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¡Hola! Me llamo Joe y vivo en Minneapolis, Minnesota. Obtuve el nivel B1 del Instituto Cervantes en 2019 y ahora quiero reactivar mi español y alcanzar un B2 sólido. Mi comprensión auditiva suele ser bastante buena, pero quiero mejorar mi fluidez y ganar confianza y rapidez al hablar. Me interesan la música, la literatura, la historia, el marketing, la psicología, los viajes y las culturas del mundo hispanohablante, sobre todo las de España, Centroamérica y el Caribe. Mi esposa es hondureña y también tengo un interés personal por la música caribeña. Busco mantener conversaciones naturales sobre temas variados y agradezco las correcciones selectivas.
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Marienma Ramos
Spanish
Jan 8, 2020
Me he alegrado de volver a verte por clase. Te envío el material y nos vemos el sábado. ¡Hasta pronto!
Alexandra Pronuncia
Spanish
Aug 1, 2019
Genial progreso en tu pronunciación, y estupenda práctica. Gracias y hasta pronto.
Alexandra Pronuncia
Spanish
Jul 24, 2019
Muy buen progreso en la pronunciación de las laterales y vibrantes. Te veo muy centrado y organizado, ¡sigue así! ¡Gracias y hasta pronto!
Alexandra Pronuncia
Spanish
Jul 17, 2019
Muy buena pronunciación tras el descanso. Me llena de alegría comprobar que, a pesar de la pausa, tu pronunciación se mantiene y no hay necesidad de comenzar desde cero. ¡Bravo! ¡Seguimos!
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    Initial edits are in other comment. here's where I might take this in a second draft:


    I've worked since I was 15 years old to be able to pay for my expenses, which is why I finished high school later than my classmates.  When my grandfather died and rent became too expensive, <s>and</s> my sister and I had to move to another apartment<s>, because where we lived with my grandfather was too expensive for us.</s> A few years later, I could have enrolled in one of the best public universities in Mexico, but I chose to study at an online university instead. At first it was pretty cool because I could work and study at the same time, however if I'd studied environmental engineering…everything would have been different [in what way? add on another sentence that speaks to the challenges].  <o:p></o:p>

    <o:p> </o:p>

    One of the best decisions I've made was to keep studying English because it led to a good job where I could apply to a university again to study environmental engineering and be able to pursue my passion of helping the environment.  If I had studied environmental engineering the first time, I would have finished 4 years ago, but [example: I learned a lot in those 4 years that keeps me motivated every day. Only one year remains before my dream of working as an environmental engineer becomes a reality.] 

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    March 6, 2019
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    Environmental engineering

    If I had studied environmental engineering, I would have finished it since 4 years ago. It's so difficult to think about the things that you didn't [complete/finish?]. I've worked since I was 15 years old to be able to pay for my expenses, so I finished the high school older than [by "older" do you mean that high school took you extra years to complete? You could perhaps instead say that you finished high school "later than" your classmates] my classmates. Then my grandfather died and my sister and I have had to move to another apartment, because where we lived with my grandfather it was enough too expensive for us. A few years later, I could have get enrolled in one of the best public universities in Mexico, but I was not happy about my decision because I chose  choose to study at an online university instead. At first it was pretty cool because I could work and study at the same time, however if I'd studied environmental engineering... everything would have been diferentent different [in what way?]. The only thing I know, One of the best decisions I've made was to keep studying English because of I found [it led to] a good job where I could apply for to a university test again and to study environmental engineering and to be able to [pursue my passion of] helping to the environment.
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    March 6, 2019
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    "All" is correct. Edit: But for the latter I believe you could change the word order to say "Her whole patience immediately disappeared." 4. Whole can be used after a possessive adjective, however, all must be used before a possessive adjective. My whole day (Her whole patience) / all my day (All her patience) Source: https://www.grammarbank.com/all-vs-whole.html
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    March 4, 2019
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    A bit of about me

    Hi everyone.

    My name is Ángela and I'm 26 years old. I'm glad to be here.
    Today is 1 of January 1st and one of my resolutions for this year is to write a bit more in English. This is the reason why I'm here right now. My English teacher advised me to start with this fantastic website.

    I'd like to write more about me myself. Well, I'm a teacher. I studied at University four years ago. It was a fabulous experience but unfortunately (<-- only one "L") today I'm not yet working as a teacher. It's a very long way journey (?) and this is the reason I'm preparing and currently studying a master's degree. Nowadays I'm working as a babysitter so and my job is focused on looking after two lovely girls. I like this job but I would still like to change of job and to become a teacher: I hope I get it.

    I'm keen on doing exercise because I'm very conscious about good health. I really enjoy eating a high variety of fresh products like vedgetables vegetables, fruits, fish and meat. I'm interested in reading books about education and psychology. One of my favourite plans is to travel around the world, but I have to admit that I don't travel as much as I would like.

    To sum up, Finally, I want to write share that I like helping other people, as a consequence, similarly, I hope like that other people can help me to improve my English. If you want to help me, don't hesitate to make me corrections in this writing. I will be really grateful.

    See you!
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    January 2, 2019
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    I went to an English interview.

    "I did not use contractions in this story because my keyboard is not working"

    Today I went to an English interview to work at a call center. At first When I first get to arrived at the interview, I was so very nervious because I do not have experience doing this kind of work, but I am a fast learner. Well, During the interview, I had to do three English tests with time limits on the computer and speak on the phone and to help some customers, ; also I also did took a general English test about on my knowdledge and my writing style way. When I finished the tests and the recruiter told me about my results, I felt surprised, but that he told me, "you passed the intermediate-level, but you have to do another test in advanced English."


    *Red Highlights = to be deleted, Yellow Highlights = grammatical edits, additions, or rephrasing of words

    Looks great, keep it up and congrats (congratulations) on a successful first interview!

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    October 5, 2018
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    Part 1 -

    My Summer

    My Today's writing is about my summer holidays in my village [insert name of village here], which is located approximately in 40 minutes from downtown Valencia center. This place village is so very beautiful and charming because the people here is are really friendly and the weather is perfect to avoid for avoiding Valencia's heat.  I have been there here for 2 weeks with my whole family, since all of us go there come here in on these dates in order to enjoy the weather and the village festivals which that started the second week we were here there.

    The first week I tried to do different activities things with my friends, like taking a walk, shopping for food, and other stuff going to other villages to watch football championships with because I have a friend with who that I played play football with in the same team every summer. just with the goal of winning some small championships and for fun, and we were planning the festivals, that is, stuff we were going to do.

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    August 29, 2018
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    Part 2 -

    And the second week, I spent almost the whole time entire second week going to the late night parties of in my village, which are usually draw/attract plenty of people from other villages. My daily routine was completely different during this week, whether if you compare this one with the previous one, since I went to the bed at 6am and I tried to sleep in (almost the whole morning!) as far often as possible so I could to rest a little bit before the next party. From my point of view, it would be impossible to follow this routine for too many days because I think that the breakfast is one of the most important meals and so my body wouldn't be able to handle so many late nights of partying be really wasted right now, but fortunately the village festivals just last one week. During the festivals, there were no problems and nobody argued, so that I'm happy with my summer holiday experience.

    After these two weeks, I went back to my home to take me a little break before starting returning to work.

    Thank everybody to for helping me to improve my English skills, especially my writing, and for correcting the text.

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    August 29, 2018
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  • Answered
    Typically going over one's head means one of two things (in my experience). Option 1: to not understand something (ex: Science class was very confusing today, it was completely over my head.") Option 2: to go to a more important or powerful person to get what you want (ex: My manager wouldn't let me work on the high profile presentation for our clients, so I went over his head and asked the company director). Do either of those make sense with what you're reading? I'd guess the second option, based on your sentence.
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    August 28, 2018
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    What i have been doing today

    Today it has been a busy day for me. I woke up at 6:00, quite early. But Here in Spain, we have a very hot weather. In fact, we have a heat wave. Temperatures are expected to reach the 44 celsius degrees Celsius. in the shawow.  shade, and What could be considered reach 50 or more in the sun. That's why if you want to *do outdoor sports, **you must wake up early if you don't want to faint when doing it.

    I have been went running. Then, I have driven drove to the airport and going went shopping at to a new shopping center in the city closer closest to mine. 

    You would might ask if I don't work; yes I do, but I am a teacher, therefore i have two months of holidays. Nice, isn't it? 
    After lunch I have had my typical Spanish siesta for half an hour; it was too much hot. and The last thing i have done did is was taking take an i talki class with a good teacher.


    Notes: Hi Rosa, nice job! Keep working on the use of past simple (i.e. I drove to the airport) vs past perfect (i.e. I had driven to the airport). I believe past perfect is generally used to talk about something that happened before another action in the past. For example, you could say, "I had driven to the airport, and afterwards decided to go shopping." In this example,  the drive to the airport happened before the action of going shopping. This is contrasted with the present perfect - which you used correctly - an action/situation that started in the past and continues into the present (i.e. "Today has been a busy day for me".) Thanks for sharing!

    *I would choose a different word here, such as: if you want to "participate in" outdoor sports

    ** I would rephrase this to something like: "you should wake up early to avoid fainting from the heat"

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    August 2, 2018
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    My life in the UK

    My name is Ana, I'm from Argentina but I have lived (or: have been living) since 2010 in the UK since 2010; I came here with my husband for a better future; I'm a housewife. When I arrived I didn't speak a single word of English, but I did my best to learn the language. I love the culture of this country. I live in Leeds and I used to live in York, and I'm very grateful because that this country gave me the opportunity to have the life that I always dreamed of. I would like that you to share with me your experiences of your life in other country's countries or on holiday.


    Notes: great job! You'll see above that I changed a lot of your commas to periods. Sentences generally end in periods (aside from items like punctuation marks, e.g. "!" and "?"). I recommend reviewing the use of commas and continuing your practice with them. 

    https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma/

    If you want to use commas to connect two sentences, perhaps this will help:

    https://data.grammarbook.com/blog/commas/connecting-sentences-with-commas-and-semicolons/

    Thanks for sharing your writing!

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    August 1, 2018
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