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Native English speaker (and once fluent in Indonesian, though I've sadly forgotten most of it) who grew up in Bali, Indonesia and Maine, USA. Looking to learn new languages in the coming years in preparation for some travelling! Currently looking to learn Spanish as it would be useful in my current job. Eventually I would like to learn as many languages as possible, if only on a conversational level to be able to speak with locals while travelling! And I will always be happy to learn back my Indonesian (maybe even Balinese?) that I've lost in the years of speaking only English since moving to America as a child.
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    What I am doing:
    It was only a few days ago I joined Italki, during these days I wrote 4 short articles. Thank you again for correcting my articles.

    After my graduation from university in 2009, I started to work in a trading company. Last year I got back to my hometown, which is a small city but one of the biggest exporters of handwoven baskets and bags in China. The producing history may trace back to one thousand a hundred years (sorry, I don't understand when you are trying to say with this sentence). I started my own trading business with a factory that specialized in home storage products that was established twenty years ago.


    I am a professional who is very strict with my work and myself. I get up at 5 am every morning, after about a half an hour of one minutes planks and other mat exercises I cook and enjoy my breakfast. I love sports, especially playing with friends. We usually play badminton and ride bicycles, but last summer I fell off my bike one afternoon and hurt my knees. The wound needed four stitches. It was a long time before I got on my bike again, I had missed the feeling of riding.


    My two best friends and I made an appointment, (I think you mean 'my two best friends and I have a tradition') when someone's birthday coming up, we buying her books that we have read ourselves. We have done this the past three years and I have got lots of great books. Some of them I read more than once and some have really helped me.
    That's all for today.

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    September 2, 2015
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    The first on looks ok! I think for the second one you want to delete the first word (what) and replace it with when: WHEN has violence.... etc.
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    September 2, 2015
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    Are you trying to make the sentence more natural? This is how I would write it: For starters, we were well prepared for the long road trip. We brought snacks, games, cards, jokes, movies, and music incase we got bored. Why: First of all I think to make it sound more natural you want to show why those things you listed (snacks, cards, movies) were included in the sentence and why. So you would say we packed/we brought/we found etc so the reader knows that those things are there in the story and not just thought of. Then I would add the WHY you brought these things (incase we got bored) in the same sentence. That way everything fits together: what you did (we brought), then the things (movies and games) and why (incase we got bored.)
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    September 2, 2015
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    I have never seen silly being used to mean cute. By definition it means someone or something is being foolish. You are correct that it tends to be a lighter term, when someone is lacking common sense. In a more informal was silly could be used to show affection. Someone might say a baby is being silly when they are being foolish in a cute way. Or another way might be to say "you are being silly" to mean you are funny, or not taking some thing seriously, or goofing off.
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    September 2, 2015
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