Helping anyone!

[sparky]

Hello, Just wanted to say hello to everyone.
I am a Canadian in Japan I have lived here 6 years. I now own my own English school here in Japan.

If anyone needs some help with English please feel free to ask me here. You can visit my website for more information on Japan, teaching, learning English or Japanese. Japanlinked.com

Enjoy
Sparky

[queenbu]

Originally Posted by sparky

Hello, Just wanted to say hello to everyone.
I am a Canadian in Japan I have lived here 6 years. I now own my own English school here in Japan.

If anyone needs some help with English please feel free to ask me here. You can visit my website for more information on Japan, teaching, learning English or Japanese. Japanlinked.com

Enjoy
Sparky

Hello sparky!
If instead of 'I have lived here 6 years' you were to use 'I have been living here' would it be better to say 'for the past six years' or could you equally say 'for six years' or just 'six years'? - q

[Casiopea]

Welcome, Sparky.

I'm also from Canada - Calgary, AB - and I also lived in Japan for 6 years - Okayama, Nagano, Nagoya, Toyota-cho.

All the best.

[Casiopea]

Originally Posted by queenbu

Hello sparky!
If instead of 'I have lived here 6 years' you were to use 'I have been living here' would it be better to say 'for the past six years' or could you equally say 'for six years' or just 'six years'? - q

For is omitted, nicely, too. You can sure tell Sparky's a native English speaker. It's colloquial:

Ex: I have lived here (for) 6 years.

All the best.

[gokcen]

welcome sparky