get on a train long time

[tzfujimino]

Hello.:-D

One of my students wrote in her writing assignment:

1. I visited my uncle in Hokkaido last year.
2. I have to get on a train long time to go there.
3. I enjoyed skiing there with my family.
4. It is difficult for me to do.
5. But I thought I want to do again.

#2 should be:
"I had to ride a train for a long time to go/get there."

Am I correct?
(#5 is questionable. I'd like to ask a question about it later.)

 

[Rover_KE]

'I had a long train ride to get there.'

 

[emsr2d2]

It took a long time to get there on the train.

 

[tzfujimino]

Thank you, Rover and ems, for the natural English expressions.
Does "ride a train for a long time" sound unnatural?

Thank you again.:-D

 

[emsr2d2]

In BrE, yes, it sounds unnatural. We don't use the phrase "ride the train/bus".

 

[MikeNewYork]

Hello.:-D

One of my students wrote in her writing assignment:

1. I visited my uncle in Hokkaido last year.
2. I have to get on a train long time to go there.
3. I enjoyed skiing there with my family.
4. It is difficult for me to do.
5. But I thought I want to do again.

#2 should be:
"I had to ride a train for a long time to go/get there."

Am I correct?
(#5 is questionable. I'd like to ask a question about it later.)

For #5, "But I thought I'd like to do it again" is better.

 

[Tdol]

4 might be better in the past tense. In 5, you could use I think I'd like... too.

 

[Barb_D]

In BrE, yes, it sounds unnatural. We don't use the phrase "ride the train/bus".

Yet another thing I've learned here. That's entirely normal sounding to me.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Yet another thing I've learned here. That's entirely normal sounding to me.

To me as well.

 

[Raymott]

2. I have to get on a train long time to go there.
3. I enjoyed skiing there with my family.

Note the potential ambiguity here. If this was meant to be a story rather than a list of discrete sentences, the effect could be "I thought the train journey to Hokkaido was too long, but I enjoyed skiing there with my family." That is, 'there' can mean "at Hokkaido" or "to Hokkaido".
Just an observation.