October 21, 2004 @ 5:05 am
Ah, thank you. I will make a note of the proper phrasing.
London, that’s the capital of England, isn’t it? are you living here in Tokyo now? or somewhere else in Japan?
Comment by Ami — October 21, 2004 @ 9:52 pm
Yes, it is. ^_^
I’m in Tokyo, but don’t ask me where! I get lost too easily. How do you ever find your away around here? ^_^; I’ll get used to it, but I’m still settling in.
- S. V.
Comment by Seres Victoria — October 22, 2004 @ 5:18 am
To be honest I really don’t go out all that much, except to a few certain places that I know very well, otherwise I would have to take a map or rely on someone else to guide me.
Comment by Ami — October 23, 2004 @ 2:28 pm