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From the USA but now I live in London. I'm learning Italian on my own because I love the language. I'm a software developer, I love board games, and I like to cook!
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Jul 19, 2020
Je bent een heel gemotiveerde student dus dat zal zeker in je voordeel zijn terwijl je Nederlands studeert. Voor nu is het belangrijk om de tijd te nemen en je wat te verdiepen in de beginselen van de Nederlandse taal. Eens je jezelf hierdoor haalt is er nog veel meer te doen, maar heb je al een goede basis. Veel succes met je studie en tot de volgende!
Raffaele
Italian
Apr 8, 2020
Complimenti Peter! Spero di rivederti presto, è stato un piacere :D
Michele the Euroglot
Italian
Feb 17, 2020
Ottima lezione! Abbiamo parlato e letto un testo sul passato prossimo. Bravo, Peter!
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  • Commented
    Completely agree.
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    September 25, 2020
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    I hate the fact that I can no longer use my computer for community. You’re forcing me onto a tiny keyboard and that’s ruining my use of notebooks. Is there a way to use the new community on a real computer?
    September 25, 2020
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  • Corrected
    colloquial speech

    When all this started, I thought I <s>couldn't</s> wouldn't be able to stand staying at home in isolation for too much time....and, frankly, I <s>still do</s> can't. I'm starting to miss so many things and I <s>even </s>can't bear the idea of not doing many things for a long time still. <s>Moreover, </s>I'm not the kind of person who thinks I have to take advantage <s>from </s>of some free time. I mean, I used to follow different interests/tasks in my daily routine, so I don't <s>sense </s>feel that I have (neither "need") to dedicate myself to something I <s>usually </s>don't usually dedicate myself to. I'm just carrying out all my duties and interests at a calmer pace, as I used to conduct my daily life in a quite frantic way.

    Brava! It's very well written and easily understandable. I would use the conditional ("wouldn't be able to" rather than just "couldn't" ) after 'I thought'. And we use 'feel' more than 'sense' when talking about ourselves (eg, I feel sad, I feel obliged to do something, I felt it was necessary, I feel that you're not telling me everything, etc.)

    Well done!
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    March 28, 2020
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  • Posted
    Una piccola descrizione di un piccolo personaggio Ciao a tutti! Sono un giocatoro in un gioco di ruolo online: devo scrivere un descrizione del mio personaggio. È molto semplice: "Vedi un piccolo nano ... piccolo anche per un nano. Parla male, con straniero accento ... ovviamente, sta ancora imparando la lingua locale." Questo é scritto correttamente? (Grazie per il tuo aiuto!)
    March 28, 2020
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    Una giornata stressante Ciaò a tutti! Come sempre, apprezzerò tutte le correzioni! Oggi, vorrei scrivere della mia giornata and chiedo scusa se ti fa addormentare. Sono un ingenere programmatore; lavoro per una borsa (un mercato azionario?) a London. Oggi il nostro regolatore finanzario non è stato in grado di fornirci le informazioni che era obbligato a darci oggi. Senza queste informazioni, è impossible - assolutamente impossible - per noi a fare le cose che siamo obbligati da (per?) legge a fare vendredì. Allora, nella maggior parte della mattina abbiamo passato a parlare di cosa fare. Non era un situazione inaspettato (il nostro regolatore è sempre in ritardo) ma era davvero difficile a capire la cosa giusta da fare. Poi, durante il pomeriggio ho dovuto scrivere la programma a fare le cose che abbiamo deciso a fare nella mattinata. Era un molto stressante pomeriggio, sfortunamente. E ora, sono molto stanco... :) Come sempre, grazie per il tuo aiuto!
    January 10, 2018
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  • Corrected

    Some corrections and notes below:

    A fake silly short story from Anki App failed cards.

    It was one of the muggiest days of summer, I was sitting at the border edge of the swimming pool, cooling my feet in the shallow end trying to brighten up my day. Gnats were flying all around me like soldiers going to strike a beleaguered castle  laying seige to a castle. Gutted, this is the perfect word to describe my mood.
    "Paolo, come on, my father is waiting, he wants you to look a contract over before signing stamping his sign on it", Monica called to me from the bathroom. She is my girlfriend and her parents are well off; working even on weekends is part of the price of having a lot of quid.
    I have had been trying to put off this moment, anyway, but now I put aside my lazyness and quickly stood up to get a quick shower, wear put on a suit dress, and voilá, ready to go. Gloria bring me forward told me to dress down, "Don't put on a suit, my father only needs some help, he is no gonna give** you a job", "Sugar! Well, I hope working few hours on a sunny day in the summer in order to advance the relationship with my future father in law is worth it".
    Dont' To be continued...

    Thanks in advance to lose your time for taking the time to check my writing text.
    If you think that this little story makes has no sense...you are right!
    If you want to improve your italian or spanish, feel free to contact me to start a language interchange, I wanna learn english.
    Have a nice day.

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    Really well written! I enjoyed reading it.  Bravo!  I made just a few corrections (we use 'edge' for swimming pools rather than 'border';  I added a few bits of punctuation around quotations; I think you mean "suit" rather than "dress")

    The only part I was unsure about:  "He is no gonna give you a job" is a kind of English used in the southern United States  but sounds uneducated/really informal.  It's probably better to say "He is not going to give you a job" if you're trying to speak proper English but I wasn't sure if you were trying to make Gloria sound like someone who isn't educated. 

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    January 10, 2018
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  • Corrected

    8 uses of "time"

    A LONG TIME AGO I signed up for Facebook. Initially, I thought it was a TIME-CONSUMING social network, but I changed my mind IN NO TIME QUICKLY*.
    Facebook was useful for chatting with my friends and for finding job offers.
    I used it TIME AFTER TIME ALL THE TIME** and I didn't realize that it was not a good a bad habit. AS TIME WENT BY I dedicated myself only found myself always on the Internet. So AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER*** I decided to take a break and to spend my free time with my family and my friends. It was a great decision and I felt good.
    But it was ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: a few days later I started up Facebook again.
    However, now I'm not so FB addicted as I was. I still use it that social AT TIMES**** and only if I did have done all my tasks.

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    Well done.  I made a few changes and have tried to explain them:

    * "Quickly" is really what should be used (sounds best in English) but if you have to use a phrase with TIME in it, I think it should be "IN NO TIME AT ALL".  "IN NO TIME" is understandable but sounds a little awkward

    ** I would use ALL THE TIME for this.  "ALL THE TIME" is used for general actions that are repeated;  "TIME AFTER TIME" is used for specific actions that are repeated.  So it's "I read all the time"  -  but "I read 'War and Peace' time after time before I understood it" because it's reading a specific book.

    *** "AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER" suggests that you don't know when something happened; in this case, you know when you stopped using Facebook so it's "ONE TIME" or even "A FEW TIMES".

    **** I added this just to give another phrase you could use. :)



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    January 10, 2018
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    Come domandare del finesettimana scorsa? Un po 'di scrittura. Sto cercando di capire come chiedere degli eventi passati... Quando vedendo Tom al ufficio lunedi: "Ciao, Tom! Com'è andato il finesettimana? Hai fatto qualcosa di divertente?" Quando vedendo Tom dopo le vacanze: "Ciao, Tom. Ben tornato! Come sono andate le tue vacanze? Dove sei andato? E il tempo, come ha fatto?" (In inglese, voglio dire: Hi, Tom, Welcome back. How was your holiday? Where did you go? How was the weather?) Come sempre, apprezzerò molto tutte le correzioni!
    January 9, 2018
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  • Corrected

    Essay

    Nowadays, more many people claim that spending money on exploring space could be a big opportunity for the future of humanity; however, there is a strong argument that we should use the same money on improving the life on Earth.


    Firstly, it is clear that the main advantage of exploring space is the chance of to find a new planet, which could save humanity after the end of the this world. Indeed, for many years, global warming has damaged the Earth, for example with rising sea levels as well as the climate change. Therefore the human being humans could live, in the future, on a planet which is better than the Earth, without pollution and many other problems.


    On the other hand, all this money could be spent in order to solve the Earth's problems. Childrens of in Africa are kept in a malnutrition state, which could kill them easily. For this reason, if this amount of money was used to help these kids, the World would be best.


    To sum up, there are strong arguments on both sides, but, I believe that finding a new planet is the best option.

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    Overall, very well-written and only a few mistakes.  It comes across as very fluent. 

    One advanced topic:  in the first sentence, I added a semi-colon to separate the first part of the sentence from the second part.  If you have a sentence that combines two thoughts (especially when you use 'however'),  it's best to use a semi-colon ( ; ) to separate the two parts. 

    Well done!

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    January 9, 2018
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  • Corrected

    Print State Control of the press

    Print control State control of the press was common to all nations, with the exception, in part, of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Censorship not only* prevented the free discussion of political issues, pre-empting texts against sovereigns, or government policies. It also distorted the objective description of the facts, especially those related to powerful people. The private concerts opened to a selected public, the compositions performed in noble circles by court musicians, noblemen, or especially noblewomen,  - these were never panned. The nobles financed festivals and gazettes; so the journalist, as expected, wrote exactly what he was ordered to.
    While the secular arm secured the "right" punishment to the dissidents, the newspaper was concerned that the fame of rulers was never questioned. Journalists, in fact, only reported the "official" news.

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    Very, very well written.  Sounds completely fluent.

    We don't really say 'print control' - it doesn't quite sound natural although it's understandable.  I think  'State control of the press' sounds a little better.

    * 'not only' should always be followed by a 'but' somewhere later in the sentence:  'Not only was X bad because of ... but it was also harmful because of ...'   Since your sentence is very long, though, you can't really add more to it without making the sentence a 'run-on sentence' (our English term for a sentence that's too long.)  I think it sounds better just removing 'not only'


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    September 24, 2017
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