In the end, it turned out that my smartphone had actually been broken for about a week. So, I completely lost my motivation to do anything lol. After quite a while, I'm finally writing my diary again.
First, I'd like to tell you about my new smartphone. Actually, since I'm living in Thailand, I bought one made by a Thai company. It has a lot of impressive features despite its low price. For example, it can track my health, including my sleep, exercise, and even my hearing. I'm amazed by how quickly technology keeps improving.
However, I've run into one problem. It's not very good at typing in Japanese. On my old Japanese phone, predictive text always suggested the kanji and expressions I wanted. On this new phone, it rarely suggests more complex kanji compounds or expressions.
I tend to use slightly complicated wording in Japanese, so it's a bit inconvenient.
Well, maybe this is the universe telling me to use English more and more.
Perhaps it's my destiny.
yeah, he or she or someone is telling you to be used to English. haha
Your English is very good, so I can't point out anything that absolutely needs correcting. However, if I wanted to be VERY nitpicky (in the service of helping you perfect your English), I'd point out that you have some "Japanese habits" in how you phrase one or two of your sentences. For example, native English speakers don't begin so many of their sentences with phrases like "actually," or "after quite a while," etc. These beginning sentence structures are probably common in Japanese (I see them a lot in online manga translations lol) but in English they're used more sparingly, in specific situations. This is a little hard to explain, but I hope you get my meaning. This is only something that you'll truly internalize if you read a lot of native English speaking content — it's a little bit of a nuanced point. But for example, a native English speaker would just say, "It turns out that my smartphone was broken for the last week or so." "In the end" is redundant because you use very similar words right after (it turned out). Same goes for the sentence starting with "actually." There's no real reason for the word "actually" to be there because you're not contrasting or disagreeing with something that was just mentioned (although sometimes we do start our sentences with "actually" in spoken English!). It would read more natural if you had placed the "actually" further in the sentence, like this: "I'm living in Thailand now, so I actually bought one made by a Thai company." But overall your English is very good, and you made no grammatical errors. My nitpicking was mostly about idiomatic usage that strays from native English speaking conventions. I'm sorry if this confused you more, I'm not the best teacher but I tried my best!
@YuMiFan To be honest, it’s seriously tough lol. But I'll keep trying! Thank you!!
@Lost_Lost Thank you for your comment. I didn’t know any of that, so it was very helpful. It made me feel like I should try harder to read and watch more content created by native English speakers. Also, I’m going to try writing in English, bearing your comments in mind. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Maybe there’s an app you can download to help with kanji prediction.