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Originally Posted by steven
I'm not a native, but if you HAD to use tokidoki, I totally agree with this.
However, I'm sometimes not so sure about using tokidoki at all. While I love using "sometimes" in English, I don't feel that the Japanese-English dictionary equivilant gets nearly as much usage. I think that words like たまに, だいたい, ふつうに, etc get way more use... there meanings might not be the exact same as English's "Sometimes", but the usage is quite similar.
I might be crazy, but judging by the way that I've mostly heard tokidoki used, I'd say that it's better suited as like a one word response to a question.
ex)
Q:最近学校行っている？
A:ま、時々やね
or something like that.
Instead, "once a week" or something of that ilk sounds more natural.
週１回学校に行っている
That's just my experience though. I distinctly remember learning 時々(tokidoki) very early on and realizing that people seldom use it (like the word "seldom"... saying "hardly ever" would be a more natural choice). I'd like to hear what natives think about that idea though.
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If you are who I think you are (I may be getting posters mixed up), your Japanese is better than mine, so I'll defer to you in lieu of a native posting here.
Aren't you living in Japan and married to a Japanese woman?