What do you think of this audio recording (1 present simple)?

[Rindara]

Good Morning Dear sir or madom!\

all leson and many thing that you were send to me all document talked about many way of learning english language is very specially for me because really want to know everythink for to use speaking writing reading and listening but i have some broblem by i don have a computer to use so and busy work out side so this not have some free time to learn from internet with you . so , hope you give me manything that you can help but i will try a gain and again for my self.

thanks you for your manything that you help .

Rindara

[Wly]

Hi, everybody
I have some question about this article.
" In London, which stands on the River Thames, people make a lot of noise all the time." What the "which" replace in this sentence ?
"Never cast a clout (remove an article of clothing) before May is out." I don't know this sentence mean.

thanks

[Beeesneees]

Please read this thread about the sentence 'In London...'
http://www.english-test.net/forum/sutra347417.html#347417

'Never cast a clout before May is out,' is an old proverb which indicates that you should remain warmly dressed until you can be sure that hot summer weather has arrived.
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[Wly]

Thanks, Beeesneees

I think i got it. Is it like a phrase in our language ? It says " don't let your blankets go before you eat the zongze in the May ".
(I come from Taiwan )
And can you tell me what is " (remove an article of clothing) " mean?

[Beeesneees]

Take off an item of clothes.
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[Fatemeh5]

Hi dear Mr. Torsten,
I listen to it. It was very interesting for me but I have a problem. Because I am not a native speaker, it is very fast for me, whenever I try to improve my listening without seeing the text, I can't follow the text and get confused. I need to listen to some part of it until I can get the correct pronunciation and accent. So I need to listen with my MP3 but it isn't possible to save it, is there any way that I can do it and listen to it for several times, even when I am doing my job!? If is it possible please tell me how?
Thanks in advance.
fatemeh

[Lama1]

Hi Torsten,I have just listened to the lesson and the story as well.They were quite understandable and clear;although,I have some difficulty figuring out the meaning of some words while reciting.Anyway,thanks for this lesson.

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Alan,

The letter what I wanted to write you yesterday I couldn't because we had to go from home. I wanted to write you that " It never gets you anywhere " came to me in the best time.
Of course your helping letter also, to solve my problems with the iPad.

I asked several technicians and their answer was: I wouldn't have bought this.

I spoke to you one of my grandchildren who is a "jack-of-all-trades " I mentioned him to you when you bought a table of which the assembling cause you lot of difficulty. Now I said to you what a pity that my grandchild couldn't help you. And I told you he is a very helpful child and his teaches adores him because something fails they call Tomi and he can repair always everything .His tools are always with you.

He told me that he has the same iPad and he could solve this problem and he would solve to me also.My technician doubted and he told me to see my grandchild's iPad
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[Kati Svaby]

Hello Alan,

The letter what I wanted to write you yesterday I couldn't because we had to go from home. I wanted to write you that " It never gets you anywhere " came to me in the best time.
Of course your helping letter also, to solve my problems with the iPad.

I asked several technicians and their answer was: I wouldn't have bought this.

I spoke to you one of my grandchildren who is a "jack-of-all-trades " I mentioned him to you when you bought a table of which the assembling cause you lot of difficulty. Then I said to you what a pity that my grandchild couldn't help you. And I told you he is a very helpful child and his teachers adores him because something fails they call Tomi and he can repair always everything .His tools are always with him.

I continue later because my battery is very low.
Regards:
Kati Svaby

He told me that he has the same iPad and he could solve this problem and he would solve to me also.My technician doubted and he told me to see my grandchild's iPad
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Alan,

I would like to finish my letter.
Now that I've read it again I see that I couldn't express myself. Besides there are mistakes in it. I am sorry.
For exp:The technician told me: You shouldn't have bought it.

So my grandchild who loves me very much and of course I love him very much he is looking forward to solving my problem.
( The technician told me that I should see how his iPad works and I have to control whether english-test.net comes in or not.) And I saw, and I stood gaping because with his iPad I can listen tests and I can use JAVA on english-test.net. Of course he never uses these pages. Its a legal thing he had to pay 2$ for it. Incredible and ridiculous amount of money. Tomorrow he comes at our home and he is downloading this program.

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Even one thing: I received a letter from Joel Milne and he wrote this:

Hello Kati, you are correct the iPad is an Apple product, and Apple products do not offer support for Java or Flash. This is because Java and Flash can both be used to make web applications, and Apple does not want to lose the revenue it makes selling its own web apps.

There are many other tablet products out there and most or all of them support Java and Flash which are important and commonly used technologies. For example the Blackberry Playbook, Microsoft Xoom, or Samsung Galaxy.

As we rebuild English-Test.net we might try to reduce use of Java/Flash because of Apple's lack of support. However, that will take months and years, it not something we can change quickly. Those are powerful and useful technologies and they are in use on millions of websites. They perform important functions on our website.

You might also complain to iPad that their product does not support major parts of the Internet. However, their stock price just reached a new record high yesterday, so I doubt they will change their system anytime soon.

Regards,

I am very proud of my grandchild who is a very modest ,warm-hearted child.
I hope you don't take an offence if I send you a picture of him.

Best regards:
Kati Svaby


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[Kati Svaby]

Hello Torsten,

I clicked the same link yesterday and I got English prepositions, this morning I clicked it and I got :Listen to this lesson (English audio, MP3)
What do you think of this audio recording?

I remember this newsletter, I was familiar with it. But I didn't hear any background noise.

Of course this day I am going to repeat it, because I forgot some expressions. I am sorry that I can do it just now only later.

The woman's pronunciation who read out this lesson is easily understandable.

Many thanks:
Kati Svaby

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[Kati Svaby]

Hello,

I know very well this newsletter. I dealt with it about a year ago.

Now:Why did Torsten wrote in his permalink (1 present simple?) Is it possible that there is in this text only one real simple present? Which can be?

Alan says about his newsletter:"It never gets you anywhere" -
"I used the Present Simple in in this narrative was that I wanted to make the action seem more direct. This is a device known as the 'historic present' and is also used in speech when you are describing something and you want to make your story more dramatic as in: when instead of past tenses you use simple present to make the narration more vivid." So he used simple present inside of past tenses.

Which can be odd one out?

My tip:: ANDREW SMODLEY HANDS THE RING TO SALLY FAIRWEATHER'S FUTURE HUSBAND."
’ hands '- it is a fact in this story , what was published in the newspaper, this is another kind of simple present that doesn't make the story more dramatic.

My question would be: did you think of this simple present or another one?

Regards:
Kati svaby
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