So recently I've met a Japanese person whilst playing League and we started to
talk a bit over the group voice chat. Although my Japanese is still at a very
basic level we understood each other pretty well. Anyway, because I was
talking to a friend on Discord at the same time in another language he was
understandably confused, so I tried to clear things up by saying
"日本語を話してないときはDiscordでともだちと話している" (Whenever I'm not talking Japanese, I'm
speaking to a friend on Discord). He seemed to understand what I meant to say
so I left it at that. A few days later though I finally started learning about
"たら", "なら" and "ば", and I remembered my conversation with the Japanese guy.
Would using "たら" instead of "とき" have been the better choice?.
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word-choice usage
Would using "たら" make sense in this type of sentence?
「日本語を話してないときはDiscordでともだちと話している」 is already a fairly good sentence. (Perhaps
you could've said **別の** フレンドと, but this is not a big mistake.) You don't need
to use たら/なら/ば. Your English version doesn't have "if", after all.
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