Jan. 30, 2026
An update on My Balcony Garden
I made a video of my little garden yesterday. You can watch it here: https://youtube.com/shorts/ARDwOuZlguo
If you notice any mistakes in the video, grammar, or pronunciation, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
I ate the red strawberry last Sunday. It was fresh, of course, but also sweet, full of flavor—I think it's the best strawberry I've had this year. It might be simply because I grew it myself, haha.
Having a tiny garden is like watching life unfold in ways you can't fully control. I wanted to keep you updated every week because facing these flowers and fruits brings me one of my happiest and most peaceful moments. But sometimes I just forgot, and sometimes I was afraid it was too boring to keep talking about it.
An update on My Balcony Garden
I made a video ofabout my little garden yesterday.
A video "on" is fine and often the preferred preposition, but I think "about" fits better here.
You can watch it here: https://youtube.com/shorts/ARDwOuZlguo
If you notice any mistakes in the video, grammar, or pronunciation, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
I ate the red strawberry last Sunday.
That strawberry looked so good
It was fresh, of course, but also sweet, full of flavor—I think it's the best strawberry I've had this year.
It might be simply because I grew it myself, haha.
Having a tiny garden is like watching life unfold in ways you can't fully control.
I wanted to keep you updated every week because facgrowing these flowers and fruits brings me onsome of my happiest and most peaceful moments.
But sometimes I just forgoet, and sometimes I was afraid it was too boring to keep talking about it.
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Nitpicks about the video:
fully red Berry - I think it's a bit strange to call it a berry instead of a strawberry.
harvested - kind of works, but a bit too big of a word for picking one berry, it feels a bit non-standard. But if you're proud of it, you can use it lol
in fruit - I don't think that's a regular expression (maybe I'm just not familiar with gardening English). I would say the blueberry bush is bearing fruit
Are you learning American or British English? Your pronunciation is very British.
Do you keep the plants in open air or a closed balcony?
Feb. 2, 2026
Thank you so much!
I learned British English back in school, but I watched a lot of American TV series. I suppose I was influenced by both of them.
When I'm at home, like yesterday, I put them out of my balcony in the open air. Otherwise, I have to put them inside on my balcony because some birds like to eat them. Luckily, my balcony is very ventilated because of the window screen.
An uUpdate oOn My Balcony Garden
There are many different styles of capitalization of titles. Words like “on” and “my” are not typically capitalized, but you can also capitalize every word.
I made a video of my little garden yesterday.
You can watch it here: https://youtube.com/shorts/ARDwOuZlguo
If you notice any mistakes in the video, including the grammar, or and pronunciation, please let me know.
Grammar and pronunciation are aspects of the video, so listing them as equals with the video doesn’t really work, to me.
Thanks in advance!
I ate the red strawberry last Sunday.
It was fresh, of course, but also sweet, and full of flavor—I think it's the best strawberry I've had this year (this month? | in the past 12 months?).
If you mean the best you’ve had in 2026 (this year), during the first month of the year we would typically say “this month” or “in January.”
But if you’re referring to the Chinese year, which hasn’t ended yet, I think it would be clearer to most readers if you said “in the past 12 months.”
Instead of “full of flavor” you could say “flavorful.”
It might be simply because I grew it myself, haha.
Having a tiny garden is like watching life unfold in ways you can't fully control.
I wanted to keep you updated every week because facinglooking at these flowers and fruits brings me one of my happiest and most peaceful moments each day.
I agree with Liag’s comment about “facing.”
But sometimes I just forgot, and sometimes I was afraid it was too boring to keep talking about it.
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I don’t find it boring at all. It’s your journal—you can talk about whatever you want to. :-)
Feb. 2, 2026
再次感谢！
An update on My Balcony Garden
I made a video of my little garden yesterday.
You can watch it here: https://youtube.com/shorts/ARDwOuZlguo
If you notice any mistakes in the video, grammar, or pronunciation, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
I ate the red strawberry last Sunday.
It was fresh, of course, but also sweet, full of flavor—I think it's the best strawberry I've had this year.
It might be simply because I grew it myself, haha.
Having a tiny garden is like watching life unfold in ways you can't fully control.
But sometimes I just forgot, and sometimes I was afraid it was too boring to keep talking about it.
Feedback
You were the one that planted it, of course, it would be the most delicious.
For "fully red berry", I think "a very bright red strawberry" would be better or another way of saying it.
Jan. 30, 2026
@Toulowani I understood "fully red berry" to mean that it had turned completely red, with no pink or white color left. If that was the meaning @Tammy intended, maybe "fully ripe red berry" would work?
Feb. 2, 2026
@Liag, that was exactly what I intended.
Thank you both! I really appreciate seeing your discussions, which always make me learn more deeply.
Feb. 2, 2026
You're welcome :)
@Liag It should work. You got my name butchered tho, lol. Next time, you can just write Tolu.
Feb. 2, 2026
@Tolu, I am so sorry! I appreciate your understanding that my error was totally unintentional, and I thank you for the invitation to use a shorter name.
I wanted to keep you updated every week because [facing] these flowers and fruits brings me one of my happiest and most peaceful moments.
"Facing" isn't used this way in English. I'm not sure what action you wanted to describe; here are some guesses: "looking at" "caring for" "cultivating" "enjoying."
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The video shows just how successful you have been at growing your plants! They look so healthy.
I heard the extra ending "a" sound on two words: "anda" and "lasta." Those two ending sounds (d, t) may be the ones that require the most attention and effort to pronounce correctly. Pronouncing them correctly may be easier or harder, depending on the beginning sound of the next word.
In the text on the screen, "harvest" should be "harvested" (which is what I think you say) because the action was done in the past.
Nice!
Feb. 2, 2026
Ah~~ I thought I had improved on this problem!
I'll keep improving...
Thanks again!
Have a nice day!
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