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- So you don't want to sound like an American? I guess if you wanna lose the accent, try to watch a lot of shows from Britian or Australia and try to mimic their accent. There are also other accents you might like, what aboot Canada? Jamaican? South African? Just find whatever you like. YouTube is a great place to start. Personally - I think you should develop a Scottish accent.0 votedFebruary 26, 20111
- Hitler lost the 1932 presidential election to Paul von Hindenburg, but the Nazi Party became the largest party in the Reichstag after the 1932 elections. Hitler was later appointed Chancellor, and then after the Reichstag Fire, a law was enacted that gave the Nazis considerable power to force their political opposition to shut down. The Enabling Act was passed in March 1933, giving the Chancellor (Hitler) the powers of the Reichstag...pretty much giving him the dictatorial rights that he is known for. By the middle of 1933, all political parties except for the Nazi Party were banned. After von Hindenburg died in 1934, Hitler merged the offices of the Chancellor and the President, creating a new office: the Führer. He was still referred to as the "Führer und Reichskanzler", though. It's a dark chapter in human history, and we've got to make sure that we don't let anything like it happen again. So: Hitler came to power in 1933 and ruled as Führer from 1934 to his death in April 1945.0 votedFebruary 25, 20110
- It is better to say "What is your favorite movie?" Saying "Which is your favorite movie?" makes me think you have a list that I can choose from ;) Anyways, I don't have one favorite movie, I have many that I enjoy watching. Here are some of my most favorite, that I watch quite a bit (in no particular order): The Bourne Supremacy, Dumb and Dumber, Quick Change, the Sixth Sense.0 votedFebruary 24, 20110
Wow, kooka. You did a very good job with your "rubbish", I hope to read more from you! The only real errors I noticed were that you used "a" instead of "the" in many places, along with a few spelling mistakes. I've corrected everything to the best of my ability, and added some notes on certain sections at the bottom.
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It was late in <strike>a</strike> the morning, the weather was particularly gloomy* with a sharp, <strike>and</strike> strong wind and <strike>a</strike> steady rain behind <strike>a</strike> the window. The kind of morning in which it's especially hard to get up and <strike>take all</strike> <strike>that</strike> do all the everyday-in-the-morning things**. That sort of morning usually <strike>made</strike> makes it impossible to feel any hope that the day will be lively and full of <strike>that</strike> the small achievements which fulfill our lives.
The phone rang all of <strike>a</strike> the sudden. Why not?*** The phone sometimes rang even when weather <strike>is</strike> was unpredictable or quite unpleasant*. I notice that the phone could ring in any weather and sometimes I suspect the tastes of the phones are completely opposite to ones of any sensible person. For, you know, it seems as if they even like to rang in such a sudden way under such circumstances...
Besides that, they are, I mean phones, much like cats. So unpredictable and self-concerned at the same time. They never care about the feelings of their owner, and are always in need of some charge. They also usually feel like <strike>to suck out some</strike> sucking(?)** money or time on regular basis or <strike>pull of something</strike> pulling out stuff we usually have<strike>, I mean,</strike> in our fridge. I wonder why we still keep them at home, <strike>at</strike> in our pockets or whereever <strike>you prefer to keep it in</strike>***.
*it is much better to say this, instead of "particulary gloomy weather...", that sounds like you are trying to describe more about the weather such as "particularly gloomy weather lasting for days".
**you might find it best to say "morning routine", which means "the things you do in the morning". Such as, "My morning routine consists of turning on the coffee maker and switching the television to CNN." Had you said "morning routine" your sentence could have been, "The kind of morning in which it's especially hard to get up and start the morning routine".
***I would probably not say "Why not?" here. I think you might have been looking for a word like "Of course!" Here's an example of it used in another context: "I was really tired this morning and was on my way to the bathroom. All of the sudden I felt a sharp pain in my right toe. Of course! I had walked into a kitchen table leg on my way to the bathroom. My day couldn't have started out any worse!"
*Instead of saying "unpredictably quite unpleasant" (which sounds off to my ears) I think you might have meant "unpredictable or quite unpleasant", you could also remove one of those - making the weather "unpredictable" or making the weather "quite unplesant".
** "sucking money" sounds strange, I have never heard anything like that (maybe the British or Aussies say it, I'm not sure), but you might be better off saying something like "burning a hole in our pockets", which I know, sounds quite strange now - but you will hear it often - at least in my neck of the woods ;). So you could say: "I love this new cell phone, but it's burning a hole in my pocket!" which can be simplified as "I love this new cell phone, but it's really expensive!".
***It sounds much better if you leave off of the parts I stroke out.
0 votedFebruary 24, 20112- The United States is the greatest country in the world...sure there are going to be people that hate it...I can understand why other people would hate it. If I was born in a country like...hmm...Afghanistan - I would probably hate America for the simple reason that I wasn't born there.0 votedFebruary 24, 20110
- Because our spelling is (fairly) phonemic (meaning it is written to represent the spoken form (unlike Chinese, for example)). Each character (for the most part) represents a different phoneme (/b/ is a phoneme, and /p/ is a phoneme). Therefore: Big and Pig are written different because they both have two different sounds (/bɪg/ and /pɪg/).0 votedFebruary 24, 20110

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