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- Skype/italki etiquette
Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to italki. Haven't been able to use it much yet due to being very busy. I plan to use skype soon for language exchange however, I have a few questions.
1. Do most people tend to use voice or video chat? I think I would prefer video as I have someone to focus on when I'm talking and hand gestures and facial expression can help when trying to understand/explain. However, I understand that people may not want to show themselves, especially without knowing the other person.
2. Have you found it more beneficial to arrange a topic beforehand or just chat generally and spontaneously. For instance, if having a meeting once a week.
3. What is the most effective way you have found to arrange a language exchange? I see a lot of people prefer 50/50 although not sure if this means each person speaks their target language for the whole session or switch languages half way through the session.
Thanks in advance!
April 4, 201451 - Bonjour! Bonjour! Je veux ameliorer mon francais et aussi apprendre vous l'anglais. Je parle un peu le francais parce que j'ai etudie le francais pendant cinq ans, mais mon francais n'est plus ce qu'il etait. Donc, je dois etudier mon notes a rafraichir mon memoire mais je suis tres occupe!April 2, 201450
Do arts improve the quality of people's lives?
Some people believe that arts, such as painting and singing, do not directly improve the quality of people's lives that and therefore the government's money should be spent on other things. Personally I think this issue should be discussed in depth.
On the one hand, our daily life is composed of both material and spiritual parts. Though we need money to meet our basic survival needs, yet only being financially rich in finance couldn't cannot give us all-round happiness. Today, people have various needs in the spritual field, such as reading, writing, singing and painting. These things can improve our quality of life to some extent. Although different people have different demands, I still believe arts can do a world of good to for us. Hence, I maintain the view that the government should spent spend a certain amount of money on arts development.
On the other hand, some other people may not have interest in arts and for them it seems useless and meaningless. I'm sure there would be is a group of these people, but they can't don't represent all the people, therefore I still hold the opinion that arts are beneficial and useful.Everything in green = corrections
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I was very late for work this morning. I know I have no excuse for being late and it's important to be on time every morning, but the traffic was bumper to bumper this morning. There were too many cars in on the street road. I wanted to arrive at the company early, but my car the traffic refused to move. Fortunately, I don't have much work to do today but I still have to type some e-mails and fax them.
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0 votedFebruary 8, 20140The first day come to of work
Today is Feb 7th, and we are beginning to work. Our company set off firecrackers to celebrate the new year. We have money in great abundance in for the year ahead. Wish everybody else's in the new year, all wishes come true for the new year.
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0 votedFebruary 7, 2014011122
I like surfing the Net, and I like net chatting online very much. I can make friends with people from different countries. But my modem is slow and downloading pictures really slows things down. Most of the pictures are just advertisements. I don't have the patience to wait for everything to load. I'm usually using the search engines to look up information. Every day i read news on the Internet. The world is changing and there are always has a lot of interesting things happening. I know there are a lot of games worth playing, and their graphics are pretty cool, but my laptop sucks. I'd better have get a 3d card.
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0 votedFebruary 6, 20141- Xuéxí Zhōngwén Wô zuì jìn kāishî xuéshì Zhōngwén. Yīnwèi wō de Zhōngwén hên bù hâo, suôyî wô mâi Skype gâishàn wô de shuō. Wô tīng dào shuō Zhōngwén yê xuéxí kanji bù yīnggāi yìqû. Suôyî shàng italki dú shû zhēn nán. I recently started learning Chinese. Because my Chinese is very bad, therefore I will get Skype to improve my speaking. I heard that speaking Chinese and studying kanji should not be done together. Therefore, reading books on italki is really hard.February 6, 201490
NCE3 L52 Summary writing
Title: Mud is mud.
The writer's cousin, Harry, had a bad habit of making outrageous requests to shop assistants for goods that don't didn't exist.
As usual, he came to an exclusive cosmetic shop asking for "Myrolite". The shop assistant looked puzzled and she expressed that she had never heard of this product. Harry explained that it was a hard substance to find, which can remove freckles. The woman tried to figure it out and searched shelf after shelf but it turned out that nothing can could meet Harry's requirements. Harry pretended to being mildly annoyed, thus the woman promised to order something for him.
Intoxicated by his success, Harry then asked for "perfumed mud". He expected the woman would look at him in blank astonishment. It was his turn to be surprised because it does did exist!
Finally, he spent 20 pounds on the product.
He decided that the game he invented might be proved prove to be expensive.
Now it adorns his bookcase and it is his first and last purchase of rare cosmetics.
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I used 'didn't' and 'did' instead of 'don't' and 'does' because it sounded like you were talking in the past tense. Also, I wasn't sure if you were the substance was hard to find or just a hard substance, so I added 'to find,' if that's what you meant. There a couple of times you forgot a space after a full spot, so I corrected that as well.
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