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Hello! My name is Alexandr, I am from Moscow, Russia. I am a Software Developer. I understand technical English text but it is very hard for me to speak and to recognise English. So I’m going to have a lot of conversations to learn to speak English fluently. I am 40 years old.
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Toni Marie Stanford
English
Jan 16, 2022
It was great to speak to you again. As usual we spoke about different topics, including your hobbies and what you are thinking about doing. You also had some questions about grammar. Other than that, you continued to work on your listening skills. Great! See you next time!
Toni Marie Stanford
English
Dec 22, 2021
The signal was not so great in this lesson, but we managed to have a conversation. You gave me an update about your life, which you communicated effectively. However, you seemed struggle to understand me in this lesson - I'm not sure whether it was due to the signal issues or not. If not, we will continue to work on this together. See you next time!
Toni Marie Stanford
English
Dec 13, 2021
It was great to see you feeling better. In this lesson, you told me about a very interesting game that you used to play. There were so many intriguing areas of this game to leave a listener eager to learn more. You mispronounced one or two words, which was corrected during the lesson, and you took these corrections on board so quickly! Great! See you next time!
Toni Marie Stanford
English
Dec 3, 2021
I hope you feel better soon. Although you weren't fully better, you didn't let that stop you from engaging in the conversation. We discussed various idioms in the lesson - there were some you didn't know, but you knew a few others. You were able to tell me about your week and then you were able to answer the debate questions that I asked. Great! See you next time!
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     Составьте свой рейтинг музеев мира. Объясните, почему вы выбрали именно эти музеи. Я не знаю всех музеев мира, поэтому составляю рейтинг тех, что видела. Музей, который я люблю больше всего - Лувр в Париже из-за атмосферы великолепия. На втором месте находится Британский музей в Лондоне по красоте здания. На третьем месте-Уффици во Флоренции. на четвертом месте находится " музейный остров " в Берлине, где расположены пять крупных музеев. На пятом месте музеи Ватикана в Риме.
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    January 25, 2022
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    Could you please check this essay? It was an unusual topic for me and I tried to describe my position a bit harshly - just for experience. Employees pay some percent of their salaries as taxes. Usually it is constant procent or it has a positive tax rate - the more your salary is the more is the amount of your taxes. But today I have thought of a dispute and an arguable idea - is it justifiably that tax amount depends on your salary? I do not talk here about taxes for means of production, for owning factories etc - I talk about salary taxes only. In my opinion, it would be more correct if everyone paid a constant amount of tax. We pay our taxes for some services that our government presents to us: I mean the free medical care, police and army defence, road building e.t.c. However, these services are equal to everyone and every citizen has equal access to those services, every citizen has equal profits from the state. So, why should some people pay more than other ones? For example in a private medical hospital my payment does not depend on my salary. The price of a cart of food in a supermarket is equal for a person who has one thousand or ten thousand dollars salary per month. So, why should a person with a large salary pay more in case of taxes? The most clear and truthful way here would be for the government to calculate all of its expenses and divide it per taxpayers - that is the amount that every citizen should pay. I would point out thatI do not mean here people with disabilities - no doubt they should have benefits etc. But in case you are a healthy person with two hands and one head - your tax amount should not be small due to the fact that you are idle and have a small salary.
    December 11, 2021
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    Я предпочитаю формат подкастов, но видео я использую больше, потому что как раз видео компонент вовлекает меня в учебу, чтобы я не отвлекался, пока я слушаю. Вот почему мне больше нравятся подкасты. Прежде всего подкасты можно слушать везде. Намного легче слушать подкаст в машине или поезде, чем включить такое-то устройство, ноутбук или планшет, чтобы смотреть видео. Конечно, если в поезде есть WiFi, то можно смотреть видео по смартфону. Однако там есть сложность с батареей. Смартфон- это довольно таки необходимая вещь, и если весь день у тебя не будет возможности его зарядить, то ты не хочешь, чтобы батарея села. Тут надо упомянуть (или вспомнить) важный момент: да, можно слушать подкасты, пока ты делаешь какое-то другое занятие. Но это должно быть простые занятия (лучше - в единственном числе (простое занятие), так как в прошлом преложении единственное число), чтобы ты обратил как можно больше внимания на подкаст. То есть, когда ты моешь посуду, это прекрасная возможность слушать подкаст. Если говорить про подкасты по отношению к изучению языков, то нужно не забывать, что чем больше ты слушаешь, тем лучше становится твой уровень разговорного языка. Интонация, произношение, акцент- они все улучшаются, когда мы слушаем. Другой фактор из-за которого мне нравятся подкасты- это то, что этот формат часто заставляет тебя слушать без транскрипции или субтитров. Ко многим подкастам есть транскрипции, в частности к тем, которые направленные (лучше сказать рассчитаны) на изучающих язык, но если ты куда-то идёшь или ты занимаешься работой по дому, то невозможно читать и мыть посуду. Таким образом ты привыкаешь к пониманию языка без внешней помощи, как будто в реальной жизни. Когда ты смотришь видео, очень легко включить субтитры и ты как бы практикуешь язык при (лучше "в" а не "при") неестественных условиях. Это повышает твои шансы на продолжительное использование языка когда ты приедешь в страну где говорят на твоём(слишком формально - я бы сказал "на изучаемом языке").
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    October 22, 2021
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    October 16, 2021
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    Хорошо! Но я бы немного исправил, так будет естественнее. Конечно ЛУЧШЕ жить и отдыхать на природе. А вот работать ЛУЧШЕ в мегаполисе . Мы дети природы нам нужна связь с природой.
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    October 16, 2021
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    Correct the mistakes, please :) The motivation crisis During all of human history most people had to work hard. They were forced by other people or by fear of starvation and poverty. Lot of people were ready to risk their lives on dangerous journeys, fight or suffer at unnormal hard work in order to reach a better life. Lot of such instances were described in classic novels by J.London, R.Kipling etc. However, nowadays the situation has changed. In a lot of places on our planet, especially Europe and North America, you should not work hard for survival. If you worked free days a week you could earn enough money to pay your bills and to buy food. No doubt, your financial abilities would be limited and you could not afford expensive wear or food and medical insurance - but anyway your life would be much better than it was for people of previous ages. So far, we have lost the motivation “to avoid” problems - I mean avoid punishment, starvation, poverty. But the over one type of motivation is suggested nowadays - motivation “to achieve”. Advertisements encourage us to spend money on good houses, cars, clothes, and food. In order to achieve perfect life conditions we should study and work very much. However, it is a bit weird to me that a significant number of people prefer to be satisfied by small salaries and do not have motivation rather than try to look up their lifestyle. They prefer to waste their time with video games and go for cheap fast food rather than earn money for amazing journeys and restaurants. My take on that is we should , on the one hand, keep work/life balance - and, on the other hand, we should try to promote ourselves in our careers and skills so as to live an interesting life.
    October 16, 2021
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    Can anyone explain to me the difference between 1. The manager told me that my order could not be delivered and 2. The manager told me that my order could not have been delivered I suggest that the meanings of these sentences are the same but a bit different in context. At the first one the manager points out that it was impossible to deliver the order. At the second one the manager points out that he had no ability to deliver the order. Am I right?
    September 29, 2021
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    Hello, Julia. "Due to words which have multiple meaning..." In my opinion "due to is not appropriate here", due to means cause, not intention. I think "in order to..." would be better here For example: I am late due to I the fact I overslept (Я опоздал ИЗ-ЗА того что проспал) In order not to overslept I got to my bad at 10 p.m. ЧТОБЫ не проспать я лег спать в 10. (correct me if I am wrong)
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    September 27, 2021
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    One of my favorite books is a novel ‘Hard to Be a God’ by Arcady and Boris Strugatskiy. It describes a distant future. The human race discovered the space and found a lot of inhabited planets. One of it is inhibited by people with technical, intellectual and mental levels about the Earth Middle Age. The nobeles there are cruel, arrogant. greedly and thoughtless. They force peasants to serve, they humiliate and kill intellectuals for religious reasons. The earthmen are worried and sad about it but they understand they can’t do anything. If they had brought more food to that planet then the nobles would have captured all of the goods. If they had killed nobeles then the most powerful humble would have become nobeles and continue to force others. If they had controlled everyone to protect people they would have stopped the mental evolution of that civilization. Disputable conclusion of the novel is that it is not impossible to make people’s civilization intellectual and progressive from outside. The people should grow themselves - it is a hard, cruel process with lots of victims, but if you force people to leave perfectly they will be perfect slaves but they will not grow their human qualities. The novel suggests the communist idea ‘Force humanity to perfect word’ and criticize it subtly. However, a lot of readers disagree with such point of view and think that ‘laissez-faire policy’ was shown by novel authors as a mistaken choice. I think the authors do not give a single correct answer and just indicate ethical problems. The book is very popular in Russia (I think it is comparable to ‘Strange in a stranger word’ in the US) and it has several movie adaptations but for me no one film is as good as the original novel.
    February 24, 2021
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    Наследство

    Я унаследовал много денег после смерти моего отца. Это позволило мне обеспечить мою жену, с которой я не жил долгое время, и вести независимую и беззаботную <s>художественную</s> жизнь художника (художественный = выдуманный, то есть это прилагательное тут не подходит). И я провёл время <s>одним</s> один, чтобы <s style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">я смог</s> полностью посвятить себя живописи. Однако ради своей жены я поехал в Швейцарию с нашей маленькой семьей на пять месяцев, но это была моя единственная поездка за границу.
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    January 30, 2020
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