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Hello! I'm an American and I teach English. I'm also studying Mandarin and Spanish when I have time. I have a daughter that was adopted from China, that is why I am interested in Mandarin. And I'm thinking about starting Portuguese because I have met so many nice people from Brazil recently! I really like to read and am also interested in languages that have very different writing systems than I'm used to, so if I ever have the time I would like to learn Hindi or Nepali. I don't know if I will ever have time for that though. But the written language is very beautiful! I would like to be an English tutor on italki but they don't take many new tutors, so I don't know if I will be able to do that. I hope so though, because I already know a couple of people that might be interested in taking lessons from me on italki. I don't have time to talk on skype but you have any questions about about learning English or want to practice with just writing, I can help you with that. I am also interested in meeting English learners who have or are interested in a STEMM career. STEMM is Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine. I love science! And I used to work for a biotech company and can help with with CV's, interviews, etc. as well as with studying for exams like TOEFL/TOEIC. I would like to learn more about what English learners interested in these careers need the most help with in English. And lastly, I believe that we can make the world a better place for everyone if we can all learn how to communicate with each other more effectively!
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    <ul class="list-inline text-light-gray no-margin-b"><li><a href="https://www.italki.com/user/4783791">StefanoMazzi</a></li><li> - There are a lot of different accents used in NY, and in california.  I wouldn't worry too much about it. Maybe try watching more TV shows based in California while reading along with a transcript.  That should help. 
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    <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/4137230">Abhishek</a> - I'm not sure what you mean.  Do you mean how English is explained?  Or that its hard to learn how to explain things in English?
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    <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/4764284">Pentacle V</a> - you mean prepositions!  A lot of people, not just Chinese speakers struggle with prepositions.  They are confusing by themselves, but when used with verbs like you said, making phrasal verbs, they are even more confusing.  I suggest learning them the best you can, do a lot of reading and listening, keep a list of sentences that still confuse you about why a particular preposition was used, and every few weeks or months review those prepositions again.  And maybe find a teacher that can explain the confusing sentences to you.

    And did you know, in Chinese, le, ba, and ne are very confusing for people like me learning Mandarin?


    They are like 'out,of,off,from,to,with,in,on,at,for,up'. So many of them, they goes with many verbs and have different meanings.Chinese students always struggles with them.

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    <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/2955580">Antonin</a> - You made some good points there!  I agree with everything you said and I think other English learners could learn from your advice also!
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    <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/4664408">Mohammad Golshan</a> - try to learn them in context like <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/3611388">Naďa</a> was saying. When reading do you have problems with phrasal verbs, or is it only when listening?  And do you have any other problems when listening? 

    I think you didn't mean to use the word 'almost' in your comment either.  Maybe you were trying to say 'most', like what gives  you the most problems?


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    <ul class="list-inline text-light-gray no-margin-b"><li><a href="https://www.italki.com/user/2796047">Yvona</a></li><li>- I don't like writing either!  Even in English! But I love to read and I don't really need to be able to write very much in another language.  More reading and writing practice with feedback will help you get better with, but you still might not like it! Do you like reading in your first languages? If you do, maybe you will like writing in English once you get better with it. 
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    <ul class="list-inline text-light-gray no-margin-b"><li><a href="https://www.italki.com/user/2924250">Santher De la Cruz -  English vowels are complicated. Especially for Spanish speakers.  That's one advantage that English speakers have when learning other languages! Do you have any specific questions about vowel pronunciation that I could help you with?
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    <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/3611388">Naďa</a> - That's good to learn phrasal verbs from context and not just memorizing them.  A lot of people struggle with past tenses and conditionals.  I need to make a note of that.  I want to work on a way to help people learn those types of things faster and easier. 
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    <a href="https://www.italki.com/user/4764284">Pentacle V</a> - I don't know what you mean by 'particle'.  That's great that you can watch movies without needing subtitles.   And yes, people should start listening to English spoken by native speakers, and made for native speakers as early as possible.  It just takes a while and people need to be patient when developing skills to learn a new language. 
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