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Letter

Hi Luke,

If I were you, I would talk about Francesco Totti. He is one of the best Italian football player ever.
He's famous not only for being an amazing player but also for loving his team and his city more than anything else.
He was the captain of Rome's football team for 20 years, and he was one of the oldest strikers playing in the top leagues. Totti's history is something very special.
He started playing football when he was a child, and at the age of 18, he played his first match in Rome.
He was a pure talent, and all the best football clubs in the world wanted him to play in their team.
Nonetheless, he rejected playing with other clubs and promised to play in Rome forever, and this is what really happened.
Last year he stopped playing football, and it was a huge loss for Italian football.
Why don't you talk about Totti in your presentation?

See you soon,

Agostino

Good job writing your letter. I found it to be informative and on topic. I noticed a few errors and corrected them for you. I look forward to seeing more from you.

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Please check my English diary.

I have been studying English for four years.
I could not initially write well in English for the first time, but I recently came to be able to write English sentences a little. Furthermore, I would like to be able to not only write but also reading, speaking and listening more than now.

Very good. I noticed a few things and corrected them for you. When you write numbers, the numbers 1-10 are spelled out. (Example - four years, 12 years)

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Can you help me with the correction?

The oldest person in my family is my grandmother.
She was born in a small town near XXX in 1919 called YYY.
This is a town dedicated to farming.
When she was little, at that time, children had to work and didn't study. She helped her parents.
When she was young, met to my grandfather and they got married.
After that, they moved to XXX and had a business, a bar.
In 1994 my grandfather died, and today my grandmother is in an old peoples' home. And is 100 years old.

Hello. I noticed a few errors and corrected them for you. I look forward to reading more from you.

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Report

Language learning in Brazil

Introduction
This report aims to comment on the process of learning a new language in my country regarding the languages people learn, the part of the population who learns them, the places where the same individuals learn these tongues and to recommend changes that could be made to improve this situation.
The languages people learn
The vast majority of Brazilians who can learn a second language choose English as their first choice. The reason is that this language is still seen as a means of reaching better positions at work and increasing the odds of having more opportunities in one’s life. Followed by the language spoken in the United Kingdom we realize that the European languages are dominant among learners. Namely, Spanish, French, and German are the preferable tongues in Brazil.
The part of the population who learns other languages
Unfortunately, Brazil is a country where we still have much contrast between poor people and citizens that are more privileged with the result that only a small fraction of the population can afford to study at private language schools. For this reason, many individuals would like to get started a language course that cannot do this.
The places where people learn a new language
Since the learning of a foreign language in regular schools (public and private ones) is not well planned in Brazil, we see that private schools are the standard for those who can afford to enroll at them. In our territory, we see many franchises that focus on this field, so the access to this sort of service is quite restrictive.
Recommended changes
I would recommend that, not only the government, but also the private sector of my country foment some initiatives that could lead us to a more democratic way of accessing to language schools. For sure, there are plenty of students who, once having conditions to study, could demonstrate their potentials.

Wow! This is an amazing entry! I hope you don't mind that I made a few corrections. In the last paragraph, I would remove the commas after "that" and "government" in the first sentence. However, you don't necessarily have to. It's up to you. I truly look forward to reading more from you.

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Weather

The weather in Russia is not what you like to talk about, it is more like a prolonged complaint, though it depends on a region, of course, because the weather in different regions is different whatever it may sound like.
We're lucky to have four full seasons that give us some diversity; however, it doesn't sound that good when you realize that six months of the whole year is winter. And if some people like winter, well, I'm not one of them.
It's bitterly cold most of the time, and the temperature varies from -20C to -30C. There are blizzards sometimes that just blow you away or cover the whole way to work with snow, so you need to become a mole and make a way under it or waste a lot of time to find a new path. The road can also freeze over so you will skate it like a snowboarder or a skater, choose the one you prefer. So, the only way not to freeze to the bone is to make a really hot mulled wine — lots of it.
But after six months of a frozen hell a really good season comes, it's spring, one of my favorites, and I would say it starts in April. We can divide spring into two parts: April and May. April is moody. It can be cool and fresh or mild and muggy. May is much warmer. The temperature can rise till +18-20C. It is sunny most of the time, but it starts to bucket down in the middle of a month. The streets are literally flooded so prepare to be soaked through pretty often. Hot mulled wine comes to the rescue again.
Summer is wonderful from the middle of June to the middle of August. This period can be called summer. It is hot, it is +25-30C, it is clear, sometimes boiling, sometimes blistering and the sky is blue. Roses are red, violets are blue, the trees are green, people are also red, and they sweat like pigs, but it isn’t a problem because we all love summer.
Finally, it’s time for autumn. It starts at the end of August and lasts until the middle of October. It begins really stunning. The weather is rather warm and mild. Everything turns red and gold. At the end of September, the wind starts howling making a sign you need to get an umbrella because it’s going to pour. Thanks to that, mornings are really foggy, but it looks quite mysterious and beautiful. Hot mulled wine because why not.

Great entry! I found it to be very informative. I found a few errors and corrected them for you. When you are writing numbers, the numbers 1-10 are written out. (Example - six months ago, 12 years ago)

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Essay #448 "The Negative Effect of People’s Activities" 09.04.19

Most people agree that technological progress and the development of technology overall have provided a highly negative effect on our planet. However, many people believe that all this can save our planet in the future and basically this will have a very positive influence on a distance. Others, at the same time, believe that people are inherently evil and our interests and development just destroy our planet.

In many cases, people do not try to harm the Earth, but their activities often tend to be quite negative. This happens not only because of the neglection of the repercussions of their activities but also because of the limited knowledge about some particular technology and its influences. Because failures and misconceptions are an imminent part of our progress, we barely can diminish this aspect.

Another point is that people, in order to make their lives easier, have to adapt their environment and therefore change its initial state. So, there will always be some sort of confrontation between people and the nature, which is a natural way of life. However, people have gained an ability to affect their environment in a much more influential degree than other species.

Also, over recent decades people have become much more environmentally conscious and try to mitigate the harm they have provided to the ecological state of our planet. That is why this is wrong to say that people do not try to help their planet. Many of us really care and really input all their effort into making the Earth cleaner and less polluted.

To conclude, in spite of the fact that at the time the state of the environment is not the best and people are directly has been involved in its worsening, we have been showing a really positive tendency over recent decades. Most people have become much more environmentally conscious and try to revive the ecological system of our planet to its initial state. That is why, despite all the negative effects that have been provided by us, only we can resolve this issue and basically, this is our duty.

Hi. I found your essay to be informative. I did come across a few errors, and I hope it's okay that I made a few corrections. Good job! Keep up the hard work :-)

Best regards,

Teacher Keevan

Hi. You can use either one. Neither one is incorrect. Best regards, Teacher Keevan