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Riah
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Riah asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 5 years ago

How do I write this in Japanese?

"(..but/however/actually) I don t live in Japan. I m (just) using social media to improve my reading in japanese."

or something similar to the phrase above

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  • 5 years ago
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    I'm not a native Japanese speaker so there are probably better ways or more natural ways of phrasing it, but I've come up with:

    でも、日本に住んでいません。

    日本語の読むのが上手になるためにソーシャルメディアだけ使います。

    Demo, nihon ni sundeimasen.

    Nihongo no yomu no ga jouzu ni naru tame ni sousharu media dake tsukaimasu.

    A breakdown for you:

    でも = but

    日本に = in Japan

    住んでいません = do not live

    日本語の読むのが= Japanese reading (literally "reading of Japanese") - the 'no ga' nominalizes the verb, making it a verb phrase and meaning I can use it in a sentence with another verb.

    上手になる = to become skillful/good at something (to become 'naru' needs to be in the basic form to use with 'tame ni')

    ために = in order to do something

    ソーシャルメディア = social media

    だけ = only

    使います = using

  • 5 years ago

    Google translate

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