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- An embarrassing argument tonight Tonight, my parents and I had dinner in a restaurant, together with some friends of my parents and their children. My father drank too much wine and after that he started to say something annoying and unpleasant. Among these people, there was a child who had done something crazy in school. He was almost exiled by school. But later he turned into a good person. Now he has a fairly decent job. Just as I've mentioned, my father was drunk, so he started to talk about that child and criticize what the child did in the past.(My father and his father are best friends so my father know everything about the child.) You know, my father is a righteous guy. He thought what the child did was too serious to let it go. He kept talking about it in order to remind the child of what he did in the past. He wanted the child not forget his past even if the child has changed into a better man. Maybe my father's opinion was right, but the way he talked about is really embarrassing. In order not to make my father lose face, the child had to smile all the time and admit that he was wrong in the past. My mother is kind-hearted. She don't want the family dinner become a fight so she stood on the child's side. She spoke for the child. But that was helpless, my father was still talking …… Oh, who can save a drunk man.. When we arrived home, I told my father that he was too harsh on the child and he shouldn't take the friendship for granted.(Chinese tend to be bad-tempered to their close friends.) However, my father thought I was too naive. He told me that there were so many things I didn't know. Yes I don't know what happened in the past, but I know we should always show respect to others even that's for friends. Thank you for reading... hope you get my point and discussions are welcome~^ ^August 15, 201522
我生日的礼物
8月14号是我生日。我收到了很好看的礼物。它们被放在了爸爸妈妈起居室的桌子上。那是两件T恤衫。（You don't have to repeat the sentence again. You can express it in another way instead.）一件Garfield的T恤衫和一件有老虎图案的黑色T恤衫。我还收到了一只非常好看的手表。我就知道我会收到这个手表的。因为我上星期六在百货商店看到了。 （I don't see any logicality in the last two sentences. Why did you know you would receive the watch because you saw it in the shopping mall? Maybe it was the fact, but you need to express it more clearly or you shouldn't write it down.）
我还收到了一张2015的带有动物图案的日历、巧克力、三盆仙人掌、一个妈妈烤的大蛋糕和一点钱。
我明天会写我们14号晚上在我们最喜爱的的中国饭店吃北京鸭的故事！
TRANSLATION
My birthday presents
On 14th August I had birthday. I received many nice presents. They were on the table of my parent’s living room. I received 2 T-shirts. A Garfield T-Shirt and a black T-Shirt with a lion. I also received a very beautiful watch. I knew I would get this watch. Last week on Saturday I found this watch in a shopping center.
I also received a 2015 calendar with animals, chocolate, three cactuses, a big cake my mother has baked and some money.
Tomorrow I write about the Beijing Duck we ate in our favorite Chinese restaurant at this evening!----------------------------------------
I guess you just translate your English writing into Chinese. You made some basic mistakes such as the misuse of words, wrong collocations and lack of logicality. Figuring out the meaning of some basic Chinese words and reading more Chinese passages would be my suggestions for you. Do not hate me if you think I am too harsh. No offense. Keep up! ：）
0 votedAugust 15, 20152能不能帮我改好一些这个谢谢卡? Can you help me correct this thank you card?
尊敬的NAME,
谢谢你给我在COMPANY善良及耐心的辅导! 我真的很享受我在贵公司实习当中完成的健康及教育有关的问卷，以及其他作业。能够在贵公司实习真是很好的机会，我希望我所做的工作能有助于你们及公司。如果将来你还有新的实习生想跟我联系，谈谈我做的工作或者其他事情（I didn't really get your point. Is that "if you have new interns who want to contact me in the future"?），请你随时在______给我发电子邮件或者通过我的Skype联系我, ______.
再次感谢你给我的辅导，能有机会与你一起工作我感到非常荣幸，希望以后有机会再见面。 谢谢！
祝好，
Lara1，“贵公司” is a very formal and respectful way to say 'your company'；
2，you don't have to mention the company's name a second time, instead, you can use “贵公司” to express 'the company'；
3，“感谢” is more formal than “谢谢”。
If the receiver is a person you respect and older than you, you'd better use “您” instead of “你”。My version is a relatively formal one. If you don't want it formal, you can just use the two versions above. Ask me if you have any question. ：）
0 votedAugust 15, 20150- A recent IELTS writing Question: Some people who have been in prison become good citizens later. Some people think that they are the best people to talk to school students the danger of committing a crime. Do you agree or disagree? My composition: As the education to students on conforming to orders and laws has been laid more emphasis, some people who used to be criminals are considered to walk into the schools and inform the danger of committing crimes to students. Opinions vary from people to people on whether these reformed “criminals” are suitable to teach school students. From my perspective, I approve of these people sharing their experience with school students to some extent. To begin with, it is undoubtedly the most persuasive way to inform students of staying away from criminal actions. These reformed people can teach students what to do and what are not supposed to do. They even can share their motives of committing crimes to prevent the students from thinking like that. Next, for these reformed people, this opportunity of teaching students is also an encouragement and recognition from the society, which implies the society still trust and care about them. In addition, if the whole thing happens, students will get to know the positive side of the society by seeing the old criminals turning into good citizens, thus having more faith in the society. Judging from the flip side, I still can see some drawbacks if these people go back to schools. After all, they committed crimes, so, even though these people have reformed and been out of jail, common people’s impressions towards them are difficult to change in a short time. I believe many people would feel scared if a person who went to prison shows up in front of them even if he/she has been out of it. Once the fear arises among students, they tend to resist anything from that person, which will bring about an unsuccessful sharing meeting. In conclusion, I suggest that schools can invite reformed “criminals” to have a meeting with students but they should think twice before they choose the suitable person to ensure the quality of the sharing meeting and to prevent bad consequence it might bring about. (Can a native speaker possibly revise it for me? I would be appreciate if you can point out my problems in logicality, lexicology and grammar. Thank you :) )August 12, 201510
中国金融市场和谷歌
我昨天看到一些关于中国金融市场的新闻。最让人吃惊的是中国政府冻结了一些股票和外国对冲资金的账户。这就太不对了。虽然我不是在批评中国政府，他们想怎么做就可以怎么做，但是这对外国投资者来说很可惜。你看，如果我们不能相信中国会计，而且现在也不能相信政府的行动，那我们怎么会投资中国呢？外国投资者当然不会突然完全对中国没兴趣，但是这些消息不利于短期和中期投资。另外，我听说人民币贬值了。你们对这些发展有什么看法？
谷歌昨天宣布他们要构建一家母公司叫做Alphabet。谷歌现在是Alphabet的一家子公司。很多人觉得他们这个主意挺好的。拉里·佩奇近期称赞了伯克希尔哈撒韦公司和巴菲特。我认为他们这个行动很明智。Alphabet现在就是像伯克希尔哈撒韦。现在他们投资一些公司比以前更容易并且能做得更透明。
你们对这些消息有什么看法？（你的文章写得很好，没有大的语法错误。我给你修改了一下，不是说你的句子有问题，而是使句子读起来更简洁通顺，也更符合中国人说话的习惯。因为这篇文章讨论的问题比较高端，所以应当用比较正式的语气。我对投资没有研究，所以很抱歉不能跟你分享观点，但你已经做得很棒了！）
0 votedAugust 12, 20151第1天 - 关于我的实验的感受
我将通过实验来提高我的汉语。90天（In 90 days?）我打算每天跟中国朋友聊天30分钟。1天完了，我和我的厦门朋友一起聊天30分钟，我觉得这个感受非常好，因为以前我只用课本学习汉语，到现在不能真正练习我的口语。但是，这一切都将改变，我希望使用我的口语看完以后Benny Lewis（？）。
9月20日是我的大学开始，通过这个实验，我希望我的汉语水平越来越高，那我就能学习别的语言，大概广东话（no“广东语” but广东话or粤语）！哈哈
明天要我的2天（？），明天我打算聊天30分钟，听新闻，学习使用Anki，更新在italki上，。明天晚上我打算写我的感受，来看看我这个实验的进度。
0 votedAugust 12, 20152- my first diary on italki.com today is my first day to use this website. i registered on this website because i followed italki's Weibo account for a while and found it interesting. Also, i want to see what this website is used for. so here i am, testing the revising writing function of this website. Hope it can help improve my English. ^ ^ There are only 18 days left for my IELTS test and that will be my second time to take that test. I didn't expect IELTS test can be that difficult :( I still got 0.5 away from my expected score after my careful preparation. Wish me good luck this time. Ok, I am going to review my incoming test. I will be back when I am in a good mood. ^ ^ Do not laugh if you find any mistake in this diary cause I will when I see a not-so-perfect Chinese diary written by a foreign Chinese learner. (no offense) :DAugust 11, 201520
