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J’etudié français á l’école il y a trente ans et recentement j'ai commence de nouveau. J’habite en Angleterre. Je cherche personnes avec qui je puex practiquer francais et je peux adier vous avec anglais. Tambien hablo español bastante bien después de vivir 5 años en Nicaragua trabjando como ingeniera.
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Amanda Alves
Portuguese
Jul 26, 2021
Você é muito desenrolada. Eu sempre acreditei em você e no seu potencial, viu? Você chegou aqui pelo seu esforço, pela sua força de vontade.
Marcos Zayan Tibau
Portuguese
Apr 30, 2021
Durante a aula, conversamos um pouco sobre o livro que recomendei pra Joanne, e no final ainda tivemos tempo de revisar um pouco de gramática. Parabéns pelo seu sucesso com o português, Joanne! Te desejo uma boa continuação.
Amanda Alves
Portuguese
Apr 25, 2021
Rsrs, muito obrigada, moça! Você tem rendido muito nas aulas, viu? Fico feliz de poder colaborar com o seu processo de aprendizagem. Até logo!
Marcos Zayan Tibau
Portuguese
Mar 20, 2021
parabéns, Joanne, seu português está melhorando a cada aula! continue assim :)
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    30-day challenge #2: What define us

    Over one year ago I watched on YouTube one of the best speeches I have ever seen that made me cry my eyes out. It is named as “How do you define yourself?” by Lizzie Velasquez.
    Lizzie Velasquez is a 29-year-old woman born with a rare syndrome called Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy, which does not allow her to accumulate body mass and gain weight. Also, she is blind in one-eye blinded. At the moment she was born the doctors told her parents she would never do anything by herself. They, however, only wanted to take her home and raise her up in the best way they could.
    Growing up in that supportive family was very important to her life. At the age of 5, on her first school-day, she realized she was different from the other kids. She was treated as if she was a monster. That is when her life started to be surrounded by bullying. In her preteens, she would wake up every morning, look in the mirror and wonder what it would be if she could just scruble that syndrome off. She hated her legs, her face, her arms, herself.
    One day she saw an eight-second video labeling her the ugliest woman of the world. It had over 4 million views and a huge amount of comments mocking her and telling she should rather kill herself.
    After crying a lot, she decided to make it good. From that day on she realized what defines her is up to her. She is the driver of her life. She wanted to be a motivational speaker, and she did it. She wanted to write a book, and she did it. She wanted to graduate from college, and she did it. She sets up goals and goes for it.
    This woman inspires me to be always kind ("to always be kind" sounds better than "to be always kind") to others no matter what, to be brave, to dream and set up goals, and work my butt off to achieve them.

    We normal talk about "to set goals" in the context you are using. "To set up goals" sounds more like someone putting up the goalposts and nets before a football match.

    Hope this helps as you'd asked me to try and look at one of these pieces you'd written and had no comments as yet. I agree this is an inspirational story.

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    November 18, 2018
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    ¿Pero "tener mariposas en el estómago"' solo aplica cuando estás enamorado? En inglés también significa que una persona está nerviosa.
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    November 18, 2018
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    30-day challenge #6:

    John Willian Waterhouse was born in 1849, in Rome.Years later he moved to London, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Art. He firstly studied sculpture and only then started on (not necessary) painting. In 1874 his artwork "Sleep and his Half-brother Death" was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition and it turned out to be a success.
    In 1883 he married to Esther Kenworthy, who was also an artist. In 1895 he was ellected to the full Academician status and served on the Royal Academy Council, taught at the St. John's Wood Art School and joined the St John's Wood Arts Club.
    His masterpieces were mostly of women in the Ancient Greek Myths and in Arthurian Legends.
    He died in 1917, in London, after facing fighting cancer for two years.


    Hi Nicole. Well written. Only very minor corrections.

    You can say "In 1883 he married Esther..." or "In 1883 he got married to Esther..." if you use married to it needs the verb "to get" in front in some form.

    You also can say people are "facing" cancer, but it tends to imply they are still alive.


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    November 18, 2018
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    The gypsy bride. (A police novel written by Carmen Mola).

    The last book I've read is titled "The gypsy bride", written by Carmen Mola.

    This book tell us about the murder of a gypsy (girlfriend - "fiancee" or "bride-to-be" might be better but you don't need to use an extra word at all because it is implied) on the day of her bachelorette party in Madrid, but the strange thing is that her sister had been murdered seven years ago before on the day of her bachelorette party following the same heinious ritual. The sister's murderer was in the jail serving a sentence seven years ago.

    This murder is looked into by Inspector Elena Blanco, head of the Case Analysis Brigade, a department created to solve the most complicated and heinous crimes.

    The Inspector Elena Blanco is a particular police, that likes to drink grappa and goes to the Karaokes, drive (?)classic cars and having all-terrain (not sure what this means) sexual relations. A vulnerable policewoman, who stays on force to remind herself that there is an unsolved case that she has been unable to close.

    This is an addictive novel, when you begin to read you can not stopping until the end.

    Definitely an interesting, if gruesome sounding book! I'm not sure if I have corrected the sentence "The sister's murderer was in jail serving a sentence seven years ago." correctly, as if the murderer was in jail how did he or she commit the murder - or maybe that is what the book is about.

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    October 22, 2018
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    I'm going to take a TOEIC test tomorrow in Tokyo Japan!!

    Hi! Guys!! Nice to meet you! I'm Rikka. I live in Tokyo, Japan. I'm a Japanese teacher and writer. I have been learning English for two years but I'm still a English beginner in English because I have not studied English. My goal is to get the score 860 point on TOEIC test by the end of this year. If I can't get this goal, I have to cut my hair ... that's pretty bad. I have a lot of Japanese friends who are learning English like me. I think that I don't want to lose my hair alone, after that I ask for them to go their (not quite sure what you want to say here: perhaps "so I asked them for their goal in TOEIC test". We studying English eagerly. I'll do my best tomorrow.

    See you guys!!


    "but" and "because" are normally linking words in English so we do not normally use them at the beginning of sentences.

    Best of luck in your test. Hope you don't have to cut your hair!

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    July 23, 2016
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    "Dog syndrome" - the most important problem in learning a new language!

    Every who learns a new language has one simple and terrible problem. I call it "dog syndrome")) What is it a "dog syndrome"? It's a situation when you understand everything that somebody says, but can't say anything in response. If you have a dog - you know what I mean))

    I don't have a solution to this problem at the current moment. But I have some thoughts about it. The main decision for those, who wants to speak a foreign language - is SPEAK ON IT!) Everything is easy. If you want to do something - just do it)
    Your principal enemy is an embarrassment. You should ignore it. Yes, you may have problems with grammar, vocabulary, tenses and other things but it isn't so important to a possibility so as to stop you from speaking. Really. Every native speaker will understand you)
    In this article, ​I try to beat this problem here, with my writing text-abilities.

    Thank you, for your corrections. I really appreciate it


    Hi Ramil. I like your idea of "dog syndrome". My comments in red are corrections and my comments in blue are what I think you want to say but using English that sounds a little better. You are right the most important thing is to ignore the embarrassment and try.

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    July 23, 2016
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    RACING 2

    The girl then went to the pond, and got three buckets of clean water. She brought them back; and gave them to the animals, letting them drink their fill. It was a happy day for the animals.
    The girl swept the floor and dusted the barn. Then she went to where the animals lived and stayed there to rest.
    When the next morning came, she heard a galloping noise through the door. She walked out there and found lots of other horses racing. She wanted to enter (would be better to say "enter the race" or "take part", "enter" on it's own sounds like she wanted to go into somewhere); she rode on her horse and galloped towards the racing line (normally we would say "starting line" which is where the race starts from or "finishing line" - I think you mean starting line). She shouted, “Hey! I want to enter!” “Sweet, a new rider!” shouted a boy called Jake, “Yep!” shouted Charlie Read; “Cool!” shouted Carlos.
    The girl entered, and raced in front of all the boys. It was cool. It was as if the horse the girl rode was not even touching the ground; it was like that he was floating in the air and racing in front of them.
    Of course the girl won the race. And when she reached the finish line, she waited for 12 minutes until all the others arrived. That proved that she was so very, very fast that the others were left a long way behind probably a long distance. The others gave her a chest, and inside were jewels and golden crowns; and even some golden coins and blue rubies.
    The girl couldn’t believe her luck. She ran, or galloped off home with the chest on her horse. She couldn’t wait to show her parents the treasure chest. When she returned home, she showed her parents the chest full of cool rich things; her parents were very proud indeed.
    It was the greatest day in all of her life. She hoped that the other days would be as great and good as usual.
    If you are poor, don’t look upset. Luck is out there, if you keep on with your confident.

    This is good. Comments in blue are just explanations or suggestions. Most of my corrections in red and highlighted are just to make it sound better English. It was very easy to understand.

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    Brexit - El resultado ¿Cómo puedo describir mis sentimientos hoy en un día tan celebrado por mucha gente y al mismo tiempo con una potencia tan destructiva por mi país, mis vecinos en Europa y aún, quizás hasta lo demás del mundo? Hoy me amaneció a las noticias que por un margen del 3% los británicos que habían decidido votar de salir de la UE. Solamente un poco más que el 72% de los votantes votó, pero esta tasa es bastante elevada en Reino Unido, donde no es mandatorio votar como en países como Australia. Así que la realidad es menos del 50% de las personas que tengan el derecho votar que votó para salir pero fue suficiente para cambiar la dirección de nuestro país. Me siento triste pero más que eso, siento como una extranjera en mi país natal. Siento vergüenza que la parte principal de la campaña de “Salir” fue enfocada de los problemas de inmigración. Las campañas de los dos lados llevaron tantas mentiras de manipulación y muchas de las medias de comunicación, principalmente los diarios, han llevando propagando en vez de noticias balanceadas por meses sino años. En vez de dirigiendo nuestras esfuerzas a mejorando nuestra país y nuestro mundo hemos estado quejándonos sobre los problemas de inmigración. Nosotros mismos no tuvimos ningún control sobre nuestro lugar de nacimiento pero actuamos como si tengamos un derecho divino a los beneficios de nuestro país y que no debería ser ninguna expectación que los compartiremos con otros diferente que nosotros. No quiero decir que todos los que votaron “Salir” lo hicieron simplemente para parar inmigración ni que son racistas, mientras los que votaron “Quedar” son inocentes de tener pensamientos así, sería otra mentira y ya sufrimos suficiente de esas. Viendo la reacción de la gente que está feliz con los resultados de hoy, algunos de ellos sientan como si ellos mismos han sido extranjeros en su proprio país y hoy recibieron de nuevo “su país” de sus sueños. Mientras mucha gente como yo sienta como hemos tomado un paso o más atrás y cuando vemos en el espejo “nuestra” país no es como esperaba estuviera. Ayer leí en “El País” lo siguiente: “El recuerdo de la diputada (Jo Cox que se mató la semana anterior) sobrevolará hoy las urnas. La llamada a la unidad de las distintas sensibilidades, que Cox convirtió en su lucha política, será clave para reconstruir un país herido.” Estoy de acuerdo con el autor.
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