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I live in Brighton in England next to the sea. I am interested in learning French, Spanish Italian, Latin and Russian and Swahili. I would enjoy making contact with people with whom I could converse once my language skills improve to a conversational standard, either through email or Skype or Google Hangouts. I enjoy reading and the arts. I speak English with a very precise accent. I can help others with their pronunciation of English and making it flow in a correct and formal way. My friends joke about me because I sometimes sound like somebody from an old British film. I can help though if you feel your English needs to be more 'polished' if you are working in a more formal commercial or diplomatic environment, or have questions about correct etiquette. If you have a desire to speak English at a higher level and are trying to express more advanced concepts then I hope I can help If of course you want to talk less formally, then that is fine too. I can explain british idioms and slang if needed.
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Pedro
Spanish
Dec 20, 2017
Thank you, it was very nice meeting you. You certainly have a good ear for languages.
Maria Eugenia
Spanish
Nov 6, 2017
Un placer conocerte! Muchas gracias :)
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    Yes
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    May 17, 2016
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    1)By using the duck analogy; the speaker is basically saying 'It looks like a prison, and functions like a prison ,despite them calling it a clinic, so therefore it is a prison'. The title given to it does not change the intrinsic quality of it being a prison' 2) Deductive reasoning. If I hear a baby crying, I think a baby is making that sound. However it can be used to qualify a weak argument, where you do not have all the facts to hand and want to justify your conclusions to another. You are jumping from one piece of evidence (hoofbeats) and leaping to a conclusion (zebras) without all the facts available.(You have not seen that it is in fact zebras). In this case it is also being used as an analogy I believe.
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    May 17, 2016
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    To scramble = To climb. Scramble would imply that that it was done in an unbalanced and inelegant way, perhap in a hurry.
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    April 27, 2016
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    I took a bachelors degree, I majored in Literature.
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    April 27, 2016
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    Not for all the tea in china! It's brass monkeys out there! Pipe down!
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    April 27, 2016
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    'On' is the correct answer, but I have heard both terms being used interchangeably in regular English
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    April 27, 2016
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    If it is a romantic relationship, then use: 'I no longer want to be in a relationship with you' or ' I want to split (or break) up with you.
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    April 27, 2016
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    Utilitarian could be used, but it is not that common. Essential or Practical are more likely to be used for useful items. A word I particularly like is Gewgew or Geegaws for useless items, but bear in mind this is not widely used, better to use Trinket, or if it was a piece of technology; Gadget.
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    April 27, 2016
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    The 'coast' is where the edge of the land meets the sea. Off the coast will mean located in the sea, on the coast will mean (generally) located on the land.
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    April 27, 2016
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    Yes all these sentences are grammatically correct. The differences are subtle! Generally in British English the difference between renting and hiring is the duration of time and what is being rented or hired. So for instance in relation to property you would normally always use 'rent'. For equipment you would generally use 'hire' So you could hire a car for a week, or a bike for an afternoon. In the first sentence you can say 'lease it' or 'lease it out'. As the owner of the property you would generally 'lease it out', but the person who then lives in the property would 'lease it' from you. There is also I believe a difference between American English and British English as to how 'hire' and 'rent' and 'lease' are used, depending on whether you are the owner of the property, or are the user of the property for a duration of time
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    March 27, 2015
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