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Hi, my name is Diana. I'm a nurse and I am learning Spanish to better communicate with my Spanish-speaking patients. I have also just barely started learning Tagalog because I work with several Filipino nurses and I would like to learn some of their language and culture. My interests include math and science, horses, music, gardening, farming, and literature. And, well, everything else! Lately, of course, a big interest is coronavirus and social distancing. I have been using the Fluent Forever app and language learning philosophy, which is how I found iTalki.
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Laura
Spanish
Nov 18, 2020
Me gusta practicar y platicar contigo tu español mejora cada vez. Gracias
Cami
Spanish
Oct 21, 2020
Diana tienes una gran actitud en clase ya que siempre noto que te gusta aprender sobre conjugación, y practicar nuevo vocabulario en nuestras clases de español, sigue asi!!
Laura
Spanish
Oct 12, 2020
Me gusta mucho practicar y platicar contigo. Gracias
Laura
Spanish
May 5, 2020
Me gusta mucho practicar y platicar contigo tienes bastante vocabulario y lo usas bien gracias
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    These are good ideas for informal speech, and I agree that "who are you going to listen to" is common and unremarkable in speech and informal personal writing, but I hope nobody is putting that sort of thing in a term paper or business letter. (I would say "it is to be hoped that nobody is putting that sort of thing in a term paper or business letter", but even I cannot go there in writing as informal as this.) I don't believe there is ever any situation in which one can justify the monstrous "to who", except possibly in an attempt to avoid seeming to speak down to someone who uses such himself. Still, it would be painful, if not impossible, to say, and one would probably blush and give the game away.

    I would also add that "from whence" is redundant, if I were the sort of person who pointed out such things. "From" is included in the concept of "whence".

    Business letters have a senseless formality about them, and "Dear Sir or Madam" is a time-honored salutation. I'm not sure I would try that today. "To whom it may concern" also works, and might be safer these days. When writing to a specific person, "Dear Mr. Smith" is common and expected. "Dear", in this context, is not really personal. Leaving it off might seem abrupt and even harsh. Appropriate closings include the rather senseless "Very truly yours", "Yours truly", and "Sincerely yours" (all of which are at least somewhat untrue and insincere), along with the somewhat more sensible "Sincerely" (which seems to merely assert that the writing is meant sincerely, and not that the writer belongs to the reader). "Your obedient servant" seems to have fallen out of favor.

    In my experience, email commonly begins with "Hello, Ms. Smith" or even "Hello, Susan", even if one doesn't actually know Susan, and closes with "Thank you," (writer's name).

    I agree that using "dear" in speech with people not obviously dear to oneself is a cultural practice, not easily adapted by those of other cultures.
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    April 30, 2020
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    It does mean "everybody", but in a negative sense. "He makes me feel like (this), and everybody else doesn't make me feel like this." Or, "he makes me feel like this, and nobody else makes me feel like this". Both of these statements are equivalent to "he makes me feel like nobody else", but more clear and less lyrical than the original! "Not zero" doesn't equal "all", of course. One of a group of ten is not zero, but it is not all.
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    March 28, 2020
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    I agree with Jeremy.
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    March 28, 2020
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    It sounds like you want to say "you're not being very helpful", as "you're not supporting me and sharing your knowledge with me". I would say "I need your support" or "I would appreciate your support".
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    March 24, 2020
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    In the US it is possible to be expelled from school for bad behavior--usually criminal-level behavior, I believe. Possibly for skipping school if you do it often enough. It is the final punishment in a series of escalating punishments, from detention for an hour after school, to suspension from school for a day or several days, to placement in an alternate school for troublemakers, and so on. It seems to me that you have to work pretty hard at it to get expelled. I don't know anyone who was expelled from school either, but I have heard of it happening. It just means that your parents have to work a little harder to get you an education, which is, of course, their job and not the government's. Sometimes they can move into a different school district which will accept you back into school. A private school might accept you. You can get a GED (general equivalency diploma) by studying on your own at home or with a tutor. You can usually take classes at a community college if you can pass placement tests, or take remedial classes until you can pass the placement tests. You can certainly get a job as easily as anyone else without a high-school diploma, unless whatever you did to get expelled was accompanied by criminal charges. (You stabbed a teacher? Burned down the auditorium?) It ought to give you a reality check, and life lesson, that there are consequences to throwing away blessings that have been bestowed upon you, such as the opportunity for an education. Your life is only over if you choose not to learn from the experience.
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    March 24, 2020
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