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Salut! Je m'appelle Jessica. Je suis une musicienne et une artiste, et j'apprends le français. Je parle couramment l'anglais, je parle aussi un peu allemand, et un petit peu italien. Mon objectif est de bien apprendre le français, l'allemand et l'italien, et voyager en Europe. J'aime parle de l'histoire, la science, le feminisme, la culture, la politique gay & lesbien, japonais anime, l'internet, jeux video, films, poésie, et musique (j'adore opera d'italien, le jazz, et... et beaucoup d'autres choses - l'opera en français est tres bien aussi!)... J'ai beaucoup d'intérêts excentriques et intéressants, mais mon français peut être insuffisante. Alors, je suis là! Hallo, enchantée! I'm happy to help you with English. I hope you can help me with French. ^_^ Merci! Au revoir!
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    December 14, 2012
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    Let me try and give simple definitions: "Bothered" - caused a bad feeling, like annoyance, anger, disturbance "Intervened" - did something that affects someone else's activities (can be helpful) "Interfered" - did something that disrupts someone else's activities (usually unwelcome) "Worried" (one meaning) - scared or caused a bad feeling like concern, or fear Your friend is in a fight. It worries (scares) you. So, you try to intervene (help). Your friend is bothered (annoyed) by it, so he tells you not to interfere (disrupt). Maybe that makes a little more sense?
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    December 13, 2012
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    Those aren't very passive... "has been" can be active - and those sentences sound natural. But: "He has visited France." is more Active. "He has been acting so stupid." is more Active.
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    December 13, 2012
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    It's about the perspective of the person asking. If someone asks when you'll "go back to" - you're going away from them to a place. If they ask when you'll "come back to" - you're coming to the place where they are ("back" where you've been before). 1) -(you're at home) When will you go back to work? 1.1) -(you're at work, and you're leaving) When will you come back to work? 2) -(you're in England, someone says) When will you go back to China? 3) -(you're talking on the phone to someone in China, that person asks) When will you come back to China?
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    December 13, 2012
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    When something is "on the verge" of something, it's almost reaching that level - similar to saying "on the edge". "On the verge of coherence" means it could almost be understood. When you hear people murmuring, you can't really understand the words, but if it "trembled on the verge of coherence" you could almost make out the words, but not quite. It's another metaphor like the lawn that ran up the beach - it's written to evoke the feeling of waves in the ocean. You're going to encounter a lot of interesting English in The Great Gatsby! F. Scott Fitzgerald was the quintessential American writer of the 1920s, and that was the same time period that American English Slang and popular culture really exploded.
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    December 13, 2012
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    They are all very similar, basically the same. "Business hours" - shows the opening and closing time for any type of business. "Office hours" - shows when an office will be open and closed (some businesses have business hours and contain an office that has different hours). "Opening hours" - means the same as "Business Hours" in British English, but we don't really use that term in American English. We might use "Hours of Operation".
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    December 13, 2012
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    Most people need some positive social interaction, to be emotionally healthy. We're social creatures, by nature. Personally... I feel lonely sometimes because I work alone, and I live very far away from my family. I have friends close by, so if I feel lonely, I go hang out with them. ^_^
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    December 13, 2012
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    Most people would not say "I don't have any job" - even though the grammar is okay. "I don't have a job at the moment, and I'm eating up my reserve." sounds good. You could also say "eating into my reserve" or "using up my reserve" - any of those sound like natural speech.
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    December 13, 2012
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    They mean the same thing, but "The cat curled up in a ball" sounds more natural. That's people would say it (in American English).
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    December 13, 2012
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    Both of those are good. "We have nothing to eat." works any time there's no food. "We have nothing left to eat." implies you've been there as the food ran out - there was food, and now it is gone. Maybe you ate it! ^_^
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    December 13, 2012
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