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Hi friends! My name is Liam, I am from Sydney, Australia, but I currently live in Seoul. In Australia I was a Library Technician at a University library, and in Korea I am an English teacher at an elementary school. I enjoy reading, listening to music and watching films. I hope I can help with English questions if you have any :)
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Liam has a good knowledge of Korean grammar and sentence structure, and I believe this will be a great advantage of improving his spoken Korean!
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    The college years are the best years in a personss life (my first Toefl writing practise)

    The statement asks if the college years are the best time in a persons life, well i dont think it is they are. i am sure that all people who went to college had realy great time out there. But we can not say they all had the best time.
    For instance me, i graduated from Gazi University at in Ankara as a chemical engineer last year. But that school was not my first choice, i used to dreaming about living in Eskisehir. When i found out that i couldnt get enough points for Eskisehir, i was devastated. But i didnt have enough courage to attent attempt the exam one more time, the only choise choice in front of me was the Ankara and i took it. In the/my first 2 years i did not attend classes, i did not meet with anyone, never been in went to any social activity. I was visiting my family once a week. In On other days, i was just sleeping in my apartment. It took me so long to accept my situation. Is Does that means i never enjoyed a thing at college? Of course not, i had so many great friends later, we became like a family, I also meet met my current girlfriend in there. But also i could never forget the first two years. Since i didnt attent my classes, my grades gone were awful. I needed to work much harder then than anybody in my classes to fix those grades. After my third year, i became so obsessed about studying hard that, i realised that i forget had forgotten what a social life is like. But anyway with hardwork and passionate i graduated my from college. But i have never forget that forgotten those bad memories.
    In conclusion education tooks takes the biggest part of our lives without doubt. Of course beside lessons, we do learn friendship, love, respect, success etc. but it also teaches people, life is not going on like in the fairy tales. There would always be barriers. I meet met my biggest barriers in my college years, so i dont think the college years are the best years for everone everyone.

     

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    Great work Sinan,


    I understood your writing very clearly and was never unsure about your intended meaning. The only place you seem to make errors are with minor spelling mistakes and occasionally with tense. For instance "Meet" is future tense, "Met" is past tense, and "Meeting" is present tense - however there are no easy rules for these intricacies; just a matter of practice.


    I wish my Turkish were anywhere near as good as your English!


    -Liam

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    October 12, 2015
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    Doktorum - Am I the doctor, or is it my doctor? Personal/Possesive/Confusion! Merhaba, I am very slowly making my way through some Türkçe lessons. Benim yavaşim! I am confused about the rules around expressing "My thing" and "I am something". Example: doktorum - without either Benim or Ben, does"Doktorum" mean My Doctor or I Am A Doctor. Example: Meşrubat - My drink is "meşrubatım" - right? But does that not also say "I am a drink"!? Can anyone help explain this? Teşekkürler, Liam
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    To get to the second rocky peak 2 we have had to climb the stairs, there is was only one timber path (OR - the path was only single file). Because of many visitors who will going down, then we must be willing has to queue up first. at the time While we were sitting, suddenly two friends who went to Mata Air Comberan is here arrived earlier also through other routes. Indeed, there is more than one road to the summit is not just one, and not only more than one peak summit, there are two peaks. We chose peaks 2 due to to because the top one we still have a would require passing a long pass route. So we decided to to peak 2. Once after the queue is was finished, we climbed the stairs logs log stairs one by one. After reaching the peak, we lost all sense of fatigue. How beautiful we can see the scenery we can see from the top 2. From the second peak of the two peaks, we can also see the top 1. at the top, the wind is blowing pretty hard, so it is not recommended to smoke cigarettes at the top because you will quickly run out :D from the top we can also see Embung, water storage reservoirs. in front of From this peak is still there are no cliffs higher. How beautiful the scenery on top of Nglanggeran.

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    Past/Passed are easily confused, for more info look here: http://www.towson.edu/ows/past.htm

    <em>Tense:</em> Most of the errors in your writing seem to be tense issues, I know this is tricky as Bahasa Indonesia does not use tense the same was as Bahasa Inggriss.


    <em>Adjectives:</em> A couple of times you place an adjective after a noun in your writing, as far as i know this is correct for Indonesian, however in English we place adjectives before a noun we are describing. Example: He has a strong accent / Dia punya aksen kental.

    Jalan-jalan Anda melihat sangat cantik. Saya suka "Bushwalking" dan "trecking" di sini dalam Australia. Saya bisa mengerti Bahasa Inggriss Anda dengan baik, itu hanya perlu sedikit-sedikit latihan. :)  

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    December 13, 2013
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    Before reaching the top we want to turn first to Mata Air Comberan (Comberan spring). We climbed the wooden stairs to the large rock that is was in front of us, after reaching the top, the road is extreme was difficult for me. I do did not dare go there because it passes through two narrow cliffs. Unlike the previous cliff where we walked on land that is in between the two cliffs; this time we were are not walking on the soil, because it there is a steep cliff down arms and legs (I'm not sure what this means) so we have to stick on a to the cliff because under us is like a small and narrow gap. although this it is not too narrow and steep, but for me this has it was too been extreme. Only two friends who passed, I and other friends my other friends and I (formal) - OR - me and my other friends (informal) back to followed the route back to the peak, the road to the top was more slippery than before. With the peak already in sight, we met a friend of our party who had reached the summit long before me us. We just want to reached the peak when he was actually already going down. Then I told him about our friends who were in the Mata Air Comberan and they he was going there too.

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    December 13, 2013
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    Last week me and my friends did a trip to Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. We Climbed an ancient volcano named Nglanggeran located in Patuk area. We set off from the hostel at 8:30 am. The trip to the summit Nglanggeran was very enjoyable. We walked <em>Past</em> the stairs of stone and ground earth - OR - We passed the stairs of stone and earth. Indeed, there are were many large boulders that were very beautiful. In fact, sometimes we have had to pass through a very narrow route, passing between two narrow rock cliffs narrow. In Nglanggeran there is also a camping ground. But as it happened, when we were there no one was doing camping.

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    December 13, 2013
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    Saya pikir itu seperti "Bagaimana kabar anda?"
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    December 13, 2013
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    Bruce, were you unable to read the rest of my comment where I very clearly state that slang <em>is not</em> neccessary for someone learning English?

    <em>"I would not focus on learning slang as a priority, for a number of reasons." </em>

     

    You seem to take issue with almost every contributor to this discussion, even when they are broadly in agreement with you.

     

    Also, discussing SLANG in a discussion about SLANG is not OFF TOPIC. The original poster also asked whether knowing slang would effect their "<em>[ability] to deal with English native speakers"</em>, as well as whether or not <em>"there [is] a huge difference between Normal English & Slang English?"</em><em></em>.

    Perhaps you ought to put down the theasaurus that you rely on to write your awkward comments, and brush up on you comprehension skills.

    Best,
    Liam 

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    November 28, 2013
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    Note: What's up? Is not a "ghetto" term at all. Written examples date back to the early 1800's. Furthermore, having a diverse vocabulary can be exciting and interesting.

     

    Regarding slang: You <em>WILL </em>learn slang as you talk more with native english speakers. However I would not focus on learning slang as a priority, for a number of reasons. Firstly, slang is different wherever you go in the English speaking world (Australia, Canada, UK, South Africa etc). However knowing "proper English" (the things you will be learning from text books), will help you out in all of these places.

     

    Most native speakers will not use obscure slang when talking to you, if they realise that English is your second, or third language. In most English speaking cities we have people from all over the world, so we are all adept at talking to people with various levels of English knowledge.

    But as I say, you <em>will</em> learn slang as you continue with English language - probably without even realising it!

    Good luck! 

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    November 25, 2013
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    Who will play christian grey's roles?

    Have you read fifty shades of grey? I've done read it. And i became a fanatic fan of Mr. Christian grey. Lol..
    Yeah i know it's just a fiction novel, but i don't care. EL James wants to filming her books. Sometimes i get upset with movie which are adapted from novels because they filming are far away from what i've imagined. So i will choose to either just read the book, or just watch the movie. Who do you think the best actor to take Christian grey's role?

     

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    Very few errors, and mostly just grammar which is tricky. Good work, I knew exactly what you meant.

    Saya tidak membaca 50 Shades of Grey, Saya hanya membaca non-fiction. Tapi, itu bagus anda bisa membaca buku bahasa ingriss! Saya harap membaca buku Bahasa Indonesia, kapan saya belajar lebih!

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    November 25, 2013
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    November 24, 2013
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