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4 straight holiday concerning Easter ended, and I have to go to work soon. Since last Saturday, It had been raining during this holiday, so I couldn't run and study at my cafe. Yesterday I stayed at home and studied English, recorded my singing "Change the World" by Eric Clapton and 『３６５日（365days）』by Japanese famous and popular band, Mr. Children.
I'd like to translate the lyrics of "365days" into English soon and try to sing it in English. If I get used to read and sing it in English, I'd like to upload it by this weekend. Firstly, I'm going to post the English version that I will translate. After that, I'm going to continue to read and sing it.
To change the subject, this morning is a little cold. My temperature gauge indicate 26℃. I feel cold as though the temperature is 26 degrees now. It was tough for me to take a cold shower little while ago. I wonder how I feel about the temperature if I go back to Japan.
I'd like to translate the lyrics of "365days" into English soon and try to sing it in English. If I get used to read and sing it in English, I'd like to upload it by this weekend. Firstly, I'm going to post the English version that I will translate. After that, I'm going to continue to read and sing it.
To change the subject, this morning is a little cold. My temperature gauge indicate 26℃. I feel cold as though the temperature is 26 degrees now. It was tough for me to take a cold shower little while ago. I wonder how I feel about the temperature if I go back to Japan.
Four days holiday for Easter have ended, and I have to go to work soon.
This is how I would word this sentence. 4 or 'Four' would be ok.
Since last Saturday, it has been raining during this holiday, so I couldn't run and study at my cafe.
Yesterday I stayed at home and studied English, recorded myself singing "Change the World" by Eric Clapton and 『３６５日（365days）』by famous and popular Japanese band, Mr.
I'm not sure if there is a grammar rule that specifically states this, but nationality is put last alongside other adjectives. Also 'myself' instead of 'my' sounds better.
If I get used to reading and singing it in English, I'd like to upload it by this weekend.
My temperature gauge indicates 26℃.
In English we would more likely call the gauge a thermometer, and say 'my thermometer reads 26 degrees C'. Terms like 'gauge' and 'indicates' are correct but suggest a more scientific application, like engine temperature, rather than room temperature around the home or office.
I wonder how I will feel about the temperature if I go back to Japan.
Hope these corrections help. I am new to lang-8.
You asked: if the day when I wrote(this morning) was sunny, can I write "it had been raining" ?
In which case your sentence is correct, but saying 'since last Saturday..' implies you are meaning from Saturday to the present, which is why I got confused. Maybe a better way of saying it would be: It had been raining from Saturday until this morning. It had rained Saturday and continued until this morning. It was raining from Saturday until this morning. It had rained for most of my holiday. Many ways of saying the same thing, some sound more natural, though I think your first sentence was correct grammatically.
With regards to 'my singing', if your sentence was just: "I'm going to record my singing." then this would be correct, as the word singing has basically become a noun, as if you are saying "I'm going to record my voice". It's only when you put a song name after singing, when the word becomes a verb, and it's longer 'yours' but yourself 'doing' the singing.
Hope this all makes sense
Peace
No problem for helping you out. I have started to learn Japanese only this week so sometime soon I will also need help. At the moment I am still learning the difference between wa and ga particles. I haven't even got round to figuring out how to type kana with my keyboard yet!
Peace
Thank you for giving me such detailed explanations.
Or:
Thank you for giving me such a detailed explanation.
As the 'a' is singular. Hope this helps.
I'm looking forward to the day when I can help you.