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Hi everyone! My name is Steven and I am a 22 year old PhD student from New York City. I love learning languages, playing music, traveling, reading, and sports. I currently speak Italian fluently as well as French to a lesser degree. I am also learning German, Spanish, and Swahili.
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Lucciana Recchi
Spanish
Jun 11, 2020
Un placer conocerte Steven! Tu español es muy bueno y la lección fue muy entretenida! A seguir practicando :) hasta la próxima
K'ogot Peter
Swahili
May 30, 2020
Asante sana Steven. It was important to me that you had a positive attitude towards the language. Hoping to continue learning together. Kwaheri
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  • Answered
    They are all right besides the last one because you would say "This is all a left-wing/right-wing SCHEME." "This is all a scheme by the left/right." Scheming is the gerund form of the verb to scheme but here we just want the noun version.
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    June 12, 2020
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  • Commented
    Goieie Dag, Lily.

    Here in America we unfortunately are complicit in the sacrilegious international trend of putting pineapple on pizza. As if we weren't fat enough already, we deep fry almost everything. At local fairs it is typical to find deep fried Oreos. Lastly, we consume a disgusting amount of prepared foods; ravioli in a can, frozen Thanksgiving meals, and Spam (a canned meat product primarily consisting of ham).

    I am curious whether or not anyone else out there not from America has tried or habitually consumes any of these foods. Reply below!

    Steven
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    June 9, 2020
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  • Corrected
    Why eat vegetables?

    It’s quite common to hear during one's childhood “You have to eat your fruits and vegetables”, but why do we have to eat them? Many peoples adopt this life style like the vegetarians and vegans and they are doing great because this diet can improve your health more than you can imagine. I'm not here to tell you to stop eating meat, but I will show you why you have to eat some vegetables!

    1°- As many people know, vegetables have vitamins and minerals. They are indispensable to our body's metabolism because they have a lot of enzymes that we need to function properly. The word "vitamin" is from the Latin <em>vita,</em> meaning life, and <em>mina</em> meaning amina (organic chemical component).

    2°- They can prevent cancer and other diseases of the large intestine (and stomach) ! We can imagine, in a very simple way, that many of the diseases that appear in the large intestine are because of friction and the inflammatory process (many times caused by the friction). When we eat vegetables and fruits we are consequently taking in vegetal fibers which have the ability to absorb water and to retain the feces in order to promote the better contractibility of the large intestine and decrease the friction.

    3°- They will nourish your bacteria! Yes, we all know that the large intestine has many bacteria, more than we can think about it, and they are very important for us (to prevent diseases, to absorb nutrients and to produce of nutrients) and a meal with vegetables and fruits improves the health of our bacteria.

    I tried to give any information to anyone who read my text and I hope that was useful. Thanks for reading! That’s all folks, thank you!
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    June 3, 2020
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  • Corrected
    REPTILES

    I don't know which words are most appropriate to describe how I feel about reptiles. The closest words are fear and repulsion. I don't want to but I can't avoid it: when I see their eyes, skin and colors, I feel strange. All it takes is a photograph.
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    June 2, 2020
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  • Corrected
    Mon petit chien

    Pourriez-vous corriger ma composition, s'il vous plaît?

    Autrefois mon petit chien aboyait au groupe d'élèves qui passaient devant ma maison sur le chemin de l’école. Mais, maintenant, il les regarde tranquillement. Je me demande s’il aurait appris que les enfants ne sont pas quelqu'un de très dangereux.

    Merci d'avance!
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    June 2, 2020
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  • Answered
    Hi, Hasib. These sentences work, however only as newspaper article or video titles. Often grammar is abbreviated to save space. If you were formulating a sentence to be used in any other context you would absolutely have to put an article (grammatical one not the newspaper one!) before "press conference." You could either say "Trump exits a press conference..." or "Trump exits the press conference..." depending on whether or not your readers would know which specific press conference you would be referring to with "the." Additionally, I would change the first one to "challenged him" or "after being challenged by female reporters." However, how you have it written is not incorrect per se. For some reason replacing "after" with "following" sounds better to make "Trump exits (a/the) press conference following female reporters challenging him." Lastly, if we are staying in this pseudo-title-grammar, the sentence could be altered and become "Trump exits press conference following challenge from female reporters" which sounds better than " Trump exits press conference after female reporters challenging him."
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    May 28, 2020
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  • Answered
    You can also say "Cornavirus brought the world to an impasse." (from the French word "passer") But I like Lena's synonym much better! This one is not as common and might be better written rather than spoken.
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    May 28, 2020
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  • Answered
    It is a difficult question to clearly answer because, in short, when and while both are correct. However there is a slight nuance between these two adverbs. I would posit that "while" places more of an emphasis on the period of time you spent in the park and the elapsing of that time spent walking, where as the adverb "when" does not place the same amount of weight on the elapsing of the time you spent walking in the park but rather to the fact that it happened as a single event in the past. You were walking and then weren't. Boom. Again these are subtle differences, and you can feel comfortable using the two interchangeably for the most part. Although you would most likely use 'when' to refer to your childhood or another past time in your life "when I was a kid I ate too much candy." While technically works in that sentence (While i was a kid...) but it doesn't sound as correct to the native ear. For these aforementioned reasons, I would say "while" is the better adverb to use in your sentence, but when is definitely used colloquially in that context too, maybe just less common/correct. Pondering these slight semantic variations means you are approaching fluency. Congratulations! Hope this was helpful!
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    May 28, 2020
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  • Answered
    "Cuocere" refers to the actual act of something transitioning from the state of being raw to the state of being cooked. For example, you would use cuocere in this context: "the hamburger meat cooked too fast on the high heat". Cucinare, on the other hand, is used to refer to the act of cooking or preparing a meal. Like, "I cooked breakfast earlier than usual this morning." Cuocere: La carne deve cuocere a fuco lento. Il sole mi cuoce la pelle oggi. (Here it is used in a slightly figurative sense, that the sun is "cooking your skin" because it is so hot. Cucinare: Mi piace cucinare più di qualsiasi altra cosa. // Ieri ho cucinato la cena per mia madre.
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    May 28, 2020
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  • Corrected
    douzième année

    la douzième année est à nos portes. Je ne peux pas le croire. Je serai diplômée dans un an. Je traverserai l'océan pour obtenir mon diplôme. Je porterai une jolie robe, en tenant la main de mon copain de bal. Je ferai le dernier tour de mon lycée. Je dirai "au revoir" à mon enfance, ma maison, où j'ai grandi. Autant que je suis heureuse, ça me brise le cœur. Je me souviens de avoir toujours voulu sortir du lycée et enfin vivre ma vie. Mais maintenant, je ne pense que à mon désir de rester jeune, et si je pouvais y retourner combien j'aurais apprécié les petites choses. J'aurais apprécié chaque test scientifique que j'ai fait. Je aurais été très gentile avec touts mes professeurs. J'aurais joué davantage sur le terrain de jeu. J'aurais pris la dernière sonnerie de la cloche vendredi comme un triste "au revoir" au lieu de comme un "bonjour" de bienvenue. Mon lycée me manquera, car c'est l'endroit où j'ai grandi et c'est l'endroit que je chérirai pour toujours.
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    May 28, 2020
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