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First notebook entry: Introducing myself
This is 1 I am Jerry from Shanghai, China. I am a postgraduate student who is and am about to compete for 2 an important law-oriented job to feed myself. However, a good job requires a good English skills,3 a perfect job requires a perfect one, and my English is not the best so well, especially from the oral angle. What's worse 4 is that even my boss even thinks my English is poor. So I am 5 very eager to improve my English badly badly, somebody pls help!
1. Jeff is absolutely correct about this, "This is" is more informal and also more common when talking over the phone or leaving a voice message. You wouldn't go up to someone and introduce yourself by saying, "This is ____". It's more said when the other party cannot see you. Not so much a superior v underling impolite problem; it's more situation-based. However, it is perfectly acceptable to use "this is" to introduce other people to each other, for example, "Hello, this is John from work", "John, this is Stacy, my wife"
2. "to feed myself" is a bit too personal/direct (Jeff is right again) for a more formal writing. I added "important" to keep some emphasis
3. I believed the "perfect job" statement to be unnecessary given the context of the sentence
4. There are a number of ways you could state this sentence; I just chose to use "is that even my boss...". Other options include, "is that my boss even"; "is my boss even" etc. The "that" isn't necessary but I think it sounds slightly better. It is also possible to insert a "that" after "thinks"
5. I believe you wanted to emphasize this with "badly, badly" but it is not correct; so I put in a "very" to keep the emphasis
Good luck with your English studies! I hope your job application process goes smoothly as well!
0 votedMay 17, 20122First notebook entry: Introducing myself
I would want to (be able to) speak and understand English so that I would can traveling and learning study abroad.
"would" in the way you used it and does not fit in the context. "would" is an adverb phrase and a commenting function, structure example: "I would do ____, but ______" or "I would like ______ if _______". If you want to use "would" you can say "I would want to speak and understand English if I could travel and study abroad" the key is the preposition "IF"
"so that" - shows that it leads to certain results; you actually do not need "that" here, but it makes sense in this sentence as well as not in the sentence.
"study abroad" sounds better than "learn abroad"
Good luck with your English studies! I hope you can travel and learn a lot in the future!
0 votedMay 17, 20120First notebook entry: Introducing myself
My name is Toan and I was born and grew up living in Vietnam. <- or you could say "born and raised in Vietnam" it's a fairly common phrase
in Vietnam (or the third person personal pronoun "it") is a beautiful and peaceful country, there are many historical, cultural traditions? Events?Since "historical" and "cultural" are adjectives, they describe a noun. Examples in purple. Or if you are wanting to have "Vietnam" be the noun that "historical" and "cultural" describe, then it could be this, "It is a beautiful and peaceful country, with a lot of history and culture" Or something similar. You get this sentence by replacing the adjectives "historical" and "cultural" with the nouns "history" and "culture"
You could even take out "country" and have a sentence like this, "It (or 'Vietnam') is beautiful, peaceful, and has a lot of history and culture"
I am making financial position control <- I'm not sure what you are trying to say here; are you talking about your job? Your sentence structure here is:pronoun/verb/verb/adjective/noun/noun so you have
"financial position control" - a noun phrase;
"am making financial position control" - a verb phrase;
and "I" a noun phrase;
so all together your sentence is an inflectional phrase, but it still does not make sense. I think this is because the verb "making" here is a bit odd - think about "I am making control", it would more likely be "I am gaining control" or "I have control". Also I do not know what the noun phrase "financial position control" is.
So basically:
-Choose a different verb (not "making")
-find a better translation for "financial position control"
Does "financial position control" mean that you are becoming more economically stable? If so, you could say "I am becoming more economically stable" or "I am gaining control of my financial situation" or "I am gaining control of my financial position"
Looking forward to exchanging in (<- in this case you need a preposition here) the better more challenging Englishor more advanced
or higher-level
"better English" is a bit awkward
Perhaps "Looking forward to speaking in more advanced English"
Good luck with your English studies!
Unimportant fact: I have a friend who is from Vietnam and is also learning English right now.
0 votedMay 17, 20120- Protección de animales - practicar para un examen de ensayo Una problema major está como la gente mal afectar las animales. Muchos especies han vuelto extinta y mucho estan en peligro de extintción. Los humanos contaminan las ecosistemas por echando pesticidas, talando las selvas tropicales, causando los derrames de petróleos y mucho más. La caza también es muy mal para los animales. Pronto animales maravillosos serán extinto a menos que detenemos la caza excesiva. Es horrible que muchas personas no toman conciencia de nuestro efecto en animales. También, los cazadores necesitan a tomar conciencia de su impacto en especies antes de que ballenas o águilas calvas se vuelvan extinto. En mí opinión, la caza es un deporte cruel. Pero, es lógico porque necesitamos comer. Yo pienso que lo debe soló ser para necesidades. No lo debe para diversión. Son muchas cosas podemos hacer para ayudar los animales. Debemos crear más reservas naturales para que animales tienen un lugar seguro para vivir. También necesitemos a fomentar la limpieza de desperdício de fábricas y otrós lugares. Una otra cosa es que Los cazadores debería ser castigado con una multa muy grande y recibir tiempo de cárcel cuando matan animales en peligro de extinción. La humanidad necesita proteger los animales porque compartimos el mismo mundo.May 17, 201210
I think it happens - but not really that often/noticable. If I'm talking really fast I'm really excited my breathing may start to get heavier and I have to take more pauses in my speech. But honestly it's not a problem. Interesting observation though, makes you think about linguistics :D
0 votedMay 10, 20120
