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I joined italki to practice writing in Spanish. However, I would like to practice speaking Spanish with other women. Me uní a italki para escribir en español. Sin embargo, me gustaría practicar hablando en espanol con otras mujeres. :)
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    Melophoby (Part VII) Correct  [Not sure what this word is. Melody?]

    At home, Alice started to write a song to Louis. She thought that it would be the best way to win him. She was so excited that she spent several days and nights writing the song. She didn’t know anything about Louis’s sickness. The day when she finished the song, she recorded it and sent it to Louis on a CD. In the pocket where the CD was, she wrote her e-mail and requested him to answer her. Then, she slid the CD underneath Louis’s door house and after waited for the response in front of her laptop.

    ::::::THE FIRST PARTS:::::::::::::::

    There was one day Louis's classmates played a joke on him. They let Louis come into the classroom first.  He was alone, therefore, silent. Ten minutes passed, and nobody entered to the classroom, but, shortly afterwards, the bully blared his iPod connected to speakers at high volume. It hurt Louis’s ears and nobody listened to his screams. Really, Louis only heard 10 seconds of one death metal song, but that was enough that Louis fell and passed out. [passing out implies falling]
    He woke up on his bed. His mother looked at him with pity: poor boy; he will never can feel his skin (soothed???) by the feeling of a good piece of jazz music, he will never can feel his blood boil/sing/dance with the intensity of a rock’s guitar riff, he will never can feel his heart beat to the rhythm of dance music. Yes, poor deaf boy. He can listen, but, if he can’t have pleasure with music, he might as well be deaf. In this sense, the deafness is the death.

    Alice has played the piano since she was 4 years. She has absolute pitch, a gift when a person can identify all the notes of one melody, even can identify the notes in common sounds as (klaxon’s???) cars, microwaves, people’s voice and a thousand other things. She is the same age  as Louis (and he doesn't know those sounds until now.)<-wasn't sure what this last bit referred to)


    Alice lives near to Louis’s house. One day, they exchanged looks on the street. She was on one side and Louis on the other side. Both stopped their walking for a brief moment so that they would not be obvious, but they liked each other immediately. The Alice's curly hair stayed in Louis’s mind all the day; and the Louis’s smile made Alice happy.

     

    We never use the construction: he will never can feel

    We DO use the following constructions:

    He can feel...

    He can't feel...

    He will never feel...

    He will always remember the feeling of...

    (just to name a few)

     

    Find a lesson somewhere that goes over the difference between "a" and when to use "one" in English. We typically use one when we mean exactly ONE or when we are placing emphasize on a certain thing.  We don't do it very much.  I guess keep reading in English and pay attention to when "one" and when "a" is used?

     

    Also, you might be intersted in the phrase "love at first sight" or "true love" if you do not have them in your language!

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    Makankousappou

    I found a very funny news story on the net.

    It said that a recent trend for Japanese high school girls is taking photos of Makankousappou.
    This means that each girl poses in different ways, like doing martial arts skills from anime Dragon Ball as if they are really fighting. However I think this is not Makankousappou.

    [I tried! It was hard to follow what you meant.]


    http://www.j-cast.com/2013/04/09172660.html?p=all

    The following is real Makankousappou.

    http://www.google.co.jp/imgres?imgurl=http://www.deviantart.com/download/113358162/dragonball___makankosappo_by_nostal-d1vhnpu.png&imgrefurl=http://nostal.deviantart.com/art/Makankosappo-113358162&h=1063&w=1470&sz=1249&tbnid=R9MROSD8Sps9jM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=124&zoom=1&usg=__ed6pnG8fdJiv6uoQhZJDuRaQl8A=&docid=I9MEyb5iCCKQWM&sa=X&ei=PIFjUbC-EYykiQeM2YD4AQ&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAA&dur=1780

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    April 9, 2013
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    pp46-47

    (This passage is translated from a Japanese book. Corrections welcomed!)

    Don't Make An Excuse

    On that day, you didn't take that one step forward.
    Don't make it an excuse for not doing your best now.

    From now on,
    I want to be a person who makes the most of the present.


    "Take it easy," the instructor called out to him.
    The boy bashfully dropped his eyes.
    Those boys who write elegant things like proverbs and slogans
    often put unnecessary strain on themselves, harden their faces, and cannot relax.
    Since they are perfectionists, they cannot stand their own deficiency.
    They often become unstable, and sometimes end up committing crimes.
    It's okay to take it easy sometimes.
    If you can allow yourself weaknesses, your life is going to be easier.

     

    The yellow parts are things that didn't sound right in English and needed to be changed.

    The other things are okay, but the suggestions I listed sound better. Nobel isn't really used like that in English.  I thought about putting in concise or clever, but it didn't have the same double meaning that I suspect the author intended (proverbs and slogans are very short, an elegant solution is a quick, short solution AND an elegant man dresses and acts like a gentleman, which is what a nobel man does as well)  Elegant might be the English word to use.  And the word "those" can be on that line, it just sounds a little better if it's not.

     

    You did a good job. :)

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    April 9, 2013
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    [I rewrote this for you.]

     

    I feel better

     

    Yesterday,my friend told me some things about H7N9.  For example, a 27 year old man died. Since the H7N9 epidemic began, I have not been afraid.  But now, I read that the 27 year old man died, and it worries me because it happened so fast.  After 7 days, he was gone.  I am afraid.  

     

    Yesterday, after I finished work, I felt hot.  I thought that I had a fever.  I was worried that maybe I had the H7N9 virus.  But this morning, I felt better.  I did not feel hot, and I did not have a fever.  I was happy!

     

    *When you say "feel better," you are telling another person to feel better. Using it about yourself is grammatically correct, but it doesn't make sense. You would say "I feel better" or "I'm feeling better"

     

    I didn't really understand this part: "i lived that hourse some old women feed hen and cock,it is not better."

     

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    April 9, 2013
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    El Día 2: Una Chica Nueva Ayer, una zoóloga nueva llegá a el Parque Zoólogico. Su nombre es Lila. Ella es rubia, delgada y feliz. Siempre ella canta y no puedo tener sueñecitos. No tiene miedo de mí. ¡La idiota! Ella debe tener muy miedo. ¡Yo no soy una gatita! ¡Yo soy una leona! Grrrrr... Esta mañana, ella la trajo un pelota dentro de mí juala. Decidí luchar contra la pelota para que ella tendrá miedo en el futuro. Pero, ella se rió...ella se rió a mí. Por supuesto, ella morirá por ese insulto. Ahora, tengo que pensar... [Esta es una ficcíon sobre una leona blanca. Yo continuaré la historía por un tiempo.]
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  • Corrected

    El clon

    I'm watching "el clon" now.  It's the best story ever.  I watch it that every night. In the story, a Brazilian girl (named Jade) moved to Marruecos when her mother died. She tries to follow the customs. But She knows Lucas, a brazilian guy, who is on a trip. They fall in love, but everything is difficult because of the new customs. The name is "el clon" because a doctor made a clone of Lucas. After a lot of things happen and after many years, Jade knows him! Well, I can't tell all the whole story because is very long, but I love it!


    Note: I marked some things that aren't grammatically incorrect but sound a little odd in yellow (as well as punctuation).

     

    You could write one of the phrases I corrected as: "I can't tell all of the story" or "I can't tell the whole story"

     

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    April 6, 2013
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  • Corrected

    It's Friday!

    Finally, [<-- this comma is optional] tomorrow is Friday. I couldn't wait any more. This week has been exhausting with too much school work to do. I'm happy but tired.
    My plans for the weekend include: watching New Girl, studying English, and doing my school work.

    Yeah, I have no social life.  Haha :)

     

    I corrected your punctuation though I suspect you're at a level where you know the proper rules.  :)

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    April 6, 2013
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    I'm learning English englihs

    Hello, I'm learning English english because becouse I need it for my work.

     

    Remember: Capitalize the first letter of all languages in English (for example: Italian, German, Russian). :)

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    April 6, 2013
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    Dumb...

    It's been a long time since the last time I had the an oportunity to talk with somebody, and today I had a chance to could do it again. It was good, but kind of embarrasing for me. I haven't practiced practice enough, so I think that I gave stupid answers. I feel bad for Sorry about the guy who that had to put up with me me up. Keep in mind guys: You should always practice. hahaha

     

    Note: Very few of your mistakes are grammatically incorrect. :)

     

    Remember the pronoun "who" is used for people.  This is a common mistake even for native speakers.

    "To put me up (for the night)" [the entire phrase] means to give someone a place to stay for the night (usually a friend).  You were thinking of the phrase "to put up with me." 

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    April 6, 2013
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    El Día 1: Una Introducción Me llamo Peligrosa. Soy una león blanca y vivo en el Parque Zoológico. Durante el día, como el carne que los zoológicos ponen fuera para mí y trato de tener al menos viente sueñecitos. También, miro los humanos mientras pasan mí jaula. Y yo penso. [Sí, es una ficcíon. Yo continuaré la historía por un tiempo.]
    April 6, 2013
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