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Looking for practice partners to help with Russian, German, or Polish, naturally I will help you with English in return! We can trade lessons, or we can talk about basically any topic. I'm happy to do either!
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Jacob
Polish
Jul 18, 2020
Great first lesson! I am impressed with Drew’s ability to understand Polish and his motivation to learn various languages simultaneously.
Oleg
Russian
Aug 31, 2019
У Дрю достаточно высокий уровень и отличная, работающая техника по изучению русского языка. В разговоре не возникает проблем с пониманием и общение идет легко и непринужденно. Для совершенствования необходимо уделять внимание нюансам произношения и употребления разных языковых конструкций.
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  • Answered
    In this case it's almost like saying "Felix, not the person, but the cat." You can say, "Julia the teacher" but only when we don't know which Julia someone is talking about. Like so: - Which Julia are you talking about? Julia the doctor? - No, Julia the teacher. The usage of "Felix the cat" is typically for mascots and kids shows. It's almost funny. That's about the best I can describe why we do this.
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    July 21, 2020
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    July 18, 2020
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  • Answered
    Options: Did you walk home alone so late / at __ (time)? - Best option Did you come home alone so late / at __ (time)? - Best option if it doesn't matter how they came home. Just a tip. If you use "did" the next verb is always dictionary form. Did you DO something? Luckily, this rule has 0 exceptions :). Also, we really don't say "on foot" very often. This is a pretty rare thing to mention.
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    July 17, 2020
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  • Answered
    If it's a correction you're looking for it would be: I found it out when I was listening to Americans who had read the Russian alphabet. or I found out about it when I was listening to Americans who had read the Russian alphabet. Personally, I'd use the second option more commonly. Just to point out, this would mean that the Americans had read the alphabet before talking to you.
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    July 16, 2020
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  • Commented
    This really depends on who you ask. There are plenty of arguments for both, however it's usually classified as a dialect. It does in fact have a grammar structure and rules which is the primary argument for it being it's own language, but it's not enough by itself for many to be willing to call it so. Personally, I feel it's close to being it's own language because of those rules and phrases, but it's completely understandable by any English speaker. It has phrases that people will need to ask about at times, but so does any region. Maybe one day it'll be classified as a solid true language soon, but not yet (or maybe it has and I missed the memo).
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    July 16, 2020
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  • Answered
    If I read this, my first thoughts would be: Plain = No decorations, but yes, there will be furniture. Just not very pretty looking. Modest hotel = Not trying to be fancy. So most likely cheap. Refined = Better than average, but not fine dining. Something in the middle. These are examples of advertising language meant to make things sound nicer than they probably are. (At least that's my normal experience with this style of word choice)
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    July 14, 2020
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    I was swimming while he was playing football. - These two things were happening at the same time. When I was driving to work, I met your brother. - To show an interruption of an action, or a finished event that happened at the same time as you driving. ex. "I was driving to work when I spilled my coffee." She was sleeping when I wrote a letter. - This is used to show you were doing something while I completed an action. If you used "while" here, you would say, "She was sleeping while I was writing a letter."
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    July 14, 2020
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    Exactly "She was dressed" past simple passive voice. Otherwise, it'd be "She dressed in black" - Past simple active voice. The idea of passive uses the "be+done" structure. The form of the word "be" shows the tense. So, this is the state of being verb that Phillip mentioned. It's really just an equal sign.
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    July 14, 2020
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  • Answered
    If you like to tie words together, I'd say to think of it like this. Evident means that we have evidence that this is true. We know it to be real, or we at least have facts that show that we feel certain something is going to happen. Whereas apparent can be tied to apparently. Meaning more like "It seems, it appears." More emotion based than fact based.
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    July 11, 2020
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