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PUBLIC_FLAG_#{@journal.pf_int} RSS feed of Englishlover's latest journal entries Feb 10th 2009 13:17
I met my conversation partner(student tutor) named Amanda for the first time. She is an adorable freshman majoring in psychology. Actually, we were supposed to meet each other last Saturday, but she forgot about our meeting. (She stood me up!) I thought that it could happen, because we set a time at the beginning of the last week. For that reason, I really looked forward to seeing her.
On the first day, we did not work on any chapter of the textbook. She did not bring it, because she thought it is more important to get to know each other. First and foremost, we introduced ourselves. I told her about my country, age, family, job, hobbies, major, etc. She asked many questions about what I had just said. She is 19 years old. It means she did not reach the legal drinking age yet. Even though we have a big age gap, I think we can be good friends.
The weakest part of my English proficiency is speaking English. I have no thick accent according to her, but lack of language complexity. I have a difficulty making long sentences and cannot keep talking about one specific topic. Thus, we will work on each chapter and then share respective ideas from next meeting. I asked her to correct my mistakes and errors. She also asked me to feel free to ask whatever I want to know.
I learned a new word, lactose intolerance, which is my digest problem. She recommended me to use AOL instant messenger. I can make a screen name on that messenger. Also, she introduced her omega sorority organization.
She let me know her cell phone number and I did the same. We set a future schedule and said good-bye to each other. Today was very fun to me.
Feb 10th 2009 13:34 Yocchi

I feel jealousy for your having a conversation partner~. (^-^) Besides it's an adorable girl. 헤헤헷
Feb 10th 2009 13:37 cheri

  • I met my conversation partner(student tutor) named Amanda for the first time.
  • I met my conversation partner (student tutor), Amanda, for the first time.
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  • (She stood me up!) I thought that it could happen, because we set a time at the beginning of the last week.
  • (She stood me up!) I thought that might happen because we had set a date at the beginning of last week.
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  • For that reason, I really looked forward to seeing her.
  • For that reason, I was really looking forward to seeing her.
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  • On the first day, we did not work on any chapter of the textbook.
  • On the first day, we did not work on any chapters in the textbook.
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  • She did not bring it, because she thought it is more important to get to know each other.
  • She did not bring it because she thought it was more important to get to know each other.
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  • She asked many questions about what I had just said.
  • She asked many questions about what I had just said. (She asked a lot of questions about me after that.)
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  • It means she did not reach the legal drinking age yet.
  • It means she hasn't even reached the legal drinking age yet.
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  • The weakest part of my English proficiency is speaking English.
  • The weakest part of my English proficiency is speaking English. (...is conversational English.)
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  • I have no thick accent according to her, but lack of language complexity.
  • I have no thick accent according to her, but I have a lack of language complexity. (--> According to her, my accent it's that thick or strong, but she says my speech is very simple.)
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  • I have a difficulty making long sentences and cannot keep talking about one specific topic.
  • I have a difficult time making/composing long sentences and cannot keep talking about one specific topic.
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  • Thus, we will work on each chapter and then share respective ideas from next meeting.
  • Thus, we will work on each chapter and then share respective ideas for the next meeting. (I'm not sure if you mean you're going to share ideas for the next meeting, or from the next meeting forward.)
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  • She also asked me to feel free to ask whatever I want to know.
  • She also told me to feel free to ask whatever/anything I want to know.
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  • I learned a new word, lactose intolerance, which is my digest problem.
  • I learned a new word, lactose intolerance, which is a digestive problem. (**I'm lactose intolerant too! ㅜㅜ So I drink soy milk... but still eat lots of ice cream, hehe.)
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  • She recommended me to use AOL instant messenger.
  • She recommended that I use AOL instant messenger. (In short, we call it "AIM.")
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  • She let me know her cell phone number and I did the same.
  • She let me know her cell phone number, and I did the same.
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  • We set a future schedule and said good-bye to each other.
  • We set a future scheduledate and said good-bye to each other.
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Glad you met a good friend : )
Feb 10th 2009 14:58 Zed

Wow, that's good for you!
Good luck with your learning!
I also like to get a good language exchange partner, someday. :)
Feb 10th 2009 17:13 Pandamilk

Hey Kate!!! Haha I'm glad to hear you've acquired an English tutor, that's great! Haha she stood you up on the first appointment? Oh man...you're going to setup an AIM account? If you do and you wouldn't mind...you can possibly add me if you'd like :D
I hope everything goes extremely well and you conquer your weakness in the English language ^____^ Nice reading your diaries again :D
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