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Getting started on italki (Please help me to correct this post)
This is my second time singing up for an account on italki.com. I was introduced to this website by one of my classmates from our Russian class. The last time I registered, I didn't know how the website worked and was afraid to post any content, but I have more time during my day now so I wanted to start using it more.
I am a native Chinese speaker and I can speak English, but at this moment, I feel so embarrassed because my English is so poor. I'm lacking so much experience in writing and communicating in English.
It has not been a problem for me to read and understand English articles and websites, but upon writing an essay, I find it very difficult to compose fluent and clear sentences. I'm trying my best now, with my heart bumping fast and my face blushed!
I would like the people who read this to correct my writing and help me improve my English, and I'm also very happy/looking forward to make/making friends here. I hope in a few more days I will be able to chat with people from around the world and can learn a lot of new things!
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Hi Wolf, This is great! Just a few things you need to be careful with:
Informal abbreviations - for example "you are" > "you're" or "I am" > "I'm", this is fine is you are writing a friendly, informal piece like a letter to a friend or quoting someone, but if you are going to do this it is usually accepted that you either do all of them or none so I have edited them out.
Secondly, for the same reasons, starting a sentence with "Because" is alright if you are writing to a friend, but otherwise try not to do it.
Other than that, great structure and choice of words! Ben
0 votedJune 4, 20131When your Heart and Head don't Match...
What happens when what you feel doesn't match with what you think or should do?
Probably Many of you have probably experienced what I've asked above, especially when it comes to love matters.
What to do you do if the person people we are in love with, or simply can't fall out of love with, is are not good for us?
On the one hard hand, there is that inner voice which tells you to follow your heart and what you're actually feeling, no matter if it seems illogical or too risky; but. On the other hand there is what everyone tells you to do, what would be the best for you, and that "that person he doesn't deserve you", that it is senseless to get back with him, and they remind you all the bad things he has done to you.But, you know, is not that easy...despite all the bad things that he has done to you, and despite the fact that there's a part of you which that also knows that you shouldn't get back with him; you can't imagine a better person to be with and to share your life with. 'Cause You know that it will be pretty hard to find someone else who makes you as happy as he used to, or someone who will understand you that well or who will make you laugh until you crying...
They say that time heals everything... But what if it doesn't... what if other relationships you get into are only to help you forget him?---------
Hi, This is great! Well done on keeping the continuity with your informal writing and abbreviations, that can be tough. Just be careful with you long sentences.
0 votedMay 30, 20131Can you check the correctness of these proposals statements please?
1."I'm very satisfied with my place that I hadve chosen/ I will eat berries and fish and read all of the books that I have always have wanted to read", "Where will you take them?","I have brought it with me"
2.He rose his head from a the cup of coffee that he was still stirring, but didn't drink.
3.When he was comming came back we tried to pretend that we didn't talk about him.
4.Maks picked up the book that he had read before this and bent the corner of the village to mark page.
5.The people which that she met seemed to know where she was been and what she was doing there.-------------
Hi Juliana, Good work!
I'm a little consfused in number 4, do you mean "bent the corner of the page to mark the place"? And do you mean Max or is Maks just a name I've never heard?
Also in 5 you wrote "where she was been" I wasn't sure what you meant, although I wrote "where she was", "where she had been" would also make sense.
0 votedMay 28, 20132Finding a new job
This year I was have decided to find a new job. However, I have noticed that being fluent in English is so important to get a better job. Most of the job opportunities required that the candidate be fluent in English. Then So, I´m here, in on this website, trying to getting better in at this language improve my English.
I have been watchinged so many videos, and I think that listening is must be more difficult to understanding than the reading. I don´t know why I do understand one person's English and not other people's of the people that speaks English, and other is so difficult to understanding. For example: Jimmy Kimmel live is easier to understanding than Jimmy Fallon...
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Hi Vinicius, Good work! You have some good vocabulary in there just be careful with your verb tenses
0 votedMay 28, 20130Digging up the soil.
Although these days I have been too busy to spend time with my friends, I managed to go to my friends house to do some farmwork.
There were several men at the farm from the same high school. We enjoyed having schops (I'm not sure what you mean by "schops") and digging up the soil in the sunshine, and covering the surface with vinyl.
We are going to plant a lot of tomatos next week.
Because I always work inside, the farm work was so refreshing.
The work reminds me of Shinsai in Fukushima, because I volunteered there and did the same farm work after the earthquake occurred. There are many people in Fukushima trying to ged rid of the polluted soil so that they can start new agriculture.0 votedMay 28, 20132
