Oh WOW! Thanks, Kerin, I’m so happy to read your message!

This is really interesting…actually, I didn’t know the real usage of “well”. Thank you!!!

Thanks for your corrections Kerin! 🙏 And also for this new expression: “come to terms with” and this new word: “mourning”!!! 😃

My own attitude to change is not always the same. There are phases and situations where I want and need changes. I think I tend to crave change when I don’t feel well in a certain situation or a place. Or sometimes I just need something new or different because going towards the unknown can be exciting, and also because new challenges make us…

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Here’s another interesting exercise Karin!

I hadn’t realized before how much my taste has changed over a 10 years span!

One of the biggest changes is the fact that in the past I liked going out with friends until the wee hours of the morning several times per week, whereas now I enjoy spending time at home, I need it! And maybe that’s why, I…

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I went to my mate’s house to watch the England game the other day. I walked in and said “Alright?” he gave me a beer and I said “ta.” England lost 4-1 to Germany. My pal and I were very gutted. We decided to go for some nosh. The closest pub was selling burgers for a fiver. When we got to the pub there were some other mates there…

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Thanks @Kerin ! Your message is really motivating!!! 🤩

– Some people say that people who use slang are lazy. Do you agree?

I’ve never thought about this option…but I don’t think so. Slang is an important part of a language, it’s the addition of the “cultural note”. Moreover, I believe that people are influenced by the way of speaking of the people they mix with.

– How difficult is it for you to…

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Thanks Kerin! So far, I always had doubts about using as and like, but now I got it!

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I have to say that I didn’t know that learning English was so important in China. And I felt uncomfortable looking at these photos and listening to the Chinese repeating these phrases…it sounds like real propaganda. I don’t like seeing young people being manipulated in this way, even if it is for a good cause. Everybody should be free to…

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Thanks so much for your feedback Kerin! What you do is really great! It’s fabulous (and unique on online courses) the feeling of having a “real” teacher who takes care of her pupils.

About my notes:

> Confidential: I used a kind of French false friend here! I wanted to say: something that is not widely findable. Not many people used to have TV…

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Mass media is something fabulous and dangerous at the same time…

The invention of television is the culmination of a long journey of discoveries and inventions made at the end of the 19^th century. January 26, 1926 saw the first public broadcast of television images by Scotsman John Baird.

Confidential and for a long time in black and…

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