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Hello! Bonjour! 你好！ I am fluent in English and French. I am hoping to become fluent in Mandarin (by 2050 or sooner if my brain cooperates!). I started learning Mandarin when I joined Italki in 2016, so right now I am probably at the level of a 3-year old child, but growing fast... You want to talk? Great!... If we get along, I would like to talk on a regular basis. A bit about me: I am a Civil Engineer by trade and a lifelong student in arts, music, history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, foreign cultures and almost everything else under the sun. I dislike tapeworms so we won't talk about them... ;-) Did I mention that traveling is a passion? Talking to you would be the cheapest way for me to travel until I decide where to go next! You live in Montreal, Canada (Summer 2018) or Jinhua, China (starting September 2018) and can speak Chinese? If you are willing, I would loooove to share a meal at a restaurant from one of these countries and talk about food, spices, or the weather (if we have to)... I have some food allergies and having a speaking partner able to communicate with the waiter is a priceless asset in a foreign restaurant! Skype audio is great as we can talk and type, but not so great when the Internet is slow. Otherwise, I have WeChat, WhatsApp and a fax machine somewhere in a box... ___________________________________________________________________________ Bonjour! Tu veux parler en français et tu parles bien le Mandarin? On pourra peut-être s'entendre alors, cependant je cherche des partenaires linguistiques réguliers.
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    Le Tour de L'île de Montréal

    Hier, le tour de l'île de Montréal s'est passé dans des artères routières. Les gens qui ont participé à cet événement n'avaient pas à se soucier de la circulation automobile, qui celle-ci avait été détournée vers d'autres ligne rues. Alors, Des parents accompagnaient leurs enfants en faisant du vélo en sécurité. À mon avis, c'est un événement très signifiant important. L'exercice et l'air frais sont excellents pour la santé. En plus, il faut permet de rencontrer des gens qui ont le même goût de faire du vélo. Ensuite, s'il y a beaucoup de gens qui utilisent leur vélo comme mode de transport, il cela pourrait réduire la congestion [automobile] et protéger l'environnement.

    Note: Bonjour Dan Li, en jaune j'ai indiqué les mots corrigés, et en gras les mots que j'ai ajoutés.  J'ai essayé de ne pas trop modifier tes phrases, juste assez pour corriger les erreurs.  Bon travail!  

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    June 6, 2018
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    Bonjour Mélissa, félicitation pour avoir réussi l'examen delfb2. J'aide une amie chinoise qui habite à Montréal à passer ce niveau et ce n'est pas facile! Si tu cherches toujours un partenaire linguistique je veux bien collaborer avec toi. Laisse-moi savoir！ 再见
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    December 31, 2017
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    Bonjour yuan, tu as bien raison! Cette phrase n'est pas correcte car la rivière traverse bien la ville qui se situe de chaque côté de la rivière. Peut-être qu'il y a longtemps la ville a débuté sur la rive droite (côté droit en regardant vers l'aval) mais ce n'est certainement plus le cas!
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    December 30, 2017
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    Je suis d'accord avec Shunxia et Phil.

    I use both Memrise and AnkiDroid on my cellphone everyday on the bus. If you do not like one "deck" you can easily find another one with different words or sentences. I use to learn new vocabulary, but also to retain the vocabulary learned!  This is where, in my opinion,  these two apps become highly valuable.  There are plenty more apps, but I can only recommand what worked for me.  Good research!

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    August 12, 2017
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    Japanese English fixed by yummy German English

    My German friend helped me by polishing my comment on the last entry, but he is not 100% sure about (of?) his corrections for me. So, we will appreciate it if you can help us :)


    I didn't think that Taiwanese Mandarin was a dying language... is it so? [Note: "I didn't think... was..." OR "I don't think.... is..."]
    'is it so' or 'or is it'? or any other ways?

    I took one semester of Chinese and did really poorly on remembering Pinyin at that time.
    'really poorly' or 'really poor'?
    'on remembering' or 'at remembering'? or another preposition recommended here?  [none required]

    Also, I am thinking about visiting Taiwan in the very close  near future but not the mainland China.
    'thinking to visit' or 'thinking about visiting'?
    'the main land China' or 'main land China'?

    These things made me think 'ok, let's try to learn Taiwanese Mandarin with zhuyin'.
    'let's try to learn Taiwanese' or 'let's try learning Taiwanese'?

    Thank you :) Arigato :) Danke schön :)


    Ryo, You are welcome! Bitte schön! 不客气 ！


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    July 31, 2017
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    Major

    I majored in Media & Communication. I was interested in journalism and broadcasting in high school. I wanted to be a drama PD, so I chose it as my major.
    However, my interests changed while studying. For 4 years, I learned what features each media has, how to use them properly as a journalist and all things related to communication. The study [this major?] covers a wide field like such as  Psychology, IT or and Marketing. In my case, I was fascinated by marketing with new media, so I had many courses about it. For example, Media management and Marketing, Social media and Big data.
    The best class I've had so far is Digital media literacy. In the class, we used Twitter and Facebook and ran a blog. Then we were was requested to present the trend of our blog visitors and the differences we observed between those two SNS we think.
    That class gave me fully understanding of the social media and the features of various social services. Also, it made me choose decide on a career as on online marketing specialist as a career.


    Hi Sunny, I understood what you expressed perfectly, I mostly made adjustments to make it sound better.  

    Thanks to your text I've learned something new today: the existence of Big data. Fascinating!

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    April 29, 2017
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    April 29, 2017
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    Je voudrais poser une question

    Il ne peut que parler un peu le japonzais. C'est correct?  [OK pour parler, par écrit la formule "est-ce correct" est préférable]
    Est-ce que je peux dire parler : Il ne peut que le qu'en parler un peu? merci!

    Note: En parler = parler de quelque chose

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    April 23, 2017
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    I love the seaside

    For me, there are always are 360 days when I want to go to the  seaside to see the ocean. Where I don't live doesn’t near any ocean and it makes me fascinated with them oceans. Last year I went to the Weizhou island in the Guangxi province of China. I really liked it there just because it is an island, you know, an ISLAND! The sunshine, the beach, the bule (??)  water and tropical breeze, they made me feel like in heaven.  Also,  And the seafood wasare so fresh and delicious that I ate at least 1.5 kilo of  shrimps in 2 days. Sweet and yummy~~
    I plan to go to a place near the seaside this year. I have not decided where to go, maybe in China, maybe in Thailand. I want to feel like in heaven again.
    You can’t understand the feeling unless you live in a place without a beach , and where is often cloudy.
    I still love the place where I live, it is my hometown after all.:)


    dolcorn你好.  A generally good text with minor adjustments.  There is only one word where you were a bit more creative (bule?) and I could not understand the meaning. ;)

     I will add a comment: I share your loving for the seaside, and apparently so does most human beings, even those who fear water... Research performed by Wallace Nichols, PhD, author of the book Blue Mind, demonstrated that at a deep level our brains react to the proximity of water.  Here I quote a book review: "Dr. Nichols discuss emotional, behavioral, psychological and physical connections that draw humans to water - oceans, rivers and lakes, and the recent finding in neuroscience that indicates the proximity to water can improve mood, performance, health and success".  In his book Dr. Nichols didn't mention anything about eating 1.5 kilo of delicious shrimps and feeling like being in heaven... maybe his research is incomplete?  hahaha! 

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    April 21, 2017
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    Aller en Corée.
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    April 16, 2017
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