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My name is Charles, and I live in the United States now, after many years in France. Before living in France, I lived in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Taiwan. I work as a translator and in book publishing. I have worked as a teacher of French and English language and literature in France and the US, in the private sector, in public schools, and at universities. Bonjour ! Moi, c'est Charles et j'habite aux États-Unis après plusieurs années vivant en France. Avant de m'installer à Paris, j'ai vécu en Belgique, Allemagne, Autriche et au Taiwan. Je suis traducteur et je travaille en parallèle dans l'édition. J'ai été professeur des littératures française et américaine en France et aux E-U, comme prof particulier, au lycée et à l'université.
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Francesco
Italian
Jun 22, 2024
Ottima conversazione che ci ha dato la possibilità di riflettere su diversi aspetti grammaticali. Bravo Charles!
João Pedro
Portuguese
Sep 18, 2023
Charles é um aluno exemplar, e sua curiosidade por estruturas e especificidades do português é inspiradora. Após nossas aulas, sempre me sinto mais instigado a fazer escolhas de vocabulário mais variadas e apreciar a beleza da língua. Obrigado por mais uma aula, Charles!
João Pedro
Portuguese
Jun 28, 2023
Obrigado por essa aula, Charles! Foi um prazer falar com você depois de tanto tempo e, como dizemos no Brasil, botar o papo em dia. Adorei ouvir sobre suas experiências em Portugal e compartilhar algumas das minhas impressões sobre os Estados Unidos. Obrigado especialmente por me falar sobre os percebes, que eu não conhecia até então! Adicionado com sucesso à lista de coisas que preciso fazer quando visitar Portugal, hehe
Nicolò
Italian
Apr 18, 2023
Charles riesce ad animare le conversazioni con interessanti scambi di idee sugli argomenti più disparati. Alle volte si sbizzarrisce con i neologismi, ma raramente a scapito della chiarezza del discorso. Attenzione alla panna nella carbonara! N
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    April 29, 2020
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    Georgetown

    Washington was the first city that I saw after Rockville. Georgetown has become my favorite part of Washington. This old neighborhood looks like a small town. My family used to drive around Georgetown almost every weekend before the pandemic. I never got bored there.
    One time my husband and I went (walked?) from Rockville to Georgetown. It took seven hours. We were tired but I would like do it again.
    In addition, there is the Exorcist Step in Georgetown. This is an important place for fans of The Exorcist (1973) and I’m one of them :)

    Great work Kate! I, also, love Georgetown. It's where I went to university! Lots of fond memories there
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    April 27, 2020
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    14 Avril 2020

    Aujourd'hui, je me suis réveillé a 6h. J'ai couru 5km. Après ma course du matin, je suis retournée /rentrée chez moi et j'ai pris une douche. J'ai commencé mon/le travail à 9h30. J'ai travaillé jusqu'a 17h. Après mon travail, j'ai rendu visite à mes amis. Nous avons mangé des ailes de poulet. J'attends ma première leçon du français. Je suis très anxieuse /angoissée mais je pense que c'était bien /ça s'est bien passé.

    Très bien Lauren ! C'est un début prometteur !
    une petite astuce : on a trois formes du présent en anglais (I wait; I do wait; I am waiting) et ces trois formes se traduisent toutes au présent simple en français (j'attends). Il n'y pas besoin d'autres mots pour exprimer le sens de ces trois formes différentes - "j'attends" tout seul suffira !
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    April 15, 2020
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    I would say they mean the same thing, but differ in connotation and register. "I've never been married" is pretty standard and neutral. Simply that the speaker has never been married before. "I never married" is a bit dated. For me, it conjures up the idea of a Regency novel dialogue. A bit old-fashioned, a bit of a higher register, and culturally, it carries with it a certain note of judgement. "And she never married" - at least to me - seems to imply that she failed to find a partner, or that something is wrong with her. Ideally, she'd be married, but unfortunately is not. Whereas, "she's never been married" is more a simple statement of fact.
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    April 14, 2020
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    Guide de touristes

    J'habite à Québec depuis 2 ans. Je suis étudiant et ça m'intéresse de faire visiter les lieux <s>qui sont</s> touristiques (c'est une activité que tu fais déjà ou que tu as envie de faire ? s'il s'agit du dernier, le conditionnel serait mieux 'ça m'intéresserait de...'). Je connais quelques bons endroits où on peut sortir avec ses amis. Je propose aux touristes de visiter les lieux qui sont des grands classiques. Le lieu que je préfère (mon lieu préféré ou le lieu que j'aime le plus) c'est le Vieux-Québec. C'est magnifique.

    Très bien Mehdi ! Je suis allé plusieurs fois à Montréal, mais jamais à la ville de Québec. J'aimerais bien y aller un jour
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    April 12, 2020
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    My life...

    Hi, I'm Jessica. I'm 33 years old. I'm from France, but I have been living in Arequipa, Peru for 10 years. (=I've lived in Peru for 10 years!???) I'm a French teacher in the Alliance Française, which is the first organisation to teach French around the world. I live with my partner and my baby called Alyah. She is 5 months old. My partner is Peruvian. His name is David. He's an architect. We've been together for 6 years. Arequipa is the second biggest city in Peru after Lima. Arequipa is called the "white city" because its architecture is built with a white volcanic stone called "sillar". The city is located at an altitude of 2325m and there are 3 major volcanoes. I love Arequipa's food and its weather because it's sunny all the time. It rains only in January or February...sometimes in March. I like sports, especially rock climbing, cycling, aerial silk, trekking, traveling and photography. I also like cooking. I love pets. I decided to learn English again. In fact, it's a personal goal for me, because I never could learn it completely. I only studied English at school and I couldn't ever finish studying it completely. Second, English is important for traveling and communicating with other people. For example, I went to Thailand 2 years ago and it was very difficult for me to speak English, especially to understand it especially because Thai people don't speak English very well and because my English is very basic. I would like to improve my pronunciation too. Do you have tips to improve my pronunciation? Finally, next year I am thinking about traveling to Australia to visit my friend so I need to speak more English. I hope you can help me with this text;)

    Très bien Jessica ! Je pense que tu te sous-estimes, ton texte a été bien écrit. Fais attention aux majuscules en anglais - pour nous toutes les langues, les nationalités, les pays, les prénoms et 'je' sont toujours majuscules. D'ailleurs, on utilise les trois petits points beaucoup moins en anglais qu'en français, même dans le langage informel.
    Quelques petites fautes en terme de l'ordre des mots et des temps de verbe, mais à mon avis, ça viendra avec la pratique et en écoutant les anglophones. Sinon, tu as très bien réussi à communiquer tes pensées et je dirais que tu es sûrement prête à conquérir l'Australie !
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    April 12, 2020
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    Lifestyle notes / Ideas and screenwriting

    I usually write some notes on my phone but I rarely tell something in social networks.
    But I'm interested in film screenwriting so I need to write more: creative ideas, thoughts, etc.

    I write loglines and outline my ideas for film scripts.
    A logline is a short description of the story, usually in 2-3 sentences.

    Actually ideas come to me easily but it's quite difficult for me to develop them. And also I don't have enough time for writing. And the process of creating characters is complicated and laborious. And my attitude to my own ideas changes day to day - at first I can think it's brilliant but the next day I think it's awful. And..and... and...
    Here in Russia we have a saying: Everything hinders a bad dancer )) (I love this expression.)

    I took a short course in film school in directing a couple years ago. And I often study different materials and books, visit online and offline lectures and master-classes about filmmaking, screenwriting, etc.

    I work in production of audiovisual content and I love my job but I'm not a screenwriter.
    Screenwriting is a kind of hobby for me, and I need to develop my creativity, to contemplate, to labour, to write and write...

    Great work Elizabeth. You're right - the only way to get better at writing is by writing more. Pay attention to definite and indefinite articles - the, a, an, etc (a common struggle for speakers of Russian and other Slavic languages).
    Best of luck with your writing projects!
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    April 11, 2020
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    Risk when a corporation is wholly owned by only one person or by family members

    Under Chinese corporate law, the shareholders of a limited liability company are liable for the company's debts only to the extent of their capital contributions. When the shareholders of a company are only one natural person or legal person, the company is generally referred to as a "one person limited liability company" (this is usually known as a single member llc or a sole proprietorship llc, or even a one member llc, depending on which country you're speaking of. "One person llc" sounds like a literal translation of 一人公司) (hereinafter referred to as "one person company"). In order to ensure the independence of the company's property, the company law of our country stipulates: "if the shareholders of a one person limited liability company cannot prove that the company's property is independent of their own property, they shall bear joint and several liability for the company's debts." That is to say, once the creditor claims that the shareholder of a company also bears joint and several liabilities for the company's debts, the shareholder needs to prove the independence of the company's property by himself.

    According to this, many business owners believe that this risk can be avoided as long as the shareholders are husband and wife, or the children are also included as shareholders. In fact, in many judgments, the court directly regards the contribution of the husband and wife shareholders or the father and son shareholders as a single contribution of the family, and then recognizes the company as essentially a one person company. In fact, in a judgment of the court of Yunyang District, Shiyan City, the shareholders of the defendant company are uncle and nephew. Because the nephew neither invests nor participates in the company’s operation, the court regards the defendant company as a one person limited company.

    In sum, when all shareholders of the company are relatives, each shareholder must provide the industrial and commercial department with a property division certificate, and do a good job in dividing (or, respecting the boundaries between) personal property and family property. (Do you mean property or assets?)

    This is very well done. It's clear that you have a strong grasp of legal and financial language. I am not certain about the term for, what I'm assuming is, an 一人公司, and any specific terminology might depend on the jurisdiction of whichever corporate legal system you're writing to.

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    April 11, 2020
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    First note about the current situation

    Hello to everybody. It's the first time I try to write something in English here on Italki. I'm writing in the middle of this awful pandemic, that <s>so much pain is causing</s> is causing so much pain all around the world. Fortunately for me and for my family, the place where I live is not inside a red zone. This means that we are experimenting with only light limitations of our freedom.

    Wow, Dario. You write incredibly well. Good job and glad you're staying safe
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    April 10, 2020
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