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Hello, everyone, my name is Shana (霞Xia, in Chinese). I am a retired administrator working for the Shanghai Railway Bureau. Currently, I want to study English, especially to improve my conversational skills as my daughter and son-in-law are living in the USA. I want to be more independent when I visit them. I graduated from the East China Normal University in the 1980s with a B.A. in Chinese language and literature. So if you want to improve your Chinese, I can help you. I am looking for serious language partners through Italki. Look forward to making friends here. Message me if you are interested.
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Mike Moore
English
Aug 13, 2019
It was great to work together again. I'm still very impressed with your vocabulary and I know your speaking and listening will get better and better!
Mike Moore
English
Aug 6, 2019
Hello, Shana. I want you to study the video "VOA-- Level 1.1" I put it in my 百度网盘 ... 链接: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1KDdrv_7jK6pRIUCLQiha-g 提取码: xi71 注意下载那个 "VOA-- Level1.1.mp4". 还有其他, 但是那些不是您的. :-) 我不得不告诉您-- 我想改变我的,怎么说, 时刻表. 请仔细地看我的italki的时刻表. 很高兴认识您 :-)
Kristine
English
Aug 7, 2019
It was great to hear about your family and your motivation in learning English. I want my future like to be like yours, a lot of travel and a lot of time learning. It sounds like a dream life!
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    The way to Bruce Lin bridge (please help me modify it) Last week I went to New York. I don't know New York very well ,and I lost my way. suddenly, I saw a woman stood in front of post office ’I can ask her the way’ I said to myself. 'Excuse me ,can you tell me the way to Bruce Lin bridge?‘ the woman smiled pleasantly. She didn't understand English.She was a German,she spoke German. She was a tourist. She put her hand into her pocket, and took out a phrasebook. She opened book found a phrase. She read the phrase slowly, 'I'm sorry,I don't speak English'.
    August 22, 2019
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    The Wangs family(please help modify it) The Wangs live at 128 Huachang road.In the morning,Mr.wang's son and daughter-in-low go to work.His granddaughter goes to school.Mr.wang takes his granddaughter go to school every day.Mrs Wang always stays at home and does her housework every day. The Wangs always eat their lunch at noon.In the afternoon,Mr.Wang usually go the gym take exercise and his wife go to shopping.Sometimes they see their friends,and drink tea together.The middle school usually finish at 4.Mr.Wang picks up granddaughter from school.In the evening ,Wang's son and daughter -in-low come home from work ,they arrive home late.At night,the kid always does her homework,then plays piano,then go to bed.Mr.Wang usually reads his newspaper,sometimes he and his wife watch television.But Mr.Wang often watch news and his wife likes teleplay.
    August 19, 2019
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    August 17, 2019
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    Our Climate (please help me modify it) China is a big country.The weathers are very interesting.It's often cold and dry in the north and hot and wet in the south.It's often windy in the west and always rain in the east in spring.The weather is not favorite subject of conversation of Chinese people .Chinese people usually say "have you eaten" for great each other.
    August 17, 2019
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    August 16, 2019
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    More Chinese sentences.

    1. 我和我朋友没有一样的爱好。我很喜欢读书而且听音乐而他通常在公园做运动。
    (Me and my friend don't have the same hobbies. I like to read books and listen to music while he usually works out at the park).

    2. 到时候坐飞机去中国,我们最好会说一点儿汉语。
    (When the time comes to fly to China, we had better speak a little Chinese)!

    3. 唐代的衣服比今天的衣服多漂亮。
    (Garments at the time of the Tang dynasty compared to the ones of today are much more beautiful).

    4. 希腊和中国都有千年的历史。
    (Greece and China both have thousands of years of history).

    5. 虽然我已经长时间读这本书, 但是我要再读很多的次因为它很困难。
    (Although I have been reading this book for a long time, I have to read it again many times because it's very difficult).

    Please be kind enough to correct my sentences and/or suggest better alternatives. :-)

    谢谢!

    1,我和我朋友的爱好不一样。我很喜欢读书而且听音乐而他通常在公园做运动。
    2,当我们坐飞机去中国的时候,我们最好会说一点汉语。
    3,唐代的衣服比今天的衣服漂亮很多。
    5,虽然我读这本书已经花了很多时间,但还需要多读几遍,因为它太难了。
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    August 16, 2019
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    在日本市场上的美国猪肉

    我今天看到了一个对美国来说负面的消息。在日本市场上,美国猪肉的份额减少了。几年前,几个国家其中包括美国,开了一个会签署了经济合作协定。后来,美国决定退出这个协定,其他国家则重新聚会,签署了新的协定(全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定(CPTPP))。协定生效已经6月了,现在协定的影响越来越明显了。

    我看的那篇文章叫做《发生了什么?美国产品在日本一家独败》。这个标题很清楚:基于协定,关税税率下调,协定会员的猪肉在日本市场上越来越畅销了。据日本财务省发布的统计数据,2月至6月来自欧盟的猪肉进口量较上年同期增加了13%。另外一个方面,美国出口日本的猪肉却形成鲜明的对比:美国猪肉的份额1月至6月同比降低了1.6个百分点。这个差距就证明了文章的标题:美国的退出对美国很不利。

    我个人感觉,现在,美国的退出现象很严重。如果我们要达到振兴经济的目标,我们就需要跟其他的国家一起合作。特别是在目前的政治状态中:如果世界不尊重我们,我们 没办法和各国建立良好关系,从而促进各自的经济。

    很棒!
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    August 6, 2019
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    中国旅游计划

    我打算在今年的八月份跟我的父母一起去中国最有名的佛教朝圣地之一“普陀山”。去那边之前,我们先在上海住一个晚上。但我们现在还不太确定的就是,如果我们想从上海往普陀山去的话,在“高铁”和“飞机”之间,你们觉得我们应该要选哪一个运输方式?我以前曾经去过中国旅游,可是我真的还没坐过中国的高铁。我知道的就是中国的高铁非常快,在有些情况下可能比坐飞机更有效。但如果坐高铁的话,我唯一担心的就是如果我们带着2个比较重的行李,会很麻烦吗?地铁里有没有放行李的空间?谢谢你读了这篇短文。

    如果你们还不认识我的话,我叫鲁迪,来自印度尼西亚。现在还在学中文。


    你的中文不错,错误不多。顺便告诉你,普陀山是一座海岛,没有高铁和飞机。上海去普陀山可以坐船直达,也可以自己开车去。如果想坐高铁,就从上海坐到宁波,然后从宁波坐大巴可以到普陀山。
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    August 6, 2019
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    上个月我看到一个视频关于食物根名字超不搭

    上个月我看到一个关于食物跟名字超不搭的视频 ,像麻婆豆腐和东坡肉等,我想大部分台湾和中国人熟知这些菜肴,看着,我觉得很有趣!对了,上个月我跟呵妈试吃在市场买的樱桃,真的超级甜! 我刚才又想关于上周做的巧克力蛋糕,唉呀,现在我觉得有点饿了,太久没吃了。哈哈!我很喜欢探寻不同种类的美食,所以我一直喜欢看关于街头食品的视频。


    第一句话修改:中文通常把定语放在名词前面。视频是名词,“关于什么什么的”是定语。
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    August 6, 2019
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    Practice(please help me modify it) I can speak standard mandarin, but I not speak fluent English. How do you pronounce your name? Foreigner's name is not easy for me pronounce. The italki is our language learner’s community. I write a little composition everyday in italki. I like swimming to from one end to the other. I want to find a serious language exchange partner,but it is hard to find. I swim faster and faster. I look forward to improve my English level through practice.
    July 30, 2019
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