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Makiasan Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Japanese vacation / vacation in Japan?
Hi
When I want to say that most of Japanese people usually don't take long days off;
Do you say
Japanese vacation is not long enough. or
Vacation is not long enough in Japan. or
do you have any other natural ways to say this?
Thanks!
Maki
When I want to say that most of Japanese people usually don't take long days off;
Do you say
Japanese vacation is not long enough. or
Vacation is not long enough in Japan. or
do you have any other natural ways to say this?
Thanks!
Maki
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Hi, When I want to say that most of Japanese people usually don't take long days off ; Do you say Japanese vacation is not long enough. or Vacation is not long enough in Japan . or No.
- Hi, When I want to say that most of Japanese people usually don't take long days off ; Do you say Japanese vacation is not long enough.
- or Vacation is not long enough in Japan .
- or No.
- Say eg Japanese vacations are not long enough.
- eg Vacations are not long enough in Japan.
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Hi,
When I want to say that most of Japanese people usually don't take long days off;
Do you say
Japanese vacation is not long enough. or
Vacation is not long enough in Japan. or
No. Say
When I want to say that most of Japanese people usually don't take long days off;
Do you say
Japanese vacation is not long enough. or
Vacation is not long enough in Japan. or
No. Say
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Even though my thesaurus says that the words "break" and "vacation" are synonymous, I would be careful using "break" when speaking about longer periods of time.
Maybe it's just me, but I have always felt that a "break" was of much shorter duration than a "vacation" or holiday.
Maybe it's just me, but I have always felt that a "break" was of much shorter duration than a "vacation" or holiday.
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a cultural context perhaps, in Asia, a long break is usually presumably understood as a period of getaway longer than an usual vacation break.
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I would be careful using the word "enough" as it changes the statement from objective to subjective. If you are simply giving your opinion then you can use the word "enough", otherwise I would suggest leaving it out if your goal is to write this as a general observation, or as a fact. Try, "Most Japanese people do not take long vacations." as Clive pointed out. Or if this applies to all worke
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