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#137 (permalink) Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:12 am Audio English course for Beginners |
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| Limanes wrote: |
Hello, My name is Liliana and I am from Peru. I'm married and I have three adolescent children, so as you can see I'm an adult with some life experience.
I'm very pleased for joining this forum, It's the first time I join a forum and I would like to be an active member. My English is good because of my job. I have to read, write, listen, and speak English every day but I don't have any contact with native speakers and I neither have opportunities to travel to English speaking countries; that's why I'm trying to make contact with people who can help me and to whom I can humbly help.
I have received three lessons but they are very basic. Do you think you can send me more advance grammar topics? I have some problems with conditionals, past perfect, phrasal verbs and two word verbs as well as vocabulary related to specific topics as education, business and the environment.
Thanks a lot for your help. Sincerely,
Liliana |
Dear Liliana,
Many thanks for your message. Of course you can also get more advanced materials: conditionals phrasal verb "break" phrasal verb "bring" health vocabulary
Please let me know what you think. Best regards, Torsten
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#138 (permalink) Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:42 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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HY!
I'm Julia from Romaniia and i also want to write the answers for beginner listening 3.
Sue works for a financial company. She usually starts work at 8:45 am and finish work at about 5:15 pm. she enjoy the personal contact with her clients because they come form all walks of life and are all ages. Bye! |
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Juliafekete You can meet me at english-test.net

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#139 (permalink) Wed Aug 13, 2008 13:03 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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HY!
I just made the test about finish and end. I had 4 mistakes, because i don't understand well when to use one and when the other. Which is the difference between them. Thank you! |
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Juliafekete You can meet me at english-test.net

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#141 (permalink) Wed Aug 13, 2008 14:22 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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Hy again!
I would like to tell something related to the lessons you are sending to me. I know English pretty well, I know a lot of vocabulary and I'm able to understand your letters without problem. But I think they are really hard to understand for those who just start to learn English. I'm talking about the letters sent to the email, not about the related links in the lessons. When I first joined your website, my purpose was to find some materials for beginners. But as I started to learn and read the lessons (i've learned 4 of them with listening) I realized that the letters are difficult for beginners. And I can give you some reasons as well. It doesen t matter if you want to speak about personal pronouns or about something else they can't understand well because you use all the verb tenses. And you can imagine that a beginner in a good situation maybe knows some present tenses , not all of the verb tenses. How could I do to use your lessons for helping beginners in their studies?
Regards, Julia |
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Juliafekete You can meet me at english-test.net

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#142 (permalink) Wed Aug 13, 2008 16:55 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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hello, the answer is May, because is when spring turns in to summer, for me the best month is December because I enjoy Christmas, and the other Holy days
Best regards and Thanks |
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#143 (permalink) Wed Aug 13, 2008 17:02 pm Hy! |
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| I really don't understand how is your answer related with my question? |
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Juliafekete You can meet me at english-test.net

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#144 (permalink) Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:13 am Audio English course for Beginners |
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Dear Torsten! Thank you very much for the lessons you have sent me. I was a little busy then I am late with my studies. Sue's favourite months is May when spring turns summer. All the best for you. Sandra Brasil |
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Sandra Rita Da Silva I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#145 (permalink) Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:37 am Hello |
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Dear Mr. Torsten,
Thank you for English lesson no. 11. I learned so many things from this lesson. Regarding Months
Sue's favorite month is May. She likes this month very much because in the month of May spring turns into summer. I also like May but my favorite month is December. Because in December we celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ.
You also asked for our opinion for learning the English most effectively. My practical experience is read, listen / hear and write more and more again and again in English. So that we can improve our English day by day.
This week end we celebrate our country's independence day. It is on 15th August.
Thank you very much for your English lessons once again.
Best wishes
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Ranitomy I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#146 (permalink) Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:16 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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| Juliafekete wrote: |
Hy again!
I would like to tell something related to the lessons you are sending to me. I know English pretty well, I know a lot of vocabulary and I'm able to understand your letters without problem. But I think they are really hard to understand for those who just start to learn English. I'm talking about the letters sent to the email, not about the related links in the lessons. When I first joined your website, my purpose was to find some materials for beginners. But as I started to learn and read the lessons (i've learned 4 of them with listening) I realized that the letters are difficult for beginners. And I can give you some reasons as well. It doesen t matter if you want to speak about personal pronouns or about something else they can't understand well because you use all the verb tenses. And you can imagine that a beginner in a good situation maybe knows some present tenses , not all of the verb tenses. How could I do to use your lessons for helping beginners in their studies?
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Hi Julia,
Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences and ideas regarding our email English lessons. As of now, more than 35.000 people have subscribed to the newsletter/email course. I think that some of them are beginners, some are intermediate, others are advanced learners and some of them are native speakers of English. I really would like to know how our subscribers define their level of English and that's why I started this topic.
You are right, in my emails I do use different tenses some of which might be new to some of our learners. But then again, that's what learning is all about, isn't? If a learner doesn't know a phrase, they can ask us any time here on the forum and we will help them. Based on my experience, you can learn English in many different ways. As a matter of fact, the sooner you get exposed to different tenses, the better.
Let me know what you think. Regards, Torsten
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#147 (permalink) Tue Aug 19, 2008 15:30 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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hello excuse for late answer for ession 2 1- he works for a large financial campany 2- he usually start works at 45 past 8 3- they come form all walks of live and are all ages. |
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#148 (permalink) Tue Aug 19, 2008 15:59 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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Hi Moha,
Thanks a lot for answering the questions. Here are my suggestions:
| akkimoh wrote: |
| hello excuse for late |
Hello. Sorry for answering so late.
| akkimoh wrote: |
| answer for ession 2 |
Here are the answers to the questions in session 2.
| akkimoh wrote: |
| 1- he works for a large financial campany |
She works for a large financial company.
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| 2- he usually start works at 45 past 8 |
She usually starts work at 8.45.
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| 3- they come form all walks of live and are all ages. |
Her customers come from all walks of life and are all ages.
You might want to read how can I improve my writing skills?
Let me know what you think. Regards, Torsten
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#149 (permalink) Tue Aug 19, 2008 16:26 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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Hi Torsten,
I don’t have the mp3 player device on my PC to listen to the recording but I have been able to read the transcript.
The answers to the following questions are as follows:
Question: What company does Sue work for? Answer: Sue works for a large financial company
Question: What time does she usually start work? Answer: She usually starts work at 8:45am
Question: Why does she enjoy the personal contact with her clients? Answer: She enjoys the personal contact with her clients because they have different careers and are of all ages.
Please make corrections where necessary.
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Goldenjewel I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#150 (permalink) Tue Aug 19, 2008 18:19 pm Audio English course for Beginners |
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Hi Julie,
Thanks a lot for your answers. It's obvious that you are serious about learning English and you have already achieved a lot. The only thing you might want to take a look at again is the phrase "they have different careers". I know exactly what you mean and the combination might be grammatically correct. It's just that it doesn't sound very natural. I'm sure you know how to say it differently.
Talk to you soon, Torsten
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