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Improving my English
Hello to all,
I am Giulio, a 40-year-old man from Rome, Italy. More than one year ago, I was starting to learn Spanish: I wrote on this forum for a couple of months and several users helped me to improve. Then I continued practicing it, on January 2012 I started to take individual lessons and now I have became quite fluent, for us italians is not excessively difficult to learn Spanish. Now I came back to this forum with a different purpose: I want to perfectionate my English!! I want to do it also for reasons related to my working activity. Actually, I write in English quite often: I have some friends here and there in Europe and sometimes I also write on some english-speaking forums. So I don't lack english practice, there are two problems though: - Most of these friends are not native english speakers and so probably they also make mistakes, or they use expressions and constructions that don't belong to current English; - Almost nobody corrects me, and so I never know whether I make mistakes!! Some time ago a guy from London told me that I sometimes use the wrong prepositions. So, I wish that on this forum users will help me to discover the weaknesses that I still have in my english knowledge, and to make further progresses. Thank you in advance!! |
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I have that same problem as well. I have several sites, which explain that very well, but i don't get it. I'm quite sure people will help you here.
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I'd be very thankful, if you'd correct my mistakes in English/Spanish. Last edited by Premium; February 08, 2013 at 04:20 PM. |
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I corrected your mistakes and suggested alternate wording here and there. There are more natural ways to say some of the things you wrote, too, but I didn't provide them. |
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Hello Rusty,
thanks for your kind reply. I remember that you also corrected me some Spanish when I was starting to learn it in summer 2011. The mistakes you found suggest that I still have some way to go in perfecting my english, we never know foreign languages well enough. Every time I will take note of the mistakes users will point out, so that I won't repeat them in the future. The construction "help to" + infinitive is not correct? I have heard it sometimes. Thanks again! Hello Premium, you also have problems with prepositions, you mean? Yes, they are difficult in every language, because there is never an one-to-one correspondence between languages, for example the preposition "to" in italian translates in many different ways depending on the context. Last edited by AngelicaDeAlquezar; February 09, 2013 at 01:58 PM. Reason: Merged back-to-back posts |
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I'd be very thankful, if you'd correct my mistakes in English/Spanish. |
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Happy learning! |
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I'm quite sure i did some mistakes.
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Would be "contrary to" or "unlike" wrong?
Thanks for correcting, Rusty
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You could say "unlike in" (colloquial)though Rusty's correction is the best. |
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