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I'm an architect/developer working in high tech. I'm seeking to improve my French because I'm quite regularly in Québec, like the language, read, speak and understand a bit, but feel I'd like to improve my fluency, and find most social situations I'm in don't lend themselves readily to working on it. I'm hoping italki will improve my conversational French, especially. Je suis programmeur/développeur; je travaille dans le domain de la cryptographie.
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    A part of my purpose.

    I am an actor and I need to leave of Spain to find a job. Regrettably, I don't have too many opportunities in my professional area here. Thus, I must develop excellent get a remarkable pronunciation. I love sports and obviously the theatre and the cinema. :)

     

    (Honestly: 'develop excellent pronunciation' is only one of many options, here; I was trying to find one that had as close as possible a meaning as to yours, and which sounds a bit more native. You could also say 'improve my pronunciation', 'learn excellent pronunciation', and others. What you had is grammatically correct, and conveys the meaning, but a native speaker wouldn't generally use such a phrase.)

     

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    March 19, 2015
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    Aujourd'hui, sur la montagne Hier, j'étais à Mont Tremblant--un station de ski du Québec--avec mon fils. Nous sommes toujours là, chaque fin de semaine, pendant l'hiver. Je devais travailler lundi (aujourd'hui), mais mon fils, il m'a dit, hier soir: restons-nous, un jour plus, quand même. Nous sommes toujours à la montagne, oui. Mais il allait toujours en cours, toujours à ses leçons de ski, tout l'hiver, et nous n'étions jamais ensemble sur la montagne. Et son école serait fermé cette semaine, pendant le congé de mars. Et hier, la neige était magnifique... Alors, nous sommes restés. J'ai informé mes collègues, et mon fils et moi-même, nous avons skié (ou, vraiment, mon fils a skié; moi, j'ai une planche à neige) tout le jour. Nous nous sommes levés tôt, nous sommes arrivés à temps pour faire les premières traces, et nous skions ensemble quelques pistes que nous n'avons pas visité il y a quelques mois... Et la neige était magnifique aujourd'hui, aussi.
    March 17, 2015
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    Barcelona

    Hii!!
    Today I will write about my city, Barcelona. I don't know if you have been here, but I recommend you that you come here someday.
    Barcelona is a great city of in Spain. We are in on the Mediterranean Sea and we have a great weather for all year.
    What can you visit? It's easy.* We have a lot of monuments and parks to visit. For example, you can visit Parc de la Ciutadella (park free; where you can find a lot people playing, walking, running, with dogs... it's amazing!!), Sagrada Familia, La Pedrera and Casa Batlló (both Gaudi's buildings), Montjuic's Castle, La Barceloneta (the most famous neighborhood in the city because it's near of the beach)....

    If you are thinking to come of coming sooner, you can write me and we you could see us, so I'd be able to have to improve my speaking with you.

     

    (*Re 'It's easy' ... Not sure what to put here, but if you meant 'This is easily answered', that would read very naturally, here.)

     

    (And I really do want to see some of Gaudi's work, someday.)

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    March 17, 2015
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    Quelqu'un m'a dit hier Quelqu'un m'a dit hier qu'il a entendu que tous les Canadiens soient bilingues. Et comme j'ai lui dit hier: non. Pas exactement. Oui, la politique officielle est: on étudie le français à l'école; les étudiants doivent devenir bilingues. Mais la qualité de l'enseignement est variable. Et n'importe la qualité de sa education, si on n'a pas l'occasion pour parler la langue, on va la perdre. Moi, quand j'étais jeune, j'habitais dans un petit village, en Ontario (une grande province centrale du Canada). Il y a des endroits francophones et bilinques dans cette province, mais ma région était très anglophone, très unilingue. Oui, on étudiait le français à l'école, aux niveaux élémentaires et sécondaires, mais le programme d'enseignement était rudimentaire. Ensuite, j'irais à une université officiellement bilingue, mais là aussi, les conditions requises pour obtenir son diplôme n'ont eu pas tant de la rigueur. Il y a eu un examen, mais ça a été très simple. (J'ai étudié la chimie organique en français pendant un semestre, mais la plupart de mes courses étaient enseignées en anglais.) Maintenant: je comprends le français, un peu, et maintenant que je pratique, je comprends plus. Où j'habite, on écoute souvent le français. Mais il y a beaucoup de gens au Canada qui ne parlent pas la langue. Ils l'ont étudié, mais après l'école, ils l'ont perdu.
    March 11, 2015
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    What a Fright!

    This afternoon, the strongest earthquake in 16 years hit Colombia. The magnitude 6,6 earthquake occured at 3:55 pm, and it was almost felt throughout all of Colombia. The epicentre was in a small town in the province of Santander named "La mesa de los santos". This town is known for being a place where every day there are small tremors. But today's earthquake was very strong. It was stronger than the one which destroyed the cities of Armenia and Pereira in 1999. Earthquakes scare me a lot, because I was in my hometown close to Armenia the day when that earthquake badly destroyed Armenia.
    Today, I felt as if I had been in one of those surveillance videos recorded in Japan while there is an earthquake. My desk shook violently, and my classmates and I looked at one another as though to ask: "Is this really happening?"
    Fortunately, nothing serious happened today owing to the earthquake. Yet, it was very scary!

     

    (This is very good, very well written. The only thing in the whole thing that reveals it's not your first language is that 'like asking'. The 'that that' isn't technically wrong, either; it's just awkward; going with 'the one which' just reads a little more nicely. Also: other phrases in place of 'as though to ask' are: 'as if to ask', 'as though we were asking'.)

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    March 10, 2015
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    Today is a very hot day

    Hello, my name is Alberto. I am in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and am resting in my house. Later, I'll be at work. In Argentina it is summer now, and it is very hot. The temperature is 35º C. It is an ideal day for the beach. My city is a cute town, and the people are very friendly. Now I am drinking a beer and am watching football on the TV. See you tomorrow. Bye. Alberto.

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    March 10, 2015
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    March 10, 2015
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    March 10, 2015
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    En écoutant la radio en français Je trouve que je peux comprendre les hommes, de plus en plus, maintenant. J'écoute la radio française--Radio Canada--toujours en conduisant, et il y a quelques semaines, c'était trop difficile; je n'ai pas pu comprendre quand il était un homme qui parlait. Les femmes, j'ai pu les comprendre, malgré le bruit de la voiture. Avec de certains voix, si on parle très vite, ou si on parle à voix basse, c'est déja plus difficile. Mais maintenant, je trouve que je comprends aussi les hommes.
    March 10, 2015
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    March 10, 2015
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