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Reactivating Hello, Today I decided to reactivate my italki account after about four year as I am feeling the need to brush up my English knowledge. I received many help here from teachers and native speakers when I was being an intermediate student. Now, I am here again to experience more. I gained my FCE certificate last year and am studying to obtain CAE certificate as soon as possible in 2018.

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Reactivating

Hello,
Today I decided to reactivate my italki account after about four year as I am feeling the need to brush up on my English knowledge.
I received many much/a lot of help here from teachers and native speakers when I was being an intermediate student.
Now, I am here again to experience more.
I gained my FCE certificate last year and am studying to obtain the CAE certificate as soon as possible in 2018.


Good job Tara! The FCE is a difficult exam and you must be really proud. Let me know if there is anything I could do to help you prepare for the CAE exam. I've been teaching the Cambridge exams for many years now and I think it is a fantastic way to push yourself. 


Here are some pointers for your next writing:

1. Watch out for verbs like 'be' - they are generally not used in continuous tenses as they often describe states. They are tricky because they can also describe short term transitory states.

For example:

I was an intermediate student - this was a state in your past and not an action - use the simple tense only.

On the other hand, you can use 'be' to refer to a transitory state like this:

You're being a bit silly! = You're not acting as you usually do and I don't expect you to continue being like this for a long period of time. 

2. Countable / Uncountable - much vs many

I hope this helps!

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Reactivating

Hello,
Today I decided to reactivate my italki account after about four year as I am feeling the need to brush up on my English.
I received much help here from teachers and native speakers when I was an intermediate student.
Now I am here again to experience more.
I gained my FCE certificate last year and am studying to obtain a CAE certificate as soon as possible in 2018.

Very well written!

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Hey! Great to see you here again. I hope this time you will achieve your goals! Wish you a good luck!
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Cool. Hit me up if you have any questions about English

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