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First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello there! My name is Tang,I'm living in Beijing.I am a office worker,working for a big media company.I love my job. I came here to improve my English,because English is very importand to my career.I came here also to make friends,becuase I am an optimistic and actively person, I'd like to be your friend.!:)

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If you are living permanently in Beijing, we would normally say, “I live in Beijing.”  The Simple Present is used to express the idea that an action is repeated or usual, a habit, a hobby, a daily event, a scheduled event or something that often happens.

If you are staying in Beijing only for a short time or had just moved there, you would say something like, “I’m living in Beijing now.”

 

Although your sentence is “correct,” that is, grammatically proper, there is often a difference between what is “correct” and what is “common,” what is commonly used in everyday speech.

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First notebook entry: Introducing myself

Hello there!
My name is Tang,I'm living in Beijing. <space>I am a office worker, <space>working for a big media company. <space>I love my job.
I came here to improve my English <no comma> because English is very importand to my career. <space>I came here also to make friends <no comma> becuase I am an optimistic and actively person. <Full stop> I'd like to be your friend. !:)

As they said, excellent. One extra "ly" removed to make the adverb into an adjective.

If you want to be be word perfect, watch for those spaces after commas & full stops (periods).
Chinese seems to put several concepts into one sentence. Not so for English, so easily. A good rule is to keep it simple, by making each a separate sentence.
Many native English speakers will also use extra commas where they don't need them.

Excellent, hope the last touches help.

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Sound cool!!!!!
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Sound cool!!!!!
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Hi Tang, welcome to italki. I can not make any corrections to your introduction because the English is just right. Oops ... I just noticed one mistake: you should say "I am an optimistic and active person". (actively is an adverb). Okay, you only made a small mistake, I still think your English sounds very natural.

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