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Hi! I'm Brian. I'm from USA, living in Istanbul. I am passionate about linguistics and geopolitics. I have traveled to around 85 countries and am passionate about BRICS and megacities. My main focuses are Middle Eastern and Asian languages. I have a goal of learning basics of the world's major languages. I enjoy learning intensively by getting grammar/conversation practice in the target language. I look forward to working with teachers who are native speakers and keep a good lesson pace. I don't work well with "beginner" style memorization of simple words or phrases. Instead, I like a quick breakdown of where a word/rule comes from, and then lots of drilling. I love to build sentences step by step - this is a dog, the dog is brown, the brown dog runs, where is the brown dog, etc. My goal is fluency. Hope to meet you soon! CURRENT FOCUSES: Turkish, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Chinese, German
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Turkish
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Persian (Farsi)
German
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Russian
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Aditya Puntambekar
Hindi
Apr 17, 2023
very nice session with Brian Greco. He has the ability to learn Hindi very efficiently and effectively.
Abdulsamad
Arabic
Nov 29, 2022
شكراً جزيلاً لك على استمرارك في البرنامج، وعلى صبرك في تعلم اللغة العربية، أنت مُثابر فعلاً معاً سنحقق الهدف ونصل إلى ذلك المستوى إن شاء الله
Abdulsamad
Arabic (Modern Standard)
Dec 29, 2021
سنة أخرى مع براين في طريق تعلم اللغة العربية، سعيد جداً بالتقدم الواضح الذي أحرزتهُ خلال الفترة الرائعة الماضية وأتطلع إلى الوصول معك إلى مرحلة متقدمة في الكلام والاستماع والكتابة قريباً إن شاء الله كل الشكر والتقدير لك على الصبر والمجهود الرائع المبذول، انت مثال رائع لطالب اللغة المُثابِر الصابر الذي يرى فقط هدفه أمامه ويسعى إلى تحقيقه بغض النظر عن الصعوبات في الطريق شكري وتقديري واحترامي لك
Shanazar
Turkish
Oct 4, 2021
iyi yolculuklar!
Activities
  • Corrected
    "Take your time!"

    After I retire, and I finally have plenty of time, I can't wait to travel to many places. But somebody once told me: take your time, there's no rush. So, I'll go to each country, one by one.


    Nice goal! :)
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    May 20, 2020
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  • Corrected
    According to one expert (<em>or the expert, if referring to someone</em>), as most Americans stay in their houses over the last few months, meat consumption has gone up almost 40%.
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    May 10, 2020
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  • Corrected
    I want to learn English.

    I want to communicate with a native speaker to improve my English—both written and spoken.
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    May 10, 2020
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  • Answered
    It is ambiguous yes, but #1 is most likely to be assumed by a native speaker's ear since the topic is about finishing which inherently implies 'doneness'. :)
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    April 20, 2020
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  • Corrected
    Who should fund the operation of a museum？

    The cost of sustaining museums is rising constantly, but simply closing museums is not a solution either, because they possess particular significance to people's cultural worldview. I believe we should combine the power of governments, companies, and private individuals to solve the funding problems of museums.

    Governments have the resource of the media and opportunities of international outreach. So they are able to promote museums to more tourists and attract more foreign visitors. For example, governments can produce documentaries to explain the collections of museums and can organize art activities at museums to make them more well-known.

    Companies can help improve museums. For example, they can create products from items in a museum and sell them as souvenirs. This is a good cooperation since generally, visitors may want to bring back something representing their particular experience. There is a market of customers at museums and museums are not able to manufacture these products themselves. This collaboration benefits both sides: corporations can earn profit through souvenir products and museum can gain another source of financial support.

    Private individuals can establish charity organizations to raise donations for museums. They can promote the importance and function of museums to the public. Exhibition is not the only function of museums — they also preserve and maintain historical objects and fragile artwork. The workers of a museum protect these objects from the damage over time. Without them, future generations are only able to learn history and art from videos and images. Therefore, appealing directly to the public to support museums can help create a better environment for everyone.
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    April 20, 2020
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    The reason I chose my job:

    I am working in a consulting company focusing on environment laws and issues. My company focuses on environmental law and issues. We provide reports to other companies after obtaining and analyzing overseas environmental laws and regulations in different markets, and we offer advice on their challenges.

    For example, if you want to sell vehicles in China, but you are unfamiliar with local environmental laws such as CO2 emission regulations, you may find difficulty starting this business. In my office, I specialize in environmental laws in Korea because I speak the language. Today I would like to write about the reason I chose this job.

    I originally wanted to be Japanese language teacher in my university. I met oversea students and wokrers from various countries during my training. While interacting with foreign people, I discussed world issues and got to know the situation in Japan, for example. The GDP of Japan is getting lower and national power is becoming weaker because of an aging society. Records numbers of babies are not being born — under a million born just last year.

    Other Asian countries are becoming more globalized in a variety of areas. I am concerned about Japan's future and am thinking about how I can improve the situation in Japan. So, I thought out that I want to get a job to support overseas expanding of Japanese companies. By helpling Japanese companies with challenges of globalization, I hope I can contribute the development of Japan. That is why I chose this consulting job.
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    April 20, 2020
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  • Corrected
    First time

    Hi, my name is Hamoud. I'm 26 years old and I'm studying medicine. I'm trying to practice my English.
    So this note will be about my weakness in the language.
    First and foremost, I'm very weak in writing, so I hope you can help me in this.
    Second, my grammar is mixed up, since I didn't get regular English lessons.
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    April 14, 2020
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  • Corrected
    Quarantine learning

    Hello,
    My name is Flavia and I am Brazilian. I want to improve my English during this qurarantine by speaking with native speakers.
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    April 14, 2020
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