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For all of you who learn Arabic/ Egyptian, could you guess what this very common Arabic/Egyptian Idioms means?
Disclaimer: some are very funny and some are full with wisdom! May be you have similar ones in your languages!
Enjoy!
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"باب النجار مخلع "
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" القرد في عين أمه غزال "
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" جحا أولى بلحم طوره "
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" البلحه في إيد اليتيم عجبه "
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" القرش الأبيض ينفع في اليوم الأسود "
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" القانون لا يحمي المغفلين "
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" سيد القوم خادمهم "
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" هتروح فين الشمس عن قفا الفلاح "
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" مسيرك يا ملخية تيجي تحت المخرطه "
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" بيت المهمل يخرب قبل بيت الظالم "
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¿Quiere hablar ingles?
Hola amigos, soy Mohamed, y tengo 28 años. He estado estudiando español durante 2 semanas. Yo puedro para ayudarte practicar ingles.
Hello my friends, I am fluent English and native Arabic speaker. I can help you learn both. I have been learning Spanish for 2 weeks now. And I hope I can meet some cool people to practice together.
Good luck .
Adiós !
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I need help with this paragraph please.
I tend to write a long and complex sentences that usually lead to many mistakes, any advice on how to write better complex sentence mistake-free? and what do you think about those sentences?
Whereas 80 percent of domestic students achieve second class degree or higher in Art History, only almost 70 percent of foreigner student achieve the same result. Similarly, in English literature, more than 70 percent of national students achieve second class or higher degree in contrast with international students, which less than 60 percent did so. On the other hand, 80 percent and 85 percent of international students and almost 60 percent of UK students score second degree or higher in both Electrical Engineering and Information Technology respectively. Finally, the percentage of national and international students scored second-degree class or higher was almost the same, they both scored 74 percent, 60 percent, and about 78 percent in Nursing, Accountancy, and Sociology respectively.
April 4, 2019
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Please correct my sentences for task 1 IELTS!
From 1989 to 1995 there was gradual decrease in the rate of timber production.
There was a moderate decrease of the attended students until 1986, at which point there have been a steady growth of enrolments' number.
In 1989, the sales of washing machine -in general- started to increase steadily. Type I, in one hand, rose dramatically from zero to six-hundreds annually in year 1995, in the other hand, type II washing machines sales increased as well but with less momentum to reach only two-hundreds per year in 1995.
In 1989, both LP record and cassette productions started to increase. Cassette, on one hand, continue to increase all over the period by 40 units per year. On the other hand, LP records bottomed by year 1995 after a peak 20 years prior. In year 1985, CD production has begun, and has been increasing sharply ever since. Around 1995, the numbers of CD production exceeded 100 units per year.
March 12, 2019
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English Journal 1.3 : Costa Rica and William Faulkner quot
Hello Italki community, friends and teachers.
I met a special new friend from Costa Rica yesterday, and we spent a while talking about our countries and its heritage. Through our small chat, I have been astonished hearing about Costa Rica. At first, it is only fair to admit that I did not know much about the country, only that they have an amazing coffee and they speaking Spanish as every other Latin American Countries, but I did not know much about their culture, economy, education system or people.
My friend told me that they do not have an active army, I wasn't aware - as an ignorant human being- that such thing is even possible, in addition to they allocate the army budget to their education system! How great could this be! I have learnt later that Germany also do not have an active army after world war I. They of course have cost guards, which they regularly catch tons of drugs on fishing boats, in my country this is what we called an army! even though, this is still a huge deal and I need to educate my self more about the history of the country with regard to this point.
Costa Rica is a taxes friendly country, some called Costa Rica a Swaziland of Latin Americans countries! Many wealthy people have bank accounts their, beside their mansions and yachts. Mel Gibson - the famous actor- own a 30 million house in Costa Rica, which many suggest that house is the most expensive real-state unite their. Also, it is worth mentioning that the most richest man in the country is in fact the president, which he actually worth more than 10 billions USD.
Costa Rica is not just a very beautiful country with long beaches on both pacific and Caribbean with tropical forests all over the place, they also very environmental friendly country. By 2021, all their energy will comes from a sustainable source, and they will be carbon neutral country. The amazing seashore pictures I saw, side by side with this amazing and courage people living on this heavenly land, actually remind with one of the most beautiful quot for the American novelist William Faulkner "You cannot swim for a new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the seashore"
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English Journal 1.2
Hello Italki community, thank you for your help and support.
Today is my second day on my writing journey, and I feel fabulous!
Writing is my weak link among the four skills ( reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and even so that I had spent more than six years in college and university studying mainly in English, but I did not do much writing projects and assignments. I think I was not so lucky, how ironic!
I started my writing master plan by working on grammar, side by side with daily writing ritual ( only 15 minutes, just writing what comes up into my mind). I study grammar using the famous "Essential grammar in use", and I really like this book because it contains hundreds of questions and practical problems to solve. I learn very much that way. I am not sure what I should study next, may be I need to use academic writing book or something, I am not sure yet. please leave me any suggestion you think it may help.
On other hand, I am reading a very interesting book:" Blue ocean strategies," and it is a marketing book talking about how to create a new market to make the competition irrelevant, by adopting new way of thinking, and being a courageous business leader. I have picked up this book when I studied a two months marketing as part of a management diploma that I started last year, and I have finished in January, 2019. During that year, I found special appealing inside me to marketing, I used to think it is a pure evil! But as Tony Robbins says "Business is innovation and marketing"! After some search, I believe that Peter Drucker said something similar. I think it is a crucial topic that really helping me to think in more evolved way, and it change how to see opportunities and argument your opinions!
Thank you all for your help and support,
Keep learning and keep the hard work.
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How I work on my spelling!
Hello world,
firstly, I owe you guys ( italki friends and fellow learners ) a lot, so I want to thank you deeply.
Secondly, I have started a daily ritual of writing in English to improve my skill, and it is difficult for me to find an interesting topic to write about! So I thought to write about a trick that is helping me very much, and it was an absolute game changer for me with regard to my spelling.
Just to be clear, I am not in any position to claim that I am qualified to teach you guys any thing about English, I am struggling with the language my self! So please, if you found this tip useful, let me know, and if you have other ideas that helped you, feel free to share it.
With that said, on day I found that, when I want to remember the spelling of any Arabic word ( Arabic is my native language), I - somehow- see the word in my head, I don't spell it or try to pronounce it to remember the letters! On the other hand, when it comes to an English word, I do exactly the opposite, I do not see any thing, and I start to panic trying to say the word loud over and over to figure out how to write it.
So, I asked my self how to do the same with the English vocab? and I developed a system that really help me!
I started to write down the vocabularies - that I spell wrong- in a flash card with large font, and I usually use two colors to make these words more prominent in my head. For example, I would write the word "opposite" with Oppo- part with red marker, and -site with blue or black one. After turning all my daily mistakes into a flash cards, Ideally I go through them once in the morning or before sleeping, I read them to record them on my phone, and I take few seconds, just looking deeply to the card; trying to scan the word to my brain, literally! Then I listen to the record and write them down.
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Please correct my writing: Take 1 IELTS writing
The line chart shows figures about the area of land that was harvested between 1950 and 1996 in million hectares. In the broadest sense, that has been overall increase in the numbers from just below 600 million hectares at the begging of the time frame, to reach 700 by the in of the end of the period, in 1996.
The figures started with sharp increase during the very first six years from 600 to 650 million hectares per year, then the figure fluctuate below then around that number, 650 million hectares, over the next decade. Then in the mid sixty's, the figures were increase to reach above 700 million hectares in year 1977. Then after small decrease in the numbers, the trend peaked about 745 million hectares in year 1980. Moving forward, the area of land harvested grain show a sharp decrease then plateaued around the 700 million hectares until the end of the time frame- 1969.
March 2, 2019
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I am struggling with the writing in general and writing for the IELTS exam in specific!
Hello world,
I have been studying English for so long, but even so I am still struggling with the writing skill. I am not sure what should I do to be better writer and to take my skill to the next level. I have been doing some academic reading and writing for not a long time. I took the IELTS exam 3 times and I keep scoring below band 7 ( 5.5, 6& 6 respectively), and it is really hurting my career. I need any advice that can help.
Thank you all .
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Writing peice Task 1 IELTS writing. Please correct the mistake and tell me how to improve the text.
The picture displays details about resort island, inform of two diagram with scale, the first on for geographic information, and the second for building and facilities. The pear like island is 250 to 300 meters length and less than 100 meters width in the longest part of the island, in the east. The reception is located in the center of the island, it is single big building encircled with car roads, to connect it the restaurant north and to the duck south. On the both side of the reception, cabins are arranged in two big circles one on each side, 9 of them on the right and 6 on the left, with walking track connection in between of them, to make them look like a <sun drew by a child.>
The beach prepared to swimming are located in the far west of the island. The duck is T-shap with two boats, one on each side. The coconuts trees are scattered all over the island.
December 4, 2016
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