My home town

My home town is Bucaramanga, in the region of Santander, Colombia. Is a very beautiful city. The climate is very nice; it's not so hot or so cold, it is a perfect climate. Now, I live in Santa Marta because my mother and my brother wanted come here. But the temperature is very hot because it is a city along the Atlantic Ocean, which makes it very humid. I hope I begin to like it soon.

i would have that you can help me. i want learn everything about the english and correct my mistakes. thank you.

With my Cleveland dialect, I do not pronounce Don and Dawn the same, but I do pronounce ball and bawl very similarly (the only difference may be emphasizing the 'w'). The 'o' in Don is pronounced "ahh" in my dialect, whereas in Dawn, the "aww" sound is more emphasized.

"you must think about what exactly a specific question is getting at" means that you should decide what the question is really asking. If I ask you, "Is anyone sitting here with you?" what I'm "getting at" is that I'd like to sit here.

The "uninventor" wizard

I know the word "uninventor" doesn't exist. "The uninventor wizard" would be the translate of the first book I've read. I mean a real book, not fairytale. In Spanish, the name of the book is "El mago desinventor". "Desinventor" doesn't exist in our vocabulary either. I remember the book was from the library, but my sister gave it to me last Christmas. It was a wonderful present.

It's about a group of children that lives in a big city where there are many cars, much pollution and much technology. Once, a wizard decided to "uninvent" some things like cars, phones or TVs. That is to say these things disappeared as if they have never existed.

People started to learn to live without these things. I think it's a good book for children, because it makes they think about society and essential things for humans that shouldn't be as essential. I think this book left a mark in my life. Maybe, because of this, I'm studying what I'm studying.

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