Awarness (spelling)

Today I tried to explain in English to a Polish client the fundamentals of the tax class system in Germany, and the obligations and potential dangers coming with an application for changing his tax class to III. (Divide your clauses up into chunks with punctuation and coordinators/subordinators.)

I struggled to find a word for „Zusammenveranlagung“. Joint statement maybe? I had to take (take it? take it where?) and use it. My time was running short after a 982 word email (the second after about three phone and one face-to-face conversations).
I never noticed how opaque this tax class system is for an outsider who does not accommodate (simplify: try "use") with it during his work life, and (again, divide your clauses) who depends on suggestions and information from co-workers.

To explain the potential pitfalls which only emerge on my awareness (phrasal verb: you "become aware" - which changes the subject nominal from "pitfalls" to "I") I only became aware of while explaining in English, was kind of strange. 
I (put those adverbs as close the verb as possible) normally live with these issues and unconsciously explain these issues normally unconsciously, behave like an amoeba amoebae (Love this description!), not consciously thinking with my cerebral cortex. My conscious mind is at stand-by, operating in anticipation like typing with 10 fingers. Thinking of the next move of the next finger would bring poor results.

Hi Anna.

You've got a really great level of English! It looks like you could use some help splitting up those long sentences into more digestible segments (It's hard to scale down from the complexity of German). I recommend this book for a good overview of clauses and how to separate them: https://goo.gl/L9KoXY  Hope that helps!

:) Misty

Marred Shoes

My shoes were marred by the raining, so I had to buy a new pair.
As I didn’t have money left, I tried to redeem in my neighborhood some tickets grandma left on the table, you know, milk and cereals stuff, but unfortunately they were expired.
How do  did my family end up so poor? ("do" is present; "end up" implies a reference to the past)
Since I’m young I’ve borne I've been born (use past perfect continuous here: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html) with the question, the thing about my poverty.
At school, people laugh at my me (me is a pronoun; my is possessive) short’s gaps, but I didn’t care, cause I was sure that one day I will be somebody. (make all the verbs in this sentence match tense: so either "laughed + didn't care +was sure" OR "laugh + don't care + am sure")
My sole hope was my education.
Even if I didn’t have money to pay the bus fare, grandpa, -- I miss him so much—used to tell me, ‘Hey, niño, be integral have integrity in your convictions. That’s the only thing that, not matters, not your social status, it will make you an august man (this phrase is kind of old-timey and literary in English, but you can use it if you want).
The thing is, grandpa, I don’t want to be a respected man.
I just want to have money to buy a new pair of shoes.

Hi Luis.

You've got a really great level of English! It looks like you could use some help with longer, more complex sentences. I recommend this book for a good overview of clauses (the major separation blocks of English sentences) and how to separate them: https://goo.gl/L9KoXY  Hope that helps!

:) Misty

How I met my girlfriend

Hello, my name is Luis, I am from Ecuador but I lived quite a few years in Spain, I would like to tell you the story of how I met my partner and future mother of my child.
Her name is GA, she is from Ecuador and she lived in Spain in the same small city as I did, we both lived there for many years but we never met each other even though that city is very small, although we had some mutual friends there, we never had the chance of seeing each other.
Anyway, I left the city due life issues, basically because I did not have any job at the time and it was quite tough to find something related what I studied for, so I decided to come to London and ever since things have been changing very well with me.
Here in London I have got a very good friend( he is from Ecuador too and, I met him in Spain), one day in summer he invited me to go out and told me that he was going to meet someone he knew but they had not seen each other for quite along time.
she came to the place where we were and my friend introduced her to me, she and I spent the whole night sitting in that pub talking while my friend was getting fun dancing with some girls , we started hanging out very frequently since that day and eventually we became boyfriend and girlfriend, everything has been happening really good so far and we are waiting for our first baby, the baby should be here in august.
Thank you so much for reading and correcting my writing.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer, author of a very famous book called "Eat, Pray, Love". She faced a depression in the middle of her thirties what leaded her to a journey to find a balance between God and pleasure, making her write this bestseller based on her own life experience. I didn't even finish reading "Eat, Pray, Love" and she's already becoming one of my favorites minds. Watching her speeches, she's clearly a strong, creative, inspiring woman; and 'inspiring' is the word here: she's inspiring me to do things I have never done, making me more confident about writing my own book, for example exemple. Her words are so softy that kinda makes (what "makes" here? Words? Isn't that plural? --> "Her words are so soft that they kinda make") your heart warm, agitated to do something, to wether (Rename the repeated subject and correct syntax: "whether it's to") find your passion in life and go for it or just do some random things.

The Village. Part 2. The real rival competes against you everywhere

It was just usual friday (capitalization, yo!) evening. We all gathered in the pub to discuss the latest events. The storm went on going through the North West Counties League so I wouldn't (were you not able? - couldn't; or refused? wouldn't)  tell you about our case in the championship. We went on to hold the first place in the league table.
"Billy, lately you promised to tell us about the situation, happened between you and Mr.Holmes in the far past.I guess now is the best moment." I said. (in fiction, brevity and imprecision is better to build mystery)
Bill stood up, preparing to tell for ("preparing to" + infinitive minus "to") telling the story. His face was getting gloomy, his gaze looked somewhere a little below the right horizontal direction. We all was beholding (beholding what, exactly? his face? the scene?) as the space was flowing to the past, which appeared somewhere behind (what's behind him, exactly? the atmosphere? the ambiance?)  him as if we saw the old black-white movie.
"Well... It happened about ten years ago. By the result of the draw we played with them in thethird round of The F.A. Cup." He quietly began to tell about the momentsof the professional football.
"Both our clubs played in the same league that days. Right away after the game started he ran to me and told me: "Ice cream!" (The details in the Part 2. Chapter 11.). I got furious and even missed penalty kick in the middle of the second time. We've lost that game. With the score of 3:0.
"Watt, Billy! Why Did he say to you "Ice cream?" Tommy asked.
"Exactly! With the scoffing smile. If you know he was born this around. In Bath Town."
The most sad roar was going around the pub.
"What? That's who stole your bike?"
"Of course. Since that moment the opposition just began. It stretched for long and long years (and years). If you watched for those seasons news you know that we both, I mean me and Harris f...ing Holmes, got off the pitch long before the final whistle. We fought every match and every time we both were sended (sent) off." Billy finished his story.

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