*Questions about English*Help me Pleeeeeez
Thank you for visiting here, and my questions about English below are already solved (thank u !), but I have new ones and I'll be happy if you can help me there too.
and I'll be happy to help you with Japanese! So feel free to leave your questions! Have a lovely day everyone:) Hello everyone How are you today? I have some questions today...can you help? * Is "See you Wednesday!" OK? or it has to be "See you on Wednesday!" ? * How do you abbreviate "Thursday"? Mon Tue Wed Thu? or Thur? Fri Sat Sun Im just curious... * Is it true that you eat oysters in the months with R (I mean SeptemberR,OctobeR, NovenbeR and DecembeR) because it's good for you? I heard this on a TV programme in Japan. In that case, how about JanuaRy, FebruaRy, MaRch and ApRil ? Thank you and Have a good weekend:ywave: |
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Thank you Yuriyuri-san
Thank you Yuriyuri-san !
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How about you Yuriyuri san? Thu or Thur Which do you prefer to use? Someone told me it's wrong to write like this... Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun She said it has to be 3 letters "Thu"! so I just wonder which is common Thu or Thur... |
I would use "Thu" just because all of the others are 3 letters long.
But in my opinion "Thur" is not wrong. Something I forgot to mention is that I have also seen it as "Thr" I would have to say write in whatever way you like. If for some reason I thought "Thur" looked better, then that is how I would write it. |
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Thur is not wrong, but it is unusual. Thu is usually written on calendars because they limit all days to 3 letters. Just for consistancy.
On a side note, although it is usual to see 'Wed', you can also see 'Weds' sometimes... |
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You can eat another type of oyster called a 'rock oyster' (Crassostrea gigas) all year round. |
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Thank you Columbine-san
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Thank you very much! Actually I had some oysters for dinner yesterday:) 牡蛎鍋(かきなべ) have a good weekend Columbine:ywave: |
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Personally, I only eat oyster in months ending in Z. |
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Oh. I see what you did there. :) |
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Probably doesn't apply so much in Japan on the reasons I gave; the south is warm enough to cultivate warm-water species and they probably mostly have Pacific or Rock oysters anyway. On the flip side, possibly warmer waters cause more blooms. |
Thank you TalnSG san
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I checked a bit about oysters JWord It mentions about the months with R too. There are many kinds of oysters and some of them are good to eat in the months no R! |
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Do you eat oyster often? ************************** Oh I remember a story about oyster! A Supermarket sold the raw oysters, but some of the oysters weren't good to eat, so about 10 people who bought and ate them got a baaaad stomachache. The supermarket was supporsed to report about that to the city health centre, but they didn't want to lose their reputation, so the manager of the supermarket gave 100000yen to the each customer who bought the bad oysters to make them shut up! Guess what happened after!? I hope my English was good enough to explain this story... |
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My doctor once said I should have had more oysters for my health...but I didn't... I don't know about mussels much, I will "google japan" it later:) Thank you and have a nice weekend! Quote:
later....some of the customers kept buying oysters again, and threatening the supermarket!!! What do you think?! |
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You can probably only get New Zealand Green Lip mussels in Japan (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ミドリイガイ属). Ours are small and black; more like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ish_market.jpg and they have a mild, creamy taste. I like to steam them with a little wine and olive oil, and eat them with nothing but some bread. Like sakemushi clams! Do you like seafood much, yumyum? Quote:
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Days of week in English
Monday...Mon
Tuesday....Tues Wednesday....Wed Thursday.....Thur Friday....Fri Saturday....Sat Sunday.....Sun Hope this helps |
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I can help you if you want me just ask any thing you want & i'll reply to it.
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maijimsan thank you:)
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talk to you later:) |
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So...... do you like shellfish by the way;) ? |
Hello yumyumtimtam!
I will, a bit late, give my version of the two questions you originally asked. For us in Sweden, when we learn English in school (obligatory here in Sweden) we learn to abbrevieate the Weekdays with THREE letters all the way. So a Swede would write Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun in English. The oysterstory was very interesting but since Sweden is not a big oyster/mussels-eating country, I had never heard of it. For us oysters are more of a delicasy rather then everyday food. The "finer people" eat them. :D Shellfish such as shrimps and crayfish are much more common and eaten a lot. We even have a crayfish celebration where we gather around, some have fished their own crayfish and have a feedingfrenzy and tend to get as drunk as possible! Yeah, we moslty use the crayfish party for an excuse to get extremely drunk! I personally think only our midsummerfestvial is the only day where we actually get even more drunk. Sometimes I think the russians learned their alcohol-habits from us swedes... :rolleyes: |
hiya
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I didn't believe the doctor but he was right too! He was a doctor but joking too much... so I didn't take it seriously. Quote:
Interesting! When I get shellfish, I freez them first. Yes,I like seafood. I like seavegetable (seaweed) a lot! Do you know nori(a kind of seavegetable) columbine-san? Quote:
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Yes, I know what nori is. :) I like it a lot too! When I lived in Oxford i was able to buy it in little packets for a snack, but now I live in the countryside, that kind of flavoured nori is hard to find. :< All I can get is kombu or nori for making sushi. |
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I met a few Swedish people and most of them speak English very very well. The first Swedish people I met...3 girls, backpackers totally lost at the station. They were trying to talk to the train people (how do you call them? they are working near the ticket machines)...but there were none could speak English there... When I said "May I help you?" They went like... "oh pleeeeeeez." "oh my!" screaming! You know what? I was waiting for a friend from England at the station, but I got 4 foreign backpackers to bring back to my apartment that day. and now, my workmates are Swedish too! Quote:
so...Sweden is a big ost eating country? Quote:
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I like fun people, but I didn't enjoy his joke...so I didnt go back there. You are lucky to have a nice doctor. It's not easy to find a good doctor in Japan... maybe not only in my country, but... right now Im searching for a good dentist but haven't found any yet... Quote:
put a little bit of soysauce on the nori for sushi, then put it in the toaster! you can put sesami oil too! you can get crunchy nori fresh from the toaster! :) |
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I went to the dentist in Japan once, because I thought I'd lost a filling (じゅうてん?) and I was surprised because there was only one treatment room, and everyone was in it all at the same time. Is that common? In England, you always go by yourself into a private room for treatment. Put the nori in the toaster? Oooh, that's a great idea! I'll try it. Thank you! |
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But then I take things to illogical extremes ;) |
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sorry about my English
hi there,
sorry about my English, forgive me. so... now you've got the idea right, right? for one nori sheet, maybe one table spoonful of soysauce if you have a brush (like...for painting), it will be the best way to spread the sauce thin then put it into the toaster (oh so you call it toaster oven!?) for 1 min will be enough or maybe less than 1 min. Please try it and tell me how it went! by the way... do you know "TimTam"s? can you teach me how should have explained? |
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I'll try and buy some nori soon. I have a brush I keep specially for cooking. It's useful when making pies and getting the pastry to stick together. Tim-tams are those Australian cookies right? I've never tried them, but I know a lot of people like them. I guess you must like tim-tams a lot! Maybe if you had described the "toaster" a bit it would have helped; but you weren't to know that 'toaster ovens' and 'toasters' are different in Canada and England. Some words are very interchangeable. Like, we don't have toaster ovens much in the UK, just bread toasters and a 'grill' which is an electric wire that gets red hot (or a gas flame); you put the food in a tray underneath it. But a 'grill' in America normally means a BBQ. |
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Some Japanese people call it "oven-toaster", but myself, call it just " toaster"...cos I don' t see many vertical toasters around me here in Japan...so... well.... (this is my "excuse") Many people use vertical ones in your country? Quote:
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I have a lisence teaching home economics, but I am not good at cooking and I don't really like cooking... Im lucky cos people around me, they are good at it and cook for me! Hope you like that nori! Quote:
I love Timtams, but my favourite is chotolate&mint biscuits... I can't find any in Japan... Oh by the way, what's the difference between cookie and biscuit? Quote:
In Japan, I think...many people have their toaster ovens (In Japanese,Oven-toaster)... I use it for toasting bread of course but also for "もちmochi" oh, I want to ask you about microwave ovens. I heard some people call it just "microwave"... do you call it like that or "microwave oven"? In Japanese we call it 電子レンジ(microwave range). and it's called レンジ for short. (is "for short" right English?) |
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It's hard to say what the difference is. In the UK, cookies are always soft and chewy and biscuits hard and crisp, but in America Oreo's are called cookies and they're hard. Sometimes too, "biscuits" in america are more like a kind of bread, but that's what we'd call a 'scone' in england. :/ It's all rather confusing. Quote:
I just call it a "microwave" because it's shorter and easier. I think most people do that. Yep, "for short" is correct. |
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I heard JET prpgramme is the best way to work in Japan as an English teacher The JET Programme--Official Homepage of The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme-- I had a few friends used to work for those private English schools, but... Well...anyway, I say "just go for it!" If I were you, I will apply many companies and see what I get! Quote:
when you get a job in Japan, please live near my place;) we can have a party every weekend! everyone cooks, not me... but I will clean up! Quote:
you know... I can find chocolate mint, but not the biscuit ones... I am going to Australia in a few months so Im going to buy a lot of them! Quote:
I asked my friends about it too, but everyone has got their own opinions about it and I still don't know the differences... My image of cookies are smaller and thinner. and biscuits are bigger or thicker. I love scone too! you know what? it's midnight but I am hungry... Quote:
toasted mochi with Natto and mayo&Soysauce with nori! Quote:
but how about "micro" ? too short? have a lovely day columbine-san! おおきに;) |
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Almost like a rectangular Ring Ding: http://slicedbreadtwo.com/images/uploads/ringding.jpg Quote:
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If it doesn't fall apart when I dip in my tea, I count it as a biscuit! Scones are lovely. I really like them with homemade jam. Quote:
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hahah, いえいえ〜 |
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