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I studied Spanish for 3 years many years ago. I can read a lot of Spanish, and I listen to it on YouTube, in music, and in movies. I use subtitles in Spanish. I cannot write or speak it well, though. I would like a native speaker from Mexico who wants an English-speaking partner, so that we can both improve our language skills. I am using italki to learn Spanish and make some new Spanish-speaking friends, not as a dating site. Due to limited time, I am only interested in language partners who are native Spanish speakers that want to practice English. I am a healthcare data consultant. I work with computers, do data and financial analysis, and work in SQL databases. I love animals and have dogs and cats. I love listening to many kinds of music and going to concerts. I plan to move to Mexico when my youngest child turns 18, so I want to speak and understand Spanish well by then.
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    Can you help me with this translation? What does “ya era de por si fascinante para que pudiera pasarle inadvertida a cualquiera que se iniciase en la Magia” mean? Something about “I was already so fascinated that i would be able to go unnoticed in whatever I started in Magic.” But that doesn’t make sense.
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    Yes, it means they hate their parent’s partner. Using the word “unorthodox “ means their is something unusual about that partner. For example, their parent might be dating someone of the same gender and the child doesn’t like that. Or it might mean that the partner is really strange in some way and the child doesn’t like that. In any case, there is something different and outside the norm about that partner, and the child hates that.
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    May 5, 2019
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    Both are correct. It’s just a matter of personal speaking style.
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    May 5, 2019
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    1 is correct. It means that at this general time, he still walks like a boy. The second sentence means he is right now in the act of still walking like a boy. A way you might use the second sentence is if you were trying to teach someone how to walk like a man instead of a boy and he’s practicing that right now. You could say, “He is still walking like a boy, even though I’ve shown him how to correct that a million times!” That would technically be correct, but we would still probably say “he still walks like a boy, even though I’ve shown him how to correct that a million times.” We don’t use the present progressive tense very much. It means that the action is in progress right now and is going to continue for a while.
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    May 5, 2019
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    "tap one's fingers " how to use this expression ?

    hello,
    Could anyone confirm if it is correct to say, that someone is tapping his fingers when waiting imptiently for something or being irritated by listening to something?


    ”He tapped his fingers impatiently while waiting for someone to answer the phone.”  We also say “to drum one’s fingers.”  For example, “he drummed his fingers on the desk the entire time the teacher was speaking.”

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    May 5, 2019
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    They mean the same thing. I think Americans more commonly use “right away,” but you will hear both.
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    May 5, 2019
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    Yes, it means the same thing. Most people would say it the first way. “Regarding” is more formal.
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    May 5, 2019
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    I went to Madrid, and that was my third time. The reason is because “that” refers to something more distant from you. “This” refers to something very close to you. You are referring to something distant from you in time, so you say that. If you were actually in Madrid now and someone asked you “Have you been to Madrid before?” you would say “This is my third time.” You are referring to now, which is close to you in time.
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    May 5, 2019
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    I would say “I am going to list this as an audit finding.” “Some of the clauses in certain company policies are ambiguous” or “the meaning is some clauses in certain company policies is ambiguous.” I think the sentence you had in mind is “Some of the clauses in certain company policies were found to be ambiguous.” That sentence used the passive tense, though, which we try not to use in formal writing.
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    May 5, 2019
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    You can say it either way. They both mean that he will not send more money that month.
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    May 5, 2019
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