Gabriel Peraza
Spanish
Sep 3, 2020
You are a great student Derek. However, being intolerant and insulting people will get you nowhere. It was truly a pleasure to work with you. Good luck on your trip to Mexico.
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Hey I'm Dr. Derek Austin from Richmond, Virginia, USA.
I'm a physical therapist, strength coach, and board-certified massage therapist, though I currently work as a professional blogger and freelance web developer.
I also enjoy working as an extra on TV or as a DJ when I can!
I think variety is the spice of life, and I'm currently improving my Spanish in preparation for a move to Puerto Morelos, Q. Roo, Mexico this fall.
I'd love to help you with your English, because I'm studying for my TEFL English teacher certification. I'm looking forward to meeting you!
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- I have two schools of thought here1) "Passive" vocabulary learning works great, but requires a lot of time (learning a word from context by seeing it repeatedly in, say TV). This is why I have a very large vocabulary in English (thanks RPGs!)2) Flashcards suck unless you used a spaced-repetition software (SRS). I'd recommend Anki / AnkiWeb with a deck of purely vocab words (no sentences) like 10,000 most common words. Yeah, you have to do a lot of "revisions" but this is only the first few timesSee this image https://i.stack.imgur.com/HsDd0.pngfrom this article https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/b0dhc6/is_anki_made_for_learning_or_memorizing/Or this image https://miro.medium.com/max/834/0*J9Or0WsIYLswkqg_.pngOr this oneAfter you remember something three times, you only have to review it once a month, then once every few months, then twice a year, then once a year.And reviewing a card (Yes-No I remember or 1-2-3-4-5 for how well you remember) takes a minimal amount of time, like 5s per card.When I decide to make another big push to improve my Spanish, I'll be using Anki again -- but just for pure cramming of vocabulary. Because you can easily learn 30 new words a day in 30 minutes including review (so 1000 words in a month, or 10,000 words in a year).0 votedApril 21, 20200
- <em>Hi Agatasuma! Great job with this. You did an excellent job with your capitalization especially. I tried my best to make it sound more natural, but you communicated everything you wanted to say </em><em>very well!</em><em> Kudos :)</em>change* <s>on</s> in the office due to coronavirus impact (the impact of coronavirus is more natural)*[Assessing the change, Reporting on the change, or discussing the change... in the office due to the impact of coronavirus]I have been staying in the United States for five years, and I have <s>seen only on hospital who people wear a masks</s>. --> I have only seen people who wear masks in the hospital or I have only seen people in the hospital wearing masksBut this coronavirus problem occurred then we have to wear <s>a</s> masks (we have to wear masks or we have to wear a mask) when we enter to the office.Also the <s>exclusive</s> staff sterilizes <s>it</s> going around <s>into</s> the office every two hours.--> Also the hospitality staff sterilizes the office frequently (by) going around it every two hours.We try to keep social distance <s>on the place</s> in places <s>where the people</s> such as the meeting room to avoid crowds. (<em> You can't avoid crowd, you can only avoid crowds [plural] :-) ).</em>--> We try to maintain social distance in the office by avoiding crowds, such as by spacing ourselves out in the meeting room.But we could confirm infect<s>or</s>ion of three people who didn't come <s>here</s> into work.--> But we could confirm that three people who didn't come into the office (or come to work) were infected.I hope it will return to normal<s>ly</s> <s>early</s> quickly (or soon), but the infection risk will increase if all employees <s>will be</s> came (or come, or were to come) back.--> I hope it will return to being normal soon, but the risk of infection will increase when all the employees come back.--> or: I hope it will return to normality, or I hope it will return to normalcy soon (or to normal, or to being normal, but not to normally)私はアメリカに来て５年経ちますが、今までアメリカ人はマスクをつけているのは病院でしか見ませんでした。しかし、今回のコロナ問題の発生で、会社に入る時はマスク着用がルール化されました。また、社内の消毒も２時間おきに専門のスタッフがいたるところを消毒して回っています。会議室や食堂など人が集まる場所も密集を避ける様にソーシャルディスタンスを確保しています。しかし、会社へ出社していない従業員で３名ほど感染が確認されています。早く正常に戻って欲しいですが、従業員が一気に出社すると感染リスクが高くなると思います。0 votedApril 14, 20200
- Do these sentence sound natural?Hey guys.. yesterday I was talking to some friends on Discord to practice speaking skills and I decided to write down every sentence I said, and I was in doubt if they would sound natural (I mean if a native speaker would express the idea like that). So here they are... and I'd like you guys comment below how you'd express these ideas.PS.: If I made any mistake in this little intro, feel free to correct me as well haha=================================================================Yeah... I was playing (the guitar) while you were out (he had left to go to the bathroom)--> Yeah... I was playing guitar while you were in the bathroom--> "playing" by itself is something a native speaker would never say and make it sounds like you were "playing around" (joking) or "playing with yourself" (masturbating)--> "while you were out" implies the person was out of the houseThe three people room is available right now... we should move there (there were a room/server with 3 vacancies)--> The three people room is available right now... we should move there (there was a room/server with 3 vacancies)--> "three person" room sounds more natural than "three people" room but I would never correct you if you were my friendEveryone was concerned about the possibility of it happening, while watching [or while we watched, or while we were watching] the movie, I mean ... but in the end the movie went <s>through another path</s> [went another way] or [took a different turn] and everyone kinda felt relieved. Because if that had happened I think they'd have simply screwed up the whole story.That was a heavy movie... I mean, with a very deep emotional load.--> "load" makes me think of jizz; "emotional load" means something closer to "I have a heavy emotional load at home with my husband working long hours" -- you could say "It had a heavy emotional load" and not make its sound like jizz--> "it was just really [or very] heavy" or "it was heavy emotionally" would sound natural--> Or to convey your exact sense idiomatically: "That was a heavy movie...it was an emotional rollercoaster!"Oh really... the movie was released this year?--> correcthe is kinda in the middle. He is not the hero, but not the villian as well--> tricky word to spell, eh?Have u ever tried to say smth bad about the doctor <s>who for him</s> to see what happens?? (haha he has a friend who only talk about dr. who... he definitely loves it)--> I hate abbreviations (yes, even with my gaming buddies) but understand why you would use them. smth is a terrible abbreviation, and u is a bad habit (you doesn't take long to type).They were too bored.. so they were kinda inventing stuff<s>s</s> to do. No matter what it was, they just wanted to move out of <s>borednesss</s> boredom--> or they just wanted to move out because they were boredThey say it's kinda confusing watching this tv show, cause it has so many timelines--> correct, though I would either write out because or abbreviate it cus (internet slang), or 'cause (colloquial)--> cool, what show? I find Altered Carbon confusing because of too many body switches. In fairness I watch it in Spanish, so I miss things sometimes.hmm the first song I <s>'ve</s> ever learn<s>t</s>ed.... I'm not sure if I remember even what song it was haha --> he's asked me if I still know how to play the first song <s>I've ever learnt</s> I ever learned and I answered it that way <s>above</s>, but I'd like to know a way of answering it in order to <s>pass</s> convey (or give) the following idea: I can't remember even which song was it, so the chances of still knowing how to play it would be even less<s>er</s>.--> Your second sentence correctly conveys the meaning that you want to convey.<s>Is that a big tv show?</s> I mean are there long episodes with many episodes <s>by seasons</s> each season (or in each season).--> How many episodes does that tv show have? Does it have a lot of seasons? Are the episodes long?--> Sorry, sometimes you gotta ask more questions, because English adjectives (big) aren't terribly versatile, and all English sentences need that repetitive subject-verb agreement stuff.I couldn't understand you because your voice was failing (The audio was turning on and off quickl<s>i</s>y)--> because you were breaking up, because I couldn't understand your voice, because of a bad connection, I can hear you now.Is that song by Radiohead <s>or not</s>? (I wanted to know if that song was <s>made</s> performed, written, (or just no verb at all) by this band) --> I wanted to know if that song was by the band Radiohead.--> You would only say "or not" if you're making a "not joke" or if you suddenly are attacked by doubt, as in "Is that song by Radiohead, wait... maybe not? Who's it by again?"Whoa... so long! and how was that? I mean, you first went there for work/study and ended up staying?--> correct, nice jobThank you so much guys for your help and corrections!--> You're welcome. What game were you playing on Discord? :-)0 votedApril 14, 20204
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