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Memorize this paragraph until you can say it fluently.
すらすら言えるようになるまでこの文を暗記しなさい。
I didn't order this.
これは注文していません。
Some passengers complained about the service.
乗客の中にはサービスについて文句を言うものもいた。
This sentence has seven words in it.
これは7語から成る文です。
These sentences are not directly linked.
この文は直接つながっていない。
A cultural heritage is handed down to posterity.
文化遺産は後世に伝えられる。
Your essay has some mistakes, but as a whole it is very good.
君の作文にはいくつか間違いがあるが、全体としてみると、非常によくできているよ。
And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"
I bought many books in Classical Japanese and I'm studying them, but it's hard, isn't it?
古文の本を何冊か買って勉強してるがやっぱりムズいな。
He asked for a beer.
彼はビールを注文した。
Translate every line of this text.
この本文の全ての行を翻訳しなさい。
Please explain the grammar of 'as may be'.
as may be の文法解釈を教えてください。
It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.
That translation is said to be true to the original.
あの翻訳は原文に忠実だそうだ。
He devoted himself to many cultural activities.
彼は多くの文化活動に専念した。
I belong to the literary circle.
僕は文学の団体に所属している。
She first came into contact with Japanese culture last year.
彼女は昨年始めて日本文化に触れた。
Love is the miracle of civilization.
愛は文明の奇跡である。
When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.