Listening comprehension and spelling test?

[Niuisme]

Hi ,Torsten,
Thanks for your feedback.I really like this exercise,but i can't finish at this time.I will finish as soon as possible.This is my text about Roymond Romanos part of him story.
Eh,my name's Raymond.I 'm from Hartford,connected in the United States.It's located more or less between Boston and New York.Eh,I was born in Hartford and i grew up in West Hartford.And from West Hartford i went to Cincinnati study.And i studied English in Cincinnati ,Ohio and after my studies i moved to Wyoming and worked as a cook.And i cook for cowboys,and then i got into photography .Moved back to West Hartford to do more with photography .And then i decided to go down to Washington D.C.and see i can find work there.
Meanwhile i had met a German girl in West Hartford commuticated.We kept in contect,Eh, when i moved down to Virginia between the neat Washington,She went back to Germanny.And i didn't like Virginia as mush as i though i would and she had mentioned i should come to visit her in Germanny.So i did.And this was back on 1996.So i camme to German.I had no plans to stay for a long time but i no plans not to stay for a long time.So i orginal plan to be with her and to learn German and to see Germanny.So that was in 96.Now we were on 2003 almost2004.In meantime we broke up i staied in Leiplzig because life was good here and life is good here.
best regards
nina

[Niuisme]

Hi,Tosten ,
Here is Raymond Romano's recording:
When i first come Leipzig,My impression is much different because the only six years after the fall of the Beerlin wall and manythings had not exist,for example,take away coffee or there was very diffcult to find decent sandwiches,not all the building s had been .......so it's very gray.I am not use to the winters here.Which were encomparssion to connected.Not as extrem,but mostly gray.And the winters connected are tipically very very cold with snow.And here it's not cold and if there 's snow less about 24 hours before it disaears so rarely i find time to go to ski,here really can't go to ski ,because there are no mountain ,the best you could find is some hill somewhere and find a sled so you have to be real fast here in Leipzig to go sledding .
best regards
nina

[Santak]

...and I was a cook for cowboys, and then I got it to photography. I moved back to Hartford to do more of photography and then I decided to go down to Washington D.C. and see if I can find a work there. Meanwhile I had met a German girl at in West Hartford, Connecticut and we kept in contact. Ahm.. when I moved down to Virginia, which was near Washington, she had moved back to Germany. And I didn't like Virginia as much as I thought I would. And she had mentioned that I should come and visit her in Germany and so I did, and this was back in 1996. So when I came to Germany I had no plans to stay for a long time but no plans "not" to stay for a long time. So my original plan was to be with her and to learn German and to see Germany. So that was in 1996, now in 2003, almost 2004, in the meantime we broke up, but I stay in Leipzig because life was good here. When I first came to Leipzig, my impression was much different because this is only six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and many things not exist, for example, takeaway coffee or it was very difficult to find a decent sandwich. Not all the buildings had been elevated so it was very gray. I was not used to the winters here, which were in comparision to Connecticut not as extreme but mostly gray. And the winters in Connecticut are typically very very cold with snow and here it's not as cold. And if there is snow it lasts about 24 hours before it disappears. So I really find time to go skiing here, but really can't go skiing here because there are no mountains. The best thing you can find is a hill somewhere, find a sled, so you have to be real fast here in Leipzig to go sledging. I came to Germany I worked as a photographer, I worked measuring apartments, anything I could do to basically survive. I mold lawns, I helped edit texts and then finally started teaching English. My first teaching experience in English was very difficult because I didn't understand all the concepts of English. I mean, I may have studied in college but learning how it works and trying to teach it are two different things. So I had to relearn how English worked, for me to teach it. Also when I arrived I had to learn German and so learning German and teaching English, well, learning German helped me teach English because then I understood how people learn languages. So......Although I have been here for six years, my German is not good as good it could be. Although I can read newspaper and texts and understand them fully. I still haven't quite managed to speak like a German. Germans tend to have a way of using there words which no foreigner could quite master. You have to be German to master German, I think. But it's a fine language. It's more precise then English, it has got many more expressions and dialects are fun to listen to.I have a lot of contact to the local people here in Leipzig, mainly because I do teach them. And lot of my students invite me out to coffee or we have event at night in which they invite me out to or I go out myself. There are lots of foreigners here I can meet up with them. There are plenty of foreign rezendevous for people wanting to learn different languages or for people wanting to learn German or English. So, through that I can meet lots of people and helped me to meet lots of people. Most of my friends are either German or Americans. I have two very good American friends and rest of all are German. So I spent most of my time going back and forth between English and German and I'm in fact studying German again privately so that I can improve it. Because after 7 years there are many things which you can learn to help to speak better, pronunciations and mostly and more importantly idioms. I go back about twice a year to America to visit my father who lives in Connecticut or to my mother who lives in South Carolina. I typically go back in summer around June for family gathering and which is about thirty people and we rent about four cottages on a lake and we all get together and basically go for one cottage to another eating in our way for two weeks. It's a lot of fun. And when I visit my mother and she lives in South Carolina in a place called Muttle Beach, this is not much we do there. You can go miniature golfing or you could go swimming at the beach. But mostly we hang out and we talk. Back in Connecticut I still have my friends and I still meet up with my friends. They meet at a coffee shop in the centre of Hartford at 2 o'clock for coffee. They have been doing this since 1993 and so when I go back I still know everyone and it is fun. I get my free cup of coffee because they never see me and the people work there still know me and they bring me up to date as to what's been going on. It's lot of fun. My language has changed since I've been here. Many people who are American will talk to me very slowly and would tell me that my English is very strange but nice and I say that's nice. And they say where are you from and I am from Connecticut and they go "really" and I go "yes, really". And they say where's your accent and I go "well, you can work around your accent all your life if you live somewhere else you have to loose it". And when you teach English you can't teach accents you have to teach a general English which people can understand. So I've tried to change my English a little bit so that people can understand me better because when I talk real fast and...well..one will see when I go back to Connecticut. After a month in Connecticut I'll talk like a normal Connecticut person. Which will be..to be..lots of a's... o's don't exist. It's not Connecticut but Connecticut. It's not progress but progress. There is very very distinct new England accent which one can hear if one listens to my voice but is mostly talked away. So among other things my accent has changed as well as my vocabulary. When you talk to an American who has been living or anybody who has been living in Leipzig for long time certain words will certainly fall into your vocabulary. For example every one will say Straßenbahn or Straßenbahn instead of street car or tram and we'll talk about going to the Bahnhof which is a train station or to the _________ which is the integration's office. So we'll use these words. Among other words among other things like Schrank for cabinet or Teller und Tisch for plate and table and we'll mix. We'll call it a new language "GEnglish" and everyone, it doesn't matter form which country we'll mix. And it's very difficult when I go back to the states, not to mix, because I know and I have to keep telling myself "No one there understands German". So I can't go mixing like I can do in Germany in Leipzig. I find it amazing how Germans can express themselves to such detail. The know exactly what's going on. I am completely amazed by that. If you ask someone about how a car works and they will tell you and they will tell you how a car slides and the reasons why a car will slide on ice or a _________ they will give details which an American person would not do. They will use lots of and's and uh's anything like that but German will tell you to the exact detail "what it is" or they would say ______ "they don't know" but ...so, it's been quite a learning experience form the technical stuff. so....

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[Rsrlopera]

Hello orsten,

I Have problem listening, because my speaker doesn't work properly. And speaking another problem because I don't have a
speaker. So what can I do? I guess keep on taking written test. I will do what ever I have to, in order to fix my computer. I'm sorry.
Have a nice day, here it's very cold.

Rosario
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Rosario L.