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Hi! I am Mirka from Slovakia | I'm from Chandigarh Punjab
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:17 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Tamara wrote:
P.S.
Quote:
I ca n s e e m y va cu u m c o mm i ...........
M9){ 49 i c ?` 95 h 0&/%56 a...............e............................l ....................................---------
Smile Hopefully you are safe and sound after yesterday’s bad weather in German.
I mean, not under the bad weather, not injured and are enjoying a next really-important-for-you soccer match (and now your German life is even more scheduled Smile Smile )

Hi Tamara

That quote from Michael also had me scratching my head. I'm hoping he's healthy enough today to elaborate on it (or at least translate Laughing)

Amy
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:24 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

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or at least translate

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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:31 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Hi Amy! Hi Tamara!

Don?t worry about my inserting the three `lollies?. I?m only surprised how often you can requote a quote. But what a challenge!

Yankee wrote:
Laughing Laughing Laughing
Tamara wrote:

P.S.
Quote:
I ca n s e e m y va cu u m c o mm i ...........

I?m referring to an earlier post about a vacuum. It?s a joke:

Teacher: "Michael, please describe a vacuum!"
Michael: "It?s in my brains but I can?t explain it!"

So yesterday evening I saw my vacuum comming! Wink

Yankee wrote:
Tamara wrote:
Quote:
M9){ 49 i c ?` 95 h 0&/%56 a...............e............................l ....................................---------

Here you can see the vacuum! Laughing

Yankee wrote:
Tamara wrote:
Hopefully you are safe and sound after yesterday’s bad weather in German.
I mean, not under the bad weather, not injured and are enjoying a next really-important-for-you soccer match (and now your German life is even more scheduled Smile Smile )

Thanks for being anxious about my health. Nearly everything is fine and I hope you don?t look at me as anybody who is thinking with his sore part of his body only. Shocked Very Happy

I think soccer will not be important for me any longer as I?m disappointed! Imagine, I couldn?t discover any brother in pain. Sad

Yankee wrote:
Hi Tamara

That quote from Michael also had me scratching my head. I'm hoping he's healthy enough today to elaborate on it (or at least translate Laughing)

Amy

Amy, I hope everything is fine with you too? Mustn?t you insert made? Or is it my lack of English skills that makes me asking this?

Hope you enjoy your Saturday too!

Michael
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:44 pm  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Hi Michael

Thanks for the explanations. I'm so glad to hear that everything's "nearly fine". Very Happy

As to your very good question:
Quote:
Mustn?t you insert made?

I could have said something like: "That made me scratch my head" The meaning would be the same.

"It had (somebody) doing (something)" means the same as "It caused somebody to do something" or "It made somebody do something".

Amy
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:25 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Hi all!

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
I think soccer will not be important for me any longer as I?m disappointed!
Oh… Does world soccer realize what a heavy and irreplaceable loss it suffers!… Smile

Anyway, have a nice sun-day! Just here and now, not waiting for the very next Sunday Smile

See you all,
Tamara
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Soccer WM is going on! Sun Jun 18, 2006 17:58 pm  Soccer WM is going on!
 

Tamara wrote:
Oh… Does world soccer realize what a heavy and irreplaceable loss it suffers!… Smile

Hi Tamara!

Now I?m really disappointed! Crying or Very sad Imagine the soccer WM is going on, not looking whether I like that or not! Mad Laughing

What I actually like to share to you is that I probably have to learn Russian too as my wife visited a second-hand-market yesterday and bought an English book from Russia for me. The explanations are in Russian letters. So now I?m curious if I have a problem to translate the English texts. Sad But I think I may ask you! Smile Cool

Thanks in advance

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Soccer WM is going on! Sun Jun 18, 2006 21:11 pm  Soccer WM is going on!
 

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the soccer WM is going on, not looking…
You don't say! Smile
But, (uninterested) Michael… how do you know that? Wink

Quote:
The explanations are in Russian letters.
In Cyrillic alphabet? Smile

Quote:
I think I may ask you!
Surely, you welcomely Smile may. If it’s no more than 250 pages per day Wink
Hopefully, I’m still able understand Russian writing (if it is Smile ).
And godspeed you to understand my first-hand explanations and translations into English Smile And forum experts will help, as well.

Tamara
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Sun Jun 18, 2006 23:22 pm  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Hi Tamara!

Thanks for your readiness to help me with my Russian adventures, but I think from the book I mentioned I can?t learn any Russian. It seems to be a book for experienced Russian English reader. English Reader is also the title of the book (ninth form) printed in 1978 in Moscow including the histories of some English authors and some of their short stories and peoms. Only some explanations regarding some English idioms and terms are written in cyrillic letters. As I don?t even know any cirillic letters and don?t know how to tip them in, it probably would become to difficult to try learning Russian by using that book.

By the way, I?ve only guessed that soccer WM is going on. Or did the FIFA stop the games until I?m ready to watch the games again? Rolling Eyes Might be as I?m really a big cheese! Wink Laughing

Don?t be anxious, I think I don?t write more than 250 letters with questions a day, at least not before you succeded with your ESOL exam! Wink

Hope you can sleep well again after getting my explanations!

Michael
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:08 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Hi, Michael!

Nice Monday morning, isn’t it? Wink
(I slept very well – after my relaxing weekends and even after your 258th post Smile )

Quote:
as I?m really a big cheese!
As I know, American slang’s equivalent is big enchilada (it comes from some Mexican (?) cookery).

Michael, any my possible helps with your English-Russian book. If you can’t type long fragments in Cyrillic letters, just scan whole pages and send them to me by e-mail.
Also, to copy short fragments or phrases you have difficulties with, you can use online 'electronic keyboards' like http://translit.ru and then copy the resulting texts just to here. And I’ll translate, comment, give equivalents for idioms (if any) or just explain. If Forum’s moderators don’t mind.

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before you succeded with your ESOL exam!
I will know the results only in August… but, to be honest, I don't worry very much about. Recently I've had mock exams (for the level I’ll storm in two weeks) and my scores were much higher than I expected. Good ground for my excessive self-confidence!... Smile

Have a nice and safe Monday at your work! Smile
Tamara
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:03 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Quote:
at least not before you succeded with your ESOL exam!
Tamara wrote:
for the level I’ll storm in two weeks

Hi!

Hmm… Could anybody tell me (the truth Smile):
does in two weeks (…hours, years..) mean

- after two weeks (which would be unwanted meaning in my context, because it’s a barefaced lie Smile )
OR
- within the next two weeks (which I actually had in mind and wanted to say Smile )

(Examples:
Men may sail it in seven days.
Doctor says, the cat would die in three months.)

Tamara
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Tue Jun 20, 2006 19:33 pm  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Hi Tamara!

Thanks again for your offering your help with my problems with the Cyrillic alphabet? I think I?ll scan two sides and send them via e-mail to you next, so that you can see that I?m not only a blabbermouth. Laughing

But let me comment your development at this site. After introducing as a small shy mouse you developed to a self-confident cat. Hopefully that your great danish grey donkey like cats, don?t it? Wink Aiaiai.......... Laughing

As to your question concerning: does it in two weeks. I likely would have chosen during the next two weeks. But why do you wonder about that? I?ve read at this site that English is a variable and living language, so that everything were possible also your storm in two weeks could express what you mean. The issue were only to find anybody who understand what you mean. Wink I hope that are the tester at your exam at the end of June. Wink But like you mentioned you don?t need to be afraid, I think. Your range of English is very well and you don?t need to know everything, or is it your goal to know everything regarding the English? I?m sure -as I know me myself- nobody is perfect in anything. So I wish you all the best for your exam. Rolling Eyes Cool Certainly you will be caterwauling soon in the great chorus of English-cats! Wink

Unfortunately I have little time to write in English only, so that I?m needed to post without warming up. Can you discover that? Want you to be honest. Rolling Eyes

See you

Michael
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Tue Jun 20, 2006 22:11 pm  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Very Happy

Hi Michael, a-horse-lover, a-caterwaul-hater! Smile

Yes, my Great grey Dane Greta does like cats. Especially, jet-black English cats, whose chorus I am still hoping to join my thin little voice soon Smile (Keep your fingers crossed for me.)

My email is now open. For everyone who will take into his/her head the idea to get my translation from good Russian into my immmmmature English Smile
Quote:
The issue were only to find anybody who understand what you mean.
Smile Very Happy

Quote:
or is it your goal to know everything regarding the English?
To be more serious, Michael, I have always disliked people aimed to do 'as small, as possible' – just to satisfy particular requirements, to jump over the mark, to clear the bar, to pass a specific test. etc. Life is much more interesting thing than just a 'success-driven' chase of certificates...

(But certainly, one day my perfectionism will torment me to death Very Happy )

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during the next two weeks

Thanks. I very often (fearlessly) use in an hour (a week,…) having in mind during. But I never thought, whether it’s correct to say 'in two weeks' about a particular event (not a lengthy process) which is planned to be on 10th day.
Now I know that there exist people (at least a German man) who can understand that right Smile

See you,
Tamara

P.S. (word of honour) (!)
Michael, you are so kind and warm... Thank you… for being you.

Smile
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Midsummer Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:12 am  Midsummer
 

Hi!

Today is the summer solstice, midsummer. The longest day of the year.
Летнее солнцестояние (in Russian).

Wikipedia gives an interesting overview of national traditions and modern Solstitial celebrations in different cultures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer

Have a nice and sunny day! Smile
Tamara
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:20 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Привет,Тамара!Рада тебя слышать!But in Russia summer solstice will be tomorrow Very Happy
Today is the 21st of June
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I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:31 am  I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!
 

Tamara wrote:
Привет, Pamela!

Ну так... в Росии, как известно, и Рождество Христово своё собственное Very Happy

But/ as I can see, солнцеворот thus year is also today:
http://www.47news.ru/1/3558/

Tamara
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