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I'm not looking for language partners right now, but I'm always happy to answer any questions you might have about English. I use mainly the Pimsleur lessons for language learning. I've been through all 90 lessons of German and French, and have worked through about half that in Spanish. Eventually, I plan to work on Korean, Russian, Mandarin and Japanese. But Pimsleur still leaves you far short of knowing a language.
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  • Answered
    Not sure how good they are for practicing Korean, but 2 great Korean movies are Windstruck and My Sassy Girl.
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    June 16, 2016
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    About the movie <Her>

    About the movie <Her>

    I watched a movie called "Her" recently - do you know what kind of story this movie has, let me tell you.

    This movie describes a man who fell in love with a computer program. They talk everyday. He just wears his headphones when he wants to talk to her. Isn't that incredible? I think it's so magical.
    She is a computer program without a body but she know everything about him, (his email, his job, his wife and so on) because she lives in his computer.
    In addition, her voice is so sexy and charming which is so attractive to a lonely man.

    One day the program had several changes to update. She started chatting with many people at the same time, which made him feel hurt and disappointed when he found out.

    Later, the program is gone, just ruined. He sat down then and sent an email to his e-wife and walked to his friend's apartment and kicked the door. His friend looked at him and said "she is gone?" he answered 'yes'.
    At that moment I felt that they were alone in this world. That's why people need to love and to be loved.

    Even though there are so many conversations in this movie, I still love it and I hope you'll like this style of movies.

    PS: The movie was filmed in Shanghai, China, which is a beautiful city with amazing night scenes.

     

     

    Very good!  Work on your verbs for (1) subject verb agreement and (2) verb tense (past, present, future).

     

    agreement:

    we describe / this movie describes

    I wear / he wears

    I want / he wants

     

    tense (present / past):

    today I watch / yesterday I watched

    she starts chatting right now / earlier she started chatting

    he sits down now / he sat down a minute ago

    at this moment I feel / at that moment I felt

     

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    September 28, 2014
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  • Answered
    I agree with Devin. It sounds like a street in Brooklyn or Manhattan, in New York. From one of the stories in "This Is How You Lose Her", a collection of short stories by Junot Diaz. I have not read it, so I can't say exactly.
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    April 7, 2014
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    Qingming Festival

    Yesterday was Qingming Festival. We observe(1) Qingming Festival every year on Apr 05. We have a 3 day holiday from Apr 05 to Apr 07. At this time, we go to the cemetery to commemorate those who have passed away(2). Yesterday, today and tomorrow, we don`t have to work, so I can sleep all day~ haha！！ Good night everyone~

     

    (1) "have" is okay here, but "observe" is more common.

    (2) "passed away" = "died", but sounds less harsh.  "Died" is also okay.

     

     

     

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    April 7, 2014
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  • Answered
    The Foreign Service Institute Chinese course has very good coverage of pronunciation. It is free, you can download it at fsi-language-courses.org. You want "Pronunciation and Romanization", Tape 1 to Tape 6, and the corresponding Text. Another suggestion is to go through some of the Pimsleur Chinese lessons. It may be available at your local library, perhaps. Just hearing native Chinese and repeating it helps with pronunciation.
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    December 5, 2013
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    Szechuan string beans.  :-)

    I generally like dishes with chicken, but for some reason I really love the string beans.

     

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    June 30, 2013
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  • Commented

    Eminem.  I liked 8 Mile also.  :-)

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    June 30, 2013
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  • Answered
    I think they are called "binding rings" or "binder rings".
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    June 23, 2013
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  • Answered
    If you want help with Mandarin pronunciation, one of the best resources I know of is free. It is the 6 pronunciation lessons which are part of the Foreign Service Institute Chinese course. This was used to teach U.S. diplomats who would be working in China. You can listen to / download them here: http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Chinese For the "Resource Module", get the "Text" and also the "Pronunciation and Romanization" audio, Tape1 - Tape6. These provide excellent teaching of how to pronounce pinyin. HTH
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    May 27, 2013
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  • Answered
    Developmental construct probably does not mean shelter. It refers to something in an earlier sentence. If you add one or two sentences which preceded your first sentence, we might be able to help say what it refers to. "whose" refers to Mr. Broyard and Ms. McKenney. "Clever DIY'er now ..." = present tense. "whose apartments had" = past tense. So whose is not referring to the Do It Yourself-ers, so it must be referring to Broyard and McKenney. Yes, "upside" means a "good and positive" trait. (up = positive, side = trait, feature) Broyard and McKenney had awful apartments, so they didn't want to stay at home, so that forced them to go out and see the city more. This was a good thing.
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    March 3, 2013
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