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Hi, my name is Daniel and I enrolled at italki to practice mostly German, Japanese, and Russian. I taught English for 20 years and I'm a native speaker of Portuguese. I'd be interested in exchanging knowledge in both languages should you be interested in doing the same in one of these three languages. I also speak Spanish relatively well and understand French, but not to C level. In case you speak French or Spanish and would like to be my partner, I'd also like that. I'm available for English and Portuguese chats for those who are interested. Just send me a friendship request here or over Skype and let's talk.
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    Caminho de Santiago, em português

    No ano de 2016, eu e o meu marido fizemos o Caminho de Santiago. Mesmo que tive Embora eu tenha ficado com muitas bolhas nos pés, desfrutamos da viagem imensamente. Mas aAs bolhas, porém, tão doíam tanto que eu não estive certa tinha certeza se queriao ou não ainda uma vez repetir esta viagem mais uma vez. E querem sabem vocês? Nós decidimos ir novamentevamos ainda no próximo outono próximo. Diz-se que é sempre assim com o caminho. Se alguém fez o caminho, ele torna voltará sempre ao caminho de novo.

    Vamos de novo ao Caminho Português da Costa. Já estou a sonhar com esta caminhada. Estou certa de que aprendemos da com nossa viagem anterior e de que posso evitar as bolhas esta vez. Vai ser uma viagem maravilhosa.


    Espero tê-la ajudado. :)

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    February 3, 2019
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    Looking for partners in Japanese/Russian/German/French. Trading for Portuguese and English.

    Hi, friends. I'm looking for language partners to share some knowledge in the languages mentioned.

    In exchange, I'm a native speaker of Portuguese and taught English for about 20 years.

    Please send me a message if you're willing to be my language partner and if you are interested in either Portuguese or English, as it will be a pleasure to help you on both.


    Kind regards.


    Olá, amigos! Procuro por parceiros de idioma para compartilhar conhecimento nos idiomas mencionados no título (japonês, russo, alemão e francês). Em troca, sou um falante nativo do português e ensinei inglês por 20 anos. Envie-me uma mensagem se quiser ser meu parceiro de idioma e, se estiver interessado em português ou inglês, será um prazer ajudá-lo em ambos.


    Um abraço!

    February 2, 2019
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    Hi, dolco. As you said, you got the meaning, so let me try to give you a general idea on the structure. In "to be all looks", "looks" is actually a noun that means appearance. "All" here acts as an adverb of sorts, like "completely". Loosely speaking, an explanation for the structure you mention is here: https://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/someone-is-all-about-something The difference, in this case, is that "about" is implicit. She's all (about) her looks/looking gorgeous. I hope this helps you. :) Regards.
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    February 2, 2019
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    Honestly, Mark, that depends on how strict you want to be in terms of grammar rules. There is this nice discussion in Word Reference about it: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/just-past-simple.268652/ Basically, "just" is mostly used with the Simple Past (came) in American everyday conversation. Some people on this thread, however, mention it is gaining ground in England, too.
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    February 1, 2019
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    Hi, Etsuko. Doing something of your own accord is the same as doing something because you want to, without being asked or forced to do it. I hope this helps you. 😁 Regards.
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    February 1, 2019
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    Hi, Mark. "Extremely badly", in this case. Check out this definition on Merriam-Webster's dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abysmal. I hope this helps. 😉 Regards.
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    February 1, 2019
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    Hi, Mark. As the sentence is, you'd use "came". However, giving you a more grammatically oriented answer, the word "just" would make me recommend changing "I just" to "I've just". In this case, though, the answer would be "come". I've just come to know that... I hope that is useful to you. Regards.
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    January 31, 2019
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    Hi, Pineapple. I'd definitely go with "by means of" in this case, since that's what "through" suggests. I hope this is any helpful to you. 😁 Regards.
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    January 31, 2019
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    Hi, Kindwriter. The sentence sounds strange. If you check out "utterly struggle" on Google, you'll find only 117 entries for the expression, which is not a vast corpus to rely on. Still, it has been used some times and, by the looks of it, in blogs of native speakers. Problem is: saying you "struggle to build a machine" sounds as if you have some trouble every time you build a new machine. If I understood what you meant, I would go with "I've been struggling to build a/this machine". I hope this helps. :) Regards.
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    January 30, 2019
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    Olá, Yuliya. A frase significa que você só encontrará o que o destino oferecer a você. Não é que "não faça sentido procurar", mas que, provavelmente, você só encontrará o que quer encontrar se o destino quiser isso. Espero ter ajudado. :)
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    January 30, 2019
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