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My sentences I am a medical student, and I'm studying for my master's degree now. I want to study abroad for a doctorate in future. Chinese New Year is coming, I expected for my holiday, I haven't be back home for 4 mouths.

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李医生，欢迎来到italki。 你的作文很好。 没有错误。 但是，我将进行一些“更正”以帮助使样式更自然。
Welcome to italki! Your second diary-entry is good. No significant mistakes. I will correct it to make the English flow more naturally.

My sentences

I am a medical student, and I'm currently studying for my master's degree now. In the future, I want I'd like to study abroad for a my doctorate in future.
Chinese New Year is coming, and I expected for I'm looking forward to my holiday, since I haven't be back home for 4 four mouths months.

Notes:
* In the second paragraph, I changed "I expected for" to "I'm looking forward to" (期待着).

* The word "holiday" has multiple meanings: "festival" (节庆) or a "break" from school or work (假期). (In the UK is also means a trip/旅行). A more clear expression is "I'm looking forward to my school break, because I haven't been home in four months."

* It's okay to use numerals in casual writing (and of course, when writing mathematical data), but for formal writing, I recommend that you spell out numbers that can be written in one or two words. So "four" is better than "4" and "twenty-five" is better than "25". But larger numbers should be written using numerals.

Here is a finished version of your diary-entry with my corrections:

I am a medical student currently studying for my master's degree. In the future, I'd like to study abroad for my doctorate.
Chinese New Year is coming, and I'm looking forward to my holiday, since I haven't be back home for four months.

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My Sentences

I am a currently medical student, and I am studying for my master's degree now. Afterwards, I want to study abroad/overseas for a doctorate in the future. The Chinese New Year is upcoming, and it is expected that I will be at home to celebrate the occasion with my family. I am definitely looking forward to it because it has been four months since I was last there and saw them.

Hi, 李不苦. (*-^) Good job! Whatever changes I made were to allow your sentence to sound more natural to my native ears, to clarify your thoughts, and for ease of reading. My sincerest apologies if I have misinterpreted. I hope that this helps you, Jonathan.

Hmm..., for formal writing, we do not use abbreviations, thus, be sure to spell out all of your words. Regardless of if you want to sound idiomatic or not, you should use proper punctuation, which means a comma is used between two independent clauses, as you originally did in your post. As to spelling out numbers vs. using numerals/figures, that is largely a matter of preference, but whichever way you choose, be consistent throughout your text (i.e., do not spell them out in one paragraph, but then use numerals in the next).



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Thank you so much！Your correction helped me a lot.
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Hi! You did a good job! Still, I made a few modifications and corrections that I hope make your sentences sound a bit more idiomatic. My sentences. I am a medical student and I am currently studying for my master's degree. Later, I would like to do my PhD abroad. Chinese New Year is coming and I am expected home for the holidays. I haven't been back for four months.

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