電気自動車 / Electric Car / でんきじどうしゃ

こんにちは。英語があったので勉強になりました。
NEVって何の略ですか？

IRL=in real lifeなんですね。初めて知りました。

trueth:
> NEVって何の略ですか？

はい、Neighborhood Electric Vehicleです。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEV
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ネイバーフッド・エレクトリック・ビークル

What does your friend use the NEV for IRL ?

trueth and mayumayu,
Thanks for the corrections.

I'm not sure how I ended up typing アフィリエート. I definitely meant インターネット.

I'm adding cards to my spaced repetition system for the following:
実物 (じつぶつ) - real thing, original
持って行く (もっていく) - take (something somewhere), have (something)
住んで (すむ) - live, reside
写真 (しゃしん) - photograph
実際に (じっさいに) - currently, in practice
友人 (ゆうじん) - friend (more formal than 友達)

Also, I didn't know 初めて could go before a verb like that. Can other -て forms do that too (e.g., 要る -> 要ました -> 要まして before another verb to indicate the need to do that), or is it unique to 初めて?

> でも、インディアナに住んでいます。

Twice: once when I was a little kid, and then later I attended college there. But right now I live in Ohio. My friend still lives in the community where the college is. Thus, I haven't seen his car in person, only pictures on the internet.

... and, I'm going to turn in now, but I'll check back in the morning in case there are more comments.

私も実生活では見たことがないです。

> What does your friend use the NEV for IRL?

Just for driving around town. It can't (legally) go anywhere with a speed limit higher than 35, so he can't take it to Wal-Mart, for instance (because to get there from his house you have to drive on Route 30), but he can drive it to work (he works in the same town where he lives), and his wife can take it to the grocery or pick up the kids from school, that sort of thing. They have at least one other car too, and a motorcycle, so this isn't a problem.

I'm not sure what the one I saw in Galion is used for. Galion's a pretty compact city (small yards, not very much space for the number of people who live here), and thus you can walk to pretty much anywhere in town in under twenty minutes. So I'm not really sure what the point of an NEV would be for someone who lives here. Maybe the owner just thinks it's nifty, or something. They just got it, obviously; otherwise I would have seen it before.

How's that?
其れは同ですか?
それはどうですか?

Hello,again.
Your journal which you correct by yourself is almost perfect except a last sentence.
「インターネットで彼の車の撮影を見ました【。】が実際に【は】見ていません。」

初めて is an adverb.
Adverbs can go before verbs.
e.g., 早く（はやく）起きる（おきる）
早く is an adverb and 起きる is a verb. It means that “wake up early.”
I’m not a Japanese teacher and I don’t understand exactly what you’re asking because of my English ability.
So, I’m sorry if this can’t help you.

I’ve noticed something else about your writing.
I think that you don’t use end punctuation（。） and comma （、）correctly.
You need to write end punctuation in the end of a sentence.
It differs from English.
e.g. インターネットで彼の車の写真を見ました。実際には見たことはありません。(It’s correct)
インターネットで彼の車の写真を見ました、実際には見たことはありません。(It’s incorrect.)

If you want to write those two sentences as one sentence, you need to write “が、”.
e.g. インターネットで彼の車の写真を見ましたが、実際には見たことはありません。

Do you know what I mean?

> 初めて is an adverb. Adverbs can go before verbs.

Oh, okay. I was thinking it might be a form of 初める, but that's probably just because my knowledge of Japanese is so limited. (It's obviously based on the same root, and the same kanji, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a form of the same word. I was just guessing.)

> If you want to write those two sentences as
> one sentence, you need to write “が、”.

Ah, 成る程. That makes sense. There are roughly analogous rules in English, actually.

Last week,I ride a taxi of Electical car.
Electical car feel very silent and smooth.

Today I learned that NEV stands for "Neighborhood Electric Vehicles."