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Hi I'm a 52 year old man living in the US looking for people to speak French with.
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Alex
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Jan 16, 2022
Erik merci pour ta bonne humeur ! C'est toujours un bon moment de parler avec toi ! :)
Alex
French
Nov 19, 2021
Toujours un bon moment ! Merci Erik ! :)
Alex
French
Nov 2, 2021
Une bonne session, comme toujours ! :)
Alex
French
Oct 19, 2021
Super cool ces petits reportages photos ! Merci ! :)
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  • Answered
    It is a prank that kids sometimes do to other kids in school (often to be mean, but sometimes just as a joke) where they grab someone's underpants from behind and pull them up sharply.
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    March 28, 2022
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  • Answered
    You could say "Some experts estimate that A half of the brain's resources are used..." and that would also be correct. (But without the "A" is better.) You could say "I have practiced the 20-minute nap for A half a century" and that would also be correct. (But without the "A" is better.) BUT... you absolutely need the "A" in "One and A half hours." Without it, it is incorrect. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I can explain why it is this way, though. I just know what sounds correct.
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    March 28, 2022
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  • Answered
    Either way works. The way you've written it is actually (in my opinion) the better way.
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    March 28, 2022
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    "Absent-minded" refers to a person who is not paying attention, or to things that such a person might do from time to time. A very common phrase is an "absent-minded professor" someone who is very smart, but who is too absorbed in his or her own thoughts to notice was is going on around them in the real world. "Level-headed" means someone who doesn't get taken over by his or her emotions. And "old dear" is a way of talking about and older person who is very nice and gentle, but perhaps not totally still able to think clearly. It usually is used for a woman, but sometimes it can refer to a man too. He is a pain in the A$$ is a very common way to describe a person who has a prickly personality.
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    February 4, 2022
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  • Answered
    The situation I'm picturing here is that maybe you got some work done on your teeth and you were hoping that would straighten them, but it didn't happen that way. Thus you are saying, "My teeth are still crooked." If that's the case, "My teeth are still messy" isn't quite what you want... Better would be "My teeth are still messed up" which is an informal way of saying they aren't quite right.
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    February 4, 2022
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  • Answered
    It means you need to wait for a signal to start whatever it is that you are doing. A "chime" is a pleasant little bell-like sound. "Wait for the chime to begin your test" means you are not allowed to start the test before the chime sound is made.
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    December 30, 2021
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  • Answered
    They're pretty much perfect sentences and they sound very natural to me. Good job. The only minor thing I'd suggest (and this is really quite nitpicky) is to slightly modify the last sentence: "He's from the opposition party, after all." The "after all" here adds a little extra emphasis to show that the speaker thinks it's obvious why the person in question acted the way that he did.
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    December 28, 2021
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  • Corrected
    When I was little I always wanted to go to the ballpark in my city and watch a live game, but my mom's answer always was no. She said that it wasn't a place for children, because the grownups throw their beer when they get excited, and there was a lot of noise (my mom was over reacting... a little 😂) and I would feel uncomfortable. Now as a grownup I finally got a chance to visit the ballpark, and I really loved it. While watching the game, I explained to my teenager brother all about it because he didn't know anything. My family and I got excited every time we supported our favorite baseball team. We enjoyed it so much, that we are planning to go there again in January when the baseball season returns.
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    December 21, 2021
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    Apprendre les mathématiques est-il encore nécessaire avec les outils informatiques et numériques dont nous disposons ? J’entends ce refrain souvent. J’avais dix ans la première fois, quand les nouvelles calculatrices, finalement assez abordables pour que tous les élèves puissent en avoir une, sont apparues à mon école primaire. Maintenant qu’elles existent, sera-t-il vraiment nécessaire d’apprendre ou d’enseigner les maths ? À quoi sert toute la mémorisation des tables de multiplication ? Une dizaine d’années plus tard, c’était le tour des ordinateurs. Sûrement rendront-ils l’apprentissage de maths complètement inutile ? Les gens qui posent ces questions typiquement peuvent être classifiés en deux groupes. D’abord, ceux qui éprouvent, ouvertement ou clandestinement, une satisfaction à l’idée de ne plus avoir besoin de ce maudit sujet dont ils ont eu tellement peur à l’école. Et puis, il y a ceux qui sont horrifiés que la nouvelle génération d’élèves n'aient pas le même entraînement qu’ils ont eu quand ils étaient élèves. Mais la question en soi révèle un gros malentendu. L’invention d’un outil numérique ne peut jamais remplacer le besoin d’apprendre les maths. Commençons avec une raison triviale; il faut que quelqu’un fasse l’outil. Seulement une personne qui a un apprentissage profond peut créer un tel appareil, n’est-ce pas ? Mais à un niveau plus profond, les maths sont beaucoup plus que les tables d'arithmétique ou les règles d’algèbre. Elles sont juste le début. Elles sont comme les échelles que chaque musicien doit maîtriser avant de créer sa vraie musique. Et la vraie musique de mathématiques requiert le même type de créativité d’un musicien, celui qui appartient uniquement au domaine humain.
    December 21, 2021
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  • Corrected
    Two of the things I get extremely passionate about are education and music. I am not usually one to shy away from a challenge. Be it ancient Greek grammar, advanced history lessons or putting together a play written by Molière, I revel in passing on the beautiful things our diverse cultural heritages have to offer to my 9 and 10 year old students. I have worked with young children long enough to know how to make these things accessible to them. And yet, it was not until two years ago that I started introducing them to classical music. As often is the case, it only took a single sentence to set this new experience in motion. "Listening to classical music in class, will never be a waste of time". Hearing this was the starting point of a beautiful adventure. After groping about the first couple of weeks, I settled on presenting one piece per week that we would listen to every morning while working on simple review exercises. However confident I was as to the outcome of this experiment, I never expected it to be such a success. (Maybe a "resounding success" or an "unqualified success".) My students became enthralled with classical music, each having his or her favorite piece or composer. How endearing it is to my ears when I overhear students comparing the music they received for Christmas or humming their favorite passages... Blessed moments that trump the many ordeals that come with being a teacher...
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    December 20, 2021
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