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I have a lifelong love of languages. I grew up bilingual in English and Australian Sign Language and went on to study French at school and Arabic at university. Recently I spent three weeks in Tetouan, Morocco doing an intensive language course in Moroccan dialect and living with a Moroccan family. It was amazing! I am planning to take on graduate study in linguistics next year. Before I went to Morocco, I had the chance to meet up with one of my italki language partners in Paris. It was brilliant and I think testament to the power of this wonderful website. We have a great language partnership and have seen each other drastically improve over the course of our chats on Skype. In terms of language partners, I work best with people who are really committed to their learning and who can make firm commitments to meet on Skype at times that suits both of us. My best language exchanges go for 60 minutes - 30 minutes in your target language and 30 minutes in mine. I don't work so well with just randomly seeing if you're online and chatting then for however long. So if you are a committed language learner and would like to work with me, get in touch!
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Jaouad
Arabic
May 12, 2015
You are making a great progress,Lauren! Well done!
Jaouad
Arabic
May 4, 2015
Good job, Lauren!
Jaouad
Arabic
Apr 27, 2015
Lauren's competence in Standard Arabic is working as a learning facilitator for her to understand and use Moroccan Arabic.I am impressed by her enthusiasm, patience, and the progress she is already making! Good job Lauren!
Jaouad
Arabic
Apr 22, 2015
I really enjoyed this first session with Lauren.We made an introduction to Darija and studied some basic phrases for greetings and daily conversations. Lauren is a very enthusiastic and patient learner! I will be glad to have other sessions with her!
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    smoking ????

    Hi, I'm 22 years old.
    I have used to smoke lately and but it was annoying started to annoy for me because it coasts cost me a lot of money and it got my health down was bad for my health.
    So I decided to cut off stop this bad habit.
    In On my first try i I failed to do it quit and I returned to smoking after one week. again
    So after few months I got created a better plan,. I have got put a calendar on my desk and every day that I didn't smoke, I put a mark on it. I put a mark on the day that I haven't smoked during it
    Now I have stopped to put putting marks in on my calendar cause I haven't smoked for 7 weeks till now, and I have lost my passion desire to smoking smoke. 
    I hope that any smoker other smokers can give up as I did.


    Very good! Your meaning is very clear throughout. Just one point - "cause" is quite casual. If you were ever writing for a formal purpose eg on an exam or in a job application, you should make sure to use "because". Otherwise, well done and great job quitting smoking!

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    April 21, 2015
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    قصة عن فاطمة .فاطمة امرأة مغربية تسكن في مدينة الرباط. السنة الآجرة بدأت أن تدرس في كلية الطب في جامعة الرباط. لكن ما أستمتت دراستها بسبب دراسة الطب صعبة جداً. .بعض سنة واحدة قررت فاطمة أن تدرس ما تحب لذلك هذه السنة بدأت أن تدرس اللغة الفرنسية في جامعة الرباط وأعطت كل اهتمامها .تحب اللغة الفرنسية كثيراً وهي سعيدة جداً الآن في المستقبل تريد فاطمة أن تؤسس مدرسة لتعلم اللغة الفرنسية في المغرب.
    April 21, 2015
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    Health

    I signed up for the gym and started exercising from last week.
    I feel hard unfit? whenever I go to the gym, but I should work on it for going have to go to get back in shape.
    In addition, my husband bought a pair of dumbbells. Oops!!! It makes They make me feel harder even less fit. :(
    I had a green juice, and some bread for lunch today.
    I made a this the green juice; with some rukkolla rocket, some frozen fruits, half of a lemon and some water.
    As I said, I'm working out and I need to control my meals for my health & body shape  my figure.
    It was not that bad for the first try even though it didn't look good on the exterior outside. Lol.

     

    Well done and well done on your new fitness routine!  A couple of notes:

     

    * "I feel hard" isn't right - you could say "I feel unfit when I go to the gym" or "It's difficult when I go to the gym..."

    * Re the dumbbells, again, you shouldn't say "it makes me feel harder" but rather something like "They make me feel even more unfit".

    * I think instead of "Ooops" it would be more correct to say something like "Oh dear".  "Oops" is more for when you spill something, or trip.

     

    I think your juice looks great!  Keep up your English, and your gym routine too!

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    April 20, 2015
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    Merci beaucoup pour les réponses. Je suis très contente que je peux courir en France. I think it could be a good way to sightsee, in fact!

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    April 20, 2015
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    Native English

    It's quite hard for me to understand what native English speakers mean. I don't know how I can say to explain it, but I think it's something different from non native English. I wonder how much I should make efforts effort I should make to understand what they mean...

     

    Hi there - well done. I'm not 100% sure of the meaning of the highlighted text, but I think you could rewrite that whole sentence like this:

     

    "I don't know how to explain it, but the way they speak is different from the way non-native English speakers speak."

     

    As for the answer to your question - only you can answer that! It is common in all languages I believe for the way you learn and the way people actually speak to be quite different. The only way you can overcome it is with practice!

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    April 20, 2015
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    Such an unpleasant day

    It has been raining since yesterday last night. Today the level of humidity in my hometown was so high. When I left the school, almost all the floors and mirrors at my school got were wet. It was uncomfortable. Look of sky is heavy so my feeling isn't also cheerful The sky looks heavy and I don't feel cheerful either. :-\

     

    Great job! I hope the weather improves soon :)

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    April 20, 2015
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    April 20, 2015
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    La course à pied en France

    C'est possible que j'irais en France en juin! J'adore faire la course à pied et je cours dans la rue ici en Australie, qui est très normale. Est-ce que c'est la même en France, c'est-à-dire, si je cours sur les trottoirs/les chaussées à Paris, est-ce que les français me trouverais bizarre? Est-ce qu'il y a une différence entre la course à pied dans les grandes villes or dans les petits villages?

     

    Merci beaucoup!

    April 20, 2015
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    Thanks again Ezzat, very kind of you :)

     

    Ahlam, I'm sorry if I have offended you. I would be glad to have my mind changed about Saudi Arabia. If you have any links like articles or videos you can send me about what life is really like there, I'd be glad to look at them.

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    April 19, 2015
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    La langue des signes australienne J'ai une soeur et un frère qui sont sourds. Je n'ai pas des autres frères ou soeurs, alors, je suis bilingue - je parlais l'anglais avec mes parents, et la langue des signes australienne avec ma soeur et mon frère. C'était une dynamique familiale intéressante parce que normalement quelqu'un qui est handicapé est l'intrus dans la famille, mais dans notre famille, l'intrus, c'était moi! Quand elle a découvert que sa fille est sourde (ma soeur est la deuxième dans la famille, et je suis l'aînée), ma mère s'a enseignée elle-même la langue des signes australienne avec l'aide des livres, et puis elle m'a enseignée.
    April 19, 2015
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