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Well yesterday I talk about of my forum today when the class finished I say to my partner if he can goes with me to visit a restaurant where I saw a man that maybe could be from Itlaly or other countrie so he say yesI can, I have a lot of time.
We arrive to the place and the chef ask me What do yo want for dinner? Then I say I can wait here when you finish to attend the lady I wait five minutes and then I say my introduction Hi I'm student of the university and Im organize a little forum about different factors: culture,economy education ... He ask me what he need to do I say well you can tell us how is your countrie? how arrives to mexico? The differences between your countrie and mexico in the topic of education and then he says really I don't interest that I can participe I don't like that I say thank you for your time Mr bye nice to meet you.
Really I don't understand this actitude I considerer that this forum doesn't have anything irrespecful is something educative.
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Tuesday
Well, yesterday I talkedabout of my forum. Today when the class finished, I say asked to my partner if he can goes with me to visit a restaurant where I saw a man that may be could be from Italy or some other country. So he said "Yes I can, I have a lot of time." (you need to use quotes if you want to use his words directly)
We arrived to at the place and the chef asked me, "What do you want for dinner?" Then I said, "I can wait here when until you finish to attend waiting on the lady." I waited five minutes and then I said my introduction. "Hi I'm a university student of the university and I'm organizing a little forum about different factors: culture,economy education ..." He asked me what he needs to do. I said you can tell us how is about your country. How you arrived to in Mexico? The differences between your country and Mexico in the topic of in regards to education and then he said "Really I don't am not interested that I can in participing. I don't like that (type of thing)." I said thank you for your time, Mr. Bye! Nice to meet you.
Really I don't understand this attitude. I considerer think that this forum doesn't have anything disrespecful. It is something educational.
Nice job! In order to improve your writing I would concentrate on punctuation marks, capitalization, and verb tense. You don't have to use direct quotes. For example instead of ...He said, "I don't want to participate." You could say... he said that he doesn't want to participate. By adding 'that' it changes to an indirect quote and you write it in the third person.
I also don't know why he didn't want to participate. Maybe he is just busy with his business?
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(I meant to put "that" between "said" and "he," but in any case, my point is that it's optional -- leaving out "that" makes it sound even more powerful and "native speaker.")
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I agree with Dorothy -- one man's reaction on one day means absolutely nothing. You're doing good stuff, and you're only responsible for your own attitude -- not everyone else's. You just keep up your positive attitude, and continue with the next person, and the next, and I know you'll be successful. I agree with Nick's suggestion that it's more interesting to mix direct and indirect quotes. By the way, converting a direct quote into an indirect quote has nothing to do with adding "that" -- it's much more important to change the pronouns and "backshift" the verbs. For example: "I asked my partner if he could go"
"... the chef asked me what I wanted for dinner." "He said he (that) didn't want to participate."
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Some ideas:
Some people are shy. Some are depressed. Some are wary of strangers. Some are nervous. Some don't like being asked to do things for nothing. Some people are very busy. Some people don't know how to communicate kindly, especially if it was in a foreign language. Who knows? Maybe he just broke up with his wife! Maybe he just lost someone close to him. Maybe he had a bad day at work. Maybe it was just a cultural difference.
There's no way to know.
But you handled it nicely and you wrote very well about it here!
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