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I've been told that this text is full of mistakes and that I can't speak English fluently. Please help me to know my mistakes.
"I am a Mexican translator working since 2014. I study English Philology as well.
For companies, I work translating contracts, product descriptions and safety, quality and industrial procedures manuals. When freelancing, I translate medical documents and any subject among my interests.
My interests: foreign languages, video games, literature, medicine, sports, music and traveling.
I can speak German and I am learning Japanese".
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What are the mistakes in this text?
I've been told that this text is full of mistakes and that I can't speak English fluently. Please help me to know my mistakes.
"I am a Mexican translator, and I have been working since 2014. I study English Philology (I am not sure what you mean by Philology, do you meant to say Philosophy?) as well.
For companies, I work for companies translating contracts, product descriptions and safety, quality and industrial procedures manuals. When freelancing, I translate medical documents and any subject among my interests.
My interests: foreign languages, video games, literature, medicine, sports, music and traveling.
I can speak German and I am learning Japanese".
Great job, Alfredo! I just added a couple changes. Also, were you trying to say Philosophy or am I totally misunderstanding that word?
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What are the mistakes in this text?
I've been told that this text is full of mistakes and that I can't speak English fluently. Please help me to know my mistakes."I am a Mexican translator working and I have been working since 2014. I study English Philology [I'm not sure what you mean by Philology] as well.
For companies, I work translating contracts, product descriptions and safety, quality and industrial procedures manuals. When freelancing, I translate medical documents and any subject among my interests.
My interests: foreign languages, video games, literature, medicine, sports, music and traveling.
I can speak German and I am learning Japanese".
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Oh, I get it, as I wrote it,the latter "and" takes the place of the previous and it creates a kind of "second finish".
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I am a native speaker from the US and have a graduate degree in Education. Strictly speaking, I don't see any mistakes in your text. There can be criticisms of style, but what you wrote is 100% correct grammatically. Orthographically, you need a comma between "quality" and "and". This is because the series is composed of three items: safety, quality, and instructional procedural manuals. Separating them this way improves readability because you structured this sentence with a previous "and", although in accordance with grammatical rules the last comma is not strictly required. If you don't accept the advice that your text is "full of mistakes" and that you "can't speak fluently," message me through Italki and we will have a short chat on Skype. I will give you my candid opinion.
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