[Lucia]

Thank you for your feedback!

Yes, you caught the concept I wanted to express. In my mind lonely = solitary and alone and lonely aren’t synonyms. From your sentence I suppose that alone and lonely are synonyms indeed and solitary is the ‘positive’ side of lonely in a sense. Am I right?

[Lucia]

Thank you for the feedback!

The present perfect is needed because the action has an effect in the present (I’ll send you my presentation this evening!)

[Lucia]

I am happy of that! The 50 words limit makes the task really tricky!

[Lucia]

Thank you for your feedback!

Actually, I had a coffee before! I wrote this Sunday morning, so I was definitely well rested 😂

[Lucia]

I’ll paste and copy my text above and I’ll do the corrections directly on it.

Since I (a) HAVEN’T GOT particular issues with pronunciation and I (as everyone else) am constantly surrounded by American English, I have done the British English Listening.

The podcast extract talks about facial recognition, starting from a Russian website (Yandex I think), that works (b) LIKE Google, but it (c) SEARCHES FOR IMAGES INSTEAD OF WORDS. In the podcast they upload her selfie and the website searches for other photos of her (d) ON the net.

It is (e1) ON one side pretty cool, but (e2) ON the other really creepy. This last aspect is underlined (f) BY him, he (g) MAKES the (h) EXAMPLE of “sneaky photos in the tub” or (i) PHOTOS taken (j) BY an unknown person in a bar.

Moreover, there are a lot of our images (k) ON the net right now, cameras in public places are everywhere: football (l) MATCHES, concerts, (m) BARS with friends and also when you simply are walking down to go home.

Recently ( (n) COMPARED TO the the podcast transmission) police in London (o) HAS STARTED (p) USING live cameras because after another terroristic attack there were pressures to improve surveillance. This could really (q) REVOLUTIONIZE the fight against crime, but it makes also the world closer to Orwell’s 1984. In fact, facial recognition allows (r) GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES to constantly keep track of our position and activities.

From this perspective the final question (the only I could get despite the amount of times I have listened to) is really on point: Should be we scared?

I have some doubts about (n) correction. Anyway, thank you for the As and Like difference explanation, I definitely needed it.

This time I have done a lot of avoidable errors, I need to put more care on it and to avoid to write stuff when I am tired 😅

[Lucia]

HI Kerin, thank you for your corrections!

Can I ask you if, apart from verbs and phrasal verbs, the corrections are related to a wrong construction of the phrases or a non natural one?

[Lucia]

An error here: *WASN’T THE BRIGHTEST…

[Lucia]

Let me try to correct!

I STUDIED only

I went TO

FROM my side (?)

I’m not really sure about this last correction.

[Lucia]

Thank you for your feedback Kerin!

The last one was a typo indeed.

[Lucia]

I think it is a problem of the chosen verb, but I cannot find a word more suitable. Can you give me a tip?

[Lucia]

Hi @Kerin , thank you for your feedback! I am really happy you enjoyed it.

I haven’t understood the correction you did in the post scriptum, can you please expand it?

[Lucia]

Although I am not an artistic person, I love art. I really enjoy to spend a couple of hours in a museum, particularly if it is early in the morning and the exhibitions aren’t crowded. I’m particularly passionate about Modern art, so period between 1700-1800, and the way the artists clashed with the spread photography and began to represent also poor people. I will focus on picture in the following because is the art that I better know.

I appreciate Impressionism, but my absolute favourite painters are Courbet and Munch. Courbet is the most famous Realist painter and it is the first one who started to represent the plebs, for example in his ‘The Stonebreaker’, and for this reason he was excluded by the canon exhibitions and created his personal one. Moreover, he was an eccentric character that I find fascinating, let think about his own self-portrait he named ‘The fool’.

Munch, on the other hand, was a more conceptual painter and I love his simple figures and powerful concepts, let think about his ‘Scream’, seen as an environmental critic.

About the modern art paintings I don’t like them very much, mostly because I don’t understand them. The last years paintings are conceptual ones and, for this reason, I find that it is difficult that people who haven’t studied specifically art or art’s history are able to appreciate them.

[Lucia]

Understood!

Thank you for the clarification.

[Lucia]

Did I forget a ‘the’ in front of ‘human condition’?

[Lucia]

Let’s try to fix them:

1. the correct structure is ‘enjoy + -ing’ so ‘I really enjoy SPENDING …’

2. THE period…

3. I will focus on PAINTING in the following, because IT is the art I (know better ?)

I meant ‘the latest paintings’.

Ups, I used an Italian English.

Thank you for your feedback!