"What languages do you know, Tom?" "C , Java and a little PHP. What about you, Mary?" "French, Japanese and Hebrew."の英語

"You should write a novel or something." "Nah, I don't think so. I can't see myself coming up with anything good, anyways."

"I just ran into a friend today who had transferred schools a while back." "Cool!" "Yeah. Then, we talked about movies, and they suggested we go watch one sometime soon. Is that OK?" "Sure! But, is this friend a boy or a girl?" "....."

"What are you studying at university?" "Philosophy" "Philosophy? How is that going to be useful?" "So that I can learn about the importance of things which have no use."

One day my youngest daughter abruptly asked, “Mum, why do men swear so much?" I played for time. “Um—do they?"

If you care about someone, you'll become friends! If you care about each other, you'll become many times stronger! And your bravery will be unlimited! In this world are many unpleasant things, many sad things, and many that, which you can't handle by yourself. But while you have people you care about, you just can't fall! You just cannot surrender! While you have those people, about which you care, you will stand up again and again! That's why Hero is absolutely undefeatable!

By the way, is there some blog or column online that you check often? Well, it doesn't have to be online; magazines are fine, too.

"Just wait 10 seconds. I'll get the thing you left." "Okay. I'll count to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! Hey, are you done yet?" "Hang on, you count too fast!"

When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.

"I guess you just slept through our last class." "Yeah, I wasn't able to keep myself awake any longer. Do you think the teacher noticed?" "They didn't seem to notice, but you completely dozed off, so all the boys were laughing about it." "Yikes. That's probably even worse."

"Shall we go for a glass of wine somewhere?" "I've got to go home. My husband and children are waiting to have their dinner with me."

When I was a university student in Kyoto, I was doing part-time jobs, skipping classes, and having fun with my friends, just like other students.

"It's cold, isn't it? With it being this cold, you'd want to go into hibernation, wouldn't you?" "Eh, the colder weather stresses me out, but I'd rather sleep through the summer."

"Say something in French." "Say something like what?" "Anything's fine." "Bonjour. Merci. There, I said something." "What, you're so boring!" "Didn't you say I could say anything?"

If you eat with someone you like, everything is delicious, if you eat with someone you don't like, everything is nasty. If you eat alone, you can't taste anything at all.

"I rather like heights. You know, in my last life I must have been ... an aeroplane?" "Usually that would be 'bird' there."

I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.

"You speak Spanish at home, and English at school, right?" "Right." "What about when you play basketball with your friends? Do you speak English or Spanish?" "English. My friends understand Spanish a bit, but all they know how to say is swear words."

"Mmmmn ... maybe I'll have a hair of the dog." "Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning. You ought to be able to eat this OK."

Um, so you don't understand? Well, I just assigned this one specifically to you because if these problems are all too simple, anything else would be insulting to you. Remember it if you have time.

A boy and a girl came in. I spoke to the boy, who seemed to be older than the girl.

A girl quietly approached the pair's workplace. The girl did so quietly — though to be accurate, she was a mute.

His book is oriented towards children, but here and there are words that he has never seen before. He doesn't know whether it is just him, or if they are just simply difficult words, but he finds them not worth the effort to look up in a dictionary, so he just keeps on reading.

"Mom, why do you like this house so much?" "Hmm, I don't really know why." "What?" "Oh, never mind that. Now eat your food."

For example, when two players say "a little bit thinner," one player may mean 0.3 millimeters thinner while another player may mean 0.4 millimeters.

Our child was born just after April 1st , so he entered school one year later than our neighbor's son who was born in February.

"Feels like I haven't seen you in forever. You doing good?" "Yeah, I'm good. I've been so busy lately I haven't had much time to spare. Right now I'm at a hospital in the waiting room, and I had a bit of time so I thought I'd shoot you a message."

When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".

When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "This won't do".

"You need to return home soon.", "huh, just give me a little more time to play!", "Sorry, but if we are late I will get scolded by your mama"

"Say something in French." "I don't know what to say to that." "Well, try saying 'I don't know what to say to that' in French."