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Working and playing are the same thing for me.

(Both are fun.)

由美ちゃんと私は同じ学校に行きました。

Yumi-chan to watashi wa onaji gakkō ni ikimashita.
Yumi and I went to the same school.

Many Japanese prefer the expression onaji gakkō e ikimasu

to issho no gakkō e ikimasu ‘we go to the same school.’
Theoretically, there is a slight difference of meaning: the

former could mean ‘he goes to the same school as he used
to’ or ‘the same school as the one mentioned in the

newspapers’ or the like, whereas the latter could only mean
‘he goes to the same school as somebody else does.’

7.25. Clothing

Japanese have several different verbs meaning ‘puts on (to
some part of the body), wears.’ To say someone IS WEARING

something or WEARS something, you usually use the gerund
form of one of these verbs followed by imasu:

着物を着ています。

Kimono o kite imasu.

She’s wearing a kimono.

Here are the verbs and some of the items of clothing that
go with them:

履く haku puts on 靴 kutsu shoes

legs or feet, or スニーカー sunīkā sneakers
socks