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Feb 22, 2011 05:50
何気なくはなんでしたっけ"without any reason"でした？ What do I say "何気なく”in English? "Without any reason"?

何気なく空を見る日が久しぶりに続いているきがします　I might have often see the sky without any reason recently.

御所の空はきれいなきがしました I felt the sky on the Kyoto Imperial Palace was beautiful.

仕事場所の交差点も少し良い感じで I also felt the sky on the intersection beside my office was good.

ジョギングします　I am going to jog.　See you.
NurikoSpecial
Feb 22, 2011 08:11
  • What do I say "何気なく”in English?

  • What do I say "何気なく”in English?(I think "without any reason" is a good way to say this. You can also say "unintentionally" or "inadvertently," though I suggest "unintentionally" over "inadvertently" because it's more casual and less stiff-sounding.)

 
  • 何気なく空を見る日が久しぶりに続いているきがします　I might have often see the sky without any reason recently.

  • 何気なく空を見る日が久しぶりに続いているきがします I feel like I have often looked at the sky without any reason recently.("might have" doesn't seem to work here too well because it has a nuance of great uncertainty, which doesn't really seem to go with the concept of the sentence. So I changed it to "feel like" ^^)

 
  • 御所の空はきれいなきがしました I felt the sky on the Kyoto Imperial Palace was beautiful.

  • 御所の空はきれいなきがしました I felt that the sky on the Kyoto Imperial Palace was beautiful.(adding "that" here makes this sentence feel more natural. "I felt the sky" sounds like you literally felt/touched the sky with your hands, but if you add "that," it involves more of the meaning of "I thought")

 
  • 仕事場所の交差点も少し良い感じで I also felt the sky on the intersection beside my office was good.

  • 仕事場所の交差点も少し良い感じで I also felt that the sky on the intersection beside my office was good.

 

Ah, clouds against a blue sky are beautiful indeed :)

Thank you for your correction!

 
Feb 22, 2011 08:40 shuichi
  • ありがとうございます　なんとなく、ひさしぶりに英語の文法が勉強できました＾＾
    I appreciate your corrections and suggestions. It has been a while that I could study some English grammar fortunately.


    I might have often looked at the sky では　「空を見たような見ないような・・・」というかんじなんでしょうか＾＾


    すごい、確かにthatに意味があります！


    なんとなく　は　happily か　fortunately でいいとおもいますがどうでしょう

 
Feb 22, 2011 09:16 NurikoSpecial
  • I'm glad it was helpful! Your English is pretty much perfect, so all I really needed to do was make a few little changes here and there :)

    As for "fortunately" or "happily," I'm not sure if either one would work too well when used in that sentence. I think it's because it sounds like you're saying the fact that "it's been a while" is a good thing.

    Here's are a few possible alternatives: "It has been a while since I could study some English grammar, so I'm glad to have received your corrections" or "...but, fortunately, I received your corrections" or "but fortunately, I am able to now." ^^
Odoriko
Feb 22, 2011 14:30
  • 何気なく空を見る日が久しぶりに続いているきがします　I might have often see the sky without any reason recently.

  • 何気なく空を見る日が久しぶりに続いているきがします I might have often see the sky without any reason recently. I feel that I have been looking at the sky without thinking everyday recently. I got the idea from your Japanese sentence. I could not find a right place for 久しぶり, but I do not think you need it in English because it is kind of implied.

 
Thank you for your correction!

 
Feb 22, 2011 14:50 shuichi
  • Yes, I feel it is true. なるほど　そんな気がします

    By the way, I've heard of the origin of ballet listening to a podcast, Voice of America. Ballet was established by Luis the fourteenth. Have you heard of the story?

 
Feb 22, 2011 15:05 Odoriko
  • I do not remember where ballet was originated. But I remember Louis XIV was an accomplished dancer and liked to present himself as Apollo during performances, which eventually earned him a nickname of the sun king.

 
Feb 22, 2011 15:21 shuichi
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