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Three months to get a 100 points TOEFL | ||
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| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6080 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 9 of 30 09 September 2010 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello Volte, your inbox is full of messages and i couldn't send you a private message.
It was just to say that I'll be very grateful if you correct also my post. Greetings 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6080 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 10 of 30 10 September 2010 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I have a little victory with my essay task. Toefl ask for a 400 words essays in 30 minutes and my first worry is get this amount. I have one whole week with an every day more than 600 words essay, but last night i wrote one that have 776 words. At least my first worry is now without sense.
That's my progression in how many words my essays have. the first one, two weeks ago, had only 403: 403, 439, 437, 454, 424, 575, 493, 625, 650, 652, 607, 629, 776. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5156 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 11 of 30 11 September 2010 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
Hola colega
While it is better than nothing, it is not a very good idea either. You should be reading authentic English-language books and literature. Perhaps try some Dickens; that's where I started. Also, keep a dictionary by your side and look up unknown words. Learning words from context might be appropriate for a complete beginner to become acquainted with basic vocabulary, but at your level it will only produce a fuzzy notion of what words means and make your English faulty and imprecise. Your English is good but it still needs a lot of work. Read as much as you can (real books, not internet), watch TV, listen to the radio and write on English-language forums. Saludos y buena suerte con tu examen. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6080 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 12 of 30 12 September 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the advice, Juan, But I couldn't read Dickens evenin Spanish (I tried Hard times and couldn't finished it). I will try to get someone else. I have also Huckleberry finn, but Twain make talk his character in a unusual (even incorrect) way, so i consider that's not a good idea.
I'm going to follow your advice and look for a good (and some easy) book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6080 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 13 of 30 12 September 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I did the unit 47 of my BBC course, and finally i have found something that i didn't know. I think, since today i have to dedicate more time dayly, because I'll need to practice this new knowledge.
On the other hand, I could write another time a more than 700 words essay. I think it's time to begin taking notes about some radio programs or conference. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jplain Newbie United States Joined 5108 days ago 23 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 30 12 September 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Post corrections, with your text first, and my version below it:
Yesterday I did the unit 47 of my BBC course, and finally i have found something that i didn't know. Yesterday I did unit 47 of my BBC course, and I finally found something that I didn't already know. I think, since today i have to dedicate more time dayly, because I'll need to practice this new knowledge. I think after today I will have to dedicate more time each day to my studies, because I need to practice this new knowledge. (However, instead of "this new knowledge," I'd probably say "this new material" or "this topic.") On the other hand, I could write another time a more than 700 words essay. Or I could write another essay of more than 700 words. (In my opinion, "On the other hand" doesn't quite fit this situation. Instead of "Or," you could use "Alternatively," but that sounds more formal.) I think it's time to begin taking notes about some radio programs or conference. I think it's time to begin taking notes on radio programs or .... (At least in American English, you take notes ON something rather than about something. Conference? I'm not sure what that is.) Best wishes, and keep it up! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6080 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 15 of 30 13 September 2010 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks a lot for your help, jplain. These are precisely the kind of help I currently need.
I have a question about "on the other hand". At least in Spanish, you say that when you want to say something quite different without change totally the conversation topic. I thought that's the situation in my paragraph, but perhaps it have a different use. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5192 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 16 of 30 13 September 2010 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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To anyone with TOEFL experience, do you think there is any validity to the claim that if you spent time learning English as a whole, TOEFL would naturally become much easier to master?
I keep meeting people who are working really hard to pass TOEFL and, though I realize it's often an entrance requirement and it's often the only reason people are studying for it, I can't help wonder if the person wouldn't be better off actually studying to be proficient in English as a whole and if that person wouldn't inevitably attain a good enough level to pass TOEFL. At least, it wouldn't be such a huge waste of time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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