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I'm from Norfolk in the East of England but I've lived in Sheffield for the last five or six years.
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    Je sais où c'est / je sais où il est ... Comment dit-on 'I know where it is' en français ? 'Je sais où c'est' semble trop facile. Peut-etre il a besoin de l'infinitif, 'je sais où c'être' ? Mais ça semble plutôt gênant. Merci.
    July 31, 2014
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    Autre chose I've just come across the phrase 'je voudrais voir autre chose'. Does the phrase 'autre chose' work in this way without an article, 'la' or 'une'? If so, does it work in the same way with sentences like 'je ne veux pas de cafe, je voudrais autre chose,' also without an article? Thanks!
    July 27, 2014
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    I don't think think there's a difference, but people would usually say 'they've got'.
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    July 24, 2014
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    'Accro de' et 'accro à' Why does the word 'accro' sometimes take a 'de' and sometimes an 'à'? Does it depend on if it's being used as a noun or an adjective? Or is it something else? Many thanks.
    July 24, 2014
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    Le sol, le plancher, la terre From what i can read on the internet, 'le plancher' refers to 'planking', except in Quebecois, where it is a generic word for the floor. Is that right? How about Le sol and la terre? Is one used for 'ground' and the other for 'floor'? I've tried googling lots but it all seems very vague.
    July 22, 2014
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    Examples of the verb 'réussir', please. I just came across the phrase 'Il a réussi à gagner.' It looks like 'réussir' is an interesting verb, so can someone please give me a load more sentences that use the verb in any tense at all, as I think that sort of repetition is the only way to get used to a new verb. Many thanks.
    July 21, 2014
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  • Corrected

    Story 7/17/2014

    Danny was a student studying aboard. The allowance he received from his parents wasn't much, therefore he was on a shoestring. He had sardines for every meal.
    One day, Danny jumped for joy, because his friend's mother had invited him to have dinner together with her family.
    "Finally, I don't need to have sardines for dinner for once." Whenever Danny thought of this, he grinned from ear to ear.
    He was as happy as Larry when he reached the front door step of his friend house. The aroma of food smell slipped through the gap under the door. The sweet smell lingered in the air when he entered into the hallway of the house. The long-awaited dinner had finally come!
    Please guess what had happened next.
    When he came to the dining room, he felt down in the dumps. All the dishes served on the dining table were sardines cooked in various ways.
    The mother of his friend thought that Danny had a craving for sardines!

    **I feel the last sentence (I used the word "carving") is weird in this context, could someone please help.

     

    You meant 'craving for' not 'carving to'.

     

    Sardine can be used in the singular, when you mean exactly one fish, but usually it is used in the plural, like if you have half a fish or two fish, or any unspecific amount of it.

     

    The doorstep at the front of anyone's house is just called 'the front doorstep'.

     

    Lastly, 'dinner appointment' sounds a bit too formal, so it is 'dinner' or perhaps 'a dinner party'

     

    Other than that, very good indeed and funny too.

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    July 16, 2014
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    Story 15/7/2014

    Every day, there was an old man who drove a motorbike across the border from Canada to America.
    This piqued the border officer's curiosity.
    One day, the border officer stopped the old man and he asked, "What do you have in your haversack every day?" The old man answered, "It is just sand."
    The border officer did not buy his story. He examined the old man's haversack. It was indeed just sand.
    After a few days' more inspection, the old man's haversack was always filled with sand, just the sand.
    Curiosity killed the cat. One time, the border officer decided to get to the bottom of the mystery. He blocked the old man again. He asked the old man, "Be honest, are you smuggling something? please tell me, and I promised I will not arrest you."
    The old man replied, "Yes,"
    "What do you smuggle?"

    Hi, do you know what kind of things the old man smuggle?

    How to use "Everyday" and "Every day"?

     

    Right then, it's a classic story, this one. I've heard versions of this with wheelbarrows and donkeys and now with a motorbike. The man is not smuggling the normal, everyday sand that he had in his bag every day, but he was smuggling...

     

    ...motorbikes!

     

    It's a good story and very well written. My only big correction is that the proverb 'curiosity killed the cat' means that 'curiosity is dangerous'. It is used to warn people from asking too many questions or from investigating things too much. Personally, I hate the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat' because I believe people should ask questions and investigate things. This is one of the best of human characteristics, our curiosity for more learning. So, you used it in the wrong way, and when people use it in the right way, it 'sets my teeth on edge', as we say.

     

    Oh, and usually in English, we start a new line when a new person speaks, so as not to confuse the reader as to who is speaking, so I corrected that too.

     

    Good use of the phrase 'piqued the curiosity', by the way. People don't use that phrase every day, as it is not an everyday phrase, but it always sounds nice when I hear it. Very good.

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    July 15, 2014
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    Quand j'etais jeune Quand j'etais jeune, ma famille et moi allions souvent chez mes grands-parents. Si il faisait beau, nous faisions une promenade ou peut-être mon frère, ma soeur et moi jouions dans le jardin. Maintenant, ces beaux jours me manquent.
    July 15, 2014
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  • Corrected

    our garden =)

    Our family has a garden. It's not too far away from town. It's a small and green place where there are a lot of mother's favourite flowers. There is a little house where we can rest, drink tea and play our instruments. Yesterday I heard a strange noise. When I looked I saw a mouse -_-' I don't like mice cause they can carry diseases. Once, a little mouse ate my Internet wire so I hate them >_< Also I don't like Mickey Mouse :D (his spooky voice exasperates me=) ).
    So there are strawberries and raspberries, sorrel and cucumbers and many others like potato, carrot, beet and an apple tree in our garden =) Near the garden it's a small lake with a fish and many, many frogs =).These frogs like to arrange concert for me - firstly one frog starts to sing, then other start to sing in sequence too :D It's amazing! Sometimes I see ducks in the lake, sometimes there are even beavers *o*
    One of my favourite things is to let a big beautiful dragonflies to sit on my finger! It's cool)))
    Do you have a garden or any Green place? =)

     

    Your English is very good! Perhaps you could make the sentences bigger by putting two smaller ones together, like this: 'Our family has a garden which is not too far away from town.' and 'It's a small and green place where there are a lot of mother's favourite flowers and there is a little house where we can rest, drink tea and play our instruments.

     

    But I only make that suggexstion because your English is good enough that I think you will understand me. It makes the sentences flow more beautifully if some of them are long.

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    June 30, 2014
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