・その時の私の気持ちを表すのは、一言で難しい。そこには、さまざまな思いが交錯していた。一つには、もちろん嬉しい気持ち。それは、夢への道が開けたとの嬉しさもあれば、母に対する感謝の嬉しさもあった。

Someone please explain to me ～もあれば,～もある

EDIT: forget it i figured it out

• This reply was modified 13 years, 2 months ago by  missingno15.

I think it might have been better for you to write in the first place:

今日は新しい５漢字を書きました。
↓
今日は新しい５個の漢字を習って書いてみました。

Grammar used:
てform
てみる

What you had originally wrote was probably taken literally I’m guessing, like you discovered 5 never before seen kanji and wrote it.

Now the correction you are given is that you newly wrote 5 kanji which is closer to what you wanted to say.

Now what I gave you, just gives more context: “I learned 5 new kanji and tried to write them.”

How much did that all cost?

There’s this site, but everytime i check, the stream always seems to be down.

You will only feel dumb if you make yourself feel dumb.

Exactly, which is why I chose to not to read them. I personally wouldn’t suggest it for that (very biased) reason, but like I also said, its better to try everything to see what works or not.

I would rather read something that is more intrinsically or potentially interesting to me, and make an effort to read it or learn from it rather than using something that isn’t. I always put myself in a situation where I bite off more than I can chew but then after awhile, it just all falls together. Its all the same “Japanese” anyway, just that one is a little bit harder than another. Either way, whether your start with a children’s book or start with your interests, at the basic level, you will still suck either way.

Also either way, I never really thought that translating wasn’t that good of a method to learn with anyways.

I am in my 30′s having taught English as a second language in a school of higher learning.

You have experience with TESOL? Was it with the JET program? If not, where did you teach? I may have a lot of questions to ask you.