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I have studied on my own and some in school. I studied Spanish in high school and college and over the years have forgotten much of what I learned. I spent time a week in 1997 and two weeks in 1998 in Toalmás, Hungary teaching English in a summer camp. I taught myself enough broken Hungarian to be able to write letters to my students in the year between summers. I also learned some ASL and spent 4 years with the local Deaf Culture in my area before moving out of state. I want to regain my skills in Spanish and become fluent (I use to read at 80 percent) and would like to become conversational in Hungarian. It is also my hope to become fluent in French and at least conversational in Japanese. One day I'll start learning German, too. Long ago I set a goal to become fluent in at least 5 languages before I die. I hope to meet that goal.
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    Song lyrics are a type of poetry and rarely, if ever, follow proper sentence structure. The structure is meant more to to paint a word picture and have a cadence in speech. As for the last sentence it is understood that the sentence is : I am sick of policies leaving me out.
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    October 17, 2018
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    These are correct with one exception. Don't use Have you got everything fixed. Also, the last one, Have you straightened everything out, could be seen as rude and aggressive.
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    October 15, 2018
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    I take it to mean your teacher is asking you to compare the customs of Indigenous Americans (Native Americans/American Indians) to Americans of European descent (modern customs of all other Americans).
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    October 14, 2018
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    November 9, 2017
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    Either way the sentence is correct. The sun gives light to a sprout. The sun gives light to the sprout. The difference between the two sentences is that the first sentence is talking about a single sprout but not an specific, single sprout. The second sentence would be talking about a specific, single sprout.
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    November 6, 2017
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    1. Most likely the child is referring to a channel on a radio, such as a walkie talkie. What kids used before cell phones came out. 2. They are probably at the front door to an apartment building and the apartment that 'she' is in is upstairs on another floor. 3. Meaning that the person escaped a mental institution, left without permission. The gravity of the situation is that the person that escaped is unstable in some way and unpredictable. The first two answers depend a little bit on context so without seeing the shows those are my best answers.
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    November 6, 2017
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    I think a world with many languages is better. Each language has a beauty the others don't have. And there are words that better capture the meaning of what you want to say in one language over another. Sometimes American Sign Language, or another language I learned a bit of, will convey what I'm trying to say much better than the English equivalent does. And listen to native story tellers. I often don't understand the story I'm hearing, because I don't speak the language, but there is a musical beauty to the language I'm hearing that I have a different appreciation for the story than what I'd have once I spoke the language. Language has so many layers of beauty I think it'd be a shame to lose any of them to a one language world.
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    November 5, 2017
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    We do use the word Shop instead of store but it isn't used often. Store is most often used for the noun and shop is most often used as a verb. When using it as a noun a shop is typically smaller than a store; smaller in both size and amount of goods to sell. Hope this helps to answer your question.
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    November 4, 2017
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    I've never heard it pronounce that way either.  I also pronounce it with three syllables, gen-er-al, with the hard g. I grew up in the Southeastern U.S. and now live in New England.  I also worked in a call center that took calls from all over the United States and never heard it pronounced the way you described. I don't know why that would be on a practice test.
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    November 3, 2017
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    Hi Ken,

       I'll help you with learning English. I'm a native English speaker from the United States. If you are interested in American English let me know and I'll be more than happy to help. I'm also wanting to learn Japanese. I am an absolute beginner, though, so if you don't want to do more than practice English I understand. I've  been watching a lady on Youtube and started learning a few basics. So far it's helped and seemed to 'stick' since I've picked out a few things in the animé I've been watching. The 'wa' particle is making a lot more sense now. And I even know what it is!

    I hope you are doing well and having a good evening.

    Greg.

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    November 2, 2017
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