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G'day, I'm Simon! I'm Australian, and I really love language! I've mostly dabbled in different languages admittedly, but I've been meaning to properly and dedicate my time more to learning a particular language. At the moment, I'm deciding to focus more on Greek, so I hope you can support me in my learning efforts as I struggle on.
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    What is the Mandarin equivalent of "take"? By "take", I mean the plain spatial sense, eg. "I took the pen from the desk", or "He took his phone with him", or "Did you take my watch?" From looking it up on JuKuu, I've found the verbs 取 and 拿, but they seem to always be grouped together in sentences with other words like 走, 下来, etc., such that I'm not completely sure of how the grammar works. Could someone please help me with this?
    November 11, 2014
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    Classroom objects

    Pen, paper, chair, ruler, eraser, computer, notebook, scissors, blackboard, book, desk, classroom, crayon, pencil, pencil sharpener

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    October 28, 2014
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    Taxation is essential to the well-being of all peoples/all citizens of a country. For this reason, it is not appropriate to abolish all taxation policies, and let everyone keep all the money they earn.

    Some people favour a country in which no one ever pays tax. In such countries, every penny one earns by working hard is theirs. In this sense, it seems to be fair. It also seems to be a good way to encourage everyone to work hard for societal? development because for every bit they contribute, they will be immediately/instantaneously rewarded.

    However, such a society willhave next to no social assistance for the poor, and is bound to suffer from many problems. Since there is little or insufficient public money to help the poor, they will become desperate. There is likely to be conflicts between the rich and the poor as a result of the income gap, and these will jeopardise social harmony and can possibly lead to civil war.

    The lack of public money also harms a nation as a whole. It will make it harder for the government to support a strong army to defend against foreign aggression. Soldiers are underpaid, or receive no reward at all and serve the nation only because of their patriotism. The whole army will lack sufficient and appropriate weapons and supplies. In the face of natural disasters and outbreaks of transmittable diseases, the government can do hardly anything due to insufficient funding.

    Keeping every penny we earn may sound like a utopia in which fairness is maximised. But for the sake of a nation as a whole, taxation policy should not be abolished.

     

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    The switching between tenses, especially through the last three paragraphs was putting me off a bit, although it's not necessarily wrong. If you're wanting to write a more academic-styled answer, you can usually benefit from the use of words like <em>would</em>, <em>could</em>, <em>might, should, must,</em> all of which except for the last two words seem to me to be used for more hypothetical situations in place of <em>will</em>, <em>can</em>, and <em>may</em>. Some phrases can be used to emphasise a point, including <em>in fact</em>, <em>at all</em>, etc. Below is the same three paragraphs but with words and phrases substituted in where appropriate.

     

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    However, such a society would have next to no social assistance for the poor, and is bound to suffer from many problems. Since there would be little or insufficient public money to help the poor, they would/are likely to become desperate. There is likely to be conflicts between the rich and the poor as a result of the income gap, and these will jeopardise social harmony and could (possibly) lead to civil war.

    The lack of public money would also harm a nation as a whole. It would make it harder for the government to support a strong army to defend against foreign aggression. Soldiers would be underpaid, or receive no reward at all and serve the nation only because of their patriotism. In fact, the whole army will lack sufficient and appropriate weapons and supplies. In the face of natural disasters and outbreaks of transmittable diseases, the government will not be able to do anything at all due to insufficient funding.

    Keeping every penny we earn may sound like a utopia in which fairness is maximised. But for the sake of a nation as a whole, taxation policy should/must not be abolished.

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    October 28, 2014
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    Military Coup in Egypt

    I want to tell you about the story of the military coup in Egypt.
    It happened after the revolution in Egypt, which was against the old system, corruption and injustice. ..And In this revolution many young people were martyred and some of them lost their eyes because of gun shots. After suffering 18 days in Tahrir Square, the rebels made their demands and Mubarak left. After this came the elections, and Mohamed Morsi won. and Mohamed Morsi was a revolutionary symbol and he was detained during the period of Mubarak. There was then a struggle between the supporters of the old system and the rebels. The supporters of the old system were seeking to drop Morsi to further their own interests.

    The coup occurred when a revolution called 30 June against Morsi happened. I really do not call it a revolution because there was not any victims and no one died or was injured because the police were protecting them, unlike what happened in 25 January Revolution where many died by the hands of the police. Then Cici (who was a chief of staff of the army) isolated President Mohamed Morsi after he was in office for only one year and arrested him, putting him in prison, where he still is. Cici also killed the rebels who were against this coup. Cici killed around 3000 people was sitting in a place called Rabia Al-Adawiya Square and arrested all the revolutionaries, and nowadays Cici is the president of Egypt!!
    Some of the people they arrested are my friends, who I know them well. They are honest people: one of them is the father of my close friend, and another is also my friend's brother.

    I know, it is a very complicated thing !!

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    October 25, 2014
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    Starting a day with a story

    I woke up very early this morning because my roommate asked me for a little bit of help, so suddenly that shocked me too much, and now I am too clear-headed to sleeping.
    I am wondering how unlucky I am today, because although I have a free Saturday, I can not have a good dream. Instead I feel quite upset: do I have to be under this shadow today?
    Then, I log into italki, and find an interesting person there, he wrote many small things about small stuffs, like radio, games. I love them quite a lot. And because of this finding, I think I have completely gone out from my shadow.

    However, not everyone is as lucky as me:
    A Chinese idiom talks about bad guys, and behind it, there is a terrible but mysterious story.
    In legendary, if someone is killed by a tiger, then the ghost of this person has to follow the tiger forever, helping it kill other people.

    From this, I found a similar sentence from many Chinese novels describing ancient Chinese lives.
    When a wife realized, even misrealized of, that she was falling in love with others, her husband, or her mother in law would always say “Don’t forget your identity. While you are alive, you are a member of this family; when you are dead, you are an ancestor of this family”.

    In the synonym original novel of one of Ang Lee’s movies The Spy Ring, while the hero is ordering for the heroine to be killed, the hero also says a similar sentence: If I am not such a man, how could she love me? When she lived, she was a relative of mine, when she is dead, is she my ancestor?

     

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    I'm not quite sure what the sense of the word you're writing as ghost is. Might you be able to provide the Chinese word for it, if you don't mind?

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    October 25, 2014
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    October 25, 2014
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  • Answered
    He means Copts have often experienced suffering in the past. Another way of saying it could be "Since the beginning, Copts have been no strangers to suffering".
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    October 25, 2014
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    October 25, 2014
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    小猪的独白 二 也说我们用睡觉终结心痛和正常的震撼,人们正在继承。这是个我衷心希望的终结。死亡,睡觉。。。睡觉,可能做一个梦。唉,这是个问题,因为我们移步掉离这个紧要的线圈时候,在那个死亡的睡觉中,什么梦要来?我们要小心谨慎。
    October 25, 2014
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    climbing at night

    How time flies! Another weekend’s coming. To relax myself, I have planned to call on? climb the mountain near my dormitory.

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    October 25, 2014
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