iam new here from Afghanistan

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  1. Syzygys

    Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    What caused the fallout between you and Sandy? You kept telling me she was an intelligent lady...
     
    Syzygys, Feb 7, 2010
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  3. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    Hey friends don't fight against each other
     
    princelove, Feb 7, 2010
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    Wow. I haven't been back to L.A. in 12 years and everything changes! First the San Fernando Valley changed from Jewish to Korean, and now the Iranians are all Persians?
    I had a bunch of friends, neighbors and co-workers from Iran and they all called themselves Iranians. And they were Fars, not ethnic minorities.

    I don't think any Kurd would call himself Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Turkish, etc. And a Pushtun or a Tajik would more likely call himself Persian than Iranian.
    Most educated Indians are fluent in English. Indian English is recognized as a distinct dialect but it's modeled after the British English they were taught during the occupation. Much faster than American English, the way the Brits speak, but it also has a more compressed tonal range, a substratum from the Indian languages. And they've figured out that prepositions have virtually no meaning, so some Indians pick them somewhat randomly just to fulfill their primary purpose of parsing the sentence.
    You'd be surprised which American TV programs are broadcast in other countries. For a few years there was a stunningly good soap opera called "Santa Barbara." The doctors and lawyers actually spoke like college graduates and the plotlines were a cut above the usual melodrama. Naturally it couldn't get an audience here, competing with "General Hospital" and "The Young and the Restless" with their recycled stories and their dead characters coming back to town with their heads sewn back on. Its male star, A. Martinez, took a trip to Europe and every time he walked down the street he was mobbed by fans yelling, "Look! It's Cruz Castillo from 'Santa Barbara'!"
    He must be the only one. She drives the rest of us bonkers.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Feb 7, 2010
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  7. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    Where are my teachers?
     
    princelove, Feb 7, 2010
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  8. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    Does it has mistakes in grammar?

    Lets assume a case
    You are trapped in situation in which a rapist is progressing to rape you.
    there is a well of water beside you.
    what will u do?
    a- Protect your honour and kill urself by plunging into well?

    b- Life is precious, allow rapist to rape u?
     
    princelove, Feb 7, 2010
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  9. LuckAse

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    Is there a option c?

    Are you asking if there is mistakes?

    I hope i'm helping. Not trying to insult you.
     
    LuckAse, Feb 7, 2010
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  10. Shadow1

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    welcome, i'm new here either,
    i'm from tunisia if you know it,
    anyway, if you really wanted to improve your english, try to find some english teaching sites, or chating online, that would be better, i think there are many chat rooms for language exchange

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    Shadow1, Feb 7, 2010
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  11. Fraggle Rocker

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    Please come to the Linguistics subforum. This is General Science and Technology.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Feb 7, 2010
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  12. princelove

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    Take and correct my mistakes plz
     
    princelove, Feb 8, 2010
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  13. LuckAse

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    What i fixed is in { }

    You are trapped in {a} situation in which a rapist is progressing to rape you.
    {T}here is a well of water beside you.
    What {would} you do? (Its not really wrong, it just sounds better)

    A - Protect your honor and kill {yourslef} by plunging into {the} well.

    B - Life is precious, allow the rapist to rape {you}.

    Your english is good, but i can't tell if your using slang (example: ya, u, urself)
     
    LuckAse, Feb 8, 2010
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  14. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    Thanks alot

    Where did you learn English ?
     
    princelove, Feb 8, 2010
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  15. LuckAse

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    I was born in the united states. I can speak a little spanish. But barely and not spaniard spanish, mexican spanish...
     
    LuckAse, Feb 8, 2010
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  16. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    I am from Afghanistan i really have interest speak better as well as English men.
     
    princelove, Feb 8, 2010
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  17. LuckAse

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    I see, there are alot of ways to learn. Just keeping talking to people long enough will do the trick.

    You get the meaning across when you type. Just punctiation and grammer.

    Here it is fixed
     
    LuckAse, Feb 8, 2010
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  18. Randwolf

    Randwolf Ignorance killed the cat Valued Senior Member

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    An AI intelligence (redundant) programmed to overcome the Turing test?

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    Not really, just kidding. But, princelove, this has already been addressed and corrected:
     
    Randwolf, Feb 8, 2010
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  19. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    Every times i try to speak better as well as an English men but i can not.
     
    princelove, Feb 8, 2010
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  20. Randwolf

    Randwolf Ignorance killed the cat Valued Senior Member

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    OK, I will give it a try:
    Every times I try to speak better as well as an English, men but I can not.

    Correction: Every time I try to speak better English, I can not.

    Shortened version: I can not speak better English.

    Even shorter: I can't speak better English.
    (I recommend you skip the contractions with ' in them, though)

    Which is not true. I have seen your English improve in the short time you have been here - just keep at it!

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    Randwolf, Feb 8, 2010
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  21. princelove

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    I would have speaking better English if i were here always ,

    again and again thanks alot
     
    princelove, Feb 8, 2010
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  22. Randwolf

    Randwolf Ignorance killed the cat Valued Senior Member

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    Sorry for my short patience, but I will try and correct what I see...


    I would have speaking better English if i were here always:
    I would speak better English if I were always here...

    Edit - even better: I would speak better English if I spent more time here...
     
    Randwolf, Feb 8, 2010
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  23. princelove

    princelove Registered Senior Member

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    No Matter you are very kind and perfect in English.


    I have some mistakes in tenses , Would you say one one example for each of them?
     
    princelove, Feb 8, 2010
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