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What books should you read? A lot of time I get asked “What book should I read?” “What are you reading?” and the thing is: don’t want to read what I’m reading. Of course I’ve showed you two books here and they’re good, they’re more general, but as always I’m a huge fan of acquiring information and implementing it right there. So, if you ask someone “What books are you reading?” and you then buy those books and read them but you don’t implement stuff, it’s just as college that you learn multiples things but you don’t implement them, and overtime you forget it and you just acquire information that you can’t use. So, I prefer to set myself a goal and then buy books if necessary to acquire that information and then put it together, so then I can reach my goal, because if you just read books it’s basically waste of time and energy that can be use for something else, just reading them and then forgetting what you’ve learned. Like for me, I remember at the beginning I bought too many books about business and investing, but if you’re not at that stage where you make huge business investments, it’s just useless. You know it, you acquire information but then you forget it and when the time comes you have to acquire it again, so it’s really waste of time. So, the next time you decide to read the book, first set your goal and then you can acquire the information and implement it. Please feel free to make any corrections...Thanks
February 26, 2019
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Please help me giving directions in English! Look at the map for understand my explanation! A: I WANT TO GO TO THE MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY, CAN YOU GIVE ME DIRECTIONS? B:Sure. Start at the corner of Carter and Adams. Go straight on Adams St 3 blocks ahead and then turn left. Continue on Gary St. until the 5th St. and then make a right turn. Go ahead 2 blocks on 5th St. then turn left on Byrd St. Continue on Byrd St. until tge 7th St., then turn right and go straight until Lee St. Then make a left turn and go ahead again. The Martial Arts Academy in on the left at the end of the street. Please help me, correcting this text. How would you write it? If you can, give me words that are frequently used in this context, I'll really appreciate it.
October 1, 2018
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Please help me correcting this! It's 12:30 and I'm sitting in the library right now. My classmates are eating lunch together, but I'm not hungry yet. At home, we eat never this early. Today our journal topic is culture shock. It's a good topic for me right now because I'm being pretty homesick. I miss my old routine. At home, we always are eating a big meal at 2:00 in the afternoon. Then we rest. But here in Toronto i am having a 3:00 conversation class. Every day I almost fall asleep in class, and my teacher ask me, "Are you bored?" Of course I am not bored. I just need my afternoon nap! This class always is fun. This semester we work on a project with video cameras. My team is filming groups of people from different cultures. We are analyze "social distance". That means how close to each other these people stand. According to my new watch, it's 12:55, so I leave now for my 1:00 class. Teachers here really aren't liking tardiness!
September 25, 2018
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Cómo decir en inglés: "Empecé a hacer un pastel"?

Qué tal! Estoy planteando oraciones en español para practicarlas cómo se expresarían en inglés.

Por ejemplo, he empezado a realizar un pastel de cumpleaños, y de pronto, suena el teléfono. Contesto, y la persona que llamó me pregunta qué estoy haciendo, y le contesto:

"Empecé a hacer un pastel ahora"

Cómo la expreso en inglés? Si no me equivoco, la oración debería ser un "Present perfect" o "Present perfect continuous", considerando que ya empecé a hacer el pastel, pero aún no lo he terminado, sigo en proceso.

Podría ser: I've started to make a cake? o "I've started making a cake?

Alguien sabría explicarme las diferencias entre ambas oraciones y cuál es a expresión adecuada que debería usar para el caso?

Muchas Gracias!

July 8, 2018
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Practicing english writting! Hello! I hope you'll can make the corrections of this text! Since this year, I start to study russian and some of french, because I would like to travel some other country, like Canada, France, Russia or Australia to can study cinematography. I don't know yet which will be my destiny. In my country, even in the present, it's so hard to study this career. There are just four universities that offers cinematic careers, and they don't be nothing serious. Also, they don't count with the technical equipment necessaries and qualified teachers, as well they are very expensive. Some years from now, I would like to be typing my own screenplays and direct them, starting making shortfilms, then movies and finally, TV series or the famous soap operas, that are very popular in latin countries and Turkey. I would like to write soap operas scripts and why not, direct them too, because I think by television it's possible to reach the stories to more viewers, compared cinemas possibilities. I don't know yet how I'll get all of this! There are very road so far!
July 5, 2018
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