English Digital Academy | sonia | Activity https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/members/sonialucia-martinogmail-com/activity/ Activity feed for sonia. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:10:40 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.14.4 en-GB 30 hourly 2 9ee259e53e3f276e00462cb80761204d sonia posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/1779/#acomment-1793 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:52:51 +0100 Hi! Still waiting to be hooked 🤨, tonight I would like to read 4th and 5th chapters!

In reply to - Kerin to Lucia, valentina, Chiara, Antonella and sonia

Ladies! How are you getting on with the book? @Lu_Corde @Vale @chiaramig @Antonella @sonim

1. I’m enjoying it 😊

2. Still waiting to be hooked 🤨

3. […]

]]> bf0af4ef4c5d25265edda5189e9e6482 sonia started the discussion Tamara De Lempicka in the forum Activation Project Course 4 https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/tamara-de-lempicka/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:13:09 +0200 Tamara De Lempicka

What you can see is a portrait of a young and blond girl. She’s wearing a green and garish sleeveless dress, her hands are covered by a pair of soft and white gloves and with her right hand she’s reclining towards her face the prominent white hat that she has on her head, creating a shadow over her eyes.

Her gaze is turned towards right. She…

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]]> 513ba9ee8c58ac1b14734d3ef2ab6939 sonia started the discussion British vs American English in the forum What's your experience with American and British English? https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/british-vs-american-english/ Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:04:11 +0200 British vs American English

  • What’s your personal experience with British English and American English?

Personally, I much prefer British English rather than American one. I think the former is sweeter, more delicate and somehow more sophisticated than American English, which I consider a little more aggressive and sometimes coarse…

Also, maybe because of my personal…

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]]> 0514dece0c80644c43e85cbac61d1bb6 sonia replied to the discussion The pleasure of sadness in the forum Discussion Room: De Botton and Hopper https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/the-pleasure-of-sadness/#post-10595 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:27:33 +0200 Reply to The pleasure of sadness

Hi @Kerin,

thanks a lot for your comments and notes. I enjoyed this task!

Here the 2 corrections (hope so!):

> I’m used to runNING all the time

> Finally, I don’t know any other artist that communicateS

]]> c1ddcb1667229ac27c798cf72bb82ecf sonia started the discussion The pleasure of sadness in the forum Discussion Room: De Botton and Hopper https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/the-pleasure-of-sadness/ Thu, 28 May 2020 16:42:32 +0200 The pleasure of sadness

Though the De Bottom’s extract is plenty of ‘sad’ words, I actually enjoyed reading it!

In some way, it produced over me the same effects as the Hopper’s paintings: a pleasure of just staying, in fact!

As most of the human being, I’m used to run all the time, to feel always worried about something, persecuted by my regrets and griefs. Through the…

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]]> 07250b7191d715c6cda318162d513dfa sonia posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/618/#acomment-621 Mon, 25 May 2020 15:48:00 +0200 Thanks a lot!

In reply to - sonia to Kerin Hi @Kerin, I’ve got a question (actually 2!) about the Canedian girl teaching us how to talk about a painting. At a certain point of the video (in the part number 3=interpret), she says like […] ]]> 554030e7b3376a934ba7c0b9c26de4b9 sonia: Hi @Kerin, I've got a question (actually 2!) about […] https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/618/ Fri, 22 May 2020 16:24:14 +0200 Hi @Kerin,
I’ve got a question (actually 2!) about the Canedian girl teaching us how to talk about a painting.
At a certain point of the video (in the part number 3=interpret), she says like “…to take a stab at what it’s trying to convey…”. Take a stab??? Can you say that?
Moreover, when she analyses, she uses this nice expression:… Read more

]]> 3 1179c753769f26ae601cf863e024eff8 sonia replied to the discussion Discussion room: art in the forum Discussion Room: ART https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/discussion-room-art/#post-10367 Thu, 21 May 2020 14:41:33 +0200 7ba0e55112da8fa3151c81b0d65b23e0 sonia replied to the discussion Discussion room: art in the forum Discussion Room: ART https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/discussion-room-art/#post-10365 Thu, 21 May 2020 14:35:21 +0200 Reply to Discussion room: art

Hi Kerin!

Thanks for your notes! Nice to share our thoughts!

Here one of my favourite painting from Chagall:

]]> 41345e94fbc317564c5c66830d75e690 sonia started the discussion Defining art (some aspects) in the forum Defining art brainstorm https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/defining-art-some-aspects/ Thu, 21 May 2020 14:30:48 +0200 7608f15bcbd6e763f299de155d81487f sonia replied to the discussion Discussion room: art in the forum Discussion Room: ART https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/discussion-room-art/#post-10303 Sun, 17 May 2020 17:02:28 +0200 Reply to Discussion room: art

Q1: Do you like art? If yes, what kind of art do you like? How often do you go to art museums? If no, do you know why you don’t like it?

I do love art! Specially that one of the XIX th / beginning of XX th century: the Illumists, Expressionists, Avangards. I often enjoy going to art museums when I visit a new country or city (less in my town, I…

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]]> 1cbf9bf160b74e8fad6829a59474dd8a sonia and Carla are now connected https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/441/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:09:56 +0200 0 c21abfd7dc38e108357c486a72bde9f6 sonia: @Adriana, you completely stole the words from my mouth! https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/380/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:21:25 +0200 @Adriana, you completely stole the words from my mouth!

I skipped the challenge of the last 2 days, about friendship and a meaningful place where I traveled, and now reading the Good Vibes topic, I immediately decided to combine all these topics … Why?

Because during my 2002 trip to Peru I discovered that there are magical places on… Read more

]]> 2 2b28efaf350a8141876dc052b7750fc2 sonia posted an update: I don't know why, but if any of us, like @Marivis, had […] https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/278/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:04:20 +0200 I don’t know why, but if any of us, like @Marivis, had the experience of driving in the middle of a fog “storm” (as happened to me and Stephane in Iceland last summer, it was a nightmare!), he, or she, will remember those gray minutes for ages.
Obviously the concrete risk of ending up into a ravine keeps you in a very high state of alert, but… Read more

]]> 1 39a8f1f71ee164d5f7ab4b1d3bb7ceef sonia posted an update: Hello! I don’t know why, but the first thing that came to […] https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/226/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:45:07 +0200 Hello!
I don’t know why, but the first thing that came to my mind at the question “What are things you can’t go without?” is … my earrings! It could be because I miss so much to go out in this period, but I remember that anytime that happened that I went out without wearing a pair of colored earrings (possibly fit with my look of the day) I… Read more

]]> 1 832cfdf06eb5c3fad57ffa9adf5d0ded sonia replied to the discussion How we perceive accents in the forum How we perceive accents https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-we-perceive-accents/#post-8265 Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:12:38 +0100 Reply to How we perceive accents

Thanks Kerin for your comments!

I might have overused the present perfect. So:

…I realized not only that… (the when is known)

…I grew up… (it is past, with no effect now)

(not sure) I followed elocution lessons and so I made my accent situation even more confused…

]]> 8aef4c8edb27c09df6ff3163e9d6155e sonia replied to the discussion How we perceive accents in the forum How we perceive accents https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-we-perceive-accents/#post-8263 Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:25:31 +0100 Reply to How we perceive accents

About UK, I wasn’t aware of a snobbery issue around accents until I’ve lived in Scotland for some months when I was 25: there, I’ve realized not only that Scottish accent is actually quite different from “Oxford” English, the “cut-glass” accent (but I’ve soon got attached to it!), but also that people from other parts of UK were mocking…

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]]> bfe30d70d4352aa769e54000a929d807 sonia replied to the discussion final activationproject - different scenarios in the forum Final activation project-successful conversations https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/final-activationproject-different-scenarios/#post-7763 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:54:59 +0100 Reply to final activationproject - different scenarios

Scenario 1
I’m sorry, I don’t know this expression. Could you explain it please?

Scenario 2
I’m sorry, I’m having trouble following. Would you mind speaking more slowly please?

Scenario 3
Sorry, I didn’t catch that, could you say that again?

Scenario 4
I’m confused. Can you explain that in a different / more specific way?

Scenario 5
I… Read more

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