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I am having trouble with some sentences I want to say in Japanese such as:

I hope you had a good year so far

Sorry for not writing in such a long time (gomen nasai tegami wo kakimasen)

Thank you so much for the calendar and the omamori (karendaa to omamori wo arigatou gozaimasu)

Thank you for your kind words (shinsetsu no dango wo arigatou)

I made an attempt to translate though.

Please write in Japanese though. The computer I am using at the time is able to read Japanese but not write it. Thanks

We have word from two of my friends!

Shoko and Kae have both been generous enough to give us MULTIPLE phrases that could be used the same way as "I hope you had a good year so far".

None of them are exact translations, but they are APPROPRIATE phrases for the context.


Shoko says that this would be appropriate in a letter:
日々ご健勝のことと思います。
ひび　ごけんしょう　の　こと　と　おもいます。
Hibi gokenshou no koto to omoimasu.

A more formal version, but not really used in letters would be:
今までの日々が素晴らしいものであったことを祈ります。
いま　まで　の　ひび　が　すばらしい　もの　で　あった　こと　を　いのります。
Ima made no hibi ga subarashii mono de atta koto wo inorimasu.



Kae has four ways to say it:
1) ご健勝の由、心からお喜び申し上げます。
ごけんしょう　の　よし、　こころ　から　およろこび　もうし　あげます。
Gokenshou no yoshi, kokoro kara oyorobi moushi agemasu.
2) ご清栄のことと拝察申し上げます。
ごせいえい　の　こと　と　はいさつ　もうし　あげます。
Goseiei no koto to haisatsu moushi agemasu.
3) ご隆盛のこととお慶び申し上げます。
ごりゅうせい　の　こと　と　およろこび　もうし　あげます。
Goryuusei no koto to oyorokobi moushi agemasu.
4) つつがなくお暮らしの御事と存じます。
　　つつかなく　おくらし　の　ごこと　と　ぞんじます。
　　Tsutsukanaku okurashi no gokoto to zonjimasu.

She says that they're all a bit too formal, but #4 is the most natural of the 4.

As for "Thank you for your kind words", what I originally said in my first post IS usable. Kae also gave three other ways to say it, so if you want those I can post those later.