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How do you say this in English (UK)? 私は万年筆(まんねんひつ)に興味(きょうみ)があるけれども、高くてなかなかかえない。["I'm interested in fountain pens but I can't afford to buy one of them because they are very expensive "?]
How do you say this in English (UK)? 私は万年筆(まんねんひつ)に興味(きょうみ)があるけれども、高くてなかなかかえない。["I'm interested in fountain pens but I can't afford to buy one of them because they are very expensive "?]
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The sentence you gave sounds natural.
You can omit "of them" while retaining the meaning, and add a comma to help to "break up" the sentence and make it easier to understand, so that it becomes
'I'm interested in fountain pens but I can't afford to buy one, because they are very expensive."
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