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My name is Bryam and I'm from Colombia. I'm 27 years old and I graduated in Economics. I like reading (short stories, novels, poems, articles) and I try to write once in a while some poems and short stories too. I like movies, and history as well. I want to improve my English skills so if you want to help me I would offer you my help with Spanish in return. If you are not a native English speaker and want to practice your English with me, that would be fine too.
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    ¿Por qué quiero vivir sola?

    ¿Por qué quiero vivir sola? Esta es mi razón: necesito privacidad.

    Amo a mi familia, pero necesito privacidad a veces. Quiero vivir en una casa pequeña en otra ciudad, tal vez en Nueva York. Así que <s>puedo</s> podría concentrarme <s>con</s> en mi universidad, <s>porqué</s> porque necesito <s>aprender</s> estudiar mucho cada noche para los exámenes. También necesito concentrarme en <s>con</s> mi profesión, soy <s>como una </s>profesora. He estado viviendo con mis padres durante veintidós años. Sé que es aburrido vivir sola, pero <s>puedo</s> podría invitar a mis amigos <s>a venir</s>, <s>puedo</s> hablar con mis amigos y mi familia por internet, o <s>puedo,</s> incluso, mirar <s>las</s> películas en línea. Pienso que es buena idea vivir sola en este caso. Soy una adulta ahora y necesito ser una mujer independiente.

    La traducción:
    Why do I want to live alone? This is my reason: I need privacy.

    I love my family, but I need privacy sometimes. I want to live in a small house in another city, maybe in New York. So I can focus on my university because I need to learn a lot every night for the exams. I also need to focus on my profession as a teacher. I have been living with my parents for twenty-two years. I know it is boring to live alone, but I can invite my friends to come, I can talk to my friends and family online, or I can watch movies online. I think it is a good idea to live alone in this case. I am an adult now and I need to be an independent woman.


    Hola.

    Se nota que ya has estudiado español.

    Aunquel "puedo" indica una posibilidad, para este texto específico, suena más natural decir "podría". En inglés, si mal no estoy, en casos como estos, es preferible usar "may" en lugar de "can".
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    March 23, 2020
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    Hi

    I have been very bussy days, actually..

    I feel fortunate because I can do my job at home.

    However, now I have some free time to spend reading more (I'm currently reading Moby Dick) and working, at last, on my own novel. And the plan is to improve my English skills too.

    We'll see.
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    March 22, 2020
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    About a dream I dreamt last week that there were a little girl who I thought (in the middle of the dream) was my sister but who wasn`t, my only sibbling is a man and he is two years and a half younger than me. Back to the dream: there we were, my brother, this little girl who wasn't my sister and me. At some point, the little girl just dissapeard. I get worried and told my brother that we should find her. So we looked for the little girl but we coulndn't find anybody. It was night and dark, and the streets were empty pretty much like they are know because of this virus problem. I know what this dream meant. It was about a girl -like this amazing Nirvana`s song- who isn't that little but who was really close to me. But that's another story. Thanks in advance for your help.
    March 22, 2020
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    Si <s>gana</s> ganara mucho dinero...

    Si <s>gana</s> ganara mucho dinero, <s>pagaré</s> pagarìa todos de mis préstamos. Después, <s>compartiré</s> compartirìa el dinero con mi familia pero no lo <s>compartiré</s> compartiría todo <s>de habrá dejado </s>(no entiendo lo que quieres decir aquì). Yo quiero empezar un negocio. Lo <s>dispondrá</s> dispondría para adquirir algún <s>un</s> servicio financiero. Finalmente, <s>invertiré</s> invertiría mi dinero en comprar (?) tierra.

    Pero, no sé de dónde obtendré tanto <s>ganaré </s>dinero. Si comprara un boleto de lotería, tal vez yo ganaría dinero. Pienso que no ganaré dinero de una lotería <s>de carreras</s> (¿qué es una loteria de carreras?). No quiero ser una billonaria pero me gustaría tener un millón dólares.


    Hola.

    Otra forma de haber escrito tu entrada habría sido usando el "cuando". Es decir, en lugar de decir "si ganara mucho dinero" podrías haber puesto "cuando gane mucho dinero". Aunque creo que el sentido general de tu texto se ajusta mejor al condicional ("si ganara...").

    Éxitos.
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    March 22, 2020
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    “grinding up” one’s influences, Hello. Reading an interesting article about where the ideas come from, I found that expresion I wrote on the tittle: "grinding up". I looked it up, but the problem is the meaning I found is motheing like "to pulverize", Which I don't think is correct. This is the paragraph: Echoing Einstein’s idea of “combinatory play” and artist Francis Bacon’s notion that original art is the product of finely “grinding up” one’s influences, Le Guin speaks to the combinatorial nature of the creative process: From the context I would say it is something like "to combine", but I don't know.
    February 5, 2017
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    About an outgoing daughter. II Hello again. I leave you the second part of the description I wrote before. Then she left the house, had two chidren. Lina decided to make time to take care of her them. It was not that she wanted to do it, but he thought it was something a good woman had to do. Time passed, and the quiet babys turned into restless boys. Her marriage had not been happy (she felt the distance between her and her husband growing ) however currenly, her husband seems to be different, more abscent, more quiet. Her mother patricia was sick. O
    January 26, 2017
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    Amigos falsos

    Cuando estaba estudiando francés en la universidad mi profesor siempre decía dijo que debíamos de tener cuidado de con los amigos falsos. Y con los amigos falsos no se refirió refería a personas pero sino  a estructuras gramaticales. Hay estructuras gramaticales que pensé que eran lo mismo entre holandés y francés pero que son diferentes. Y nosotros hicimos cometimos muchas faltas con eso.

    Me he dado cuento de que también hay amigos falsos entre el inglés y el español y entre el francés y español. Por ejemplo, antes siempre dije decía 'pensar de' en lugar de 'pensar en' porque en francés es 'Penser de (o à)'. Ahora he empezado a crear una lista con todos los amigos falsos que encuentro.
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    January 26, 2017
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    About an outgoing daughter. I Hello everybody. The last description I wrote didn't get any corrections, I supposed it was pretty large, so I'll split this description into two separate entries. Her name is Lina. Since she was a little girl revealed her strong personality -inheridated from his father. As a young woman, she liked parties, and hanging around with her friends. Because of her character she was always arguing with her father Rodrigo. He was so fond of her that he was constantly worried about her well-being. Lina always loved her family, her shy brother, her calm mother even her strict father. When her brother took the money that Rodrigo was saving away, she was really sad although, much to her surprise, she understand her brother. From that day on, she decided to put a stop to her sort of wild life. She went to a college and graduated with good grades in Administration. Eventually she will get married with a co-worker.
    January 26, 2017
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    That man: Short Story Hello everyone. I wrote another story in English. It was funny to made it. I hope that you enjoy it. That Man There was a shabby man seated on the ground. He just showed up one day, with his many days beard and a pair of dirty dark glasses on. He always put a little pot of clay in the middle of the sidewalk and once he seated, begun to insult people who passed by there. You could hear the sound of his bad words mixing with the clatter of the city. When the man heard the ting made by something hitting the pot, he just said: "Thak you Asshole". One day, heading home, I stop by and asked him: "What are you doing?" "What you think jerk?" Said he. "I don't now. That's why I'ms asking" He smilled. There were no teeth in his mouth. "I'm working, you know, like everybody does." The man was always looking somewhere else. "Are youn blind?" "What you think?" "I think you're blind and dirty and sad." "Yes I'm dirty and blind." he said. " I was always crying like a little girl when I was younger, you know?, and one day there wasn't sight in my eyes" We remained silent for a while It was very cold. The sky was not but a drab sheet with little blue spots scattered in it. "And what about being sad?" I asked him again. He was silent, freeze. I bent down and put a five Dollar bill in the clay, over the pile of small stones and buttons. Thanks for your correction.
    January 25, 2017
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    About a Miserly Father Hello. I will continue writing the character's profiles I told you about last week. Actually I was thinking about it and the word "profile" doesn't fit to what I have done with the mother in a previous notebook entry. I would say is more a brief description than a profile. It is now the turn of the father. The father's name is Rodrigo. He was raised in a middle class family. His father was very strict and his mother was never in home since she spent much time working in a hairdressing. Rodrigo just like his parents, was very religous and conservative. While he didn't love his parents so much he did knew that he had to do it because of the fourth commandment, and his believening in a christian god. He worked in a delivery office, where at first he had to hand out some packages and letters and things like that. He got married with a religious woman (Patricia, the conservative mother). Some months later she gave birth to a girl. The second child -a boy- would come in four years. There were many times during his childhood and youth when Rodrigo thought to himself that he was going to be an affectionate father however both his overwhelming working pace and his concern about family made him forget this porpuse and as time went by, he found himself being as strict as his father was. Although Rodrigo had a respectable income, he was reluctant to waste it, even putting it into bank account. He decided to save the money in the house, inside a deposit box in his bendroom. One day, his young son (tired of his father's stinginess) took all the money away and went on a trip alone. The story I want to write begins when Patricia dies. Rodrigo realize that he didn't spent enough time and money with his family and feel regret about that. What he wants now is to have another chance, to step back in time. Thanks for your help.
    January 25, 2017
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