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I'm Chris, I'm from London and I am a mathematician. I will always use English in my professional life, however I hope learning German will broaden my options. I'm also trying to learn German as part of an exercise in self improvement. I have learned the basic structure of the language already, but I'm not very confident with word order and although I have a reasonable vocabulary of German words I can translate into English, the other way round is much more difficult for me. The only way to improve this is to practise with German speakers, so I've signed up here!
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    1. In most cases you can use them interchangeably "Everyone except me" "Everyone except for me" Are both right. The first sounds more natural to my native ears. You might also say something like "except that" to mean "except for the fact that" 2 No. "To be written" would be the passive form. Since "you" is the subject of the clause, and the subject is doing the writing, you should use the active voice. "The assignments are TO BE SUBMITTED by the end of the week" would be an example of the passive infinitive. 3 I can't quite work out a reason why not, but using IT there sounds very wrong to me. I would probably have written "In this case, the consumer should do so..." in point of fact. Also, depending on the context, "customer" is more common than "consumer" for this sort of purpose. 4 I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, care to elaborate? Or maybe give an example?
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    This isn't just a fictional thing though. People did used to believe that you could assign numerical values to letters and words, and interpret the values in order to gain some magical insight about the words. Arithmancy basically refers to that practise, and a practitioner would be an Arithmancer. It is also used in the Harry Potter books, possibly slightly differently. It would be a mistake to say that -mancer means wizard, by the way. It comes from the Greek manteia, which means divination (i.e. gaining information about events through supernatural means), cf necromancy
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    Robert Pattinson

    He is a middle-aged man with short, and blonde hair. He has a sharp face. He has small, round and green eyes. He has a dazzling smile. He is height tall. He has is of average weight, but he's toned his body. He's normally wearing a white T-shirt, a blue jacket and a pair of blue jeans. He's usually wearing a pair of black sneakers and Ray-Ban sunglasses. He is a handsome man and he is considered a big star of Hollywood.


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    In English, the adjective comes before the noun, e.g. the red car, the tall man, a small mouse :-) 

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    November 11, 2013
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    In English Hello there. I am looking to improve my German. In particular, I am terrible at word order. The best way to address this might be to write some stuff on here in German and maybe someone nice will correct it for me. I think conversing in German would also really help me. Hearing German spoken and then having to use the new words I'm learning seems like it might accelerate the process. Of course I am willing to provide the same service for the English language. I might write a little sloppily on here, but my English is at a pretty high level, particularly in technical/scientific writing. See you around
    November 10, 2013
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    Writing German without looking things up! Hallo! Wie geht's? Ich lerne Deutsch. Ich kenne viele Woerter, aber wenn ich will etwas in Deutsch sagen, ich kann nicht immer das richtige Wort finden. Koennen Sie mir helfen?
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