Aleksandra
Latin
Jan 19, 2022
Louranse is a great student, he learns fast and he has already some basic language skills. I hope you feel prepared for your first Latin class at University and that you will find it enjoyable!
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- English and ChineseThese mistakes are nothing but basic, how could we persistently make these mistakes after so many years of being <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">washed by that</s> exposed to the language? Let's dig into it a bit deeper.Apparently, it's due to the different language rules: (I recommend a colon here, but a period is fine too. It's a stylistic choice but your English is advanced.) <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">you know, </s> (<em>You know </em>is typical of casual spoken language, which this paragraph is not.) there's no such thing in Chinese, where you don't have to change the <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">formation of the</s> verb form (less awkward) when the subject noun is in the (just a slightly better collocation, what you said was fine though) single third-person <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">one</s>. We won't make such mistakes if <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">the situation is been awared</s> we are aware in the situation. (People are aware or unaware, situations are not.) That means we usually make them in an unconscious fasion. So ultimately, it's the different mindset or cultural (cultural is an adjective here) background that stirs up the different response.For a Chinese person (only certain nationalities can be a noun: American, Canadian, etc. Nationalities with -ese or -ish are formed with the collocation adjective + person), <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">it feels remote for</s> the necessarity to maintain the grammar consistency between a subject and its state or action feels remote/distant. (Remote sounds okay, 'feels distant' is the usual collocation when you're talking about an abstract concept.)Your paragraph was quite good! It might seem like I provided a lot of corrections, but most of these are just style recommendations. Your English doesn't actually have many mistakes, and it's really more so just a question of stylistic choice: which word sounds better in a certain context? I tried to provide recommendations to make your paragraph sound a little bit more natural. :)If you need anymore corrections, or want speaking or writing practice, feel free to take a lesson with me at: italki.com/missourifrench0 votedApril 14, 20201
- Is it better to live alone or with someone else?The best <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">thing</s> part of living alone <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">at your home</s> is that you are the king of your castle.<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">Your home is your castle and and</s> Your castle <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">has </s>abides by your rules. <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">That’s the way of living </s>This life style/This way of life <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">in which you can </s>allows you to put your feet on the table and eat <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">some</s> chips while sitting on the sofa. <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">while you are </s>You can also drink<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">ing</s> a fresh beer and watch<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">ing</s> a football match on television without <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">an anger </s>stress.Welcome to my kingdom!On the contrary, if you live at home with someone, you should check character compatibility very well to verify that both of you will get on well together and make sure that there will not be any problems <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">at home to solve</s> in the future.<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">A good thing</s> One positive is that you will share the expenses of the house, <s style="color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">in case of</s> if both of you reach an agreement, since you must pay the gas, electricity <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">and other kind of bills</s> etc. It’s therefore less the money at the end of the month <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">that you pay.</s>However, there are some <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">handicaps in </s> detriments to this. <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">That’s why </s>This is because you will have to take charge<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);"> in</s> of several duties , such as doing the laundry, making <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">e the</s> meals, washing the dishes or ironing <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">the </s>clothes, according to the schedule that you have agreed upon <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">or fixed</s> before.Therefore, in my <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">modest</s> opinion I would rather <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">to</s> live alone so I <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">could</s> can avoid that kind of <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">disturbing situations</s> disturbance and hence live in peace with myself. I‘ve made my bed so I will lie in it, and face all the consequences...I hope this correction helps! Let me know if you need any explanations, and if you ever want to take a lesson with me to improve your English feel free to book a trial at italki.com/missourifrench :).0 votedApril 1, 20202
- Should governments spend more money in support of the arts or athletics? (Some questions require inversion in English.)As we know, with the accelerating development of social productivity, arts and athletics have played more and more important roles in society. However, there <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">are some dissensions</s> is some dissent (dissensions is not used like that) in whether the arts ought to receive more funds than athletics like state-sponsored Olympic teams. From my point of view, I <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">agree</s> believe that the government is supposed to spend more money on the arts. (Agree with whom?)Firstly (less colloquial), <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">the growth of</s> <s>(</s>does not collocate) investment in the arts is beneficial to cultural education. Because arts can effectively elevate students' cultural awareness, such as their understanding of the historical context of customs and <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">rituals</s> traditions (rituals is mostly used in religious contexts), their appreciation of ethnic handicrafts and their interests in trans-cultural and trans-generational communication. "Art is the stored honey of the human soul", said Theodore Dreiser. By learning the arts, students can learn of the greatness of humanity and <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">get</s> their mentality <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">world</s> will be enriched. ('Get enriched', does not collocate in English, and 'mental world' sounds a bit off, mentality is a better word here.)In addition, the arts can boost the economy by generating loads of employment. Take the Federal Art Project in the 1930s for example. At that time, the US was in the Great Depression. However, thanks to this project launched by the US government, hundreds of thousands of artists found their jobs and a lot of community art centers were established. This mitigated the employment problem and promote social progress. (Sentence was too long, run-on sentence.) Therefore, <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">to some extent,</s> (weakens your argument) the arts can open up opportunities for certain careers and revitalize the economy.<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">Last but not least</s> Finally ('Last but not least' is too colloquial.), that's not to say the athletics are not essential. Actually, the athletics are important. <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">of significance indeed</s> (Odd wording.) Nevertheless, they are not so appropriate for students' <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">spiritual world</s> cultural education and may hurt students<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">' bodies</s>. (Spiritual world does not make sense, and bodies is implied in the phrase 'hurt students'.) As sports are usually physical exercise,<s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);"> it's known that</s> it is easy to get injured doing some competitive activities like soccer or basketball <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">are easy to get injured, which are not proper for weak boys or girls</s>. (General clean-up. Try to make shorter sentences in the future as you will sound more fluent and your paper will flow better with short correct sentences.)In conclusion, although athletics such as state-sponsored Olympic teams matter, arts <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">are supposed to</s> should (incorrect collocation) be dedicated more money to by governments. Not just because they are conducive (conduce is very archaic, 'to be conducive' in the adjective form is more natural) to cultural education, but also because they <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">behoove</s> benefit (behoove is too informal and archaic) the economy via increasing jobs.I hope these corrections help! You wrote a good paper overall with solid supporting points and mostly accurate grammar. It just took a bit of clean up and some small grammatical corrections but I hope this helped. :)If you need more English help in the future, you can book a lesson with me at <a href="https://www.italki.com/missourifrench?fbclid=IwAR3RQuKq1wwhZJ6QRsKEyAz3uRIJqqE_Cu7u-2PZE-AC92TBjdAch4e5NlM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152);">https://www.italki.com/missourifrench</a>, or you can click on my profile here and book one!0 votedMarch 29, 20203
If you could speak another language, what would you choose?
I definitely would choose English. The reason is English is a common language throughout the world and many people speak English. I am going to go to language school. However, Japanese and English are completely different so It is difficult for us to acquire English. If I could speak English more I could get along with my friends.I want to pick up English and make a lot of friends.
If you or anyone else needs help with English, feel free to book my lessons. :)0 votedMay 28, 20181- (Reference: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/124755/at-vs-in-followed-by-a-city-name) "The choice of in or at with a city depends on how speakers conceive that city in the context of the statement they are making. If the city is conceived as a two-dimensional place in which to live and work, then in is the usual preposition. If, on the other hand, the city is conceived as a single point rather than as a place with dimensions, then at is the common choice. This explains the difference between sentences such as: I live in Frankfurt. / The plane stops at Frankfurt on the way to Seoul. The meeting took place at Potsdam. / There was an explosion in Potsdam yesterday. On this basis, the expressions a hotel at Las Vegas and she was living at London are the idiosyncratic choices of individual speakers. I am not aware of any significant patterns of difference between BE and AE speakers." If you or anyone else wants help with grammar points such as these, feel free to book a trial lesson with me. :)0 votedMarch 16, 20181
A funny but dangerous experience
In my childhood, I was always pushing to play whatever sport possible, all the time but because of this I faced a very unusual event.
More specifically,, my family and I were visiting my grandparents in a little town not so far from Turin and we decided to spend one day on a lovely hill quite close to where they live.
I got bored easily since I wasn't playing with anyone and that's why I pushed my grandfather to play bowls with me since he loved that sport.
We luckily found a bowls ground where we spent the day and so we started playing, but it wasn't too long after we started that I got bored again since he was too good for me.
I suddenly looked up above me and I saw a wire with some flags around it because that was the day of a local festivity and everything was decorated in that way.
I don't know exactly the reason, probably because I loved football, but I decided to hurl the bowl I had in my hand up around the wire and that's actually what I did. But the main problem was that I didn't move from where I was standing so then the bowl fell in front of my head.
After few seconds, a huge bruise was present on my head just above my eyes and both my parents and grandparents were quite shocked and worried.
Fortunately, after 4 days and a lot of ice, the bruise disappeared from my head, making this event a funny one.
Since then I have learned to not hit any bowl with my head again.
Notes:
Very good! You're clearly an advanced student. I would say the main area you need to work on is learning when to use formal versus familiar vocabulary. For example, one does not regularly say 'therefore' when telling stories such as this, as the word is only really used on the news, in academic papers, etc. Other than that I would also learn which verbs go with which prepositions and be careful with synonyms. (One only kicks with one's feet, not with one's head!)
If you or anyone else needs help in English, feel free to book a trial lesson with me. :)0 votedMarch 15, 20180
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