Lucia
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Thank you for your feedback, precious as always!
Let’s try to fix my errors:
M.W. 1 > soldiers WHO lived
W.F. 1 > there ARE people
W.W. 1 > think ABOUT Italian culture
W.W. 2 > I want to MENTION…
W.F. 2 > where WOMEN WERE seen
W.W. 3 > what I have WRITTEN/SAID above.
W.F. 3 > result of his STUDIES
W.F. 4 > he literally DISAPPEARED
W.F. 5 > to avoid BEING
I think that these corrections should work.
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Thank you for your feedback!
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I was aware that, at least in the past, there was a discrimination in UK on the basis of accents. I think this is due to the fact that the British Empire was composed from a lot of different country, with different accents and trivially, if you have power on someone else, that has some differences from you, you tend to consider s/he “inferior” for that difference.
In Italy there is prejudice about accents, that it is linked to the differences among the regions. I moved in Turin from a little village in the center of Italy and until I lost a bit my accent (that I wasn’t aware to have) people look at me strangely when I was talking. From my friend coming from the Southern part of Italy it was worse. A guy I met at university was full of prejudices on Southern Italians and often mocked accents of the South. On the other hand, when my boyfriend and I come in my origin area, usually I am the one who talks with people in the offices and in the restaurants because we are worried that people hearing a Northern accent think that we are tourist and try to fool us.
In talking English, I never felt discriminated because of my accent, sometimes it is only happened that people I was talking to asked me where I was from. And, at a party, some guys started to talk us repeating two or three Italian sentences, but I don’t consider discrimination because they were drunk and they truly tried to start a conversation with us.
Previously, I had a lot of concerns about my accent, in particular while I was talking in English, but in the last years they faded away. This depends on the fact that my English improved and I had the necessity to use it.
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Thank you for the feedback!
I noticed I did some typos.
Your corrections are about to make the speech more natural or to correct some grammatical errors?
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Thank you Kerin!
I’m not sure about the corrections but I think that:
she HADN’T HAD lunch, HAVING SAID…
But I’ve some doubts about ‘having said’ because in this way I should modify ‘running’ as well.
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Thank you for your feedback!
The word order in English is an old enemy of mine. I was expecting it to show up.
About impressing, cannot verbs in -ing form be used as adjective in general? Because I have always had this misconception.
Anyway, a good replacement for impressive is unsettling according to me.
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Thank you for your precious feedbacks and the grammar lesson!
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You are absolutely right! I noticed it editing my thesis, a nightmare of typos and grammar errors.
How could he be so stupid? What NUDGED him to push the envelope so much? He hasn’t GOT the answer, but he knows that he can blame only himself, because, when he was at a crossroads earlier, he MADE the wrong decision. No one but himself roped him into this disaster.
The day before he studied a chemical experiment at school. It was so easy and the ingredients so common that the idea of reproducing it started to gravitate towards his mind. So, without cluing anybody in, he collected the ingredients and began the experiment. Everything was just fine, until he heated the solution with the microwave, literally dropping a bomb.
His mother will get shirty when she FINDS OUT!
Is it correct now?
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I’ll have a look! Thank you!
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I think that the following corrections should work:
– … of laziness nor intrinsically negative intentions
– … you should also consider the people you are talking to
– … if you use some expressionS that not all people you are talking to understand, IT is a tude behavour.
– … so whether they are able to understand what you are saying
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Thank you for the feedback, it is very clear!
About the corrections:
2) It is necessary add a ‘it’: I find IT really…
3) The correct form is ‘have’ not ‘are’
4) Since I am talking about a past action I am pretty sure that the tense should be ‘felt asleep’
5) In this case I think I should have used past simple, so ‘The last time I DID it, it WAS with…’
Am I right?
P.S. : If you live in Italy and know Italian culture, you will definitely appreciate Boris. If you Google it, you will also find also the first five or six episodes with English subtitles.
