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I'm a Philologist and an expert in every matter of Spanish language. I'm searching for some exchange with English native speakers (no matter which country the came from) who want to learn or improve their Spanish. I can help you to master your Spanish. I only need someone with I can practise my English to get fluency.
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    Qué hice la semana pasada

    ¡Hola! Ha sido pasado mucho tiempo.

    La semana pasada, fui a un concierto con mi amiga, Danielle. No estaba muy bien estuvo muy bueno. Parecía (more natural: "me pareció") excesivamente dramático (here is not very clear what do you mean). Pero las personas (who people?, the audience?) eran amables. Después, Danielle, su amigo Tommy, y yo, fuimos a un restaurante llamado "In'N'Out" y compramos papas fritas y batidos de leche. Luego, Danielle y yo fuimos a mi casa y hablamos hasta que el sol salió. Por fin, y luego nos dormimos. Cuando despertamos, hablamos más.

    Al día siguiente, fui a la UCLA con mi amigo, Aadi, que me dio un viaje (in Spanish slang this can sound like your friend gave you some drugs, it's similar like English "trip")  paseo. Pude ver muchas bibliotecas, lo cual me hizo puso contenta. Después de eso, Aadi y yo fuimos a un restaurante y comimos comida (if you go to a restaurant is supposed that you eat food, it would be better if you specify what you ate, what kind of food or what dish. Examples: "...fuimos a un restaurante y comimos comida italiana", "fuimos a un restaurante y comimos hamburguesas").

    He estado leyendo a menudo (It would be more natural: "He estado leyendo mucho", but your frase is understandable). También, he estado haciendo alimentos fermentados como yogur y chucrut. !Está Es muy emocionante! Me gusta mucho cocinar hacerlos/prepararlos(we use cocinar for meals which need fire).**

    ¡Muchas gracias! :)

    **Why does "mucho" go before "cocinar"? In English, I would say "I like cooking very much" or "I like to cook very much." Also, why do I write "me gusta" and not just "gusta" like with other verbs? Gracias una vez más. :-) In this case, word "mucho" is used as an adverb which is modifying the verb "gusta", in this case syntax is important, because the order of the words change the meaning, if you say: "me gusta mucho cocinar", you're saying "I like cooking very much"; but if you say: "me gusta cocinar mucho", you are saying that you like cooking big quantities of food, because in that case word "mucho" would be modifying the direct object "cocinar".

    And you need "me" before "gusta", because that "me" is working as a direct object, it is exactly the same like (warning: next phrase is not natural, but is an example in order you can understand the meaning): "cocinar (subject) gusta (verb) mucho (adverb, it modifies the verb) a mí (that is what "me" means: a mí, it's not like "yo" which means I)".

     

    Don't be afraid to ask me If you have questions.

     

    Good job!I want to read more soon. :)

     

     

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    June 10, 2014
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    This is what I did today I woke up at 10 AM, unfortunately I slept fitfully, and therefore I was a little tired when my alarm clock went off. That's why first thing I did was went to the kitchen and do some cafe. Cafe makes me live my day in a most vivid way. I was supposed to practice my English and teach some Spanish, but my language partner never turned up in Skype. So I started working in a song I'm trying to cover, a Gary Numan's song. I couldn't finish it because it was time for me to go with my girlfriend to the Physiotherapist, due to a sudden pain that was ails her on a knee, (just a little thing, It wasn't serious, the Physiotherapist said). After that, we went to a multicultural fair, that was occurring in the mainly square of my city, it is called "Feria de las culturas amigas", something like "Friend culture fair". It was awesome; there were food and people from all over the world. There were a lot of stands, each one represented a country. I bought and ate milky meals from Lebanon, cheese-paprika bread from Hungary, chocolate cake from Switzerland, falafel from Iran, poppy bread from Lithuania, pupusa from El Salvador and an olive salad from Greece. Notwithstanding portions were small (and a little expensive If we thought they were tiny), I felt my belly was about to exploit, and my girlfriend was as satisfied as I was. We were happy although, because we could learn about a lot of things of many countries and peoples and how they live. We are vegetarians, so there were many dishes we didn't try, but we were very happy with the different ways water is flavored in some countries, for instance in Syria they do a kind of roses and milk infusion, it’s more than delicious, it’s the pure heaven on earth. Then I took my girlfriend to her house and made my way back home. I finished reading a novel called “Yellow Birds” by Kevin Powers. It’s amazing! It’s about a solider that went to fight to Iraq’s war, and how he lives with the things he did there and the things (and people) he lost there. I strongly recommend it. At the end I studied some cards I made with English words in order to recall those words and started writing this note. Thank you for reading; I hope you can help me with some corrections. :)
    May 31, 2014
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    Qué hice hoy, 29 de mayo del 2014

     

    ¡Hola!

    Hoy, no leí mucho, como hago normalmente/como hice ayer. Fui con mis padres a la oficina de su iglesia. Hablé con la mujer puseiron Lauren. Nunca la había encontrado ella. Hablamos durante alrededor de una hora. Di mi nombre y número de teléfono a la tienda local Dónut, tienda por el trabajo potencial que ofrecen. Establecí algunos amigos para/con los cuales aprender español y enseñar inglés. Intenté y, e intento siempre, escribir en español, pero me cansaba y tengo tenía pereza.

    If someone would also please correct punctuation, that would be splendid! Gracias :-)

     

    I fixed it that way, but there are some little things I couldn't understand:

    "Hablé con la mujer puseiron Lauren": I didn't understand the meaning of this phrase, the word puseiron doesn't exists, but I figured the meaning is that you talked with Lauren, however in this way is not very clear who is Lauren.

     

    "Di mi nombre y número de teléfono a la local dónut tienda por el trabajo potencial.": I think you mean you gave your phone number to a local store named Donut because there they are offering a job.

     

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    May 30, 2014
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    Mi primera entrada notebook

    Me llamo Ibraheim
    soy de Canadá.
    Me gustan todos los tipos de musica
    soy alto (6'7) (en los países hispanohablantes usamos el sistema métrico)
    me gusta la cultura latinoamericana.

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    May 29, 2014
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  • Answered
    Agustín, ambas son posibles. La sintaxis española es muy flexible y permite los dos casos. El uso natural es sustantivo + adjetivo: "la isla bonita". Sin embargo, en usos literarios, por ejemplo en poesía, es muy común encontrar el caso opuesto. Mira este verso de Octavio Paz: "soles azules, verdes remolinos, picos de luz que abren astros como granadas" Ahí tenemos los dos casos juntos: sustantivo + adjetivo: "soles verdes"; y adjetivo + sustantivo: "verdes remolinos". En casi todos los aspectos literarios esto es posible, pero en una conversación cotidiana no es natural. Si tienes más dudas siéntete libre de preguntarme.
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    May 28, 2014
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    The best piece of advice I can give to you is this: do not translate, it's going to be better for you if you talk as much as you can with a native speaker in order to gain fluency and a more natural understanding of how the Spanish structure is. But... I know that is not possible all the time, so... The second best piece of advice I have for you is this: try to think that "get" doesn't exists. You said this: "Sé que se puede usar 'llegar' cuando 'get' quiere decir 'arrive'". Well, try to do exactly the same. Every time an English speaker uses "get" there is another meaning inside that word. For instance " He's going to get a car soon", what does it mean? he is going to buy a car soon? = "Él va a comprar un carro pronto". If you say "I need to get this fixed" you can also say "I need to fix this" = "Necesito arreglar esto". If you say "I need to get a book from my room" you can also say " I need to extract/take out a book from my room" = "Necesito sacar un libro de mi cuarto". So if you can substitute "get" for a verb which have the precise meaning of your sentence, that would be the best for you when you try to think those phrases in Spanish.
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    May 28, 2014
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    Literal translation would be: "Voy a ir a casa de mi amigo otra vez esta noche, deberías venir también" and people will understand you without problem; but it would be more natural something like: "Esta noche voy a ir de nuevo a casa de mi amigo, deberías venir también"
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    May 27, 2014
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    Well... the difference is that they are different letters with different sounds. They both are a little confuse for beginners because they change their sound when they are before different vowels. Let me be clearer: When letter "c" is before "a", "o" and "u" it sounds like an English "k"; for example: "cabeza" (head), "corazón" (heart), "cubo" (cube). When letter "c" is before "i" and "e", it sounds like English "s" as it is pronounced in South America, or like English "th" as it is pronounced in Spain; for example: "cielo" (sky), "cebolla" (onion). When letter "g" is before "a", "o" and "u" it sounds like the English "g" sounds in the word "god", and also before these couples "ui" and "ue", and when this happens it sounds like a single vowel "i" or "e" the "u" is muted: "gato" (cat), "gorila" (gorilla), "gusano" (worm), "guitarra" (guitar), "guerra" (war). When letter "g" is before "e" and "i" it sounds like English "h" in the word "he": "gitano" (gipsy), "géiser" (geyser). I know it could be a little confusing. If you have more doubts feel free to ask me.
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    May 27, 2014
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    Well... the difference is that they are different letters with different sounds. They both are a little confuse for beginners because they change their sound when they are before different vowels. Let me be clearer: When letter "c" is before "a", "o" and "u" it sounds like an English "k"; for example: "cabeza" (head), "corazón" (heart), "cubo" (cube). When letter "c" is before "i" and "e", it sounds like English "s" as it is pronounced in South America, or like English "th" as it is pronounced in Spain; for example: "cielo" (sky), "cebolla" (onion). When letter "g" is before "a", "o" and "u" it sounds like the English "g" sounds in the word "god", and also before these couples "ui" and "ue", and when this happens it sounds like a single vowel "i" or "e" the "u" is muted: "gato" (cat), "gorila" (gorilla), "gusano" (worm), "guitarra" (guitar), "guerra" (war). When letter "g" is before "e" and "i" it sounds like English "h" in the word "he": "gitano" (gipsy), "géiser" (geyser) I know it could be a little confusing. If you have more doubts feel free to ask me.
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    May 27, 2014
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