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My name is Luiz Amorim, and I am from Brazil. I would like to improve my english skills because of my job. I work as a graphic designer since 2001, making illustrations, videos, animation, presentations and branding. My favorite area of working is presentations which I conduct them from the script until coaching presenters. Beyond professional life, I love martial arts and practice Ninjutsu for a while. I also practiced Judo, Kung-Fu and Yoga. I love to move my body, then I have this recent passion for Circus, which I have also studying for a bit of time. I love food, love to make food. I feel that cooking is related to language, and the more I travel to different places, the more I feel I need to speak a bit of that foreign language.
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Joyce
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Jun 26, 2014
I supported Luiz with correcting his grammatical errors on his CV and making his Covering letter more appropriate. It was a very intense session and we had a lot to do, but we managed it!
Joyce
English
Jun 25, 2014
Luiz speaks quite well, he answered questions with complex and detailed sentences. I look forward to speaking to you again.
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  • Corrected

    15 de fevereiro

    Hoje eu vou escrever sobre o meu trabalho.

    It sounds better if you hide that. the reason is that you conjugate the verbs according to the personal Pronom, so... it just sounds better: Hoje vou escrever sobre meu trabalho.

     

    Eu sou professora numa escola primária.

    Again, the same issue... it's not a problem, but it's not usual.

     

    Eu ensino o espanhol, matemática e informática.

    You may not say that you "ensino o espanhol". It's like to say that "you teach that spanish guy"... is the same meaning, and also wrong. Would be correct if you were saying that you are really teaching one specific sapanish guy =D
    Emphasis: this is really boring to do. So, in portuguese we have a lot of emphasis rules. The easiest one is when you break the word in syllables: "in - for - má - ti - ca". So you cont back to forward "ca - ti - má, and if the emphasys is the thirt Syllable, it must take tha emphasis signal. Is the same caso of the word "matemática". Follow this rule:"ma-te-(3)má- (2)ti- (1)ca"

     

    Eu trabalho com crianças de 6 anos até 11 anos.

    In this case, there is many different forms to use. Tho make a long story short, you could write like this: "Trabalho com crianças de 6 aos 11 anos."

     

    As vezes e dificil e as vezes e muito divertido. E o meu segundo ano na mesma escola.
    So, there is some issues here... all about emphasis.
    1- always "às vezes" (sometimes) take emphasis. In other case this is like a pronom: As revistas, As casas, as crianças...
    2- emphasis when the verb is "ser". So, you conjugate like this: Isto ou aquilo é lindo. So, when you get the to be verb pointing to something, amphasis that =D

    I can help you in conversation by skype if you want. I am no teacher, but we may help each other.

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    June 25, 2014
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  • Corrected

    First notebook entry: Introducing myself

     

    <em>Eu sou Vanessa de Londres em Inglaterra.</em>
    > here you may use: "eu sou Vanessa de Londres, Inglaterra".
    > The reason for the first case is that you may think about the coma to separate the idea of city, and than country. I don't know the specific rule for that, but sounds better. If you take the newspaper or hear someone in the TV shows, take a look into this specific case. Is like "eu vivo em Brasília, Brasil" ou "moro no bairro do Tatuapé, São paulo". I think the idea (just to you remember) is that you use the coma like a zoom out. =D


    <em>Eu sou uma advogada e professora de inglês em Londres e aqui em Brasil. Eu mudei para o Brasil porque eu queria ter uma experiência de uma cultura e país que eu amo.</em>

    > This case is very tricky. If you are telling someone this short story, you'd be better use just one time the personal pronom "Eu": "Sou advogada e professora de inglês..." - in the rest of sentence, you can hide it, because the Idea still there. You also could do that in conversation.

    >second thing in this sentence is the "uma". You don't need to say that in this case. I can understand, but seems like you are saying in english "I am that kind of lawyer which make that things in that way...". So You'd better say "Eu sou advogada"
    > "em Brasil" - the same case as the first sentence: you may use "no Brasil". no = em+o


    <em>Eu estou vivendo e trabalhando aqui, e eu adoro isso.</em>
    > here you also could hide the personal pronom "eu".

    So the whole text would sound better this way: 

    Eu sou Vanessa de Londres, Inglaterra. Sou advogada e professora de inglês em Londres e aqui no Brasil. Eu mudei para o Brasil porque eu queria ter uma experiência de uma cultura e país que eu amo. Estou vivendo e trabalhando aqui, e adoro isso.

    If you would like to practice your pronunciation and accent, you can call me anytime. Take my skype or Hangouts =D 

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    June 25, 2014
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  • Answered
    Hello, Tim I am no teacher, but My guess is that: - I had to: means that in the past you made something for obligation, like "I felt in cold, so I had to go to the doctor". - I must have done: means that in past there is something that you did but you are not sure what, like "I must have done something special, because she likes me".
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    June 14, 2014
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  • Commented

    Olá! Um dos meus autores favoritos é bem recente, chamado Lourenço Mutarelli, e recomendo "A Arte de Produzir Efeito Sem Causa". Sua leitura é bem simples e contemporâmera. Você será surpreendida por um cotidiano bem urbano de grandes cidades brasileiras. Com poucas páginas, é um ótimo livro.

    Se quiser, ˙á um um pouco mais difícil (pois nele a história tem mais caminhos) chamado "O Cheiro do Ralo", e também há um filme com esse nome.

    Se preferir algo mais tradicional, gosto muito da Clarice Lispector, no entanto é uma autora que faz com que seus textos sejam muito belos e poéticos. Muitas vezes não representa o cotidiano, mas sim nossos preconceitos em forma de uma fantasia. Eu começaria pelo final da carreira dela com "A Hora da Estrela" - com a devida proporção, o livro beira um conto de Kafka com seu surrealismo ou fantasia quase real.

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    June 4, 2014
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  • Corrected
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    May 29, 2014
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  • Commented

    I think the best is to practice in a trip, or online with a friend. Sometimes you say the perfect words, but is not like the local people would answer. When you practice it with a friend or in a trip, you get noticed that there are "patterns" in answers which you can consider instead.

    One example (very short, because I still learning) is like: Where is the party today?
    1- It is in Betty's house.
    2- it's in Betty's.

    It's very important to me to pray attention in the video or personaly where I can watch the mouth and faces... it's far better to completelly understand. 

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    May 26, 2014
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