You can say that. The meaning would be: You are fairly sure they have done something before, but they are now doing it so poorly that it's as if they've never done it before. For example, imagine the following situation: You are in the car with someone, and they are parallel parking. Assume being able to perform parallel parking is a requirement for getting a driver's license. You watch them parallel park, and it's very messy and it takes them 3 minutes to finish. However, you know for certain they've had to do it before, because it's required to get a license. You then say, 'It's like you haven't parallel parked before.' It's a bit of an insult to say it, but not severe. You can say something to mean the opposite, if that's what you want. Imagine a different situation: You agree to take a coworker golfing. They say they've never played golf before. He goes to take a swing, and his form is perfect, and he hits the ball where he needs it to go. You tell him, 'It's like you've been playing golf for years.' Despite his inexperience, you are telling him you would have believed he plays golf a lot, if that's what he told you.

Nice evening

This was good evening for me. First, I had a nice chit-chat with my English tutor, and then, I opened a bottle of my favorite Irish drink, Guinness. I love that drink, and I loved that moment. I believe tomorrow will be a good day too. Good night, mates :)

Besides parks, there are many other places you can visit in Curitiba. Curitiba has incredible cuisine, a big part of it being the Italian food that came with the waves of Italian immigration that occurred during the two World Wars. The neighborhood of Santa Felicidade is the best place to taste Italian food and enjoy Italian culture within Brazil. Santa Felicidade offers the greatest experience of Italy outside of Italy itself.

For the first set: To make it a point to do something means to make sure something in particular happens. Usually it refers to some habitual action, ie. I make it a point to be on time. For (a), I am not sure what the action is. What will we do with these questions? For (b), it is clear. If someone helps you, you should make sure to thank them. It is also clear for (c). You should make sure to do your homework before class. (d) doesn't really fit this pattern. You can say that you made it a point that you were not attending the party. This emphasizes your efforts to make it clear you will not attend the party. For the second set: (a) is mostly fine, but you may consider matching the tenses of the verbs, ie. I cannot make sense of what you are asking me, or I couldn't make sense of what you were asking me. (b) is fine to me. (c) has some errors. I would revise it to 'When some people speak too quickly, I cannot keep up with them or make any sense of what they're trying to communicate.' (d) the first sentence is OK, but the second part, 'I can't speak anything', seems incomplete. I don't think the word 'speak' is a transitive verb that accepts an object. You can say things like 'I speak English,' but I think that is short hand for 'I speak in English.' Here, you probably need to say 'I can't speak (language name)'. If, for example, the language was 'Russian,' you could say 'I can't speak Russian at all' (e) is fine to me.

Q1: She is saying he won't be a rookie reporter for long. His career as a reporter for Derry News will be so short, he won't even move beyond being a rookie. She is saying his writing is so good, he will be able to earn a living as novelist (instead of a reporter) very quickly, and she will be a novelist's wife (that is to say, his wife). Q2: 'This' refers to the draft of 'Being Two.' The man showed a draft of his writing to the woman. She read through it, and was commenting about how she enjoyed it. She is praising his writing, not Curious George.

'Cried down dark' I am not 100% sure, but I took it to mean that the loons call signaled the coming of the night. In Maine, where Bag of Bones is set, the loon's calls are distinct in an otherwise quiet night. So, when everything gets quiet at night, hearing only the loon's calls can mean night has come. 'something rusty turning slowly in the wind' I am also not completely sure here, but I took this as a literal simile between the loon's call and the screech of rough metal rubbing against each other. It might help to imagine an old metal gate swiveling on its hinge, and comparing it to some audio of the loon's call. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Loons.ogg

To get in contact with someone and to get in touch with someone mean almost the same thing. They both mean an intention to initiate some form of communication with some other party. Some ideas I can think of: -If the other party is a group rather than an individual, I would use 'contact.' I would probably not use 'get in touch with' for a group. -'Get in touch with' feels like it suggests a continued connection with the other party, whereas 'get in contact with' feels like it emphasizes one particular moment of interaction. These aren't hard rules though; I could probably use either with a group, or either with continuous interaction.