I'm working on Tofel vocabulary and OMG I've benn memorizing Tofel vocabulary recently, but I find it very hard to remember them because they are too long or uncommon. I just read them many times a da

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I'm working on Tofel vocabulary and OMG I've benn memorizing Tofel vocabulary recently, but I find it very hard to remember them because they are too long or uncommon. I just read them many times a day and not to memorize them at the specific time, because I want to see the words more often so that I won't forget them, I guess it's better to notice one word with long time. Also, I'm studing English online with the native speaker, I choose a male teacher yesterday because the female teacher which I like the best is not available, and the result turned out to be soooooo boring and embarrassing, I regreted to take such a class yesterday, whenever after I said the male teacher started to posit and then said 'um ,oh great ' or ' yep that's perfect'.And that moment all I wanted to do is to roll my eyes and think that 'Whether you konw what I'm saying about?!' in mind. And finally the class ended up being 'interesting', but anyway I found such a great website so congratulate myself and thank the teacher, maybe I can't find the website without him.It's the first time I use the feature so it's refresh to me and hope you guys have a lovely day !

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I'm working on Tofel vocabulary and OMG

I've been memorizing Tofel vocabulary recently, but I find it very hard to remember them because they are too long or uncommon. I just read them many times during the day and try not to memorize them at a specific time, because I want to see the words more often so that I won't forget them, I guess it's better to notice one word over a long period of time. Also, I'm studying English online with a native speaker, I chose a male teacher yesterday because the female teacher which I like the best was not available, and the result turned out to be soooooo boring and embarrassing, I regretted to taking such a class yesterday. Whenever I said something, afterwards the male teacher started to posit and then said 'um ,oh great ' or ' yep that's perfect'.And at that moment all I wanted to do was to roll my eyes and i wondered whether he knew what I was talking about! in mind*. And finally the class ended up being 'interesting', but anyway I found such a great website so I congratulate myself and thank the teacher. Maybe I couldn't have found this website without him.It's the first time I used this feature so it's refreshing for me and I hope you guys have a lovely day !

Comments:

Firstly, the mistakes you made = mainly 'Tense'. I know in Chinese, the sentence as a whole gives context to tense, in English we need the tense = everywhere. Try to remember these ['is' --> 'Was' -->'will be'] Present --> Past --> Future tense

Posit = To put an idea, belief, concept forward to others (to bring up an idea, concept). I'm not sure i understand what you mean by Posit. Is there another word? If not just write it in Chinese and i will tell you the right word.

Think that "whether you know what i'm saying about!" = In English (To my knowledge), we don't really quote our feelings or thoughts. Sometimes in novels/ books, authors will quote their characters. But in general we don't. = i wondered whether he knew what I was talking about! = Is correct.

Hope this helps

Wow, your explonation is really easy to understand, it helps a lot, thank you ^ ^

no problem! 1. A rather than B, just says that you prefer to do A over B. It adds emphasis and describes your possible choices. 2. Here "it was the first time" is better because we are describing something that happened in the past. If me and you are dining at a restaurant, I can ask you "is it your first time eating here?", you can reply "yes, it is my first time eating here". Here the present tense works, and sounds correct, because we are currently in the restaurant, experiencing our first time eating there! Hope that helps Wim

Thank you very much ! I'm kind of puzzled about some corrections, can you tell me the more details about them? 1.rather than having little exposure to many. I think it's sort of weird to give the same explonation to the previous because it starts with "rather than". 2.It was the first time…… When could I use "It is the first time..." And thank you again!!

hey i encountered a bug when correcting ur piece, so i can't directly post it. I uploaded it here http://imgur.com/ieL8jPK

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