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[kittydesade]

You can use the te-form of a verb plus the helping verb みる to express the idea of "doing something tentatively or "trying something." You are not sure what the outcome of your action will be, but do it and see what effect it might have.

漢字がわからなかったので、日本人の友だちに聞いてみました。
I did not know the kanji, so I tried asking a Japanese friend of mine.

友だちがあの店のケーキはおいしいといっていましたから、今度食べてみます。
My friends say that the cake at the shop is good. I will have a piece one of these days.

Repond to the following sentences using ～てみる
この服はすてきですよ。
じゃあ、着て見ます。

１．経済の授業はおもしろかったですよ。
じゃあ、とてみます。

２．あの映画を見て泣きました。
じゃあ、みてみます。　（みてみません？）

３．この本はかんどうしました。
じゃあ、読んでみます。

４．このケーキはおいしいですよ。
じゃあ、食べてみます。

５．とうきょうはおもしろかったですよ。
じゃあ、行ってみます。

６．このCDはよかったですよ。
じゃあ、聞いてみます。

７．このじしょはべんりでしたよ。
じゃあ、買ってみます。


I have a goddamn electric guitar. A Squier Strat, but it's a goddamn strat-type electric guitar. Victory is bloody well mine. It was $80 after tax. It also is missing two strings, probably could use all the strings replaced, and needs a cord and an amp of course. But the pickups work, five way switch, three single coil pickups and two humbucker settings. The only thing fracking up the knob tuners is dust. And I need to learn how to string an electric guitar anyway. My shopping list, for my own purposes: strap, strings, gig bag, spare cord?, amp, capo for the acoustic, could probably use a number of spare picks just to keep around. Noise-canceling headphones for the not annoying the entire apartment complex.

And, you know, then I spent most of the evening noodling around on the guitar. Oops. But the Elf Lord left his Peavey little amp here, with the cord, so now I can make a horrible racket if I so choose. Which amuses me way more than it probably should. We put on two new strings, tuned the whole thing from last to first string, tuned it AGAIN because the guitar missing a few strings meant the whole thing was a bit confused, poor Bastard (yes, I'm testing out names for the guitar, shaddup. My acoustic is my Baby, and the other one... dunno.) and then we tuned it a third time after the Elf Lord adjusted the bridge setup a bit. And I learned some about harmonics, how to restring an electric guitar (dead simple) and some about what the twiddly knobs on the amplifier do.

You guys, I cannot even tell you how stoked I am to be doing this. I AM SO EXCITE. IRON MAN RIFFS WILL BE MINE. OH YES, THEY WILL BE MINE.

Still don't know the May I Help You riff.

Russian, actually, now that I look at the chapter layout, looks eminently do-able within a couple of weeks, if I do type it all up ahead of time. The rules, that is. Nine grammar points of which four are simple one-exercise things and two are review things, one is a long-ass time telling thing which will probably take the longest, and I can't remember which category the other two fall in. All in all, I'm at the I can't believe I'm doing this stage. Hi! My name is Jag, and I'm an overacheiver. How you doin?