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Hello, Internet. I am currently 20 years old and a college sophomore. I’ve always had such a passion for languages (I took Arabic at college until my schedule no longer supported it), and I’ve recently officially dedicated myself to learning two languages — Korean and Japanese. I’ve always been super passionate about these two languages, thanks to my obsessive love for Korean/Japanese TV. I grew up speaking both Chinese (Mandarin) and English, so I self-identify as natively speaking both languages. To be honest, however, I am definitely a lot more “fluent” in English than I am in Chinese, although I am extremely comfortable with both languages. I also have a working knowledge of Spanish, although I have not used it in two years. I still have a solid grasp on my grammar (thanks, profesoras, for drilling that stuff into head for years). Nevertheless, I am currently working on refreshing my Spanish vocabulary and reinforcing my speaking abilities. I'd love to have a language exchange with someone to practice my Spanish, as well as my Chinese (I don't get to use it very often at college). Obviously, I'd also love to do the same for Korean, although my current skill level in those languages probably won't be very fruitful... I have a language blog that I really keep as a practice space/study guide/study review space, but I also post some language-learning skills/resources on occasion (it's a new blog, so bear with me). I also post all of my notes re: pronunciation and grammar on there! http://wishfulpolyglot.tumblr.com/
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Claudia
Spanish
Oct 18, 2014
Buenísima presentación del contenido curricular de estudios universitarios relacionados a Economía Política Internacional. ¡Seguimos practicando!
Claudia
Spanish
Oct 8, 2014
¡Tu nivel es muy bueno! Con práctica y repaso vamos a llegar lejos. =)
Hero-mi
Japanese
Feb 10, 2014
Now you already know most of forms for verbs, adjectives! Great :) By the way I like your new profile photo! Talk to you soon ^^
Luisa Maria Fulcher
Spanish
Feb 4, 2014
Debido al nivel de español de Penny pudimos sacar algunas conclusiones interesantes a cerca de las emociones. Realmente fue una sesión muy interesante.
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    I like Like (titles should be in all caps except for words like: the, a, and, etc.) Germany 

    On In (you would use "on" if it was on a specific day, but since a month is a range, just use "in) May 2013, I travelled the to Germany. I like the country. Beacuse because (connect the two thoughts as one sentence because they are related), and you shouldn't start sentences with "because) I think Germany is a great nation. There are beautiful bulidings (all kinds of houses and churches) and kindly kind ("kind" is the adjective form of the word, since "people" is a noun. "Kindly" would be used to describe a verb) people. Germany is one of the most advanced inindustrial country countries (since you use the phrase "one of the most," it's implied that it's one of many. So, use the plural form instead of the singular form). Chinese China (You could also say "The Chinese") should study for Germany about the for its technology and the serious and strick (I'm not really sure what this is supposed to say). I like its big green fields. I heard that the country will be more beautiful because of the colors in autumn colors. I'm looking forward to visiting the country again in autumn.

     

    Overall, great work! I mostly fixed small things (like making sure you're using the right preposition like "for" vs. "the" or "about," or parts of speech, etc.). Let me know if you have any questions!

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    January 26, 2014
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    こんにちは! (I haven't really learned Kanji yet, so this is all in Hiragana! I'm just practicing some vocabulary and grammar that I learned in my first lesson. If someone could just check my spelling, I'd be eternally grateful!) こんにちは!わたしのなまえわPennyです!わたしはアメリカにすんでいます。わたしはまいとしたいわんにいきます。わたしはがくせいです。アメリカはさむいです。アメリカもきのうさむいかつたです。わたしはおとといコーヒーショッでこうちゃをのみました。わたしもおとといレストランでうどんをたべました。
    January 24, 2014
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    Traditional food for Beijing, China -------2------ Glutinous rice ball

    Snack bars of in Beijing sell Gglutinous rice balls around the Spring Festival of China, they would sell this kind of food until late summer or early fall in ancient times. (This sentence sounds a bit awkward in the way that you've written it right now. A better way to say this would be: In ancient times, Beijing snack bars sold (past tense) glutinous rice balls from the time of the Chinese Spring Festival to late summer or early fall.) But Nowadays, however, the food will be is sold all the year around. (The phrase is "all year round.")
    A glutinous rice ball is made by with sticky rice, and it belongs to the Muslim flavor (I'm not really sure what this means?). It looks like a white ball, with a soft texture with and sticky quality, and it tastes sweet.

    Hi! Great job on this! I know it looks like I made a lot of corrections (sorry!), but it's just because of the first sentence. After that, it's just small things. Although it can be a stylistic choice, starting sentences with words like "but" or "and" isn't really standard English grammar. In addition, I added "nowadays" to differentiate from "ancient times" to now. For entities like "glutinous rice balls," if you're talking about the object as a whole, such as describing the whole group, you should either say "Glutinous rice balls" (plural) or "A glutinous rice ball" (singular). Let me know if you have any questions!

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    January 17, 2014
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    This These are my goals for 2014:

    This These are my goals for 2014:


    * Don't will do trainning in a Ggym
    * Don't will lose weight
    * Don't will leave stop drinking
    * Don't will make my best for avoid mistakes
    * Don't will learn a new skill
    * Don't will grow

    This year, I will see if it's possible to be a happy woman being who is fat, drunked, and child-like, and without as well as lacking in great skills. (see comment below)

    When you are with the people that makes you to be who you are, this these people will build your best memories.

     

    For the yellow highlighted portion: When you have a list in a sentence, all the items in the list must be in the same part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc). This is called "parallelism." For example, I changed the sentence to "fat, drunk, and child-like." These are all adjectives. I couldn't figure out a way to say "without great skills" as an adjective ("unskillful" didn't seem to be accurate), so I re-worded that part of the sentence to separate it from the list.

     

    Overall, great job! Your spelling is quite good :) Based on your comment from the previous correction, I posted this correction as though you don't want to accomplish the things on the list! The syntax for such a sentence would be "Don't + verb." This verb would be in the infinitive form (to run, to swim, to go, etc.) but without the "to." It's also already implied that you're speaking about the future, so you do not need to add "will." Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions~

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    January 17, 2014
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    The things I do for a living

    I don't want this to sounds like a resume, but I will try to simply explain what I do for a living.

    I have studied Industrial Electronics, and I have been graduated. (This sentence would sound better like so: "I studied Industrial Electronics in (college or wherever you learned it)." It's implied that you already graduated unless you say that you "are studying.) But I have just worked for 1 one (spell out numbers 1-9) year in that field. After that, I got an opportunity to do software development, and from then, I have been doing that for a living. I learned the basics from of computer programming when I was studying Industrial Electronics, but I learned a lot with from free resources found on the Internet and with a lot of practice.

    That's it! Currently, I'm a software developer working remotely from home for an Australian company. I'm very happy with this lifestyle (one word), which (see comment below) allows me to spare time with my wife and doing other stuff that are more important.

     

    For the yellow highlighted portion: "That" and "which" can be used somewhat interchangeably, although with different grammatical implications. "Which" is always preceded by a comma (like in your sentence). If that sentence had a that, then in would be "I'm very happy with this lifestyle that allows me..." I felt that "which" worked better with the flow of the sentence, so I kept the comma and replaced the "that."


    Overall, great job! Just a few small errors here and there. Also, just a reminder that the phrase is "earn a living" (with the "a"). Let me know if you have any questions!

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    January 16, 2014
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    My first note on italki notebook (notebook is one word).

    It's only 6 am. I woke up very early today, and I seat a sat in front of my labtop laptop, (no comma here) and write wrote this.
    Nice to meet you strangers. I'm a Korean. I live in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It's one of the trendy city cities (when you use "one of the," you need to use a plural noun to follow) of the world. I had worked at a fashion trading company for 2 two (spell out numbers between 1-9) years, (comma goes before "but," not after) but 2 two months ago, I quit, and now I'm looking for a new job. For those breaking time During this break, I traveled to (see comment below) East Coast and Cebu. It was a very memorable experience. I love to travel. So if I have a chance to go travel abroad or domestically, I don't hesitate to leave. I just go. So I hope to get a new job which that is related to travel. Anyway, thank you for reading my note. It was my first time, so it is very clumsy and unorganized... (ellipses should have three periods) but could you check my note? Thanks.

     

    I didn't want to change too much at once, but in the yellow highlighted portion, instead of saying "but two months ago, I quit," it would be less awkward to say "I quit two months ago."


    In the green highlighted portion, the "the" is in question marks because it depends on what "East Coast" you're talking about. If you're talking about the east coast of Korea, then it should read "traveled to the east coast and Cebu." If East Coast is a specific name for a town/region/etc., then you would say "traveled to East Coast and Cebu."

     

    Wow! I can't believe that this is your first time. Although there were some corrections, your overall sentence structure and grammar is very good. Some things to watch out for are: Don't forget words like "my" or "the" before nouns. Make sure that your tenses match up, so if you're talking about the past tense, make sure everything is in the past. I wrote out some of my longer comments below so it wouldn't break up the flow of the piece too much, but let me know if you have any questions!

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    January 16, 2014
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    Sherlock Ⅱ

    I've watched the whole season 3 of Sherlock. Now, I'm looking forward to the new season. There is a rumor that season 4 is coming this Christmas. It seems that I don't need to wait another two years. I don't understand why a season only has three episodes, which is really too few for a TV series, but it makes Sherlock more luring for its fans. Now, I am preparing to read the Holmes series in my spare time. I've downloaded the free E-book from the Internet. I used to read some Holmes, but it was a bit hard for me to understand clearly. Sometimes, I had to read twice. I hope that I can stick it out.

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    January 16, 2014
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