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As far as i'm aware, both me to "this kind of" or "like this" but what is the
difference. I was talking to someone but they said that **「こんな風に」** is more
natural, the original sentence was **「こんなに見えなければイギリスではない」** with a picture of
my my slightly flooded driveway.

my original sentence:

> こんなに見えなければイギリスではない

corrected sentence:

> こんな **風** に見えなければイギリスではない

what i wanted to say in english:

> if it doesn't look like this, it's not britain
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「こんなに」と「こんな風に」difference?
I think you want to use:

> _こんな風に_ 見えなければイギリスではない

which gives a nuance of, "If it didn't look _like this_ , it's not Britain."

Your original sentence:

> _こんなに_ 見えなければイギリスではない

gives me the nuance of, "If you couldn't see _this much_ , it's not Britain."
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> 1)「こんなに見{み}えなければイギリスではない。」 (Your original)
>
> 2)「こんな風{ふう}に見えなければイギリスではない。」 (Corrected)

Between those two sentences, 2) is considerably better than 1) if you want to
say:

> "If it doesn't look like this, it's not Britain."

「風に」 can be replaced by 「感{かん}じに」 with no problems.

Is 1) totally out of the question, then? I would say no because **_very
informally_** , some native speakers might say it, too. But still, it would
not be something you should be taught to say as a Japanese-learner.

I would like to stress, however, that in the particular situation/context of
**_showing a person a photo_** , there would be little misunderstanding even
if it were 1) that you actually uttered.

As a stand-alone sentence without further context, however, 1) could sound
fairly ambiguous.

Finally, I have no intention of changing the purpose of your question, but if
I could express the idea in question freely as a native Japanese speaker, I
would not even use 「見える」, to be honest with you. You used it simply because
you had a sentence in mind in English that used "to look". Your sentence was
translated; Mine will come directly from a Japanese-speaking brain without
translation.

I would use 「なる」 and say something like:

> 「こんな風に **なっていなければ** イギリスではありません。」 or
>
> 「こんな風に **ならなければ** イギリスではありません。」
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