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Hello, my name is Tony and I am from Scotland, I live near to Edinburgh and Dunfermline on the east coast. I am an aircraft engineer and I work for the Scottish airline Loganair. I am learning Geman for work and for personal use, I would like to go on and learn other languages after German. I am interested in music, history and sport, particularly football, rugby and tennis. From italki I hope to get lots of good information and encouragement to complete my task to learn more languages.
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Ewelina
Polish
Aug 14, 2023
dziękuję bardzo
Agatku
Polish
Jun 3, 2020
Tony, thanks for the first lesson! This is Tony's first contact with Polish, he has very good pronunciation and he has no problem with many difficult sounds. I think we will make quick progress!
Mana Teva
French
May 30, 2020
Tony sait ce qu'il veut apprendre et comprend beaucoup. Le son "gu" viendra avec patience
Ruediger
German
Apr 26, 2020
Dein Sprachverständnis und dein Sprachgefühl sind sehr gut. you will progress very fast. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Rüdiger
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    ONLINE SALES FOR RETAIL SECTORS IN NEW ZEALAND
    The pie charts compare the proportion of online sales for sector types in New Zealand in 2003 and 2013. In 2003 travels made up 36% of the total, whereas clothes accounted for almost a quarter of all online retail sales. These two main sectors where followed by books and film and music sales, that accounted for 19% and 21% respectively. The situation changed over 10 years and in 2013 film and music sales skyrocketed up to 33%. Although online sales in travels decreased, they were still substantial and accounted for almost 30% of the total online sales. Books sales grew slightly up to 22%, whereas clothes sales dropped to 16% of the total amount of online retail sales.

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    ONLINE SALES FOR THE RETAIL SECTORS IN NEW ZEALAND
    The pie charts compare the proportion of online sales by sector types in New Zealand from 2003 to 2013. In 2003 travel accounted for 36% of the total, whereas clothes were nearly 25% of sales (As you began using percentages it is better to stay with the same units). These two main sectors where followed by books, and film and music <s>sales</s>, which accounted for 19 and 21% respectively. (Without the comma it seemed like there were more catagories books and film and music)
    The situation changed over 10 years and in 2013 film and music sales increased to 33%. Although online sales in travel decreased, they were still substantial and accounted for almost 30%.(It will be understood that you are refering to on line sales as it is the subject of your sentence) Book sales grew slightly up to 22%, whereas clothes sales dropped to account for 16% of the total.
    Micol,
    I hope that this is helpful for you, when reading I found it interesting that books, films and music increased in sales, while travel and clothes decreased.
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    May 25, 2020
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    Bitte Korrect Ich heiße Tony Magee und ich komme aus Schottland. Ich habe zwei söhne sie Namen sind Fraser und Gregory. Für mein Beruf bin ich ein Flugzeug Ingenieur. Mein Hobbys sind, Musik, Sport (Fußball, Rugby, Tennis), ich mag lese Sachbüchern. Ich habe deutsche lerne für nur drei Woche. Ich finde Geschichte sehr interessant und hast europäisch Geschichte studiert. Ich spiele Gitarre und Tuba aber nicht zusammen.
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  • Answered
    Hi Gong, The argument is that if you are a camper you are more insular (withdrawn within yourself). If however this argument is examined at a popular camping place it is found to be untrue, that is it does not survive. So here survive means it has been examined, and found to be untrue by the facts. Hope this helps Tony
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    August 23, 2014
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    Sorry just noticed second part of your question. It is correct to say that you have a Diploma in your subject ie. Dip.Hum is a diploma in Humanities. Dip.Mus is a diploma in Music. Normally those working towards a Batchelors degree would in perhaps the second year have the necessary qualifications to apply for the Diploma. I know that with the Open University it is possible to use credits for two qualifications. Good luck with your studies.
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    August 15, 2014
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    Hi Nicole was almost there: Undergraduate as the prefix under denotes has not yet qualified they will be working towards a degree. Graduate has obtained a degree BA, BSc, etc. Postgraduate, again post means after, that would be the next level masters, Doctorate etc. Hope this helps. Tony.
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    August 15, 2014
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    Too many cooks spoil the broth

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    August 14, 2014
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    August 13, 2014
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    Help for my essay

    I am writing an essay and looking for academic style revising for my essay. Here is my counterargument. Please give me some advises about it. Thank you!

    Topic: Established companies, such as Coca Cola and McDonalds do not need to waste profits on advertising as they already have a vast and loyal customer base.

    It is likely that excessive repeated advertising may arouse consumer’s negative emotion to the brand or product, which may result in decreasing selling. Nordheilm(2002) finds that repetition when ads are subject to deeper processing causes a downturn in affective responses. Indeed, it would seem perhaps that too many resources in advertisement would provoke high level of attention that are likely to annoy consumers. For those international companies, investing money on putting advertising repeatedly is regarded as wasting money because they already have a large number of loyal consumer basis to buy their product or these behavior even would lead to consumer against their product. But in effect, it is consumer’s natural behaviour that paying more attention to ads they have seen before is likely to greatly extend their acceptability. For example, Coca-Cola is trying to advertising repeatedly by displaying its cups on the desks of the judges during Fox Network’s American Idol. Big advertise like Coca-Cola recognize the number of mass media advertising which repeatedly inserting in consumer’s daily life has a positive effect on the likelihood of repeat purchase. Therefore, advertising has a role to maintain the accessibility of brand association in the consumer’s product-brand knowledge structure.

     

    It is likely that excessive, repeated advertising may arouse consumer’s negative emotion(s) to the (a) brand or product, which may result in decreasing selling. (sales) Nordheilm (2002) finds that repetition when (of) ads (which) are subject to deeper processing, causes a downturn in affective (effective) responses. Indeed, it would seem perhaps that too many resources in advertisement would (could) provoke high level(s) of attention1 that are likely to annoy consumers. For those international companies investing money on putting (in) advertising, repeatedly (it) is regarded as (a) wasting (waste of ) money because (as) they already have a large number of loyal consumer(s) basis to buy their product or these behavior even would lead to consumer against their product.2 But in effect, it is (the) consumer’s (consumers) natural behaviour that (of) paying more attention to ads they have seen before (which) is likely to greatly extend3 their acceptability. For example, Coca-Cola is trying to advertising (advertise) repeatedly by displaying its cups on the desks of the judges during Fox Network’s American Idol. Big advertise(rs) , like Coca-Cola, recognize (that) the number of mass media advertising (ments) which (are) repeatedly inserting (ed) in(to) consumer’s daily life has a positive effect on the likelihood of repeat purchase(s). Therefore, advertising has a role to (in) maintain(ing) the accessibility of brand association in the consumer(s) product-brand knowledge structure.

    1 this is not quite the right word
    2 you need to rework this thought as it doesn't quite make sense
    3 these words can be replaced by one word which is related to acceptability

    Hi Miranda,
    On the whole there are some good points here ,you sometimes miss plurals and there is a couple of thoughts which you need to rethink, as you can see it is mostly the small joining words, are ,in, and to etc. which make it a little easier to read. Have a look at advertise, advertisement and advertising as these are important words in your essay. I wish you well in your studies and hope that this helps.

    Kind regards,
    Tony

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    August 12, 2014
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