I Would Like to Find Someone to Practice English With on A Regular Basis

I can't understand why it's so difficult to find an upper-intermediate English learner. Only people whose level is lower than mine, message me to ask me to teach them English. I am sorry but I can't teach English since I struggle myself to learn this language.

Finding native English speakers to practice with is impossible and that's not a surprise.

Once in a while I receive a message from an English speaker, usually a guy who claims to be interested in learning Spanish. And later on, their answers on Skype are like "I'm sorry. I only help latinas". Seriously, you messaged me dude, and probably I would have never messaged you for language exchange.

Without speaking of those who pretend to be native English speakers and their messages are terribly badly written. People who are at an upper-intermediate level in English, where are you guys???

[You can write to me!]

Please correct this text

Hello, my name is Fara and I'm from Indonesia. I am 16 years old.

I have a book called "when I look fail". [I'm not sure what this book is called].

I have entered a competition for exchange students. I hope I win. If I win, I will study abroad in the  USA for 1 year.

In my mind I don't believe I  can do it as I know my English is not good but it's not good to give up so I am trying. When I enter it, if I'm the winner, I will be so surprised and will be just speechless.

i just can't say "i give up" but my english not good and I just think I'm a stupid girl but i got it!! I'm a "WINNER"!!! I am very happy and I'm so lucky. Thanks to God for giving me a chance. My parents are so proud.

But my story is not yet over.

I had a test and I failed. It's made me very stressed and I have been crying everyday.

i just can say "i give up" but now I will stand tall and I will improve my english and I will learn everything I need to become an international diplomat ONE DAY ;)

[Very well done but some things to work on. I must be in capitals as in 'I' not 'i'. Lots of dots like......are ok for texting (SMS) but not when writing in English. Look at tenses and practice your present and past tenses. eg. I am an exchange student. I was an exchange student before I was a diplomat.

Good luck!]

holidays

I can´t stop thinking about my upcoming holidays.

It´s driving me crazy because i need a holiday urgently. My son asks to me to spend more time with him as he wants to play at the beach or go to the cinema... While i wait for my holidays to arrive, i plan to enjoy this weekend at the beach with my little baby.

[well done!]

Morning

Today is Friday and it is very sunny.

Every day I get up at 6 am. That is very early and the temperature is coolat that time.

After I get up, I wash my face and eat breakfast with my mom and then we decide to run around the house.

I am very happy and excited.

[Well done. Please write a little more next time as you will learn more if you can. Good luck. :-) ]

My father

My father is a plumber. He loves his job. He has been doing this for twtenty years.

He is tall and has wide shoulders. He has a tanned face which shows his white teeth. He has clear eyes which sparkle and although his eyebrows don't move when he feels delighted,  he arches his eyebrows if he gets upset.

I admire his work attitude, he is very responsible.

[Well done. This is very well written. 

Some questions for you.

If your father's skin on his face is a darker colour than the rest of his skin because he works in the sun, we say his face is 'tanned'. We say someone has dark skin if their skin colour is darker due to their race i.e. West Africans have dark skin colour whereas Californians are usually tanned.

'Sparkle'  is the word generally used to describe eyes. 'Gleaming' might better describe a shiny car i.e. ' the car was so clean it was gleaming'.

I'm not sure what you meant about your father's eyebrow remaining flat if he is delighted.

Good luck with your english!] 

how I tried to wake up early during the last 3 months

First I read a lot of books about adopting a healthy life style because I had heard many rumors about it.

If you have ever tried to learn something about adopting a healthy life style, you should know that many authors mention the same three things: sleeping, eating and physical activities.

I love to undertake experiments which can help me to learn something new and give me experience and that helps me to understand what is good for me, what works, what is not good for me and what does not work.

In January 2103, I decided to try do that. It was amazing!

My day was much longer then previously and I felt I had so much time, I did not even know how to spend it. A  few days after I started my new life style, I felt that I did not want to sleep at lunch time.

Anyway, I wanted to see what might happen if I changed my life style and that’s why I did not give it up at the beginning.

By the end though, I felt so tired that for the next two weeks, I slept for 12 hours every single day.

Ha-ha. It did not work for me. I can’t sleep for only 6 hours a day. I need 8 or 9.

That was my experience.

I hope you enjoyed this story.

[The word 'read' sounds the same in the present and past tenses so 'I read' is said as 'I red' when it is in the past tense. 

Don't start a sentence with the word 'but'. It actually joins two sentences together when you want to compare two different things like 'dogs are loyal but cats are not'.

Your story was very good. Keep practising!]

Changeable Weather Of Germany

The temperature in Germany reached over 37 degrees at one point last weekend. However, it became much cooler over the past 4 days but I heard that it is going to be hot again this weekend! How changeable German weather is! I am not used to it and I can't become used to it. It is very surprising to me as it changes so often. It is not very common in Korea I would say. My German friends told me that Germany has a mild summer. I was really dying from the heat last weekend.

The most interesting thing I have ever seen in Germany was one day it was raining, snowing, sleeting and then sunny at the same time. I was thinking "how is this possible? but I still love German weather even though it changes so much. The summer in Germany is obviously not as hot as a Korean one and winter is not as cold as Korean one.

[Very well written. Be care of your use of prepositions like 'on' or 'to'. The word 'but' does not start a sentence but joins two sentences together. You do not use a comma after the word 'but'.]

Either form is correct and your meaning would be easily understood by most english speakers.

Your question is quite technical and the slight difference between the two would not obvious to most people who have english as a first language.