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Hi, if you can help me with Japanese or Mandarin Chinese, I can help you with English. I'm fluent in English and pretty good with Japanese and Chinese. I took 3.5 years of Japanese in college and I spoke basic mandarin with parents since I was a kid. こんにちは!日本語が大好きです。三年間ぐらい大学で勉強しましたが、今は勉強していません。なので、日本語をだんだん忘れていくのが怖いです。このサイトで私と日本語の練習が出来る友達を探しています。私は英語を話せますから、よかったら、英語の練習も出来ます。中国語も話せます。もし時間と興味があったら、ぜひ連絡して下さいね :) 大家好!我的名子叫夏腾。我是美国四年级的大学生。我从小就跟父母一直说中文,因为我是中国人。但是我觉的我的中文水平还是太差,所以在大学上起来中文课了。请问有没有人能帮我进步我的中文。要是你对英文或者日语有兴趣就更好了,因为我会讲英语和日语。我们可以互相帮助练习。要是有兴趣的话,请跟我联系。
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    Will You Offer Money to the Begging Man on the Streets?

    I saw a discussion on the Internet yesterday, on whether to offer money to a the begging person you've met. Someone said that he once bought bread for a poor man he saw drinking the water from the trash. Some others said that they would give gave any kind of help other than money.  

    I once gave 10 yuan to a man at the Shanghai Railway Station, for he told me his money had been he was stolen and needed money to get back home (hometown) desperatelly. I wished that he could get enough money. Strangely, several months later, similar things were discussed on the Internet again and again, and one person said that he even met with a same person begging him for money back home at the same place twice a week. Gradually, it has become is known that some of the begging in China is has already become a kind of "occupations", by from which you can even afford beautiful and large houses could be afforded. Last year, before I moved to Pudong New District, I would see every day I passed by Subway Lianhua Road Station, some disabled could be seen, person begging and singing the songs dating back to the 90's everyday as I passed by Subway Lianhua Station. When I went (surfed is okay too, but it's not really used often) surfed on the Internet, I learned from a forum that they were in fact part of a group, in which the group leader had kidnapped and disabled them when they were children, in order to use them to take advantage of people's compassions.and those poor men were not disabled originally, they, many of whom were kidnapped as children were beaten and hurt by the group leader to that extent, so as to cheat for people's compassions, and besides, (This sentence is way too long. You should break it up somewhere. Long sentences in Chinese don't translate well into English, because English is not as flexible.) The group leader was always hiding nearby, supervising them to prevent them (from escaping, calling the police, and etc.). It seemed that no police wanted would like to take care of this problem. that, at The most they ever did was driving to drive them away on some celebrating days where there was a celebration, like during the Expo duration. 


    I think nobody would like to offer money to the above disabled men, since it won't do any good to them, ; it would only to make their group leader more rich and to encourage more such illegal activities. I don't know if their group is some kind of gang, but I do know that someone said he has called the police to report this that case(, while they are still there.) 

    I want to pray for those poor men, and at the same time, hope the group will get what they deserve. I hope that the government can search deeply for what has caused this that kind of phonomenon in China, (checking themselves thoroughly, too.) 

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    Thanks for your time, and any kind of comments are appreciated.

     

    Good job on writing all this. The level of English is very high! The blue parts I didn't quite understand what you were trying to say. Perhaps you can clarify?

    I can't believe there's such horrible things in China. The police needs to be more responsible for things like this. As a policemen, you should not be able to simply ignore problems you don't want to deal with.

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    February 11, 2012
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    First notebook entry: Introducing myself

    Hi,I'm Allison.

    I am already 24 years old this year,but my english has always been poor.

    I‘m outgoing but cold-blooded, and strange person character.

    I was born in Shandong Province, China,and am now studying in Shanghai.

    Singing is my favorite greatest hobby., Music is a very important part of my life. 


    In addition,I also like pets., I am opposed to wearing fur clothes,because this is not fair to animals.

     

    cold-blooded and strange 是冷血(比如,你要是杀了人,心里面不会有矛盾或者感觉)和奇怪的意思. 这是你想说的句子吗?

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    February 11, 2012
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    加州牛肉面 我从来没吃过加州牛肉面,可是我能告诉你在加州肯定没有卖牛肉面的美国餐馆。美国饭一般都是一种汉堡包,三明治,比赛,热够,等等, 怎么会有牛肉面呢。加州牛肉面只是个招牌。要是你把加州牛肉面带来加州,给个加州人尝一口,问他跟加州的牛肉面味道必得怎么样,他会以为你是傻瓜。我希望没有中国人在考虑为了尝真正的加州牛肉面来加州,因为你会白来,而且也会发现美国的饭比中国的饭难吃多了。过几天你就会受不了吃西餐,也许会长胖一点儿。
    February 9, 2012
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    认为和觉得有什么区别? 我不太懂什么时候可以用那个。请帮我一下。谢谢!
    February 9, 2012
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    中间的间是第一声,但是据课本说,加个儿成中间儿就变成第四声了。这不对把。 应该还是第一声把?
    February 9, 2012
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    这两种问问题的问法有没有区别?那一个更常用? 不能好好解释,所以我就举例子: 你是不是中国人?你是中国人马? 你吃不吃辣的?你吃辣的马? 你会不会开车?你开车马? 他说不说英文?他说英文马?
    February 9, 2012
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    消防演习 我昨天两点半睡的,可是七点半就起来了。不是因为得上课,而也不是因为得早起做今天得交的功课,是因为被火警警报吵醒了,把我气的要死。我完全不懂怎么会有人决定这么早的时间算好时间做个消防演习。我们是大学生,几乎没有人这么早起床。管理员到底在想什么呢?而且在美国,消防演习真的成了一个开玩笑的事儿,本来是为了练习有火灾该怎么办,反而学生们每次听到火警警报就自动地相信不是真的,一点儿也不紧地出门。这次的消防演习完了以后,回宿舍里间了一直带在宿舍里刚出来的学生,问我消防演习完了没有。嗳唷,要是那天有了真的火灾,我们都会送命吗。中国也是这样的情况吗?
    February 7, 2012
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    wow what a hard question, i never even thought about these differences, and I still can't properly think of a good answer! luckily I found this site with a decent explanation http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-determiners-each-every.htm I feel like both are interchangeable, just make sure to focus on when you can't use both of them.
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    February 7, 2012
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    I disagree with the idea of increasing the number of immigrants. I have two reasons for this. 

    First, there must be other options in order to sustain the manufacturing power of Japan. I don't think much of the idea that we should increase the number of immigrants just because the society is goes on aging. For example, in order to raise the birth-rate, we can make more comfortable environments for women who bring up their children through public policy by making a political policy.
    Second, increasing the number of immigrants may lead to a decline in the nationalism of Japanse people, which will make the manufacturing power weaker smaller.
    Finally, as the society continues to age goes on aging, more and more elderly people get active and healthy. Even so, most of them retire and get pensions.I think they would be happier if they worked with and trained young people instead. Then, in addition, they wouldn't don't need to get pensions. Now, and we won't you don't have to increase the number of immigrants. Of course, I'd love to take ppart in improving making up the manufucturing power of Japan until I am get unable to work.
    For these reasons, I don't think we should increase the number of immigrants.


    Very impressive English. Even though I'm a native speaker, I had a hard time trying to correct this since some of them I wasn't even sure if it was right or wrong. 

    I'm not quite sure what the relationship between an aging society and manufacturing power is. Is manufacturing power the right word you wanted to say?

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    February 7, 2012
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    Keep Husband From Leaving You By Pleasing His Stomach

    There is a Chinese proverb that says "If you want to keep your husband from leaving you, you have to learn how to please his stomach." My mum tried to teach me cooking for years. She told me tasty food is a woman's secret weapon. But this reason is definitely not persuasive enough me to learn cooking. It's not because I don't like it, but I am just not good at it. On the contrary, my twin sister is a genius at cooking, so she is always laughing at me for my poor kitchen skills. As a result, I am the one in my family who has to wash all the dishes after the meal, because I can't help with anything else in the kitchen. However, here in the UK, I missed Chinese food so much, so I began cooking some food for myself. I can't imagine making any food that takes over 1 hour, like many of my friends and my mum do. To me that's a waste of time, but I have progressed a lot on it.

    Nice, I started cooking this year for myself too because I missed my mom's Chinese food so much. Have you shared your food with others? It feels really good when someone tells you your food tastes great. Sometimes, it makes the long cooking times worth it in my opinion :)

    Some things to remember:

    - You can't start sentences with "So" when you're writing. You can when you're speaking.

    - You can't use commas as easily as you can in Chinese to connect sentences. If you ever have a comma between two sentences that can be by themselves, then it's wrong. You have to add a conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) after the comma, or change the comma to a period.

    - If you use verb-ing as a verb, you have to add "is" "are" "am" "were" "was" before it. Some examples: she is laughing, I am running, you are talking. I think this is called progressive tense?

    - who can be singular or plural, depending on what it's referring to. Example: I am the one who has to wash dishes. We are the ones who have to wash dishes. 

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    February 7, 2012
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