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Today I chatted with my American friend on Skype for the first time almost in two years in English. He was one of my conversational partners two years ago and we had been chatting almost every day for two years.
After he got a girlfriend, he quit studying Japanese and talking to me.
After his circumstances changed, he went back to studying Japanese.
When I was talking to him, he was a high school boy, but now he turned a college boy. Even though he was a high school boy, he was one of my best conversational partners. He had been studying Japanese so hard and he was one of my motivation to keep on studying English. I think finding good conversational partners is very difficult because we need the similar levels of motivation for the languages that we have been studying, and even though we can find such the person, it's also hard for us to keep on talking for a long time.
That's why I'm so glad he comes back to study Japanese again!
After he got a girlfriend, he quit studying Japanese and talking to me.
After his circumstances changed, he went back to studying Japanese.
When I was talking to him, he was a high school boy, but now he turned a college boy. Even though he was a high school boy, he was one of my best conversational partners. He had been studying Japanese so hard and he was one of my motivation to keep on studying English. I think finding good conversational partners is very difficult because we need the similar levels of motivation for the languages that we have been studying, and even though we can find such the person, it's also hard for us to keep on talking for a long time.
That's why I'm so glad he comes back to study Japanese again!
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I would also like to be Good Chat friends.
My e-mail is maverickbc at gmail and my Skype address is maverickbc
I use Facebook for chat though but Lang-8 won't allow me to post it here. If you write me at my e-mail address I can send you my Facebook page link :)
Have a Great Night
Smiles
Ron in Vancouver BC Canada
My Skype name is yumiyumayume and if you wanna voice chat with me, add me because I don't think text chatting improves our comprehension skills. I don't want any friends who can just text chat with me.
-Yumi
HaHa, I didn't realize :) I agree, voice chatting is the best way. I also have a phone number in Tokyo that rings on my cell phone here in Vancouver (I use for my work usually) and I can call Japan for free from my home office :) Let's talk soon :)
Ron :)
Yes, I have Skype but when I talk with friends in Japan often Skype is not clear and has problems, but we could try it for sure. I have it on my iPhone as well.
Have a Super Great Day
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Ron :)
Skype maverickbc
He was one of my conversational partners two years ago, and we had been chatting almost every day for two years.
It's good to add a comma into long sentences. It makes them a bit easier to read.
After he got a girlfriend, he quit studying Japanese and stopped talking to me.
Adding in the word "stopped" makes the sentence clearer than leaving it as it is. While you can use quitting to act upon the combined tasks of studying japanese and talking, it is awkward. By adding in stopped, you can clearly express what you mean and make the sentence more natural.
When I first started talking to him, he was in high school, but now he is in college.
We don't really use the terms "high school boy" or "college boy." We would almost always replace "boy" with "student"
Even though he was a high school student, he was one of my best conversational partners.
See above note.
He had been studying Japanese seriously at the time, and he was one of the people who motivated me to keep on studying English.
I think finding good conversational partners is very difficult because the two people need to have similar levels of motivation, the languages that we have been studying and even if one can find such a (person) partner, it is hard for them to keep studying together for a long time.
When making generalizations, it's best to use the third person, rather than using the first or second person point of view.
That's why I'm (very) glad he started studying Japanese again!