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02-22-2010, 12:29 PM

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がんばってね!
mmm...intersting
NI wrON GO!?
I like that!

btw
Are there many Wronglish in my writing?
Hee~ it's just a silly joke I made up.
You make a few small mistakes, but often it just seems like a typo rather than an error in your english.


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I see.
Did you find any eikaiwas that interested you?
Mmm, not yet. I've missed the AEON deadline. I need to keep looking.

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Yes Kamakura city is in kanagawa-ken!

Do you have hydrangeas in your country?
I heard that the colours of their petals are depends on the soils.
hahaha you saw とんび!

Thank you, I learnt new words!
flower as a verb
and とんび is called kites
It's a lovely place! I really enjoyed visiting it. Too bad I could only spend a day there.
We have hydrangeas. It's true about the soil as well. My grampa used to bury old iron under his hydrangea bushes so they would always flower red. The iron makes it acidic.I have kites living near me too, but they're much smaller and shyer than the ones in Japan!

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How many vowels in the English Alphabet?
a e i o u just 5 ?
or
a e i o u y 6?

Phonics is very difficult...
not simple... not simple at all!

ton
tone
one

these "o"s sound totally different right?!

How did you learn all the complicated rules of the phonics?
at school? or at home?
I would say that English has five vowels. In the past Y was also a vowel because it was completely interchangeable with 'I', but we don't use it like that now so much. It's now a constanant that sometimes acts like a vowel.

I grew up in a school where phonics were taught. As well as learning "ABC" as their names; "Ay bee cee" we had to learn sounds as well; "Ah, buh, kuh". We also did a lot of work on spelling and sounds. So, for example, one week would be all about words with a double o in them; "Choose, loose, moose, goose, etc" and we'd have to learn the pronunciation and the spelling. OUGH can be really difficult to learn as it has so many pronunciations. But mostly you learnt to tell by context how things are pronounced; like 'bow' and 'bow', 'bowed' and 'bowed'.
It's the same as '橋', '箸' and '端' in Japanese.
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