から見ると・
You name where a judgment is made from. After a person or a position, it is whose eyes you look through. After a sign or a fact, it is your evidence: "judging from".
whose eyes
As a user sees it, this screen has too much information.
the evidence
Judging from the size of the footprints, it seems to have been a big dog.
going by
In terms of cost, going by train is the realistic choice.
How to form it
Noun + から見ると／からすると／から言うと
Also から見れば, から見て, からすれば, から言えば, から言って, with no change in meaning.
| After a person | After a sign or a fact | |
|---|---|---|
| から見ると | 親から | 表情から |
| からすると | 住民から | この |
| から言うと | Not directly. With 立場: 先生の | 今の |
Where more than one fits, they mean much the same.
Whose eyes
After a person or a position, what follows is how things look from there. It works for yourself too: 私から見ると, "as I see it".
For the people who live there, late-night noise is a serious problem.
To anyone who has done it before, this plan is not realistic.
To an expert's eye, this repair is no more than a stopgap.
As I see it, the two of them are very alike.
Not said: 先生から
(From the teacher's point of view, this essay still needs a lot of work.)
先生から見ると, or 先生の立場から言うと.
The evidence
What comes before is something you noticed or know: a look, a result, a number. What follows is what you make of it, usually ending in ようだ, らしい or だろう.
Judging from the look on her face, the interview seems to have gone well.
Judging from how wet the road is, it seems to have been raining until a moment ago.
Going by his marks at the moment, he is unlikely to pass.
から言うと: going by
It names the one thing you are going by: your experience, the cost, safety.
In my experience, you can't build a vocabulary in a short time.
In terms of safety, this road is the best.
結論から言うと is something else: you are saying the conclusion first.
To give you the conclusion first: we have decided to pass this time.
Whose view, or what evidence?
Three of these fit one sentence, each with its own point.
Seen from the parents' side, a child living alone is a worry.
After a person: you imagine how things feel in their place. Not for your own opinion.
Put yourself in the parents' place: a child living alone is a worry.
としてはN2
After a person or an organization, often yourself (私としては): where they stand. After a category: "for a …" (新人としては).
As a parent, I worry about my child living alone.
からしてN2
After one telling sign: "judging from". After the first, most basic part of something: "even the …" (名前からして変だ).
Judging from the way he talks, he seems to know something.
ところを見るとN2
After a clause, not a noun: what you saw for yourself. Your guess follows.
The lights are off, so it looks as if nobody is home.
Close neighbours
にとってN3
What something means for the person it affects. からすると is what they make of it from where they stand, and it need not affect them at all.
Applying online is hard for older people.
によるとN3
A source that told you: the forecast, a friend. からすると is a sign you read for yourself.
According to the weather forecast, it will snow from tomorrow afternoon.
で言うとN3
Moves something onto a scale you know: "in human years". から言うと names what an opinion rests on.
Eight for a cat is about forty-eight in human years.
Check yourself
1Which one fits?
子ども
Choose an answer to see why.
2Which one fits?
空の
Choose an answer to see why.
More sentences
From a teacher's point of view, this explanation is a little hard for beginners.
It may be a small thing to an adult, but to a child it is a big deal.
As the teacher sees it, this essay still needs a lot of work.
Judging from the way the window is broken, a stone seems to have hit it from outside.
Going by these sales figures, the new product has gone down quite well.
Speaking from my experience of working abroad, the first three months were the hardest.