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I'm Looking for opportunities to learn and practice the languages I'm actively learning: Turkish, Arabic, Swedish, Russian, Danish, Japanese, Hebrew and Indonesian. I'm also looking for opportunities to practice the languages I know fairly well: German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian. I'm open to working with teachers in these language or doing a language exchange. My native language is English. I'm male, 52, and am married to a male partner. Best wishes to you, Donny
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Turkish
Indonesian
Chinese (Mandarin)
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Antony Vilchez
Spanish
May 13, 2022
Hoy tuve el placer de conocer a Donny, un estudiante que además de hablar varios idiomas, está dispuesto a seguir mejorando su nivel de español. ¡Nos vemos en la próxima clase! :)
Paul
German
Apr 15, 2022
Thank you for our conversation. Donny is a charming men: friendly, amenable and empathic. I am very surprised and excited about your openness to all your day-by-day learning-topics. See and speak you soon!
Rogier
Dutch
Jun 25, 2020
Bedankt voor het interessante gesprek Donny! Leuk u te leren kennen! Uw passie voor de Nederlandse taal heeft ervoor gezorgd dat u erg goed Nederlands spreekt!
Deniz Burcay
Turkish
Jun 3, 2020
Great person, great lesson. Thanks Donny!
Activities
  • Posted
    Another question about how to say, "take care" in Mandarin Do you use bǎo zhòng 保重 if the person is ill and you want to wish him health? For example, my Mandarin teacher was ill today and couldn't have the lesson, so I wanted to say something like, "Please take care," or "take care of yourself" I tried to write to her: Are you sick? Take care. 你生病嗎？保重！ What do you say to someone who is sick? Thank you! Donny
    December 13, 2014
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    worrying in Chinese 放心 fàng xīn is Not worried, I found out. It's kind of the opposite from English, so if I'm worried, I am 我不放心 If I'm NOT worried, I am 我放心。
    October 30, 2014
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    What I learned in my Dutch lesson To say "in the 90s" you say in de jaren negentig to look down on something is neerkijken op The Red Light District in Amsterdam is called De Wallen recordings are opnames
    July 11, 2014
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    Some Notes for my German Class Es fällt mir ein bisschen schwer. Wortschatz erweitern. Die Strände das Stadtbild Skyline Der Mietpreis erhöht sich
    January 10, 2014
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  • Posted
    Notes from Italian Lesson Short phrases I worked on: eccezioni siamo andati in un albergo famoso una volta al mese cucina cinese la carne di tacchino il giorno del ringraziamento per la salute ridere sorridere una persona occidentale
    January 7, 2014
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    Danish lesson with Jørgen Imperative: Making commands more polite. Instead of luk døren, you can say Vil du ikke lige luk døren Funny thing about the verb "må," it can mean "must" or "may" depending on the context. Du må lære englesk! You have to learn English! but Må jeg (gerne) bruge din computer? May I use your computer
    January 7, 2014
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  • Posted
    Portuguese usage vs. Brazilian usage.. Never did understand how the pronoun "you" works in Portuguese of Portugal. In Brazil, it's easy because seems like everone is "você' or "o senhor" "a senhora" for formal. But in Portugal, they also have the 2nd person singualar "tu" Tu is the most familiar. Você is an intermediate level of formality and then "o senhor" etc is for people you don't know.
    December 6, 2013
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  • Commented

    Привет, Андрей!

     

    Я изучаю русски язык.  Сейчас поздно здесь в Сан Франсиско. Но поже я хотел бы с вами говорить.

     

    Пока!

     

    Донни

     

     

     

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    December 2, 2013
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  • Commented

    Here is your ticket to learning French.

     

    Run, do not walk to this FREE site:

     

    http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/

     

    It is part of the University of Austin, Texas.  It's their FREE French course:  book, audio, exercises.

    You can at least start of your own .  And did I mention it's FREE?

     

    Best wishes to you,

     

    Bonne chance (good luck)

     

    Donny

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    December 2, 2013
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  • Posted
    auxiliary verb être vs. avoir Here's something I wasn't clear on: I knew you use être as the auxiliary verb for intransitive verbs of motion like: Je suis venu Je suis monté Je suis allé However, if it is a verb of displacement, you use avoir: J'ai marché J'ai couru J'ai nagé j'ai rampé (crawled)
    November 14, 2013
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