Hello everyone, I am Yanglingling, English name Sheryl. I’m a Chinese girl with dark hair and dark eyes, I am a quiet girl who loves reading, music, travel, and likes diy some gifts: hand catenary, cross-stitch etc.

Why am I I learning English? I like Euro-American country scenery, so someday I will travel to Europe and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> to have a taste of different regions and amorous feelings. And I also like to make new friends. <o:p>
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Hi Sheryl, nice to meet you. If you type using Microsoft Word and use the spell and grammar checks you will make the job of correcting your work easier. <o:p>
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I like your sense of humour: "a Chinese girl with dark hair and dark eyes" Indeed!

I am not sure whether or not you really meant amorous feelings here though. The word amorous is only used for romantic love, so this makes it sound as if you wish to find lovers while you are travelling.

Photo Album-Glamour Shots

Yesterday I visited Taipei International Cosmetics Exhibition and bought a personal photo album, which I will <s>be taken</s> put personal photos in, in November or December.
It cost me a lot: about NT$12,800. From <s>over</s> hundreds of photos, I can choose 20 <s>photos</s> for a 12-inch<s>es</s> album and receive 28 <s>photo</s> Electronic photo files. <s>Taking pictures outside, 4 Scenes</s> I will include 4 outdoor portraits (2 formal, 2 casual). I would like to have photos of being elegant, sexy, rhyming (?), sweet and so on.
Why do I want to do that? It’s because the skin and body shape of a woman <s>will</s> becomes worse and worse after <s>her</s> she is 30 years old. And it also <s>can</s> decreases my desire to get married. As you know when seeing my friends’ wedding photos I was so envious <s>or what</s>.
So now, all I have to do is to lose weight, <s>practicing</s> work out, and <s>make a good</s> improve my body shape.

Hi Joyce, nice work. Remember that in English we use can less than in Chinese. Or what is a good American style colloquial expression, but it needs to be used as a tag question e.g. Was she jealous or what? It is often used in a humorously boasting way, e.g. when trying on a new pair of sunglasses: “Do I look cool or what?”

It’s a fraud. Be careful<s>ly</s> on MSN.

Yesterday one of my friends asked me to buy a MyCard (a game card) via MSN.
However, I saw this friend <s>in the</s> on SKYPE so I double checked with him <s>at the same time via SKYPE</s>.
He said he didn’t do this. Then, I showed him all the conversation record on the MSN and <s>called</s> urged him to change his MSN code.

The guy who stole my friend’s MSN account said he <s>can’t</s> couldn’t buy <s>now</s> a MyCard at that time (which costs about NT$ 6,000) and it<s>’s</s> was very urgent. He knew my friend <s>is</s> was in Austria<s>n</s> <s>now</s> at that time, and he asked him to help buy the game cards too. I <s>replied</s> asked if I could I do it 2 hours later (I <s>had known</s> knew this <s>is</s> was a con trick) He agreed to that and said he <s>will</s> would wait for me.

As you know, finally my friend changed his MSN code and made a clarification “it’s a fraud, I didn’t ask<s>ing</s> anyone to buy a MyCard”, because this bad guy found many people from MSN list of my friend.

Wow! How terrible it is. Be careful<s>ly</s>, my friends!

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Hi Joyce, that is a very interesting and worrying story. It is also has some very difficult grammar because of the complicated tenses and reported speech. I think these are the things to focus on if you want to practice, e.g. He knew my friend was in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place> at that time and He said he would wait for me.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I come from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I graduated from college in 2009, but my English is poor, especially oral English.<o:p>
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If you write a little more people will be more likely to want to correct your entry. Don’t worry about mistakes, that is what everybody is here for.

wait<s>t</s>ing

I'm new here; this is my first time learning English online. I'm a little embarrassed, and afraid of making mistakes. Can you help me? I need an English teacher.

Don’t worry about making lots of mistakes, experiment with new vocabulary and grammar – it is the only way to learn. It helps to write in Microsoft Word and do a grammar and spell check first, though. That way your friends don’t have to do so much work.