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- You are going to throw a party and would like to cook a special dish for your guests but do not have the recipe. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter • tell your friend why you are having a party • explain what dish you want to cook and ask your friend for the recipe • invite your friend to the party Dear Xin, How is it going with you? I am writing to you to let you know that I am going to have a party next month to invite a colleague who is leaving. She has worked for our school for three years and we have a good relationship both inside and outside our workplace. I want to cook the steamed lamb that you made last time in our Easter party. However, I forgot how to make it, even though you told me once. Do you still have the recipe? I also would like to invite you to the party! If you have time, please feel free to join us. It is not urgent but could you please let me know as soon as possible, because I want to try the recipe in advance. Otherwise, please let me know if there is anything that you want to try! Looking forward to your reply, Li0 votedJune 1, 20211
- Practice! It's really the only way, but there are many types of speaking practice. If your level is very low you might want to just repeat English phrases you hear on TV shows or podcasts. From there, speaking to yourself to get more comfortable with English sounds and fluency is surprisingly useful. Talking to a friend or language partner is obviously a lot more engaging, and there shouldn't be any pressure to perform. Lessons with tutors will also help a lot, a good tutor will encourage you and help you improve without criticising you harshly. At more advanced levels, you might want to try learning an interesting/emotional/passionate speech from a play or movie to really stretch your expressive confidence. Having a language goal to work towards helps a lot too, a specific motivation for improving your English and become more confident makes it much easier to expand your comfort zone.0 votedJanuary 29, 20170
- The simple answer to the "why" question is that teachers who charge so little while living in the West must have other sources of income, because the salary one earns with such rates just can't pay for food and rent here in England. Perhaps they only do lessons for fun, giving hobbyists a distinct advantage over those who would like to really take it seriously.
It's definitely not just community tutors, many professional tutors who are fully qualified, sometimes even working in regular schools and universities while paying the living expenses of Europe and America charge amounts which, after italki and Paypal fees, are less than minimum wage. Any other kind of full time job would pay more. Ultimately, competing on price with teachers who have drastically lower living costs due to their location is impossible. In my mind, the only way forward is to accept that you must target a different category of student by offering something that, perhaps as a native speaker, other teachers cannot provide. Teachers who are native speakers of popular languages and are living in countries with low living expenses naturally have the best of both worlds, though the money they earn there will never be enough to return to their home countries with more than negligible savings.0 votedJanuary 29, 20170 - Prepositions are definitely one of the hardest aspects of learning English because there are very few general rules and everything has to be learned on a case by case basis. That's the kind of thing that native speakers tend to be very good at, because they have a natural understanding of the language without necessarily knowing the strict general rules that apply to other situations. I've often found that strong, non-native learners of English make fewer mistakes with clearly defined grammar issues than the people I meet here in England! Unfortunately prepositions remain a big challenge for learners, and can only really be learned through a lot of speaking practice with natives.0 votedJanuary 29, 20170
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I have chosen 'English people are selfish' as a the you need the definite article here, there's only one title title for my article because of the bad experiences that I got had after asking a huge number of English people to help me at practicing to practice the language that I learn and all of them, without any exception, you need to have this part in a subclause to clarify the sentence meaning, and "any" is redundant refused to help me, if they reply to my messages at all basically. This bad experience lets forces lets is an unusual choice here, it suggests that you wanted to change your thoughts but were not allowed to me to change my thoughts about Westerns people. I believe now that what the movies show is totally faulty you need the adjective ending here and the picture of the Western you need to capitalise proper nouns and adjectives derived from them man as a man who tries to save the world and helps people is totally the opposite. Actually, I am disappointed and I hope if I can find someone who changes this dark idea that I've taken developed about English men ... finally, I know that my article, if I can call it an article, again, subclause adds clarity will not be read by anyone but I just wanted just to deliver a message
English people are selfish
Good luck with your studies, finding a language partner is often difficult no matter what language you speak.
Regards,
An English person ;)0 votedJanuary 28, 20171- Susanne is almost correct, but misses a few details. "Can" does not relate to how many options there are. "Could" is about intentions or possibilities - We could go to Tokyo, but only if we want to. We could also go somewhere else. "Can" is about ability - We can go to Tokyo, it is something that we are able to do. Your confusion might come from the fact that "could" is also the past tense form of "can". We could go to Tokyo last year - We had the ability to go to Tokyo last year.0 votedJanuary 28, 20172
College admission
Anybody who's currently a Korean high school senior or has been one will understand that it's virtually impossible to do ANYTHING else other than doing school courseworks and studying for 수능. I knew that even before going to high school and as years passed, from sophomore to junior, it came across more vividly.
And now, as I'm typing this (whining virtually) so maybe someone will read it and save my soul, sympathize and console me, I can just feel that I'm wasting my time. Well, maybe it's not that much of a waste. Maybe the admission office might find this notebook entry while doing background evaluation. (Hey there.)
so..
yeah
I don't know if I can save your soul but good luck with your application! I'm sure you'll be fine. Let me know if you need any help!
A couple notes:Had indicates the past perfect tense. You only need present perfect here because you're not trying to connect two different times in the past, only the past to the present.
Work is uncountable in the sense that you are using it here
The extra comma after "I knew that" makes the sentence unclear, it sounds like you're adding a subclause before going back to the main clause, but actually what you mean is contained within the single main clause.
"Passed" is the past tense of "to pass", past is a totally different word!
"Virtually whining" uses the word "virtual" to mean "almost" or "basically". If we swap the words around then we get something that's more related to virtual reality, i.e., posting on italki.
There was no need to use the gerund "wasting" when the noun "waste" fits perfectly here.
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