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I am Jeptha, a Canadian born in the U.S. I am interested in learning Tajik prior to travelling to Tajikistan next Spring 2016, where I hope to meet people in the medical field, through the university where I work. I am interested in other languages, too!
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    You could choose any one of the following lines, depending on the context; each is formal in an email: Sincerely, Yours sincerely, With best wishes, Thanking you for your consideration, Thank you for your time, sincerely,
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    November 17, 2015
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    These are both OK. You will also sometimes hear, "including us" or "counting us" -- if an outside party, perhaps the waiter, is doing the counting!
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    November 15, 2015
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    These phrases are roughly equivalent. 'Lots of' is a bit more informal than 'a lot of'. 'Plenty of' may imply sufficiency in addition to quantity. One useful trick is that many nouns in English require either 'much' or 'many', but are incorrect if mismatched e.g., 'much milk' and 'many cows' -- however, you can say 'lots of cows' and 'lots of milk', and both phrases are correct. For anyone interested in differences between written and spoken English: Be aware that a verb will usually (in conversation, at least) take the number of the items: "There are a lot of cows." "There is a lot of milk." and in informal conversation it is also common to hear "*There's/There're lots of cows." "There's lots of milk." -- both of these would be found in quotations of everyday speech but are not necessarily considered correct when written.
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    November 15, 2015
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    1. 'stand up to a rigorous examination' is roughly equivalent 2. 'in question' means 'of which we are speaking' 3. Yes
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    November 15, 2015
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    If I understand you correctly, "I've gone past her." An example of how this could be used: "I'm in a race or a competition with her, and I've gone past her." If you mean, "I was in a relationship with her, and now I am not, but I am moving on with my life" I would say: "I've gotten past her" or "I've gotten over her."
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    November 15, 2015
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    "Comme ça¨ is sometimes used that way.
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    November 3, 2015
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    I think in this context it means to feel motherly about someone, as in a 'brood hen', a chicken that is sitting on eggs.
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    November 3, 2015
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    The last sentence implies that earlier on the speaker (or someone else) said something about packing for the listener. (I don't see other information about that in the paragraph, though - was there an earlier line?)
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    November 3, 2015
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    Quand on est médecin Parfois mes étudiants me demande ce que je fais comme médecin, par example, que serait une journée typique dans mon métier. Je suis neurologue, et en fait je fais plusieurs sortes de chose dans mon travail quotidien. Par example, j'enseigne les étudiants de médecine au moyen un jour par semaine; je travaille dans les cliniques les autres journées, et parfois les soirs je fais de la rechereche en faisant des analyses des rapports des autres chercheurs dans ma specialité. Une question aussi fréquente est, quelles sont les maladies dont mes patient sont atteintes. En réponse, j'essaie d'expliquer (s'il n'est pas déjà évident) que les neurologues sont des médecins qui traitent les gens ayant des difficultés avec le fonctionemment du cerveau, de la moelle épinière, des nerfs péripheriques, ou des muscles. Des maladies chez les patients vus par neurologues seraient les maux de têtes, les infarctus cérebrals, la maladie de Parkinson, les neuropathies (par example en conséquence du diabète), et la sclérose en plaques, parmi beaucoup d'autres maladies. Comme neurologue, je ne pratique pas de chirurgie; ça, c'est la domaine de mes collègues, les neurochirurgiens. (La photo ci-jointe montre le cerveau d'une personne atteinte par la maladie de Parkinson: PD PET scan image. By Jens Maus (http://jens-maus.de/) – Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PET-image.jpg#/media/File:PET-image.jpg)
    October 17, 2015
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    Thank you, Sven, for your helpful changes and suggestions.  I will incorporate them into the list!

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    October 17, 2015
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