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a little about me: chinese-american, enjoys watching bad german tv shows. let me know if you got suggestions! happy to help with cantonese+mandarin for beginners. only serious language learners please! ~ 2017 bin ich nach Berlin umgezogen und habe seitdem weniger Fortschritt mit Deutsch gemacht. ich hätte gerne Empfehlungen für Bücher oder Podcasts auf Deutsch, teil mal wenn du irgendwelche Vorschläge hast! ich helfe gerne beim Chinesisch (Mandarin und Kantonesisch). ~ 嗨! 從我開始在柏林生活之後,講中文的機會變得少之又少,所以想找一個中英或中德語言交換。有興趣就直接發信息給我吧!
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    *三十而立 我有時有種感覺,大浪離我越來越近,即刻就要冲上來海邊,把沉係水中嘅我冲走。企係沙灘嘅我望向遠處,咩都見唔到,除咗漁船上嘅小燈籠,未入眼界嘅大浪仲係遠方。 我心目中一直諗緊:別人感受唔到災難來臨的壓力咩? 我每次都只會轉頭返屋企。有人話,眼不見心不煩,但我嘅不安一直留係我腦海嘅深處。
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    unbehaglich Manchmal habe ich das Gefühl, dass eine große Welle mich annähert. Es droht, mich zu tauchen und wegwaschen. Ich stehe am Strand und gucke weit in der Ferne, aber sehe nichts, außer von einiger Fischerboote mit kleiner Laternen. Die Welle ist irgendwo dahinter, noch weit und unsehbar, und ich frage mich, ob die andere auch den bestimmten Druck einer ankommenden Katastrophe auch bemerken, oder ob ich allein darüber ängstige. Auf jeden Fall wende ich mich erst ab und gehe einfach nach Hause. Aus dem Auge, aus dem Sinn, sagen alle, aber immer präsent in der tiefsten Ecke meines Gehirns.
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    Investors feared a sharp decline in US demand in case one of the big automobile producers goes bankrupt.*

        - "in case" sounds a little informal to me, but i can't think of an alternative!

    On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Index declined by 427,47 points or 5,07 percent to 7,997.28 numerators for thirty leading industrial securities. This is the lowest level [seen] since March 2003. The NASDAQ stock market index closed with a minus of 96,85 points and 1,386.42 numerators.

    The strong exchange losses in Japan and in Wall Street also pushed the German stock market sharply into deficit. A few minutes after the opening bell on Thursday, the DAX quoted 2,5 percent less at 4246 points, after it had closed already 4,9 percent less on Wednesday. No DAX figure was among the winners. The stocks of Hypo Real Estate were among the losers, losing thirteen percent.

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    March 9, 2017
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    i am by no means familiar with terminology related to the stock market, so i did my best. i hope someone else will offer another correction! in general, most of my corrections aren't corrections at all, and only suggestions or clarifying remarks. your english is amazing!

    Strong Losses on Stock Markets Worldwide

    The fear of a strong global recession and worries about the US financial sector [have] pushed the Japanese stock market down to minus seven percent.
        - while the sentence functions without the "have", i think using the present perfect helps give your first sentence a bit of extra oomph, because of the implication that something just happened.

    On Thursday, export figures were negatively affected by the strong yen and the fading prospect of a fast rescue of[for] the US automobile giant. The bleak prospects had [previously] sent the US stock markets on a downward trend before and forced them on to an all-time low since March 2003.
        - the before>previously is purely stylistic; "had... before" sounds more colloquial to me, so i feel like previously is a better fit.
        - "The bleak prospects... forced them to an all-time low" is grammatically sound, but i'm not sure about "since March 2003". this seems to imply that the stock markets were forced to an all-time low in March 2003 and have stayed at that low ever since. is my understanding of this sentence correct? 

    In Tokyo, many financial securities belonged to the losers. Traders are very concerned that the stocks of Citygroup in New York had [have] dropped by almost one quarter[25 percent] to the lowest level since[seen in] thirteen years.
        - the phrase "almost one quarter" is a little ambiguous, so i changed it to simply directly say "25 percent".
        - "since 2004" sounds correct to me, but not "since thirteen years". Cambridge dictionary offers this explanation: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/linking-words-and-expressions/since

    “All US-securities[US securities] have quite low quotations – this gives me an extremely bad feeling. I wonder what else will happen,” said Takashi Ushio, head analyst at Marusan Securities.

    The Mitsubishi UJF shares declined by <s>sic</s>six percent, [and] those of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial by more than ten percent. Export figures were also on traders' sales lists. The stocks of the camera producer Canon dropped by a good[?] seven percent and those of chip producer Tokyo Electron dropped by 11.4 percent.
        - in comparison to the rest of your article, "good" here seems too informal. maybe "dropped a significant seven percent" instead?  
        - you probably know, but just in case: the function of commas and decimals in english is the opposite of german. i left the rest of the numbers untouched in case it was just a stylistic choice.

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    String cheese

    Whether you are American or not, you should know something about "string cheese". In the world you can find [There are many] different types of string cheese [in the world], but the string ability process [stringiness typical of this kind of cheese? process of making string cheese?] is an American trademark.
        - "in the world..." this is not technically wrong, but a better way to say this would "there are many" and to move the "in the world" to the end. 
        - i'm not too sure i understand what you mean by string ability process but i gave a copy of suggestions that might fit. 

    The string cheese is made of mozzarella.

    Mozzarella roats [was developed] in Italy [a] long time ago, [and] it is a mixture of milk, culture and rennet.
        - i'm not sure which word you are referring to with "roats".

    After It is a very long and particulary [specific] process, where the cheese curds are heated to melted.When the curds are melted mozzarella is, stretched and rolled into a ball.
        - these two sentences can be combined into one: "..., where the cheese curds are melted, stretched and rolled into a ball." are the curds melted into mozzarella?

    At this point mozzarella has a peel-able quality to it. This particulary [particular] quality (peel-able) is the reason because [why] the string cheese are [is] made with mozzarella.
        - be careful with the words "particularly" and "particular"! these have very different meanings. "particularly" means "especially" (ex: this cheese is particularly peelable!) whereas "particular" means "specific" or when used to describe someone "not easily satisfied".

    Those Cheese sticks made with other cheeses are not string cheese! Remember that....[:] use your finger to peel your [the] string cheese... Don't try to eat [it] without this operation [any other way] or people around you will laugh at you....!
        - "without this operation" isn't grammatically incorrect, but doesn't fit this situation. (ex: She has cancer and will die without this operation.) 
        - a main clause must come after the word "that", so it would be better to use a colon (:) instead. 

    let me know if anything needs explanation! thank you for your explanation for the process of making string cheese, i never knew the type of cheese used was important! you are definitely correct that string cheeses must be pulled apart to be eaten correctly. can't trust anyone who just bites into it...

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    tödliche Geschäfte Der Post wird normalerweise zu meinem Haus geliefert, wenn ich zu Hause komme, deswegen habe ich immer das kleine Vergnügen, mein Vater zu schauen, als er die Briefe sortiert. Heute hat etwas ungewöhnlich passiert -- mein Vater hat den Umschlag geöffnet und dann sofort ihn zerrissen. "Was für eine verdammte Firma ist das!" "Eh, was war das gerade?" "Einäscherung!" Ah, eine Werbung der besonderen Art und anscheinend war sie den dritten Brief, den er bisher bekommt hat. Um andere Dinge zu erledigen, mein Vater ist mit nur ein bisschen Gemurre und Gemurmel weggegangen. Als die neugierige Person, die ich bin, habe ich den Brief von dem Papierkorb zurückgeholt. Auf einem sepiagetönten Papier mit verblühten und krankhaften Rosen (in Allgemeinen hatte das Design nach der Nähe des Todes gestunken) sind die einleitenden Wörter "Die Zeit steht still für niemand" geschrieben worden. Uff. Vom Tod ein Unternehmen zu machen ist keine einfache Aufgabe, deshalb habe ich weitergelesen. Eine kurze Zusammenfassung der Inhalte: die Zeit bewegt sich unbemerkt von uns und wenn man friedlich vom Tod stehen wollte, muss man sich erst um solche Angelegenheit kümmern. Mit diesem letzten Satz kommt der Brief zu schönes Ende: “Wir entschuldigen uns für die Unannehmlichkeiten, wenn dieser Brief Sie zu einer unpassenden Zeit erreicht hat." Sieht’s nicht einfach aus, gute Geschäfte zu machen!
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    1) Dude, it’s me…Cyd. Cyd Pinar from [the] basketball league.

        - it works with or without the "the", but it flows better with it to my ears. 

    2) You are [you] a drag queen?
        - did you have a particular reason why you decided to start with "you" for the question?
        - "you're working as a drag queen?" <-- this sentence conveys a bit more of the incredulous feeling this character feels

    3) A few weeks ago, I lost a bet to a co-worker, [so] I had to show up to work like this.
        - without the "so" the sentence loses the feel of cause and effect.
        - i would also combine the few two parts of the sentence so that it doesn't have the pause implied by the comma and therefore flows better. "I lost a bet to a co-worker a few weeks ago, so..." 

    4) [Then] I had my best sales day ever[. So] I started working in drag, and now I’m selling more mattresses than I ever imagined.
        - adding the "then" helps connect the logical flow of the sentences.
        - i would also combine these two sentences into one: then I had my best sales day ever, so I started working in drag...
        - if you don't like the sound of two so's in a row (from "... so I had to show up..." and "...so I started working in drag"), you could change the conjunction used for the first 'so': "A few weeks ago, I lost a bet to a co-worker, and had to show up to work like this. Then I had my best sales day ever, so I started working in drag..."

    5) You kidding? My salary is based on commission. I keep this up, [and] we are gonna be sending our kids to private school and going to Hawaii for Christmas.
       - sounds weird without the 'and'.
       - 'we are' should be shortened into "we're"

    6) Why would more people buy a mattress from you in drag than in normal clothing?
        - there is absolutely nothing wrong with the sentence, but it sounds clumsy and too long for the rhythm of this character, who has been speaking in really short sentences. maybe you could just get rid of the last part? "why would more people buy a mattress for you in drag?" or reword it completely. example: "what difference does it make, you being in drag?" 

    7) No one trust[s] a mattress salesman.
        - verb-noun agreement

    8) But they [would] trust a drag queen?
        - i would use subjunctive here because the mood of the sentence is speculative. 

    9) But in drag, I’m not [no] longer a 6-foot-tall white guy turning on [the] pressure.Instead, I’m Layanna desheets, [a] fun-loving drag queen who’s on their side. My wife named her.
        - small typo/leaving out the articles problem

    10) 9 out of 10 times, there is a coupe [couple] looking for a new mattress. Most guys defer to the [their] wife or girlfriend. 
        - typo and a change from definite article to possessive.

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    March 1, 2017
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