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Hi there! My name is Kaylea, and I joined italki because I am in love with language and how it effects the way people think (also known as psycholinguistics). I also love to teach people, so this is the perfect place for me to learn about other languages and to share my own. I think language gives us a new perspective on life and how the world works, and learning a language that is not our own broadens that perspective even more. At least, that has been my experience since I began learning Latin and Italian. I am also very interested in language development, and how the languages spoken in the past evolved over time to be what they are today. My main focus right now is learning/remembering vocabulary, conjugations, and idioms. I pretty much have the hang of sentence structure, but I always forget the proper endings for the tenses and have to look them up. So if you ever correct a journal entry for me, go easy on me! :) **I don't have skype, but I am more than willing to be a pen pal!!**
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    How do you feel about American English? I am American, but even to me American English just sounds lazy. I always feel like telling anyone who wants to learn English to learn it *from* the English first. After all, it is their language. Along those same lines, do European people try to speak with American accents? Or other accents? I can't imagine someone from France trying to sound like a cowboy while still speaking French. :)
    September 1, 2013
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    Yep, pretty much! :)
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    August 19, 2013
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    I was reading a book, while drinking (having) some coffee, would be the best way to say it. Switching the clauses also works, and sounds quite natural. The first sentence, "I was reading a book with having some coffee," is not right because you wouldn't say "with having." You could say "...a book, with coffee," but it wouldn't be quite right. "I was reading a book, having coffee," is just fine, but it sounds a little incomplete, like the sentence would go on after that (e.g. I was reading a book, having some coffee, when a raccoon ran in the door wearing a top hat.) "I was reading a book and had some coffee," sounds alright, but it sort of implies that you had the coffee later, or that you had it with you but weren't drinking it.
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    August 19, 2013
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    People used to think that organisms (i.e. life) just appeared, and that they didn't come from other organisms (spontaneous generation). Pasteur was a scientist whose experiments proved that all life forms come from other pre-existing life forms either by being born, or by being duplicated and splitting off from the original like single celled organisms do (theory of biogenesis).
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    August 19, 2013
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    Understand is just a way of saying know, but with a deeper meaning. Here it means he doesn't REALLY know how much the other person knows about how serious it is. It would have sounded better if it said "I don't even know if you understand the full extent of this."
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    August 19, 2013
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    Posy is a very, very old fashioned way of saying bouquet. You probably would have heard it more in the 1800's. I've only heard it in children's rhymes.
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    August 19, 2013
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    I agree with Greg, except that we never say our baby dribbles - even though that is what he is doing. We just say he's drooling...A LOT! :) You can also dribble a ball, and it means a very different thing (bounce repeatedly). So it depends on context.
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    August 19, 2013
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    Yes, they all mean the same thing. An apartment and a flat are the same type of residence (Americans say "apartment," Brits say "flat"), and "place" in this context is a reference to where you live or are staying at the moment (e.g. if you are staying at a hotel). Directly above, and just above also mean the same thing.
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    August 19, 2013
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    If you are using your own computer, they make screen covers that make it impossible to see the screen unless you are sitting right in front of it. If not, then I usually minimize everything and turn around to look at the person and say something like, "I can wait, but I would prefer not to." They will usually get the hint. If not, go from there like Frank said. Although that last bit was kind of rude...but then again, you're dealing with a rude person so I guess you have to fight fire with fire.
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    August 17, 2013
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    Is skype necessary for lessons? Does anybody know if you absolutely need skype for lessons? I don't have it, but I still want to take/give lessons online.
    August 17, 2013
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