{"id":6775,"date":"2012-11-01T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T05:54:57","slug":"our-house-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/our-house-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Our House (Feedback)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks for all your comments on this week’s entry. I am doing the feedback early this week because I’m going to Hokkaido tomorrow, so I will be busy getting ready for that. When I read your comments, I couldn’t help but think how lucky we all are to live in a world where the only complaints we have about our houses are things like rooms not getting enough sunshine! Anyway, I’m sure that I will make some mistakes when I design my house, but I’ve lived in around 12 houses and apartments in my life, so I have a good idea about the kinds of things I want and the kinds of things I want to avoid. <\/p>\n

For me, the worst thing about Japanese houses is the lack of insulation and temperature control. The house I live in at the moment is boiling hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. The problem is that Japanese people don’t heat or cool houses; they just heat or cool individual rooms within the house. This is incredibly inefficient if the house is not insulated properly. It’s also horrible when you have to move from one room to another. My house is going to have proper insulation with triple-glazed glass. I’m also going to have an American-style central heating\/cooling system that controls the temperature of the whole house in all seasons. I was reading about it the other day, and the estimated running cost is around 27 yen per day. I’m also planning to have solar panels, so the total electricity bill should be close to zero anyway. Now I just have to save the money to build the house!<\/p>\n

Here is some feedback on your comments.<\/p>\n

I live in an apartment ( I wonder if I should use condominium for \u30de\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3) with my husband and two sons.
\nI think “condo” is the usual translation, but it’s American, so I’m not sure.
\n<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a quite small one,
\nThis is an interesting point about English that many people don’t know. If you use “quite,” it comes before “a,” so it should be “quite a small one.”
\n<\/strong>
\nwe made a list which is sometimes called \u201cpros and cons\u201d.
\nwe made a list of the pros and cons of different types of accommodation.
\n<\/strong>
\nOne of the things I like most is that we live on the 4th floor
\nNice sentence.
\n<\/strong>
\nAnyway, are you supposed to settle down in Japan?
\nAre you planning to settle in Japan?
\n<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve been to Hida Takayama where I could enjoy \u5408\u638c\u9020\u308a and beautiful city.
\nI’ve been to Hida Takayam. I saw the … and the beautiful city. (A-Z: enjoy)
\n<\/strong>
\nI like that it has several storage spaces.
\nNice sentence.
\n<\/strong>
\nBy the way, I wish I had a big window in our kitchen.
\nNice sentence.
\n<\/strong>
\nNow, I give piano lessons in a living room because our house don\u2019t have a room my family don\u2019t use.
\nAlmost perfect! “Now, I give piano lessons in the living room because our house doesn’t have a room my family don’t use.”
\n<\/strong>
\nI wish I have my lesson room, but I don\u2019t have money to add a room\u2026
\nI wish I had a lesson room, … (A-Z: hope\/wish; my car)
\n<\/strong>
\nI like here
\nI like it here. \/ I like living here. (A-Z: there (1))
\n<\/strong>
\nI wish the entrance door of apartment was automatically locked.
\nI wish the front door of the apartment building locked automatically.
\n<\/strong>
\nYour story reminded me of the bar I visited with some friends of mine many years ago.
\nNice sentence, but “a bar” would be more natural.
\n<\/strong>
\nThe first floor is for our office and the upstairs is for dwelling.
\nThe first floor is for our office, and we live upstairs. (“Dwelling” is quite a formal word.)
\n<\/strong>
\nwe emphasized the design of our office,
\nwe focused on the design of our office
\n<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m almost satisfied with my house, but if I had more money, I wished I had haven a larger balcony and bathroom.
\nI’m pretty satisfied with my house, but if I had had more money when we were building it, I would like to have had a larger balcony and bathroom.
\n<\/strong>
\nI think you can comfortably spend winter days with only it.
\nI think the winter will be comfortable if you have it. (A-Z: spend)
\n<\/strong>
\nFor the real fire, I think people who live in the cities seldom have any, but perhaps for people who live in the countryside or mountains it\u2019s more common. I wonder if David is thinking of having one.
\nOf course! But I don’t think I will use it very much, so it will mostly be for decoration.
\n<\/strong>
\nShould I have wtitten \u201chow we can deal with the summer\u201d instead of \u201chow we could deal with the summer\u201d? I\u2019m not sure.
\n“how we can deal” is correct.
\n<\/strong>
\nI live in a detached house with my parents, younger brother, grandfather and three cats!
\n… with my parents, my<\/em> younger brother, my<\/em> grandfather, and three cats! (A-Z: family)
\n<\/strong>
\nA good point of my house is having two toilets.
\nOne good thing about my house is that it has two toilets.
\n<\/strong>
\nWe bought our house where is close to my parents\u2019 house 12 years ago.
\nWe bought our house, which is close to my parents’ house, 12 years ago. (A-Z: where)
\n<\/strong>
\nI made each room (place) as some image.
\nI designed each room with its own theme.
\n<\/strong>
\nDavid wrote: I am hoping to build a new house~. If we say \u201cbuild a house\u201d doesn\u2019t it means you build a house by yourself or does it also mean we ask carpenters to build it?
\nIt can mean both. It depends on the context. I am going to be paying someone else, though, because if I built it, it would probably fall down in a week!
\n<\/strong>
\nAs my house faces to the south, it is very sunny and not so cold even in winter, I love the fact!
\nNice sentence, but the last part should be “I love that about it.”
\n<\/strong>
\nabout 2 years and a half ago,
\nabout two and a half years ago (A-Z: half)
\n<\/strong>
\nBy the way, I found you call kattie\u2019s name as \u201c\u30ad\u30e3\u30b7\u30fc\u201d not \u201c\u30b1\u30a4\u30c6\u30a3\u201d,right?
\nI’m not sure how I said it in the recording, but it should be pronounced as it is spelt, so you need the “t” sound.
\n<\/strong>
\nMy parents-in-law built the house, so I\u2019m not involved building the house from the scratch.
\nMy parent-in-law built the house, so I wasn’t involved in designing it. (You don’t need “from scratch”here because that is obvious from the context.)
\n<\/strong>
\nThat’s it for today. I’ll be getting back from Hokkaido on Monday night, so I’ll probably do the next entry on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Have a great weekend. <\/p>\n

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