I just read a lot of novels, haha. I was a big reader before studying Japanese, so now I just read a lot in Japanese instead. I actually wasn't aware that this kanji isn't 常用漢字 since I don't really look at the list and just study whatever comes up in my reading.

Ah, I understand. Thank you for the explanation.

I will try using this transition sometime in the future. I feel like I use でも too much, haha.

Yeah, I actually almost got to Top 16 of 1024 players one time. I ended up falling short by around ~4-5 places. That was my last tournament before college, and I don't really play video games much anymore. 大学では真面目に勉強するべきです。

Yes, this is good!

Ah, I see.

I feel like this is a bit different from my original intention.

Original: "I think that one way of living with no regrets is to live in order to create good memories."

Edited: "I think that having no regrets is one way to live to create good memories."

"The today of yours is eternal.
Indeed, it’s always the present that exists.
Practically, the past is not,
and the future is not yet."

I'm not entirely sure if I've heard this before or not. I feel like I either have or it was something very similar. There's a lot of sayings that suggest to live your live in the present, but I always end up either recalling the past or worrying about the future. I don't think I can stop myself from thinking of those things, but I still try my best to be happy with what I have now and what has made me who I am now.

いつも添削してくださってありがとうございます。

It’s totally okay. All learners do that way no matter what language they learn.
Firstly we go on to get a good foundation of basics. Eventually we used to it then it called master. Then proceed to next stage. 私は母語の影響が強いようで、全然、文章が構築できません。困ります。
I can’t form sentences properly… :(

Well… this is super hard for me. I thought a lot and long time, then iPhone screen went to sleep. I immediately touched but my comment gone already.
I think and take note somewhere and come back. I’m so slow in reply. I’m sorry. This is super hard so I like this haha.

If you have the time, I think the best way to get better at any language is reading. That's how I got good at writing in English (at the college level) and how I was able to start writing in Japanese (though there is a lot of improvement needed, haha).

No worries. Take your time. But really, thank you so much for going through all the effort to help me.

1. そのように、いい思い出を作るために生きるのは一つの後悔しない方法だと思います。

2. そのように、いい思い出を作るために生きるのは、後悔しないことが方法のひとつだと思います。


3. Original: "I think that one way of living with no regrets is to live in order to create good memories."

4. Edited: "I think that having no regrets is one way to live to create good memories."


We have four sentence to compare each.

1と2
日本語の場合、topic is placed in front of particle 「は」.
これは本です。(Talking about “this”. “これ”is topic. )
これは黄色い本です。(still introducing “this”)
この黄色い本は、面白いです。
(The book; yellow book is moved before は, now topic is book. This person is talking about book)

Then look at sentence 1.
What is the topic for this sentence?
The key is 「は」aka “topic marker”.
のis nominaliser. It makes verbs into noun.
Particles are just a helper, they cannot be a topic. Just ignore for now.
Then 生きる must be a topic.
Speaker wants to tell something about 生きる. We need to add more info to 生きる
“生きる”how? Create. “作る“
”作る“what? Good memories “いい思い出”
This is how is Japanese sentence structure like, so, “live to create good memories” = いい思い出を作るために生きるgonna be a topic for this sentence.

Now look at sentence 3.
This is what you wanted to say.
(English is your field, there’s no need to explain but if I wrong just tell me.)
In English, usually a noun or noun sentence, noun clause before verb ( in this case “is”) is the subject =topic.
So, haha, I think now you already know what I want to say, but let me ask hehe.
What is the subject/topic in this sentence?
“One way of living with no regrets”, right?

Okay , so now, how do you make Japanese sentence for sentence 3?

そのように、一つの後悔しない方法はいい思い出を作るために生きることです。

How is that? I’m not entirely sure if there’s any difference really since I just swapped the order. The original emphasizes the idea of making good memories to me (my original plan), so I feel like number 1 would be better still. What do you think?

後悔しないように生きる方法のひとつは
One way of living with no regrets IS


いい思い出を作るために生きることです。
to live in order to create good memories.

This is Japanese translation for sentence 3

Which do you want to empathise?
A. 思い出をつくる？ or B. 後悔しない？
A., right?

It’s so funny! Your English describes opposite?

Here is sentence 3’
後悔しないように生きる方法のひとつは
いい思い出を作ることです。

I’d like to solve this first. Then we go to 1vs2.

Yeah, emphasizing A. I just made the English sentences that way to show that the original and corrected are similar but different. If I were to say in English what I wanted to say regardless of the Japanese then: “Living your life to make your memories as best as possible is one way to live a life without regrets.”

This one! This one!
See? Memories is placed former sentence, and regrets is in latter sentence.
Good! Good! We can proceed next.

Let’s say this is sentence 3+
……wait, a bit complicated. We already have 3 and 3’.
hmmm let’s say sentence 6.

6. Living your life to make your memories as best as possible is one way to live a life without regrets.”

Japanese translation for 6 will be

6’ 可能な限りよい思い出を作るために人生を生きることは
後悔のない人生を生きるひとつの方法です。

Do you agree this? Still no? Then we will compare 1vs 6’.

Yeah, that’s good. Question: what is the difference between 「人生を生きる」,「人生を過ごす」, and 「人生を送る」.

人生を生きる　how do you live your life.
人生を過ごす　how do you spend your life.
人生を送る　 how do you go through your life.
人生を歩む how do you walk through your life.

These are all “ live life”, but has a little different meaning.
Not big difference but novel writer or someone who makes a living for writing would picky about when they use it.
人生を歩む、is nice expression isn’t it?

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