1. You look tired. Correct 2. You look like an angel IN this frock. 3. You look the same as you did in school. Correct. 4.You look the same as you did in university. Correct 5.You look the same as you did when you were working for Microsoft. Correct!

1. What time is it in daylight savings? What time is it in standard time? What time is it in New York? What time is it in Eastern Standard Time? 2. "The failing economy has people struggling to try to make ends meet." and "You got my cell phone all sticky with your dirty hands" 3. "I am sorry for taking so long to send the photos to you. Zi only got a hold of your email address today."

The month of Ramadan

This is the first day of the quarter of Ramadan. It's a special month for Muslims. They celebrate it with their families , friends and neighbors who are Muslims or non-Muslims .
In Egypt, Muslims decorate streets and their homes with lanterns, make open junkets to feed people for free, and make special desserts.
Muslims fast in Ramadan from dawn until sunset. They don't eat or drink in this period. Ramadan teaches Muslims a lot of lessons, like forgiveness. Muslims learn in it that you mustn't hurt any body, even if he tries to hurt you. Also, you must remember that you are fasting. Muslims learn that if you want to get forgiveness from Allah, you must forgive people. Islam teaches Muslims that the true power is in forgiving people .
Muslims love Ramadan.

Beautiful writing, Mai! Ramadan Mubarak!

My small blog intro

Hi everybody! My name is Kostya and this is an introduction to my first attempt to share my internal world with others using a non-native language. I'm going to write something like a series of blogs. Through these blogs, I'm going to show my viewpoints about topics I face with in my daily life, describe features of the life of a Russian student, or just share my opinion related to events that happened in the world. I'd be happy if some of my viewpoints or facts that will be described occur to be are  interesting for you. Obviously, I will be pleased with any advice given because my main purpose is to become  more familiar with the culture of English speaking people.

So, who am I? As I mentioned above, my name is Kostya, and my hometown is Kharkov, Ukraine. I'm a 20 years old at the moment and I study physics and computer science at The Moscow Institute of Physics and High Technology. Besides studying, I work in an IT company dealing with backups & cloud computing software, so if you're interested in modern IT technologies, you"re welcome to write me, I hope we'll find something interesting to discuss!

To begin with, I'd like to explain the situation of  English in Ukraine and Russia and the reason why I'm writing this one.
I have been learning English since my middle school, although I actually realized the importance of English skills in only the last two years only. The bulk of local citizens here are almost totally unfamiliar with foreign languages and are unable to communicate with people who doesn't speak Russian, even though they have a small basis of English vocabulary. It's normal though, because you don't have a need to use foreign languages in your daily life. On the other hand, you're immersed in English any single time when you're using the Internet, or play Dota in Steam, but you don't realize it.

Everything changes when you face with a science or any related discipline. You will get a It will be a real pain in your butt if you try to find a manual with the most recent software or try to look up a proof of some theorem related to modern graph theory. In other words, if you're a geek, you can't get by without a knowledge of English.

The thing is that when you already feel confident to read technological texts, you are still unable to fluently communicate with native speakers. Your language still sounds weird and phrasal verbs confuse you . I hope that I will change improve it by speaking with you guys and that you can help me to get more familiar with your world.

Nice job! Don't forget your articles and check that they are the correct article for that noun. Keep writing!

thesis

Although traditional security concerns regarding North Korea still dominate negotiations at diplomatic level, non-traditional security challenges have started to draw public attention since the mid-1990s, when the so-called “Arduous March” was at its peak.

Is this gramatically correct? "Although ...dominate (present tense) ... have started (past present perfect)..."

Hi Hyuk,

Yes, your thesis is grammatically correct. Your first verb is talking about the present (present tense), then you reference a time period that is from the past until now (present perfect), and then talk about a time in the past (past tense). Nice work!