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There were a lot of teachers from Australia and New Zealand at the English conversation school I went to previously.
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Vocabulary list

mae
noun
  1. in front (of); before (e.g. a building)
noun, no adjective, adverb
  1. before; earlier; previously; prior; ago; (minutes) to (the hour)
noun, no adjective
  1. (the) front; frontal part; fore; head (e.g. of a line)
noun
  1. forward; ahead
  2. (in the) presence (of); in front (of someone)
no adjective
  1. previous (e.g. page); prior (e.g. engagement); first (e.g. half); former (e.g. example)
suffix
  1. portion; helping (after a noun or the -masu stem of a verb)
noun
  1. front (of one's body or clothing); breast (of a coat, kimono, etc.)
  2. privates; private parts
  3. criminal record; previous conviction; (a) prior
kayou

te-form

kayotte
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to run between (e.g. bus, train, etc.); to ply between
  2. to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to commute; to frequent
  3. to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
  4. to resemble
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru

Plain Past Indicative Form

ita
ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing (after the -te form of a verb; indicates continuing action or state)
eikaiwagakkou
noun
  1. English conversation school
eikaiwa
noun
  1. English conversation
  2. school for English conversation
gakkou
noun
  1. school
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
shusshin
noun, no adjective
  1. person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
kyoushi
noun, no adjective
  1. teacher (classroom)
ga
particle
  1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
  2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
conjunction
  1. but; however; still; and
  2. regardless of; whether (or not) (after the volitional form of a verb)
ooi

Plain Past Indicative Form

ookatta
i adjective
  1. many; numerous; a lot
  2. large amount of; large quantity of; a lot; much
  3. frequent; common

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