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I am also learning English, don't know whether my suggestions or corrections are appropriate. Also, sometimes I watch a TV series in which police is trying to
by lovboat 11y ago
I am also learning English, don't know whether my suggestions or corrections are appropriate.
Also, sometimes I watch a TV series in which police is trying to solve a 50 years old closed case. What I find interesting is how sad the life of that people are, never a joke, sharp sound, short sentences, never a smile. Perhaps, it is a mirror of a society. In Spain the eyes of people are full of life, the doom is outside of our frontiers (or so I think).
"I'm still not great at English but I surely improved over 15 years": => (I have surely improved) or: I haven't mastered English yet, but I am sure I have improved a lot in the last 15 years.
Without to mention how trivial is to go back in the learning process as long as you stop talking / listening for a couple of weeks… => To top it all, if you stop talking/listening for a couple of weeks you begin going backward in the learning process.
My long term hope is that soon or later => My long term hope is that sooner or later.
Another reason I find myself. => Another reason why I find myself.
NEVER learn a new word without learning what is its sound. => (how it sounds)
- lovboat 11y agoI must apologize, I think that surely people lives must not be so doom as in that series, but I find it difficult to watch a film in which people are really happy enjoying life. I can adventure an hypothesis: That many people has so high a goal that they never can reach that high mountain, hence is no wonder films are about killing criminals, war films, or enjoy life in prison.
- lovboat 11y agoAnother hypothesis I can adventure is that my karma will be soon below zero, at this moment I have six (6) points, not a big deal to me.
- cheshire137 11y agoNative English speaker here with some corrections, if you like! :) police are 50-year-old lives of those people are sharp sounds long-term
- lovboat 11y agoThanks. police are (ok they are more than one). 50-year-old (why not 50-years-old ?). It seems that nouns are created with "-" (merriam-webster agree with you). a long-term solution is like a never-ending story. Now, my question why neverending story (film) and not never-ending?
- djur 11y agoI think the book "The Neverending Story" is named that because it's originally German, where "neverending" is "unendliche". The English-language movies are actually "The NeverEnding Story", which is an odd choice. "never-ending" would be more standard English.
- jagger27 11y agoI'll try to answer your "50-year-old" question: You'll find that you describe a quality that has a quantity attached to it, you'll drop the 's'. The reason is mostly to keep things brief by omitting a verb. A few examples: - We walked a ten kilometer-long trail. (The trail we walked is ten kilometers long) - They are building a 500 seat auditorium. (The auditorium they are building has 500 seats.) - We'll put a 10,000 piece order in on Monday. (Compare to: the puzzle has 10,000 pieces.) Hyphenation is tricky and I still don't know all the rules. Another correction I'll make on > (merriam-webster agree with you) It should be "Merriam-Webster agrees with you" because in this case it refers to the dictionary itself (singular) and not the people the dictionary is named after. "Merriam and Webster agree with you" refers to the people themselves. It's occurring to me now that being a native English speaker is probably my best trait for hiring.
- StavrosK 11y agoThe hyphen actually goes the other way: * They are building a 500-seat auditorium * We'll put a 10,000-piece order in on Monday * We walked a ten kilometer long trail. No hyphen here, the trail was just ten kilometers long. "We walked a ten-kilometer trail" is what you were looking for. Non-native English speaker here, btw.