私の秋田犬 よろしくおねがいします。ケイシアです。私の文章を正してください。私は正しい言葉を使っているのがしたいです。てつだってくれておねがいします。 I'm still learning the kanji to apply to my existing vocabulary, so my writing is a mix of basic kanji and hiragana. My goals are to be grammatically accurate and to use words with the right nuance of meaning for the context. 今日の文章: 家のペットは秋田犬でした。家の秋田犬の名前はイェシでした。時々友達たちが「ヨシ」と言った。ちがう！私の愛犬は緑色のダイノソーではありません。イェシはたくさん毛があります。イェシの毛は毎年に二、三回ぬけました。今年の六月にイェシが亡くなりました。彼女は十一才でした。イェシの生が長かっでいいかった。 Today's text: My family's pet was an Akita. Our Akita's name was Yeshi. Sometimes our friends called her "Yoshi." That's not right! My beloved dog is not a green dinosaur. Yeshi had a lot of fur. Her fur fell out two or three times each year. This June, Yeshi passed away. She was eleven years old. Yeshi's life was long and good. Notes: "家のペットは秋田犬でした" — Would it be correct to phrase this "うちは秋田犬を飼った" to mean "We had an Akita"? I found "飼う" while searching the dictionary, and I wondered if that verb included the concept "pet" so that I would not have to state "ペット" explicitly in the sentence. "イェシ" — We named our dog "Yeshulum," from the Hebrew word for "promise fulfilled," but we called her "Yeshi" for short. It sounds a little like Japanese, but it isn't actually. "ぬけました" — Akitas have a thick undercoat and a wiry topcoat, and Yeshi blew coat (shed her thick fur) twice a year, sometimes three times if the weather was very warm. I came across "ぬける" in a contextual sentence for "毛" in my vocabulary practice, and I looked it up in a dictionary to verify it, but I haven't learned it properly yet. Perhaps there is a more accurate verb for this meaning? "毎年に二、三回" — I had trouble figuring out how to say "this or that" for time periods. Does this work, or is there a better way to convey "two or three times each year"? "彼女" ― Our dog was female, and the only female pronoun I've learned is "彼女." Is it used for animals as well as for people? "長かっでいいかった" — I'm not sure I joined the adjectives properly. I know to use "と" and "や" with nouns, but adjectives are different, and I haven't formally learned those rules yet. ありがとうございます。 Thank you for your time!