A letter to my friend
Jan 22nd 2009 20:54
Hello
Thanks for your email.
I asked some foreigners living or being interested in Japan a question about Japanese news which was written in English.
I attached a few website address.
I watched a program on traveling on TV last night. It was a content that someone travelled to getting on the Ghan from Darwin to Alice Springs. If I make a trip to other countries, I'd like to ride on a local train.
When I stayed in Brisbane, I didn't have a chance to take a train.(When I only went to the movie world and an outlet mall, I took a train with my friends.)
Their destination is, of course, Uluru. It was absolutely brilliant rock!!
After climbing in the early morning, they watched sunrise from top of the rock. This is a really popular tour among Japanese.
I heard about New Year's celebration in Australia from my English teacher. Is it true that everyone in your country drinks alcohole too much, watches magnificent fireworks together? In Japan, it's usual to watch a special music show called "Kouhaku utagassen" on TV with family.
It's traditional to visit a shrine or temple to pray good luck.
Anyway,please take care of yourself
Regards,
Thanks for your email.
I asked some foreigners living or being interested in Japan a question about Japanese news which was written in English.
I attached a few website address.
I watched a program on traveling on TV last night. It was a content that someone travelled to getting on the Ghan from Darwin to Alice Springs. If I make a trip to other countries, I'd like to ride on a local train.
When I stayed in Brisbane, I didn't have a chance to take a train.(When I only went to the movie world and an outlet mall, I took a train with my friends.)
Their destination is, of course, Uluru. It was absolutely brilliant rock!!
After climbing in the early morning, they watched sunrise from top of the rock. This is a really popular tour among Japanese.
I heard about New Year's celebration in Australia from my English teacher. Is it true that everyone in your country drinks alcohole too much, watches magnificent fireworks together? In Japan, it's usual to watch a special music show called "Kouhaku utagassen" on TV with family.
It's traditional to visit a shrine or temple to pray good luck.
Anyway,please take care of yourself
Regards,
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I asked some foreigners who are living in or being interested in Japan a question about an article in the Japanese news which was written in English.
I have attached a few links. (to this email)
I watched a program about traveling on TV last night.
It was about someone who travelled to getting on the Ghan from Darwin to Alice Springs.
If I went to another country, I'd like to ride on a local train.
When I stayed in Brisbane, I didn't get the chance to take a train. I only took a train when I went to the Movie World and an outlet mall with my friends.
Anyway, for the people on the TV show, their destination was, of course, Uluru. (You started talking about something else, so you need to reintroduce this topic of the TV show)
It's an absolutely brilliant rock!!
After climbing in the early morning, they watched the sunrise from the top of the rock.
This is a really popular tour among the Japanese.
I heard about the New Year's Eve celebrations in Australia from my English teacher.
Is it true that everyone in your country drinks too much alcohol and watches magnificent fireworks together? (yes, except for me because I fell asleep)
In Japan, we usually watch a special music show called "Kouhaku utagassen" on TV with our families.
It's traditional to visit a shrine or temple to pray good luck on New Year's Eve. (this needed the time)
Thank you for checking my letter!
There were many mistakes in my sentences.(lots of missing "the")
I don't have any idea when I should use "the" or " a(an)".
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/grammar.html
Thank you so much!!
I'm going to study hard with this site.
I hope I write more excellent sentences.
Even though I live in Australia I still haven't been many places.
I've only been to Adelaide, Sydney and the Gold Coast.
Adelaide was really quiet and boring.
Sydney was not as good as Melbourne, haha
Gold Coast was really fun for a trip but I wouldn't live there.
(I live in Melbourne)
Me too! Even though I live in Japan, I haven't been lots of places in Japan.
I haven't watched Mt. Fuji in my life(I have watched it on TV.)
Have you been to Cairns before?
Cairns was a really small town but there were many beautiful seas!
I swam at the Green island with my friend.
A lot of Japanese people on this site you have been to Australia have been to Cairns. Why there?
A lot of media introduce about Cairns on TV or magazine. It's warm all year around.
Then,I guess Aussie are really friendly and Cairns is the nearest city in Australia from Japan so we go there. Maybe...
I just haven't really heard much about Cairns so I wasn't sure why so many people go there.
Recently a lot of foreiners go to the Tsukiji-ichiba(=a famous and the biggest fish market in Tokyo)to watch cooking fish. I think this is an unusual trip.
If they go there, they have to wake up early... I can't !
When I go to Japan I don't think I will go to the fish market to watch people cook. I wouldn't really want to get up early just to see people cook fish either. haha
My sister recently took a weekend trip to Cairns - she was bored silly!
I've only been to the airport on the way to Japan. And, I really hate the Gold Coast. It's only an hour from my house (I live in Brisbane) but it's so fake and tacky and ridiculously expensive. But there was a kebab shop there that sold great ful medames and other Egyptian foods.
I'd like to see Uluru, but I don't know if I'd climb it. I heard it's disrespectful to local Aborigines, who would only climb the rock as part of religious rites.
I don't really have any plans to go to Cairns, but I might just for the hell of it. haha
Uluru would be good, and I have also heard that it is disrespectful to climb it. But... I think if I was there I would want to climb it anyway.
In Sydney I had a really boring time. I went into that sky tower thing which wasn't very impressive. No better than the tallest building in any other city. But I was there New Years Eve near the bridge and that was pretty cool. I was only 12 so the fireworks still amazed me, haha.
I saw an advert for Brisbane on TV and it didn't make it look very fun, it showed an empty park then had a caption "Brisbane... a sleepy little town". I'm sure it can't be as bad as that advert made it look.
I was born in Sydney but I've only been back twice in 31 years. Last time I went, i thought it was fun, but I wouldn't want to stay longer than a week. It's too busy and crowded. But I loved their Chinatown - it's as big as Brisbane's entire CBD! So at least that was good.
Anyway, Brisbane's sleepy reputation is well-earned, I reckon! However, we are the nation's fireworks capital, that's true. I think we would set off fireworks at the opening of a car door!
Our Chinatown is just one long lane that stretches the length of the city. Not very big. We also have a sort of Japan town place. The second floor in one of the supermarkets is all Japanese.
At schoolies recently, my mate was hit in the eye with a firework, (drunk teens aren't good at aiming, haha). He was fine, just has a little scar on his eyelid but now he hates fireworks. I still like them, but I sort of get sick of fireworks getting canceled because of the heat.
Speaking of being on fire (as you do). I was on fire once, too! I had my hair burnt off up to my ears when I was a little girl at Carols by Candlelight at my primary school. I was in Grade One at the time.
Then one day, in like 1996 or something, this guy walks up to me at uni and says, "Hey, aren't you that girl whose hair was on fire at Carols by Candlelight?" I was speechless. Not only that someone recognised me from Grade One, but I hadn't even gone to school with the fella. It was his sister who had!
That's one's truly from Bizarro-zarro Land.
So how did this topic get to "situations where people I know are on fire"? That's just a day in the life of oddddeok, man...
You are excited and your sentences are extremely interesting!
I sometimes don't have any idea some words but most of contents understood.
Can I ask you a question?
カイリ・ダレルsan wrote"advert". Does this mean "advertisement"?
oddddeok san wrote"uni" Is this "university"?
When you write diary, letter or something, do you skip latterof words?
Anyway, thanks to your conversation, my reading writing and speaking skills will be improve and I understood well about Australia.
You are totally right!
Advert/ad = advertisement. We almost never say advertisement because it's too long. Personally, I usually say 'ad'.
Uni = university. Like 'ad', university is simply too long!
If you need to know the meanings of any words (I imagine Bizarro-zarro Land isn't in your dictionary!), just ask!
: P
And sometimes words that are very obvious are left out.