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I haven’t played any of the Persona games, so I wouldn’t even know HOW to post spoilers for you. =P
Hmm. Seems the missionaries I had in mind are not, in fact, in Japan at the moment. Perhaps they’re on a homestay right now (i.e. they’re back here in Australia resting and training and so forth). Though come to think of it, I DID see one of them last week, so that’s probably likely.
There are missionaries still in Kobe, though. None that I know personally, though. For example: http://www.cms.org.au/missionary/eastasia/brad-and-michelle-jackson
As for getting a visa, as I understand it, if you want to get a working visa in Japan, you need to have at least a bachelor degree or equivalent – that’s a requirement of the Japanese government. I confess I’ve never looked into the exact requirements, though. Your best bet there is probably to contact your nearest Japanese embassy.
Aha, whoops. It’s been five months and I never responded to this. (Actually, I’m kind of impressed that it’s been a whole five months already). My bad.
1. Pretty much. Or “Australia-US relations”
2. Not quite. It’s ordinarily a noun, but here it’s functioning as an honorific. “Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull”.
3. Correct
4. Correct
5. Here, the で basically means “and” – 強固で is the て-form of the な-adjective 強固, and you need to use the て-form to join series of adjectives (or nouns).
6. Little bit of a trick question here, because I kind of didn’t expect you to have enountered this type of language before. It’s a formal literary form called the である form (called this because the copula is である instead of です). There’s a few structures and words that are only ever used with this form. No, you’d never speak like that – despite the use of plain-form verbs, it’s a formal style, and it’s only ever used in writing.
7. Nice translation, but it doesn’t quite flow. Keeping in mind that it’s a newspaper as well, I’d go with something more like this:Australia-US Relations “Strong and Intimate”, Says Prime Minister Turnbull
After Mr Donald Trump won the US presidential election, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appeared on the ABC’s “730″ program on Novermber 9th to state that the relationship between Australia and the US is still “strong and intimate”.Or something along those lines. My newspaper-speak is not really all that strong. =)
Hope you’re still studying, trunklayer.
Welcome!
Christian mission? Think I know some missionaries who live in Kobe, actually. Or rather, I know some missionaries in Japan – I think they live in Kobe.
Three months? Nice. Gonna take you a bit longer than just “the spring of 2018″ for a world tour if you’re spending three months in Japan, though. =P
Got any particular places you’re hoping to visit?
Welcome back!
It’s こんにちは, though. =P
Welcome! That’s a pretty extensive list of languages. =)
Welcome! Do one step at a time, and you can accomplish anything. =)
Welcome! When are you going to Japan? Got any places in particular you’re intending to visit? =)
Welcome!
This post took a curious turn somewhere in the middle. =P
Welcome! They say the hardest languages to learn are English, Japanese and Arabic, and it seems like you’ve already got a pretty firm grasp on English. =)
Welcome!
Concidentally, you just joined right after another member who’s interested in going to Japan to study playing the shamisen. =)
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Mount Fuji made me cry, though in all fairness, I may have been suffering from mild altitude sickness at the time. =)
There’s a couple of differences. Firstly, ために can be used with any verb in the main clause, while V-stem+に can only be used with motion verbs. Unless it’s pretty clear from the context, you can’t use ために without a destination (e.g. 食べ物を買うためにスーパーに行きます), while V-stem+に has no such restriction.
In general, though, you’d usually only use ために if the purpose is significant or important – which is to say, going to school to learn Japanese is important, while going to to cafe to get a drink is not. It wouldn’t be ungrammatical to use ために for the latter, just a bit odd.
