Diary 2023/04/29

I've been writing my diary in English to improve my skill.
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I've been in Kyoto with my husband since yesterday. We're staying in the downtown area and plan to try a lot of local cuisine over the next four days. However, the most exciting place we visited yesterday was a huge bookstore called the Maruzen head office near Kyoto-kawaramachi station. The store had a wide variety of books and magazines spread over two floors, which was unexpected from the outside. I want to visit it again and find an interesting book that will help us during our trip.

Correction by ChatGPT

I asked, "Can you rewrite the sentence to sound more native and show me the points and reasons that you corrected?"

Sure! Here's a more natural-sounding version of the text with explanations for the changes:

"My husband and I arrived in Kyoto yesterday and are staying downtown. We plan to try a variety of local cuisine over the next four days. However, the highlight of our first day was discovering the Maruzen head office, a huge bookstore near Kyoto-kawaramachi station. Spread over two floors, it had a surprising variety of books and magazines. I'm eager to return and find an interesting book that will help us during our trip."

□"I've been in Kyoto with my husband since yesterday" --> "My husband and I arrived in Kyoto yesterday." This sounds more natural and gives a clearer idea of the speaker's situation.
□"going to have many local cuisine" --> "plan to try a variety of local cuisine." This sounds more natural and clearer.
"which I visived" --> "discovering." This verb choice sounds more natural and is a better fit for the context.
□"over 2 wide floors" --> "Spread over two floors." This phrasing is more natural and sounds more appropriate for describing the layout of the bookstore.
□"I want to visit it again and find an interesting book which help our trip" --> "I'm eager to return and find an interesting book that will help us during our trip." This version sounds more natural and uses "eager to return" to express excitement for the future, and "will help us" to describe what the book will do for them during their trip.

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