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Hi! I'm a marketing consultant based near London. I've always been interested in languages and have dabbled in quite a few over the years, from ancient Egyptian and Latin to modern Italian, Greek and Spanish. I really enjoy the logical challenge of wrapping my head round a new language (yes, I even like grammar), and am fascinated by the cultural insights a language can give you about its speakers. My real linguistic passion is Spanish. I've been studying it off-and-on for many years and it's driven a deep and enthusiastic interest in the country, its history, food, literature and people - as well as in the wider Spanish-speaking world. I'd love to meet native speakers who are interested in language exchanges :o)
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Beatriz Iglesias
Spanish
Jul 1, 2018
Muchas gracias Katharine, ha sido una conversación muy buena, tu nivel es muy bueno y mejorará mas con la practica!!
Mayte
Spanish
Aug 24, 2015
Otra vez una agradable conversación con Katherine. El tiempo charlando con ella pasa volando!
Mayte
Spanish
Aug 17, 2015
Hablar con Katherine siempre es un placer, es toda una fuente de información y muy interesante. Gracias a ti Katherine!
Mayte
Spanish
Aug 9, 2015
Thank you Katherine, it is a pleasure to listen to you talk about interesting books and films. Ahora quiero leer esos libros!! Hasta pronto!
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    Casa de Papel! Es fenomenal :)
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    February 22, 2021
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    Creo que significa algo como 'largate de aqui' ('get lost' en Ingles)
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    February 20, 2021
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    They mean the same thing. I think a native speaker would probably say 'can you see the girl signing over there' as it's a bit shorter/easier to say and feels a bit less formal. 'Can you see the girl who is singing over there' is grammatically more correct but sounds a bit more formal.
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    February 20, 2021
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    Yeah I think he's making a joke here because 'pith' sounds like 'p*ss'. Sounds like he's actually using an orange or lemon in his recipe, so he's literally taking/using the pith from the fruit but also joking about taking the p*ss out of someone/something. This sort of 'joke' - one that makes sense but isn't really that funny - is sometimes (in England anyway) called a 'dad joke', because it's the sort of joke your dad might make. Rick Stein (the chef talking in your example) makes a lot of dad jokes :)
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    February 20, 2021
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    I would say they have slightly different meanings. 'I heard' implies no real effort by the person making the statement. The story was told and they heard it but they didn't necessarily have any desire or intention to hear it before that. 'I got to hear' implies the person making the statement actively wanted to hear the story and was making an effort to find out about it,
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    February 19, 2021
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    I would say set the temperature TO :)
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    February 19, 2021
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    A more straightforward way to say 'make thought necessary' is 'make you think'. A puzzle is something that makes you think hard. Sometimes we use 'brains' in the plural although this is the first time I've ever asked myself why! The most common example is 'to rack your brains' which means to think really hard about something. I've never heard 'puzzle your brains' before but it would mean the same thing. To be honest, you could also use 'brain' singular and it would be fine in both of these examples too.
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    February 19, 2021
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    If you're saying that it's a requirement for you to have good English, it would be 'your English has to be good' or 'you must have/speak good English'. Eg: to read Charles Dickens in the original, your English has to be good. You can say 'your English must be good' too but this can also have a slightly different meaning. It can mean that you're making a guess/assumption about a person's English. Eg: 'You read Dickens in the original? Wow, your English must be good!' In this case you don't KNOW that they have good English, but you're guessing that they do because they're able to read Dickens.
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    February 19, 2021
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    Austere can have a meaning like unadorned or plain, so I wonder if that's what it means here. Octopus is a less distinct flavour than prawns, so I guess you could say that means it's plain... It is a strange word to use in this context though! I've never heard austere applied to food (or wine!) before. I would use it about a person, for example, who was particularly cold and unapproachable, or a style of art/design that was quite spartan and simple.
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    February 19, 2021
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    It's saying that if you want to build capacity, you need to have capacity already. It's meant to be a bit confusing and non-sensical. It's quite a common construction in English. Another common example is 'you need money to make money'/'it takes money to make money'.
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    February 19, 2021
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