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fuxi

2 Mär 2014

Japanisch

Englisch (US)

Frage über Englisch (US)

Welches I might not have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing. oder I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing. klingt am natürlichsten?

If both were correct, could you teach me what each sentence really means?

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fitz

2 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Please keep in mind the answer I selected is not grammatically correct. It should read as "I shouldn't have spent even a small amount of time reading such a difficult thing"

fitz

2 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Please keep in mind the answer I selected is not grammatically correct. It should read as "I shouldn't have spent even a small amount of time reading such a difficult thing"

fitz

2 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Please keep in mind the answer I selected is not grammatically correct. It should read as "I shouldn't have spent even a small amount of time reading such a difficult thing"

fitz

2 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Please keep in mind the answer I selected is not grammatically correct. It should read as "I shouldn't have spent even a small amount of time reading such a difficult thing"

fitz

2 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Please keep in mind the answer I selected is not grammatically correct. It should read as "I shouldn't have spent even a small amount of time reading such a difficult thing"

fitz

2 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Please keep in mind the answer I selected is not grammatically correct. It should read as "I shouldn't have spent even a small amount of time reading such a difficult thing"

fuxi

2 Mär 2014

Japanisch

I'd be glad if you could teach me why "a little time" is not good?

naerylan

3 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

A little time is a perfectly natural thing to say. Maybe a stricter grammar would dictate that it can't describe the size of a time span but people use it like that anyway.
The word 'in' should be removed or changed to 'on' to fit the phrase spent time.
That said, I agree the second statement is likely closest to what you were trying to say. The first sounds like 私だったら多分そんな難しいものをちょっとでも読もうとしなかった or something
And for the love of God fitz, please fix your quintuple post. It's like deja vu reading this thread ^_^

fuxi

3 Mär 2014

Japanisch

Hi, naerylan. I always appreciate your helpful comments. And I'm always curious as to how you've studied Japanese. Your Japanese is incredible.

It seems that the posts written by others can't be deleted on my part.

naerylan

4 Mär 2014

Englisch (US)

Antwort I shouldn't have spent even a little time in reading such a difficult thing.

Yes deleting them will be up to fitz, if he cares to.
How did I study? Um... manga. Lots and lots of manga. Also a little bit of light novel and a pinch of eroge. There was also a time way back in school when I discussed grammar with some really nice people at animelyrics.com. That was fun.
Lately I was trying to get back to writing something for lang8, but then my computer died. I really should try to fix it soon. ^^

fuxi

4 Mär 2014

Japanisch

I'm really looking forward to your writings. There are only a few people on lang-8 who can write Japanese like Japanese people. I assume you will be the best.