Welcome

Hi everyone!
This is my first note here. I've been m learning English since I was a child, hood but I didn't have a good teacher so I need some additional help. I can read in this language very well in this language, but I have problems with making sentences and usually I don't usually know when I should add 'a/the' before some word! I'll put here some notes and I hope you could help me to make my English better. :) 

Hello Aleksandra, how are you?

First of all, welcome to Italki. I hope you're going to enjoy here. 

I'd like to tell you that your exercise is really great, I'm so positively suprirsed. 

If you need classes, you can book them right here: http://www.italki.com/teachers/professional

If you need any help, feel free to ask me.

Merry Christmas. 

Welcome

Hi everyone!
This is my first note here. I've been learning English since I was a child, but I didn't have a good teacher so I need some additional help. I can read in this language very well, but I have problems with making sentences and I don't usually know when I should add 'a/the' before some words! I'll put here some notes here and I hope that you can help me make my English better. :)

First of all, I'd like to congradulate you! You managed to convey your message very clearly with only a few mistakes. I'm going to include the explanations for my corrections below, in case you're curious.

When you're talking or writing about something that you did continuously for a period of time, you need to use either: [the conjugated form of 'to have' + past participle of the verb] OR [the conjugated form of 'to have' + been + present participle].

I've played sports since I was three years old.

I've been playing sports since I was three years old.

In the above example both are correct, but that won't always be the case. Sometimes one is better than the other; it just takes practice to recognize which one.

We usually add commas before the word 'but' because it is where we would pause in our sentence if we were speaking.

When using the word 'some' you are implying not all but more than one. Therefore, you should add an 's' to whichever noun follows.

Also, when using pronouns like 'here' or 'it', English speakers place them after the verb.

Adding the words 'that' and 'can' make the last sentence flow better. Also, the word 'can' makes it sound more polite in my opinion.

Welcome

Hi everyone!
This is my first note here. I'm learning English since I was a child but I have never had a good teacher so I need some additional help. I can read in this language very well in this language but I have problems with making sentences and I don't usually know when I should add 'a/the' before some word! I'll put here some notes and I hope you could help me to make my English better. :)