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Title: 'Demonstration for a part of the Passport Administration Scheduling... | "At present" vs "At the present"
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Better "also" or "too"? Mon Dec 18, 2006 16:08 pm  Better "also" or "too"?
 

Dear All,

I am back! Thank you to everyone helping me to find out the best solution for this sentence.
See you, Alex

"He also possesses a remarkable international experience, being very communicative and proficient in German and Italian, also at a specific business level."

or

"He also possesses a remarkable international experience, being very communicative and proficient in German and Italian, at a specific business level too."
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Better "also" or "too"? Mon Dec 18, 2006 16:38 pm  Better "also" or "too"?
 

Hi there

My gut feeling would be to opt for "also" but if it was my task I'd rephrase the ending like this: "... Italian, specifically at a business level." Here's why: My guess is that what you want to say is that he is proficient in these two languages not at a specific level of business -meaning a particular level relating to ONE business issue among others- but that he's able to communicate well about business issues in general? I could be wrong, of course...

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Dear All,

I am back! Thank you to everyone helping me to find out the best solution for this sentence.
See you, Alex

"He also possesses a remarkable international experience, being very communicative and proficient in German and Italian, also at a specific business level."

or

"He also possesses a remarkable international experience, being very communicative and proficient in German and Italian, at a specific business level too."

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Better "also" or "too"? Mon Dec 18, 2006 16:51 pm  Better "also" or "too"?
 

Dear Librarian, thank you for your replay!

not exactly..
I mean he has very good "general" knowledge of German and Italian, and at the same time he is ALSO good in the specific area of both Business German and Italian.
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Better "also" or "too"? Mon Dec 18, 2006 18:14 pm  Better "also" or "too"?
 

Dear alexvize

It's "reply" rather, by the way.

I think I correctly guessed your intended meaning, because what you say is exactly
what my re-wording was meant to convey but it's up to you of course.

Cheers
L.L.

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Dear Librarian, thank you for your replay!

not exactly..
I mean he has very good "general" knowledge of German and Italian, and at the same time he is ALSO good in the specific area of both Business German and Italian.

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Better "also" or "too"? Mon Dec 18, 2006 18:38 pm  Better "also" or "too"?
 

ok,
sorry for my misunderstood!

Thank you again, Alex
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Better "also" or "too"? Mon Dec 18, 2006 18:43 pm  Better "also" or "too"?
 

Hi Alex

I agree with LL's idea. In addition, you should make the word 'experience' uncountable (i.e. delete the word 'a'). Theoretically, you could also use 'know-how' instead of 'experience'. Instead of using 'also' or 'too' you could use words such as particularly or including. Here is my suggestion:

"He also possesses remarkable international experience, being very communicative and proficient in both German and Italian, particularly on a business level."

Using the word particularly would stress the business aspect. Using including would be more similar to simply saying 'also' or 'too'.

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