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Hi I'm Alistair. I live in sunny Sydney, Australia. I love to travel, but sorry to say I have never learnt a language except English. So I am learning Spanish now. I hope to visit countries in Latin America (and Spain of course!) and to enjoy meeting people there. I love to dance, so I'm working on my Salsa as well! I work in marketing and mostly I deal with media and advertising. On iTalki it would be great to find people to help with my writing, and perhaps when I am more confident some conversation. Alistair
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FRANYELIS ✈
Spanish
Sep 9, 2017
Siempre es un placer ayudarte Al, haz avanzado increíblemente en la conversación, en la gramática y en la pronunciación, me siento muy orgullosa de que mis estudiantes mejoren en cada clase, sigue adelante con tu español siempre, que nadie te detenga, hasta pronto amigo :).
Carimar Barrientos
Spanish
Mar 13, 2017
Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you think that and It's my pleasure to help you.
Carimar Barrientos
Spanish
Jan 23, 2017
Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you liked it. See you soon.
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  • Answered
    ‘She passes the cheese.’ is correct.
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    July 8, 2019
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    To pass the cheese means you give the plate of cheese to someone who can’t reach it. To serve the cheese means to provide the cheese as the host or waiter, and includes the act of bringing the cheese to the table and putting cheese on guests plates for them.
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    July 8, 2019
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    This is the same as saying ‘That is how I or we do things around here’. Usually it suggests a maverick attitude to rules or norms. Eg ‘We don’t need a hotel room for the last night of the holiday because we’ll stay out all night. That’s how we roll.’ ‘I got invited to to a party in New York. I bought a plane ticket and went that day. That’s how I roll.’
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    July 7, 2019
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    Yes. Both sentences are perfect English.
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    July 7, 2019
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    ‘I’m gonna’ is American slang for ‘I am going to’. It is fine to use in most conversations, except very formal occasions. ‘I want to breed you.’ doesn’t make sense here. To breed is used when animals produce offspring. ‘We hope our pigs will breed soon, so we will have piglets to sell.’
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    July 7, 2019
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    Hi everyone, this is my first statement here in English here. I´m almost C2 level, but I have some problems with grammar and phrasal verbs, idiomatics, and things like that. I´d like to improve my fluency and widen my vocabulary. So let´s start.


    I've already been to the United States once in my childhood. and As a good tourist I went to Disneyland in Orlando, then but I have never more i´ve gone back to there (...but I've never been back.). I've been studying a very good course here in Brazil in a course very good(Brasas ?), I've worked in at an NBA´s event here in Rio de Janeiro as a student partner of that course, helping people who didn't have Portuguese as their mother language ('mother tongue' is more common). and It was wonderful, but not enough to make me fluent in English.

    I´ll finish this record statement here, and for now that´s all, my friends. Let´s learn together, and if you need support help with Portuguese, call me, I´ll be glad in to support you in whatever you need help you with my language.


    Idiomatic is an adjective.

    English tends to use shorter sentences. I am learning Spanish, and I noticed that people love to write very loooooong sentences!






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    October 7, 2017
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    I think it would be better to use the present tense - 'If he is,... Both options you use here are correct. The first one would be much more frequently used: 'If he is, I would have noticed by now.'
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    October 7, 2017
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    No. It should be written: I don't want any charity. 'I don't want no charity' is poor grammar, but frequently used in spoken English.
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    October 7, 2017
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    Hi Satomi. The House of the Seven Gables is a difficult book for a learner of English to understand! You must be an advanced student! By saying his character goes 'no deeper' than his appearance, habits and circumstance, the author is telling us that he has a bad character. He may appear to be a person of influence and authority but I think the reader will learn that he is not a good man. Are you reading this for university study?
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    October 7, 2017
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    We were kindergarten classmates. - yes, this is completely fine. You could also say: We were classmates at kindergarten.
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    September 18, 2017
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