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New Year's Day ist der erste Januar.
Heute ist der zweite Januar.
Martin Luther King's Day ist der sechzente Januar.
Valentine's Day ist der vierzehnte Februar.
Saint David's day ist der erste März.

Three new ways to make a request. They differ in the degrees of politeness shown to the person you are asking.

We use the te-form of a verb + いただけませんか　to make a polite request. This is more appropriate than　ください when you request a favor from a non-peer or from a stranger.

ちょっとてつだっていただけませんか。

The te-form + くれませんか is a request which is roughly equal in the degree of politeness to ください.　くれませんか of course comes from the verb くれる. This is probably the form most appropriate in the host-family context.

ちょっとまってくれませんか。

You can use the te-form + ください, or the te-form by itself, to ask for a favor in a very casual way. This is good for speaking with members of your peer group.

それとってくれない？　それとって。

Сначала я боялась, что все будут говорить только по-испански и что мне будет трудно общаться.
At first I was afraid that everyone would speak Spanish and that it would be hard for me to communicate. [Adverb/adverbial phrase?] [subject] [verb] [I can't think off the top of my head what part of speech 'that' is and I can't think with this headache and people in my freaking space.

I have a headache, the furnace is out, and maintenance is crawling all over the apartment fixing it. This is not my best morning ever.

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*startled blink* I can still read some of that Japanese. Not ALL of it. But some.

Also, I mention as a helpful reminder (since I'm never at my best with logic first thing in the morning) -- heat is good, so kill the noisy disruptive monkeys AFTER they make the magic warm work again. *nods solemnly*

And now I run to work.

Isn't it a great feeling? At least it is for me.

Oh bah. Oh, all right, I suppose that is the proper order of things. ;)

It's an astonishing one! But encouraging, since it means that I'm not ACTUALLY just pitching my learnings into the gaping maw of a black hole....

I'm glad you've got heat again!

Languages, at least in my experience, stick longer than most other things. The problem is you don't encounter them much outside of a schoolroom context, and they usually need more of the same language to trigger remembering it. So.. yeah.

I woke up and I actually didn't mind getting out of bed! I didn't need three layers of blankets! It's a MIRACLE!

. . . I'm a freak. I PREFER sleeping in rooms cold enough that three layers of blankets are required.

Of course, I don't like getting UP...but I don't like getting up when it's warm either. XD

I used to! On the other hand, I also prefer being able to exercise in relative comfort. :/ Which sort of negates the cold enough for many blankets.

I am fortunate(?) in that I don't exercise at home -- mostly because I don't know what to DO, to exercise at home, and also because at this point walking is all I'm good for, and with my balance issues I do that on the treadmill, which means going to the gym.

I figure that by the time I can manage anything OTHER than walking, my future bedroom will be renovated and I can get my bed off the floor of this room and then I can have one room with the heat vent OPEN and one with it CLOSED.

I may be the other kind of fortunate(?) then; with all the dance training I have a pretty good idea what I should do, and therefore really no excuse not to. *bleh* The only thing I can't do is cardio unless it's jump rope, because this place isn't big enough for a treadmill of any real quality.

Ooooh. Sweet!

. . .in UTTERLY RANDOM SYNCHRONICITY, I just unpacked my jumprope.

Make of this what you will.

Translation is good! I think 'that' counts as a preposition?

Oh gods. STUPID HEAT NO BREAKING AND NO LEAVING JAG AND BOY COLD!

It might indeed, I just. Heh. I took some aspirin, so hopefully the headache will settle and I'll be able to think again.

And the heat got fixed! Thankgod.

Oh STUPID headache. At least hopefully today will be calm at work and you don't have to strain too hard? Ugh.

Yay heat! Happy kitty!

I interrupt your regularly scheduled broadcast because I want to PET YOUR ICON. O___O That might be the most adorable cat icon I've ever seen.

:D You are very welcome to snag it if you want! It's cropped from google images by me, so.

Kittyhug icon is a necessity, for me... ;)

That's a generous offer, and I thank you for it. I can't use other people's icons, tho (or at least, other people I talk to), because I recognize people by their icons, and I'd always think you said anything I used it on. >_>

Well. You can have this one instead?

Awwww! Thank you.

You are very welcome!