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TL;DR - I am a ~30 year old Englishman who is interested in: Languages; Art; Culture; Music; Literature; Languages; Composition (Music); Architecture; Poetry; Travel; Food/Cooking; History; Geography; Mythology; Psychology; Physics; Computer Science... I spend a decent amount of time reading (but not anywhere as much as I would like). Mostly classic literature; poetry and science-fiction but also some science-fact; history; mythology; fantasy and so on, I suppose. I read a lot of poetry too but mostly only German poetry (there is a good reason for that, actually) even though I don't know German at all (yet?)! My favourite book is probably Crime and Punishment? I like to travel and to go to museums (to experience art; history and so on) and to see the architecture and such but I don't get to travel very often, unfortunately. I wish I was better at meeting the people and experiencing the culture though (for I am a shy and awkward introvert). Languages! Swedish seems to have ignited some kind of spark and while I focused on it for more than two years (out of necessity), my situation has changed and so now I'm free to devote more time to exploring other languages. I've been experimenting with French and German mostly, so far, but have also dabbled in 4-5 other languages. I'm trying to get a bit of a feel for each language, before I decide which to actually attempt to learn; as I know full well how difficult that process is. I'm also a "pianist" and I like to compose music, too, sometimes and have studied harmony and theory (not formally). As for my tastes? I'll listen to pretty much anything, from Gregorian Chant to Death Metal and most of the things in between but my favourite genres are Rock; Metal; Electronica and Classical/Romantic. I'm fairly interested in art; culture; history and a bunch of other fields (as mentioned above) but to be honest I don't really know much about most of them - something I aim to change. The exception being computer science.
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  • Commented
    It will help you in some way but if you come to rely on subtitles then it will actively harm you. You will need to teach yourself to stop relying on subtitles, eventually but to begin with it's definitely helpful.
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    August 27, 2017
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    "I am going to" conveys intention, thus means "I plan/intend to" (so like "will"). "I am willing to" means "I am ready/prepared to" but implies the lack of a strong desire to do so. "I want to" is like "I am willing to" but implies a strong desire to do so. I am going to visit him; I intend to visit him; I will visit him. I am willing to help you; I am prepared to help you; I suppose I'll help you; I'd be okay with helping you etc. I want to help you; I'd like/love to help you; It would please me (in some way) to help you etc.
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    August 27, 2017
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    Email to my host family

    Hi, my name is Kellen and I'll be your new guest in September.
    Yesterday, I received the informations about my homestay. I looked up the address on Google and I loved what I saw it.
    I don't want to be an inconvenient inconvenience, but I would like to know the your foot shoe size because I'd love to give you a Brazilian souvenir, if you do not mind: Havaianas sandals. I ask this questions just to not fail in my choose. I'm asking just so that I don't choose incorrectly. :)
    I would also like to know too, what your son likes to play and do, because I would like to take bring him a toy for him.
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    August 27, 2017
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  • Answered
    "I wish I was young again" if you are talking about a current desire to be young.
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    August 27, 2017
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    Xavier var ett barn som visste vad han ville. Från tiden när han var 3 år gammal Vid 3 års ålder upptäckte han sin kallelse: han skulle bli polis och aldrig (varken) ingen eller inget får skulle någonsin få honom att följa med en annan väg eller, inte heller ändra sin uppfattning.

    Inte ens sin pappa som ändå (hade) förklarat för honom att om han skulle följa följer med sin passion för datavetenskap skulle kommer han att få en stor möjlighet att kunna tjäna mer pengar än att arbeta som polis.

    Inte är var det viktig viktigt till för Xavier, som räknar mer med att genomföra sina drömmar än att andra saker.

    I'm not 100% certain about all of this but I'm fairly certain that some more advanced speaker or native will come along and fix anything I screwed up.

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    August 27, 2017
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  • Commented
    Sometimes both articles are missing (but the adjective stays in definite form):

    In certain forms of address:

    - Käre far!
    - Snälla farmor!
    - Lilla vän!

    With some ordinals:

    - Första klass.
    - I andra hand.

    With some superlatives:

    - I sista stund.
    - Med största nöje.

    TL;DR - There are exceptions to the triple definiteness rule - you don't need to memorise all of this, or study it - you will learn the exceptions to the rule with time through reading and listening.
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    August 27, 2017
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    Because the rules of any Grammar do not apply in 100% of cases.

    Sometimes, the noun lacks an end article (but there is a front article and the adjective is in definite form):

    - Genitive e.g. hans nya bil.
    - Possessive e.g. min vacrka flickvän.
    - Demonstrative (when using denna/detta/dessa) e.g. dessa vackra träd.
    - When using samma e.g. samma stund.
    - When using nästa e.g. den nästa gång.
    - Also when using följande and föregående.

    Sometimes, the front article is missing (but the adjective and noun stay in definite form):

    This happens with the words själva and hela:

    - I själva verket.
    - Hela tiden.

    This can also happen when expressions become familiar:

    - Vita huset.
    - Svenska folket.

    As well as in certain fixed expressions:

    - Gamla stan.

    It also happens with nationalities, locations, compass points, ordinal numbers, ...:

    - På högra sidan (location).
    - Norra ishavet (compass points).
    - Tredje våningen; Första gången (ordinals).
    - Största delen (certain adjectives in superlative).
    - Gula febern; Röda korset (colours).

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    August 27, 2017
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    Self introduction

    I'm a student of Waseda University in Tokyo. I am majoring on in architecture and I'm interested in structure [1] division. I once had an interest of in only just [2] designing buildings forms before, but recently I've been gotten [3] into designing forms in terms of structure [4]. I think (that) designing structures is so cool and it's also very important in Japan. So, I try to study on it so hard as hard as I can and I'll I hope to make safety and cool, safe buildings in the future.

    1. I'm not sure if this should maybe be "structural division"? Or perhaps "the division of structures" or "the way that structures are divided"? I don't know the terminology of the field, so then I'm not even really sure what you're trying to convey - sorry!

    2. I think that "only" is maybe okay here but I feel that "just" works better in this case, for some reason...

    3. "Been into", to me, implies that you were into it but now you're not much like "was into".

    4. I don't fully understand this part.

    Only other thing I'll say is perhaps try to use "so" less and make more use of "very"; "really"; "extremely" and friends!

    Hope that was at least somewhat helpful. D:

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    August 25, 2017
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    EXPLANATIONS

    1. If thing A contains/includes thing B then thing A is made of or from thing B. If thing A is created/manufactured/produced etc. by thing/person B then thing A is made by thing B.

    2. Because these are instructions for a recipe, you need to use the imperative tense.

    3. Tribute is not a verb in English, only a noun thus you need to use the construct "to pay/give tribute"!

    4. I was struggling to fix this so I decided simply to restructure it. Is the meaning intact?

    5. I had a lot of difficulties trying to understand what exactly you were trying to say here and I had to give up.


    Feel free to ask for clarification on anything that seems strange or incorrect etc.  Your English is really good, though!

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    August 25, 2017
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    CORRECTIONS

    Cool Bean Dessert Made by from Peas

    Have you ever eaten a kind of cool bean dessert made by of [1] peas, in Summer? My mother always makes <me; us> some peacakes in when it's Summer as it's a really a good snack for Summer-time refreshingment!

    Here are some basic instructions on how to make it:

    Peas (Chinese called wandou in Chinese) is are the main material ingredient.

    First, soaking [2] the peas in water for one day in order to remove their skins.

    Second (it (and) this is the most important step) boiling [2] the peas until they are become mushy. Of course, you need to contral the boiling time to make sure you can make the figures what you want [5] <struggling to translate>. Crystal sugar is the another necessary ingredient needed to make a successful peacake too.

    It was is said that the peacakes were tributed <paid; given> as tribute [3] to the royal palace in during the Qing Dynasty, so which meant that many civilians couldn't afford them such tributs. But eventually the home make Eventually, however, peacakes were became more popular with the advantages in [5] <struggling to translate> price, taste and making preparation stytles, thus nowadays more and more people can enjoy this kind of snack in the Summer. The main reason that I love the this snack is beacuse of it's keeping the food's original nature because the recipe stays true to the original [4]. You too can try to make one, if you're a true foodie!
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    August 25, 2017
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