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Hello! I am a native English and Japanese speaker, and an aspiring polyglot. I finished my studies in Psychology (emphasis on acculturation and language) at University in California in 2018. I am passionate about language learning and am looking forward to speak each language I've studied at a higher level. At the moment, I'm specifically looking for language partners to speak to in French, German, Japanese, Esperanto and Italian. I can help you improve your English or Japanese in exchange! :-)
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Lionel K.
French
May 8, 2019
Hina est une élève très agréable. La leçon était très intéressante. :) Bonne continuation avec les langues et en particulier l'ukrainien et l'italien. :)
Laura Guerinoni
Italian
Apr 24, 2019
Hina's goal to become a polyglot is so inspirational and I really hope to help her in this. Learning a new language is so enriching and beneficial and..fun! Especially when you have the luck to meet a student like her: enthusiastic and likable. Good vibes, a presto con un'altra lezione! :)
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  • Answered
    Definitely the prepositions for me! For example, using "à" vs "de" after a certain verb can change the meaning of the verb entirely. It requires a lot of memorization and does not always come intuitively.
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    April 25, 2019
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  • Corrected

    Some Sentences with New Words

    1) I envy insolent people who are always ready to promote themselves in any kind of situation.

    With this word "envy," it means to be jealous of. To be insolent is to be rude. So you would not want to envy a rude/insolent person. I would replace the word "envy" with perhaps, "detest."

    2) Don't pay attention to when he often frowns while speaking with you. He just wants to hide his kindness because he knows people tend to abuse it.

    3) We panted as we reached the top of the mountain. It was really hard to get there.
    4) I observed a small commotion on the street yesterday, when my neighbor's ancient car drove out of the garage. People were really astonished while viewing this unusual raucous and the kids immediately surrounded the scene.

    "Ancient" can be used here but it sounds a bit strange to call the car ancient outside of metaphorical speech. I replaced "rarity" with unusual raucous (loud noise/s) because you described a commotion earlier in the text. 

    5) I prefer to drink soothing tea tonight. It will help me fall asleep faster.
    6) The railway station is halfway between my home and the company I work for.
    7) I like being by the river. It refreshes me.

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    April 24, 2019
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    Flux de la conscience. Bonjour tout le monde! Je veux écrire un petit peu sur mon jour aujourd'hui et mes sentiments sur le français en ce moment! Je me suis réveillé à 8h, parce que j'ai mon boulot à 9h. Je travaille au restaurant dans une ville de Californie. La nourriture dans mon restaurant est la cuisine américaine. C'est un peu bizarre mais il y a beaucoup de français (probablement touristes) qui viennent dans mon restaurant. Alors heureusement pour moi, je peux pratiquer souvent avec eux. Le problème pour moi, ça c'est quand les gens parlent trop vite pour je puisse comprendre. Par exemple, quand je dit que j'étudie la langue français, le personne suppose que je parle très bien. Je pense aussi que la langue parlé et la langue écrite sont complètement de différentes. Donc, bien sûr, une personne qui études en lisant et en écrivant fera des résultats différent qu'une personne qui études par parlent et écoutant. Je m'étais enseigné le français tout par moi-même, donc il y a beaucoup que je ne sais pas en ce qui concerne la langage argotique et les euphémismes dans cette langue. Je pense que c'est très normal pour une personne qui apprendre une nouvelle langue à ressentir les émotions comme la peur pour faire des erreurs. Mais au contraire, je pense aussi que c'est très très important de faire des erreurs pour qu'on puisse progresser. Simplement, je veux améliorer mon français parlé et compréhension d'écoute afin je pourrais parler avec les gens qui viennent la Californie et bien sûr aussi pour utiliser en France. Merci a tous et s'il vous plaît, n'hésitez pas à corriger les erreurs! C'est très utile :-) Hina
    April 24, 2019
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  • Corrected

    My First Book That I Read In English!

    Hello fellas!

    Today I'm gonna write about the first book that I read in English.

    First of all, pals, I'm really big fan of Harry Potter and ect.!

    The title of this book is: Harry Potter and Philosopher Stone (this is not a advertisement or promo, lol).

    When I decided to buy a book in English, I had already been studying English by myself for 8 to 10 months.

    Before I had this book in my arms, I had thought that reading in English would be simple. However, when I started to read this book, I understood that reading a book in English would be a challenge after all.

    Nevertheless, I read this book in just one month after I purchased it.

    Indeed, this book gave me an large output (do you mean "this book was a great aid for me to learn and improve my English"?) as for person, who learning English!

    The more pages that I read, the more vocabulary that I learned.

    By writing these simple sentences, I tried to describe my point of view of my first English book that I have successfully read.

    Thank you so much for correcting and fixing my entry. With your help I'm getting more confident in English!

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    April 24, 2019
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    To Schedule My First Lesson or To Not

    I am on this site because I want to speak English very well. I read and speak every day in English but I think that my writing and pronunciations skills are not enough to obtain a C1 level.
    I'm pretty sure I'll get a job in America or Europe in the next year, so I want to have a very good level by then.
    So, to improve my writing level I returned to lang-8 (5 years later) and the site is kind of down, so I had to look where to go and I found this site with this notebook section. And since then (one week ago) I'm seriously thinking about whether I should schedule my first lesson with a teacher to improve my pronunciation as well. I am almost sure that that is what I will do, but I need the final kick to do it, I don't know who is going to give me that, I guess it will be me from the future, from tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I hope.
    In the meantime, let's see how this notebook section works.
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    April 23, 2019
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