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Leah
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Owww ok...now i have understand it..thank you..very very much..
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chocolate4ever
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damn it! I want to have summer! sunshine!
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Leah
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@chocolate4ever
Yes i wanna summer and holidays too...well i think it's ''just'' in 5 month--
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Leah
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| Verfasst am: 02. März 2009 18:21 Titel: Unhappy, Unloved and out of control- youth of UK !! |
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Hey guys-...
I just wanna know how do you think about the crime in UK...
because i have read TIMES and there was this article..i just write an paragrap of it...
,, An epidemic of violnce, crime abnd durnkennnes has made britain scared of izs young. What´s causing the crises??
---here is my opinion then i would like to hear your opinion...
So in my mind the next generation will be worse..if teh y don´t change something. e.g. the goverment has to conrol people more.
it can´t be that a 11 year old kid have a gun in his hand..that is very irresponslble.
And if they don´t change something everybody haven´t the gust to go out while the people who are in crime devide and seperate themselves more from the social life...
Now it´s your turn..
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chocolate4ever
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So as nobody has anything to say to Leah's comment I 'll start with something different.
I'm sure you all heared about the Beer festival in Munich. which ended just 3 days ago.
do you think all this stuff about it on tv was exaggerated or were all these warnings well founded?
greets chocolate
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MI
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Well, let's say that at least for London, Leah's comment really is correct. The toll of brutal attacks among London's youth has risen alarmingly during the last years as far as I know (and it is not just one TIMES article that addressed this matter). I believe the reasons to be quite complex, but a great part will probably be a lack of occupation and future perspective. Paired with a world of alianation and hopelesness, this leads to vicious circle of decreasing self-esteem and increasing readiness to commit crimes.
Just a short comment about my view on this topic.
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simply
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Hi,
this seems to be a very nice site to improve one's English. 
Therefore it's a real pity that no one's around here anymore.
In fact, my English is rather miserable, so I'm looking urgently for something to counteract this.^^
So, how do/did you learn the language?
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chocolate4ever
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i know it's been 7 months now but i learned english through reading books and traveling a lot. and watching the movies in english helps too
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 22. Apr 2011 11:18 Titel: |
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Hello MI
I learn every day english and I hope that my english is anytime so good as yours. I am going to England this summer for three weeks. I will improve my english and see the land and the people. I am going to live in a British Family where I can see the real British life. The city calls Bournemouth and is a nice rural touristplace with beach at the seaside.
I am going to an English school there and i want to doing a journey to Cambridge, Oxford and London when I am in Bournemouth.
Iam very excited and and happy about this travelidea.
Maybe I can send you a letter from Bournemouth (:
Regards, Your friend
Pablo
Also ich schreibe das alles frei raus ohne nachzuschauen oder sowas, ist mein englisch okay für nen anfänger? lerne gerade mal seit 5 Monaten etwa englisch. |
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MI
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I learn English every day and I hope that my English will be as good as yours some day Satzstruktur: Zeitangabe eher ans Ende, mittendrin nicht häufig richtig. I am going to England this summer for three weeks. I will improve my english and see the country and the people. I am going to live in a British family where I can see the real British life. The city is called Bournemouth and it is a nice rural touristplace with beaches at the seaside. Passiv. Die Stadt wird genannt!
I am going to an English school there and i want to do a journey to Cambridge, Oxford and London when I am in Bournemouth. to + infinitiv, also ohne ing. Immer.
I am very excited and and happy about this travel idea.
Maybe I can send you a letter from Bournemouth (:
Regards, Your friend
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I will answer in English. If there is anything you don't understand, just ask.
It is no problem to understand what you are trying to say. Since I am no teacher, it is hard to assess the level of your English, but I can say that it is understandable.
As you can see, there are some mistakes, but as you don't use too difficult sentence structures, you limit the amount of mistakes you make.
Commenting on your mistakes above, I would say that you should pay some attention to the position of constructions like "every day", etc. in a sentence. Those are adverbials of time and they usually go either at the beginning of the sentence or at its end. This: http://www.englisch-lehrbuch.de/grammatik/kapitel18/18_2_2_adverbien_und_adverbiale_bestimmungen.htm might help you.
There are exceptions of course, mostly in order to emphasise, but probably it would be best for you to simply go by the common rules until you get more accomplished in English. The rest is mainly okay, so don't worry too much.
Greetings
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 24. Apr 2011 11:57 Titel: |
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Thank you for the correction MI
Can you tell me something about your travel to England, please?
It is anything speciallious that I must eat or anything that i must see? I am going to do journeys to London, Cambridge and Oxford and I will see and do as much as it has.
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MI
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Can you tell me something about your travel to England, please?
Is there anything special that I must eat or anything that i must see? I am going to do journeys to London, Cambridge and Oxford and I will see and do as much as I can. |
Well, I have been to England on multiple occasions, but I have only ever been to London and environment (especially Southend-on-Sea). London is a very big city, so there is a lot to see. I especially like the atmosphere of London, which can be grasped best, when just wandering around, which is what I like to do when I am there.
Of course, when you have never been there, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London or Buckingham Palace are places you might want to see - but you'll find those in every guide. I'd also advise to take a one-day ticket for the London underground since many interesting places are quite far apart. What I like a lot about London are the big parks like Hyde-Park, Regents Park or James Park, because they help to create this very special atmosphere that I found in London. Of course, parks, etc. are not too interesting for a one day trip, if however you wanted to visit them nevertheless, I'd advise Hyde Park and Speaker's Corner. If you are lucky, there will be some speakers around (most of them come there every other day). I talked to one of them once, a left-wing who had lived in Berlin for several years.
Aside from that, there is nothing special I would say that you have to do or see.
Greetings
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Pablo
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okay that sounds nice. Do you think after 3 weeks study and live in England, my english will be better? |
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | | okay that sounds nice. Do you think after 3 weeks of studying and living in England, my English will be better? |
There are many parameters involved in how much your English will improve. You will certainly feel more comfortable in speaking English. This is very important, because this will encourage you to speak more freely and more often for example in class (as I gathered, you will be attending school again, soon), which in return will help you to improve your English. Aside from this, it is really up to you, the people around you and your abilities of learning languages. Speak as little German as you can and encourage your guest familiy to correct you as often as possible.
However, I doubt that three weeks will be enough to give you the "feeling" for the language, thus greatly improving your English. This takes more time.
But then - I can hardly predict to what degree your English might improve. I know of people whose English (in terms of correct grammar) has not improved very much after having lived in England for months and others, who jumped several grades in school after only three months.
Greetings
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Pablo
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Thank you. I hope so. In which cities where you ever been in UK? |
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | | Thank you. I hope so. Which cities have you ever been to in the UK? |
I corrected your sentence above. You will notice the construction with an additional "to". An alternative would be something like "Which cities have you ever visited" or perhaps "In which cities have you ever been", although I don't like the latter (which I believe to have a slightly different emphasis) and prefer the former. The main part which you should probably memorize is the question construction "Have you ever (verb) ...".
Concerning your question, I cannot really answer it fully. I have been to different parts of London and to Southend-on-Sea on different occasions (I believe I visited London about six or seven times and Southend about four times) and this is about it, because all my longer visits date back half a decade or more, when I was neither really interested in seeing as many different places as possible nor allowed to do longer travels completely on my own.
In addition, I have been to Dover and I have travelled a little around Essex, but I can't remember very much. Perhaps one day I will find time to explore the other parts of England as well as Wales or Scotland...
Greetings
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 29. Apr 2011 11:35 Titel: |
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Hi, okay. At this time I will prefer ''Have you ever been''.
Your tavelstoryies about England sounds nice. What was the most marvellous thing oder day that you remember in your travel in England? |
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | | Your tavelstories about England sound nice stories --> plural --> sound. What was the most marvellous thing or day that you remember of your travels to England? |
That is a question, which is very hard to answer. What I liked very much was playing football with my classmates during lunch breaks.
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Pablo
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Do you mean soccer or American football? And in what kind of school were you in England? |
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MI
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Since I was in England, by "football" I mean the only real kind of football, which in North-America and Oceania is called soccer .
I attended an all-boys catholic comprehensive school (well, it was called "all-boys", but the sixth-form was mixed). Nothing special, no boarding school, since they usually are much more expensive.
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Pablo
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Okay, where have you stayed in England? By a guest familiy? |
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cat
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Did anyone have experience with a au pair in the usa? I want to learn more about the Amerikan culture.
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Pablo
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No, I haven't but I think that MI can say something about that.
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MI
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | | Okay, where have you stayed in England? With/At a guest familiy? |
Correct, as I stated above, I lived with a very nice guest family.
To the au-pair question:
I haven't done any au-pair, but I know some, who have. They have all been very lucky with their families and thus enjoyed the work very much.
Gruß
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cat
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Ok that sounds great.
Do you think 3 month are enougth to improve the knowleg in the englisch language? Or do you think I need more time?
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Pablo
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I think that will improve your English a lot. |
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MI
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| Verfasst am: 05. Mai 2011 17:35 Titel: |
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That depends entirely on you - your behaviour (will you speak only English when you are there?) as well as your talents, your age and the amount of English you already know.
In order to really get the hang of the language, three months is rather short. I have been to France for six months in grade 11 - had I only been there for three, it would not have been enough to stabilize my knowledge of this language. It will certainly improve, yes, but I would not have felt nearly as much at ease with the language than I felt after six months.
Besides, I believe most families search au-pairs only for a year. Do keep in mind that it will take months to really adapt to the different environment, perhaps get friends, etc. I have never been to another country for more than six months at a time, but people who have say that it mostly took them half a year to really adapt to the environment and then they could just enjoy the other half. I can partly verify this for my time in France.
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Pablo
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Hey MI
Can you tell me how it is for an English people when for example a German like me is speaking with him and I make a mistake and don't say the gerund in sentences which needs the gerund.
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| Verfasst am: 05. Mai 2011 22:33 Titel: |
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: |
Can you tell me how it is for an English person when for example a German like me is speaking with him and I make a mistake and don't say the gerund in sentences which needs the gerund. "a people"= "ein Volk"
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You mean "progressive form", because a gerund is something else. Building the gerund and the progressive form of a verb may be the same, but gerunds are verbs used as a noun.
I have seen your thread, but honestly, I don't really know what to answer, because I am no native speaker, thus I didn't answer.
If I may hazard a guess nevertheless, I'd say if it is a sentence where the usage of one particular structure is really obvious (example: someone disturbs you while you are doing your homework, thus you'd say: "I'm doing my homework, please let me concentrate.") it'd feel very strange to them. I doubt it'd be as bad as when you forget an "s" with "he, she, it" in simple present, because in another context, your sentence might be correct.
Perhaps it is a little similar to people using the German condition II nowadays (Konjunktiv II, z.B.: "Wenn ich diesen Mann kennte, dann hätte ich seine Adresse") in oral communication. It'd feel pretty strange.
In sentences where both types could be easily justified, giving the sentence slightly different meanings, I doubt many would notice.
Another problem why I can't really say anything better is that I don't remember having been corrected for using false tenses in England. Perhaps I hardly ever used false tenses, or they didn't notice. Since most of my grammatic knowledge is based on gut feelings (Bauchgefühl), it makes things even worse.
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Pablo
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Oh Mi
your answers are soo difficult to reading for me but I think that I have understand it.
Can you recommend me an English book which is easy to reading for a beginner like me? |
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Oh Mi
your answers are soo difficult to reading for me but I think that I have understand it.
Can you recommend me an English book which is easy to reading for a beginner like me? |
-ing form nur wenn du gerade dabei bist.
I'm reading.
It is easy to read.
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Pablo
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Hier geht es um keine progressive Form, sondern um das Gerund... |
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ruri14
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macht nichts. Es heißt trotzdem read und nicht reading
LG ruri |
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MI
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Oh Mi
your answers are soo difficult to read for me but I think that I have understood it.
Can you recommend me an English book which is easy to read for a beginner like me? |
ruri is right, it has to be just "read" here, because you have a "to", which makes it an infinitive, not a gerund. In the second sentence you could have written "which is easy reading" (entspricht: "was eine einfache Lesung ist"), but I'd stick to the infinitive-form you used.
Furthermore, "I have understood" requires the participle, of course - it's a present perfect, isn't it .
I believe that my replies are not too easy to read. But in that case, it's learning by reading for you . I try not to use extremely long and complex sentence structures, but I do use extended vocabulary, since there are so many English words that might come in handy one day.
Your question about a book: I don't really know. Books like "Harry Potter", if you like them, are pretty easy to read (not very difficult English, some extended vocabulary knowledge needed), you also might want to try reading something you have already read in German. That might help you very much.
Greetings
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 06. Mai 2011 17:32 Titel: |
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No, I don't like Harry Potter. I will take look in the bibliary.
How long have you learned English? |
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MI
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I did not mean only Harry Potter, but books of this kind in general: Written for a youn audience. Fantasy books very often fall into that category, thus the example.
I started learning English in grade 5 and finished school (bilingual abitur) in 2007. That means I have "learned" English for eight years in school. Since then, I don't take any classes, I only come across English here and in every day life (half the books I read/have to read, videos, sometimes a conversation with a foreign students, etc.)
Greetings
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 08. Mai 2011 21:36 Titel: |
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Cool, I have been having English in school for a few years but a lot of them I have forgotten in the last years because I have worked.
Now I have been learning English for a few months and I like it but the grammar is so much. Every day I am learning vocabluary and grammar exercises.
I think the easyiest way for someone who wants to learn English is that he goes to the UK or America.
My Problem at time is that I use ever the same sentence structure. Every sentence of me is a relative sentence with the word ''that'' among.
For me is this the easyiest way to speak English. I hope that I can changing this anytime in the future.
Do you notice a positive change because of my English?
Thank you for writting here with me.
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cat
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| Verfasst am: 10. Mai 2011 10:40 Titel: |
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I have read, watch an hear Harry Potter in English and German. It´s really good to improve your English.
It´s hard to finde a good link.
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 10. Mai 2011 11:31 Titel: |
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I hate Harry Potter. Harry Potter is for kids, I am an adult.
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ruri14
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| Verfasst am: 10. Mai 2011 12:22 Titel: |
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I can feel with you
I hate Harry Potter, too. But I am a teen-ager.
Maybe you can subscibe an english newspaper. Thats interesting and good to improve your English, too.
I've some video about nature, about Afrika etc. and I look them gladly because the language is easy and I like nature and animals.
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