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Hey there
I'm Viktor, I'm from Chile so my native language is Spanish.
Recently I started reading science fiction and I would like to have an exchange partner to help me read through those books faster.
I would love to help you with your Spanish, I'm not a teacher but I have experience helping English speakers learn Spanish. I can't help you with grammar but I can help you understand books, news articles, podcasts, etc., I can also teach you expressions, idioms, and stuff like that, or we can just have a conversation in Spanish (we can talk about whatever you want); and if there's something you don't understand I can explain it to you in English.
If you're interested hit me up.
Have a great day!
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- I'm going to translate the English portion of your text into Spanish as closely as possible:Hoy fui a una oficina de correos y mandé un paquete porque vendí mi perfume por internet. Los perfumes son objetos peligrosos y deben ser enviados por transporte terrestre. Le dije a la señora en la oficina de correos que tenía un perfume en el paquete. Costó 8 dolares con 40 centavos. Me fui de la oficina con un número de seguimiento.También estoy vendiendo otras cosas por internet tales como bolsas, ropas, y libros. Espero que a la gente le gusten mis productos.0 votedMay 19, 20203
- The use of animals for product safety testing is a standard practice in which industries of all stripes engage. Sometimes the use of animals is inevitable, but there are circumstances where this approach can be cut back on, or, downright, completely avoided.One such case of unavoidable usage is in pharmaceutical settings. Unfortunately, animal testing is a necessary precautionary step to produce a product that safeguards consumers. For a pharmaceutical product to be freely available to consumers it has to undergo several tests that guarantee its safety, these tests are divided into stages. The first stage is the cell culture test, if the product does not affect the cells, then the testing process moves on to stage two, which is animal testing.Concern has been brought about by people who argue that cell culture assays are enough to prove a drug's safety, but, sadly, this is not the case as the results of cell culture assays are not a good enough indicator to correctly infer the effects of the tested drug in the human body, which is a complex system with many singularities.On the other hand, the use of animal testing in the cosmetic industry can be cut back on or completely avoided. Normally when a company creates a new cosmetic it undergoes testing on animals depending on the legislation of the country where it’s being released. Now, imagine the amount of new lipsticks, creams, perfumes and other cosmetic products launched every year and that it is necessary to perform the corresponding in vivo testing for each one of these new products. That’s a lot of animals, isn´t it? Well, it so happens that the comprising ingredients used for these products have already been tested for use in other formulations and so new animal testing for the same ingredients is uncalled for. The EU, for example, banned animal testing regarding cosmetic products and their constituting ingredients sold in EU countries.In conclusion, the use of animal experiments is important in some cases, but when it comes to cosmetics it can be avoided due to the amount of readily available documented research. If all countries shared the same stance as the EU, animal experimentation would greatly decrease and therefore it would be possible to prevent unnecessary animal suffering.0 votedSeptember 11, 20171
- At this moment, I'm re-evaluating my life plan. I'm putting aside some dreams and ideas and reformulating others. It is not easy to accept the restrictions of life. The fact is, there are three disabled people in my family, so I'm unlikely to, someday, fulfill the dream of "travelling for three months across America" or "have the experience of living in another country". Ok, there are a lot of other interesting experiences to live but nevertheless it's a little sad I won't be able to fulfill my life plan in the way I had originally conceived it.I'm not entirely sure what you mean in your last sentence, so I took some liberties here and there to try and interpret around what you wrote.0 votedSeptember 11, 20172
- Help me translate this sentence please Hi I'm trying to translate this sentence, but it's been harder than expected: 暗く打ち寄せる波の下には、血に飢えた神々が目を覚まさんとしていた……。 My try: Surging from the dark waves, bloodthirsty gods were trying to emerge. I think I'm somewhat right, but I don't feel comfortable with this translation, I'm also not sure what "覚まさんとしていた" actually means as it's an entirely new construction for me. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.August 12, 201720
- I don't understand your question well. Are these two different sentences? If these are two different sentences, I'll go ahead and explain the first one only because the second one is not gramatically correct (the noun "friend" is singular but the verb and the subject are in the plural) in any case, my answer applies to both sentences. You could enclose "good friends" in quotes or not and both would be gramatically correct. If you enclose it in quotes it would mean that somebody else refered to those people as your "good friends" and you are sarcastically quoting what they said; if you don't enclose "good friends" in quotes then that just means you are not quoting anything.0 votedMay 24, 20171
- First off, both are gramatically correct. The choice of either one depends solely on context. So for the first one, imagine going to a McDonald's (if McDonald's had noodles on the menu) and ordering a salad, the cashier might ask you "would you like some noodles with that?" this implies there's only one variety of noodles just like "would you like some fries with that?" implies there's only one variety of fries. The same example, but imagine a vast amount of different noodle varieties to choose from, the cashier would ask you "would you like any noodles with that?" pointing to the menu where all the different noodle types are listed, there's a "variety of" implied in that question as in "would you like any (variety of) noodles with that?". Now, in these examples "some" can be used in both, but "any" would be awkward (unnatural) in the first one.0 votedMay 24, 20170
- As Gary said, both sound awkward. BUT, depending on the speaker and the situation some people do use that wording with a pause in between like this "It's illegal [pause] what you are doing." Basically, in the speaker's mind, the thing which he or she is referring to is not clear so they specify it's THAT thing as an afterthought when they've already made the assertion.0 votedMay 24, 20170
- Steven is correct when he says that your attempts are wrong in that they sound unnatural (your second attempt is gramatically incorrect but the first one isn't), but I feel that your question is not so much about finding the most natural way to convey the idea of getting a new phone but that you are rather asking about the inversion of the verb with the subject in questions. When you ask a question, the verb moves to where the subject would be in a statement and vice-versa. When you have a sentence with more than one verb you only move the main verb, not the subsequent ones. Could you tell me at what time the train arrives? -> correct Could you tell me at what time does the train arrive? -> incorrect Do you know if there's a good restaurant somewhere nearby? -> correct Do you know if is there a good restaurant somewhere nearby? -> incorrect So: What is the phone you are going to buy? -> correct What is the phone are you going to buy? -> incorrect0 votedMay 23, 20170
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