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I'm an IT professional freelance with a degree in Business Economics. I enjoy helping others with Italian that I master really well with no dialectal inflection.
I would like to improve my English especially my spoken one because I would like no to struggle when talking. I'm a proficient Italian speaker and I can go deep inside italian as I have classical, latin and ancient greek, background.
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- The Djoker is back, one-way final. - Part 2 A shy chorus of encouragement tried to shake DelPo and incredibly worked. He could hold the service and then he suddenly had his opportunity: the first break ball. He failed but two points later, however, he had another one. He did it. He equalized at 3-3. For the first time a deafening ovation took place. Nole was so disappointed. He seemed not so steady on his nerve. He yelled loudly to a particularly rowdy spectator in the stands. The match woke up. DelPo with an ace went ahead 4-3. A mini-strip of 3 consecutive games led to a roar by both Del Potro and the crowd, clearly on his side. As the intensity of the match increased, it revealed the first uncertainties by Djokovic and the feeling that Nole had the edge was no longer there. An attack on the wrong side costs the Serb to face the second break ball just saved by a new mistake in length by Del Potro. A first double foul of Nole and then a third chance. Nole, this time, well canceled it. 20 minutes and 22 points: what a marathan game this turned out to be. Djokovic finally keeps the service game and we are 4-4. Without other jolts it's a tie-break. Nole goes ahead, 1-0. DelPo wins over Nole services, 2-1. Nole gets 3-3 and overcomes 4-3. DelPo wins but on his second service a forehand into the corridor costs him two consecutive set-points as Nole wins his service, 6-4. The first is enough. Nole wins 7-4. Two sets down for DelPo and Nole won 5 out of 5 when he's winning two sets to love in Grand Slam finals. The effort didn't pay. After 2 hours and 16 minutes Del Potro chances are fading away once again. In the final set Djokovic went back where he was in the first. 3-1 Nole. DelPo's pride tries to resist. He fights back and he's again there: 3-3 at the same level as Nole, one break each. It's just the last blow. The break suffered two games later by DelPo, badly, with several errors, sends Djokovic to the service to close the match, 5-3. The US Open 2018 is closed shortly after a smash of Nole. 6-3, 7-6, 6-3. Nole: two Grand Slam titles in a season. The Cincinnati Master 1000 he won for the first time making him the first who has won every Master 1000 at least one time. Pete Sampras reached at 14 Grand Slam won. Number 3 as today in the ATP ranking but the tennis world is going to see him as the favorite wherever he will play from now on. Djokovic is ready to rule the world once again.September 10, 201800
- The Djoker is back, one-way final. - Part 1 The unbreakable tennis robot, Novak Djokovic, is back: second consecutive Slam, 14th in total, third US Open, an insurmountable regularity even for the smashing forehand of Juan Martin del Potro. The tennis Nole plays pays its effort. It's not going to be never so varied, or so unpredictable, or so spectacular, but it has the ferocious effectiveness to get you down to your knees. It exhaust any opponent and certainly has its charm. It seems to have been built especially for tennis played in the courts nowdays where any surface is far more regular and regularized than in the past when different skills were needed to win on clay, on grass and on hardcourt. Now everything is moving towards an uniformity slowness and rapid rebounds. Djokovic is the more perfect and pragmatic player ever seen, better, at his best, than anyone else including Federer an Nadal at their best too. That's why he has the overall better winning percentage of all players and why he is ahead both with Federer and Nadal in the head-to-head meetings. Started at a good pace by both, tactically the final match of the US Open has developed immediately on the predictable track of two schemes: accelerations as soon as possible by Juan Martin Del Potro, defence maneuvers and counterattacks by Novak Djokovic. As Djokovic predicted his backhand on the left diagonal was clearly the key to stop the Argentine to unleash his blowing forehand from the right. Nole went on and on not to allow it, keeping DelPo nailed there with deep and angled shots. Another key was the return on serve impressive percentage (more than 90%) of Nole that forced DelPo to fight almost for every point. He allowed very few free points because he was not forcing anything and therefore making very few errors. Down on Del Potro service 40-0 Djokovic made anyway the break on 4-3 of first set, Nole advantage. Nole was very good in response, of course, but the faults were more from the Argentine, which failed two easy shots. At the service for the set, Djokovic closed easily at the first opportunity: 6-3. The Serbian ordered and solid tennis made a huge difference giving him the edge to the victory in the second set too. In the third game Nole won a new break point and as he won his serve too it was 3-1. At that point a resume for DelPo it would have been very hard.September 10, 201800
- Si mette la biancheria e i pantaloni, e allaccia la cintura di cuio rigida.
biancheria here is to mean the underware so the right word is le mutande
remove the coma
cuio typo for cuoio
Le gambe dei pantaloni si avvolgono strettamente attorno alle sue gambe.
It's a "cacofonia" because you have gambe two times: weird!
Just like this: I pantaloni sono attillati. Attillati means exatly gambe dei pantaloni stretti in this case. Widely "attillato" means a garment that fit perfectly without any free space between it and the skin. Another word for "attillato" is "aderente".
I pantaloni sono di un colore blu scuro: non così scuro a sembrare macabro, ma abbastanza scuro per ritrarre serietà e professionismo.
a sembrare: da sembrare
macabro: no it's weird, macabro it's somenthing that makes you scare, it horrifies you because it is too much cruel
per ritrarre serietà e professionismo: da dimostrare serietà e professionalità
Si mette la camicia bianca e si abbottona.
Si mette la camicia e la abbottona.
I bottoni stringono il cotone sul suo petto e sigilliano la camicia al torso come bulloni nel ferro.
Sounds weird too.
I bottoni rendono la camicia attillata quasi fossero dei bulloni di ferro.
Si annoda la cravatta; stringe il nodo per creare un sigillo tra il collo e il colletto, strangolandosi leggermente il collo.
;: instead use "e"
per creare un sigillo tra il collo e il colletto: no way it sound truly weird.
A sigillo is somenthing you use to close a letter with your sign or you can find it in things you buy like "sigillo di garanzia" meaning no one else did touch that thing before you so you're sure it's a new one.
Keep it simple but if you want to describe more you can emphasize that "il nodo" it's like a "cappio al collo" (neck loop) and it's almost "soffocante" (chocking).
So go like this: Si annoda la cravatta e stringe il nodo quasi fosse un cappio al collo che lo soffoca.
La cravatta è blu scuro, per abbinare con il colore dei pantaloni e la giacca.
scruro typo for scura
per abbinare: per abbinarla (la cravatta). You need -la.
la giacca: della giacca
Per sembrare professionale, è necessario limitare la diversità di colori che si veste.
Remove the coma: why the hell you put always a coma before the verb? :-)
che si veste: two options. con cui uno si veste or che si usano per vestirsi.
Tira su le sue calze; a questo punto sono esposti solo il collo, la testa e le mani.
not the semicolon but "e"
sono esposti: sounds weird. sono visibili
Si disegna i capelli, mette le sue scarpe e la sua giacca, e raddrizza il suo abito.
Si disegna: weird too. si pettina
mette le sue scarpe e la sua giacca: si mette le scarpe e indossa la giacca
raddrizza il suo abito: no way :-)! mette a posto il suo abito but it's not so good so I'm going with the meaning you want to get this way: controlla che il suo abito sia in ordine.0 votedSeptember 10, 20180 - L'armatura dell'uomo moderno
It doesn't sound good but I'm not correcting it because as an "iperbole" it works.
Lui è nudo - nella forma più vulnerabile dell'uomo.
Lui è nudo:
Two choises:
l'uomo nella sua forma più vulnerabile.
or
la forma più vulnerabile dell'uomo.
Le luci emettono raggi artificiali bianchi chiari, e le bianche persiani chiuse bloccano l'esuberanza riempita di vitamina D da fuori.
La luce è di per sé un raggio di luce. Le lampadine, i fari, i lampioni, il sole cioè qualcosa che ha una forma e una sostanza emette luce e quindi rays of light. You have to choose a thing that emits rays of light. The light has no substance so from the light you can't have rays, actually the light is already rays of light.
bianchi chiari. If something is white is therefore light/clear/pale. Nothing is lighter than white so you have to choose if you want to give the feel of a color or the feel of something no better substanced than to be light/clear/pale.
If you know the song "A whiter shade of pale" you should understand that there is no translation in Italian that gives you the same feeling. Everything I could come with it's going to sound weird in Italian. I can get the meaning but I cannot make a simple translation. The only thing I can do is a free translation to capture the meaning but not how is spelled in English word by word. I have to go with my fantasy that is an arbitrary solution.
persiani: I think is a "refuso" (typo) for persiane. It's Italian but something you would call "desueto" (outdated). The modern word is actually "imposte"! http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/imposta1/
I understand you want to create an image but how "persiane" (blinds) can stop something without any substance like the "esuberanza" that means something like an excessive vitality from latin exuberantia, from exuberare meaning sovrabbondare like to be excessively abundant? And how can the "esuberanza" be filled with something that has substance like "vitamina D"?
The sentence is fully non sense, it does not make any sense at all!
No correction is possible.
Da fuori, from outside, is even more with no meaning.
You need to rethink from scratch all the sentence.
Oggi è un giorno importante. Tutto deve andare bene.
a full stop is a better solution than a semicolon.
Si guarda nello specchio al suo corpo nudo;
You have to choose between:
Guarda nello specchio il suo corpo nudo.
or
Si guarda nello (o allo) specchio e vede il suo corpo nudo.
Full stop.
Vede le brutte incongruenze e imperfezioni di natura che sono eliminate e appianate nel nostro mondo ordinatamente disegnato.
Make me yell at you! :-)
I understand you want to describe what the man see in the mirror but what "brutte incongruenze" stand for I don't know. An "incongruenza" can't be qualified as "brutta" (ugly) because an "incongruenza" means "qualcosa che non è congruo" and "congruo" means something that is "adeguato" like "uno stipendio congruo per il tuo lavoro", a proper salary for your job. "Incongruenza" therefore is something that doesn't match properly.
Imperfezioni di natura is correct but it doesn't fit here because I think you're meaning something like "difetti del corpo" (body defects).
che sono eliminate e appianate nel nostro mondo ordinatamente disegnato.
No meaning.
"appianate" means "fatte/rese piane" but even if you can say "abbiamo appianato una strada" meaning we made the street smooth this use is unquestionably rare and maybe someone cannot even understand it. We use "appianare" in a figurative meaning so you can say "Abbiamo appianato le nostre divergenze" meaning we had different opinions and we compromise removing the differences beetween us.
nel nostro mondo ordinatamente disegnato: nel nostro mondo ordinato but here you cannot fit this meaning and I cannot figure out what you were meaning.
Rethink the sentence from scratch.
Lentiggini, tutte scoordinate.
I think you were meaning "nei sparsi" which means moles spread on the body.
Peli incolti in alcuni punti e carenti in altri: you need to change this way: Peli incolti presenti in alcuni punti e assenti in altri. "carenti" it could be correct but as it means "they are lacking" you can be more precise with "assenti" meaning you do not have any of them.
Creste, curve e rughe sgradite sulla pelle.
The roosters have "creste" but skin only "rughe". The skin doesn't have "curve" either. So you can only write: rughe sgradite sulla pelle.0 votedSeptember 10, 20180 - A Star Is Rising Among Women Tennis Players - part 2 This US Open can be a turning point in women tennis. Another player, Aryna Sabalenka, just 20 years old as Osaka, whom Naomi defeated in the fourth round, has shown the potential to be the biggest rival to Naomi. She was the only one to win a set against her. 73 at the end of 2017 she is now 20. Maybe the sun is rising again among women even if Osaka WTA ranking history doesn't look like the champion ones. Simona Halep, the number 1 in the WTA ranking today, has shown many times a mental weakness when it's time to win. She has a record of just 1 out of 4 wins in the Grand Slam finals. Caroline Wozniacki became number 1 when she was just 20 but she did it without a Grand Slam win that only this year, aged 28, she won, and thus far she didn't enjoyed the promise of her early years to be a consistent winner and a champion to remember. Angelique Kerber, three time Grand Slam champion and number 1 at the age of 28, to many times was defeated by poor opponents. She was number 1 in july 2017 and then 21 by the end of that year. This year she rose again and she's becoming number 3 in the ranking by tomorrow. Karolína Plíšková was like a one-hit wonder number 1 for just 8 weeks and she didn't won any Grand Slam. Garbiñe Muguruza, the young spaniard who won the French Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017 becoming in the same year number 1 for just 4 weeks, didn't show the makings of a champion in the last year. Jeļena Ostapenko, young winner of French Open last year, and just 21 years old, seems already fading as when you were expecting her rise she fell from 7 to 10 and without very good results in the next months she will be probably 18 by the end of the year. Elina Svitolina, aged 24, untill today has not yet won any Grand Slam and even if she is a good player it's indeed an easy call to say she's not going to be a champion in the next years. Caroline Garcia, a 24 years old French player, number 4 by tomorrow has not yet a remarkable win but the China Open last year. It's hard to believe she's going to be a challenging one for any Grand Slam title due to her emotional fragily that undermine her possibilities.September 9, 201800
- A Star Is Rising Among Women Tennis Players - part 1 Some days ago I was arguing about tennis and I wrote that no new rising champion was insight especially among women players. Suddenly yesterday I saw the US Open final staging at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows in the Queens, New York. Serena Williams, the last, aged 37, true champion of a fading era, met for challenging the Championship title a very young girl, Naomi Osaka from Japan, aged only 20. It was a shock from the beginning to the end. Osaka won her first Grand Slam title and it was a stunning and clear victory altought the happenings on the court that disappointed Serena Willians. She had a warning for coaching, then one for racket abuse with the loss of a point and as she yelled to the match’s chair umpire that he was a thief she's got a penalty game. Serena throughout her career has lost 8 matches like this one, meaning Grand Slam finals, like just to remember the more recent one, the last Wimbledon final. She, by the other side, has won 23 finals just a win behind Margaret Court. She lost 3 finals in the last 3 years before this one but when those defeats happened I saw she wasn't in a very good shape or physically or mentally or both. By the way it's always an upset when she loses. Osaka victory was an upset too but this time it was not a Serena fault, what I thought the other times she was defeated, it was Naomi Osaka’s superior play to lead to an inevitable march to victory. Not only did Osaka demonstrate tecnical skills but she was steady on her nerve facing the pressure coming all around for what was at stake, for being in front of her childhood idol, for the hostile environment, for the strenght of Serena Williams and for everything but that mental attitude to be focus on what matter the most: win! I didn't see these quality in any previous women players that were at some point in time ranked number 1 or promising to become number 1. She started the 2018 with a ranking position very low, 68, and tomorrow she is going to enjoy the 7th place and she's projected to be number 4 by the end ot the year if she will be consistent. In 2018, she won 37 matches as today and lost 17 but if you have a look at her defeats you're going to find she was defeated by very good players and most notably she won Indian Wells tournament beyond this US Open.September 9, 201810
La popolazione decrescente dei pinguini reali
Ho letto un articolo sul numero dei pinguini reali. Gli scienziati dicono che sarebbero passati da due milioni a 200 mila. La ricerca dice che la colonia menzionata nell'articolo rappresenta circa un terzo di tutti i pinguini reali nel mondo.
Non conosco le ragione per questi numeri ma suppongo che una ragione sia il riscaldamento globale e un'altra ragione siano gli uomini che hanno consumato il cibo dei pinguini, cioè il pesce.
Dopo aver letto l'articolo ho scoperto che gli effetti di El Niño, un fenomeno climatico che aumenta la temperatura, sono una ragione. È vero, come supponevo, che la mancanza di cibo è una minaccia alla loro sopravvivenza. Un'altra ragione che non ho considerato è il colera avario. La malattia influenza gli animali come gatti e topi ma non avevo considerato lo facesse con i pinguini.
Che cosa possiamo fare per salvare i pinguini reali?0 votedSeptember 2, 20180Mio primo scritto in italiano
Buongiorno, mi chiamo Craig!
Abito in Virginia, vicino Washington DC. Lavoro con il computer e sono un amministratore di sistema. (Me too)
Sono sposato e ho un cane di nome Millo.
Mi piace giocare ai vidiogiochi moderati su reddit in "r/IAmA".
Visiteremo l'Italia a marzo e aprile 2019 per la nostra luna di miele che sarà fatta in ritardo dato che ci siamo sposati a Giugno 2017.
Ciao!0 votedSeptember 2, 20180- Dealing with "deal". Did I get it right? So we have a deal you will have me helping you with Italian and you're going helping me improving my English. Meaning: we can agree to help each other you helping me with English and I helping you with Italian. Do you want to sign the deal we're ended with after this hard arguing about everything involved in this deal? Meaning: Do you want sign the contract that came from our discussion and compromise? Teaching is not exactly my real deal, I'm just a native speaker who can help you if you want to talk italian and learn how I would say and write in Italian. Meaning: I'm not a teacher professional but just someone who can help. Learning and enjoing it it's what I want to deal with you. Meaning: I just want you to have a mutual agreement on learning and enjoyng together. I'm dealing with my struggle to talk in English so I went on Italki to find my way. Meaning: I'm managing me struggling talking English coming to Italki. A deal is a deal so you can't go away as there was no deal between us. Meaning: if we have a deal you have to respect it. If you do not agree with me, a deal is not an option. Meaning: no agreement no deal. I'm handling this deal to get the best I can. Meaning: I'm managing this business for the best. I've got a raw deal. I didn't deserve it. Meaning: I've been treated bad and thinking not deserving it.September 2, 201820
- Lettera di presentazione - esercizio - grazie per le correzioni :)
È un esercizio dal libro dello studente Progetto Italiano.
Dovrei scrivere un esempio della Lettera di presentazione ma ho deciso di trovare un posto di lavoro in Italia e provare a scrivere una risposta.
Allora...
Spettabile GREENTALENT, Business Line di Aegis Human Consulting Group
Alla cortese attenzione del (Nome).
Egregio Signore,
alla ricerca di una nuova sfida, ho trovato l'offerta di lavoro come Business Development Manager nel settore dell'automazione industriale. Ispirata dalla "mission" aziendale e avendo tutte le qualifiche necessarie per questo posto ho deciso di sottoporrLe la mia candidatura.
Come vedrà nel mio Curriculum Vitae, ho fatto esperienza come addetto alle vendite di prodotti tecnici sia in Russia che in Germania per 6 anni. Avendo studiato la tecnologia chimica a Mosca e avendo completato gli studi di Management a Reutlingen, riesco a vendere prodotti tecnici, a pensare strategicamente e a farlo in modo organizzato. Con molta esperienza internazionale sono ispirata dal lavorare con interlocutori diversi. Parlo più di 5 lingue correttamente cosa che mi aiuta durante il mio lavoro all'estero.
Durante gli ultimi due anni sono stata occupata nel settore dei sensori industriali e dell'automazione, per questo ho raccolto molta esperienza tecnica e conoscenza di questo mercato. Salesforce e SAP sono i miei strumenti lavorativi principali.
La mia strategia è combinare la conoscenza della tecnica e della strategia con la mia personalità.
In attesa di una Sua cortese risposta, resto a Sua disposizione per un eventuale colloquio.
Distinti Saluti,
Alessandra Cognome0 votedSeptember 2, 20180

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