English conversation

[elena_11293]

luca M or someone: please show me my mistakes, i need your help!!!!
this morning here it's very cold, ma but luckily without wind!
i'm working since 8.00 A.M. and i'll finish at 1.00 P.M.

And yesterday there was only this, if I well remember: mistackes

Enjoy your afternoon!

 

[belvedere]

What does "Ma" means? Are you confused with italian?

ah ah... perhaps i had to change my glasses...
i'm just confused, of course.k07:
you're telling me there aren't any other mistackes? wonderful! what a surprise!

next time i'll write more, as you find many orrible mistackes!

now i say goodbye... i must to write a letter for my chief
have a nice afternoon!:hands13:

 

[LucaXY]

Well, good evening! Are you so shy now?

 

[Harma]

Good evening everybody!!!!
I have one question:Can I ask my sister to join us? She is living in America (Philadelpha) and after more then 40 years she really talks good English hahaha.....And she loves gardening.Ofcourse she don't speaks Italian,but that is not a problem here.....

 

[LucaXY]

Good evening everybody!!!!
I have one question:Can I ask my sister to join us? She is living in America (Philadelpha) and after more then 40 years she really talks good English hahaha.....And she loves gardening.Ofcourse she don't speaks Italian,but that is not a problem here.....

How can she joins us? Is she recorded on this forum?

 

[Harma]

No not yet...I will ask her to do that okay?

How can she joins us? Is she recorded on this forum?

 

[Finnigan's Wake]

And yesterday there was only this, if I well remember: mistackes

Enjoy your afternoon!

you remember bad

 

[elena_11293]

Good evening everybody!!!!
I have one question:Can I ask my sister to join us? She is living lives in America (Philadelpha) and after more thean 40 years she really talks speaks good English hahaha.....And she loves gardening.Of course she doesn't speaks Italian,but that is not a problem here.....

Hi Harma

This is a public forum, then your sister can register and join us. I don't remember if there's a rule about writing only in Italian but, even in that case, as you said she could still post here, in this thread.

@ Finnigan's W., you could teach us some Irish word.

 

[Claudio]

He spends his evenings alone in his hotel room
Keeping his thoughts to himself, he'd be leaving soon
Wishing he was miles and miles away
Nothing in this world, nothing would make him stay

 

[belvedere]

Claudio is it a song or a poem? did you write it?

now i tell you: my proposal for 2012 is to improve my english.
there is a little problem: i've no time for this engagement; every day after the job i make shopping for eat, then i've my dinner... and finally i stay on the sofa to watch tv...
but specially i am very very lazy

is harma's sister arriving?

see you soon (or better write you soon?!)

 

[Harma]

Belvedere,do what I did a year ago....I gave away my tv,you need a little bit of courage,but live is better without.
My sister don't want to join us,because she wants to use her time for other things....Tv takes away time but also the computer...
Elena can you explain to me please when you have to use living instead of lives..

 

[Sevi]

luca M or someone: please show me my mistakes, i need your help!!!!
this morning here it's very cold, ma luckly without wind!
i'm working since 8.00 A.M. and i'll finish at 1.00 P.M.

I've been working since 8.00 A.M. k07: (duration form :flower

 

[belvedere]

sure, duration form....
a little clarification: i wanted to say "now - in the present - etc etc"

i believed your phrase was used to speak about a a different time (yesterday, two days ago etc); When may we say "i had been working..."???
sorry, just a great confusion!!:muro::storto:

 

[diamanda]

hello everyone, it's nice to read something in english just here. I've never found a forum with such a discussion! I'm gled to partecipate and write somthing for you. You can ask me something. But first of all I' d like to ask you the reson for your interest in english. I've lived in London for 3 years and I miss that city very much. Have you ever been abroad?

 

[belvedere]

Harma
really also without tv is difficult for me (after dinner) open a book and study english...
usually i prefer a little total relax....... for example: listening music etc

 

[Claudio]

hello everyone, it's nice to read something in english just here. I've never found a forum with such a discussion! I'm gled to partecipate and write somthing for you. You can ask me something. But first of all I' d like to ask you the reson for your interest in english. I've lived in London for 3 years and I miss that city very much. Have you ever been abroad?

Hello Diamanda,unfortunately I have never been abroad sorry my English is not perfect
I'm trying to learn

 

[Sevi]

sure, duration form....
a little clarification: i wanted to say "now - in the present - etc etc"

i believed your phrase was used to speak about a a different time (yesterday, two days ago etc); When may we say "i had been working..."???
sorry, just a great confusion!!:muro::storto:

The duration form is right for your sentence

I'm sorry, 'cause I can't explain the rules to you, now. It's too difficult using the English language :storto:
I'll try, but I can't assure you that it will be a good idea, I tell you


I've been working since eight o'clock in the morning (lavoro/sto lavorando dalle otto di "stamattina").
This is the "duration form", indicating an action which began in the past, but still lasts at the present.

In plain words, it means "beginning and continuity" (or continuation, as you prefer).
Anyhow, a period of time leading up to the present, that is...we are thinking of the action going on k07:

It simply means:
1) that I began to work at eight o'clock in the morning
2) that I still work while I'm talking

N.B. You must pay attention to the negative form of a sentence that needs the use of the "duration form",
'cause a lot of people usually make a big mistake!

EX: I've been working for two hours (lavoro da due ore)

BUT: I've not worked for two hours (!) (Can you see the difference? k07


P.S. I link this simple and clear explanation of the "duration form".
I hope it will be useful. Bye! :flower:

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P.S.2 Sorry, I was forgetting your first question :ros:

Ex: 1) I had been playing tennis for hours, when my mother called me for lunch (I hope it's right ahahah!!!)


Ex: 2) I found the calculator. I had been looking for it for ages
.........(Ho trovato la calcolatrice. La cercavo/stavo cercando da secoli)

 

[Sevi]

E se qualcosa non è giusto...cmq accattatevill' (o come caspita si scrive ) sorry :ros:

P.S. e vabbè Luca! Non ce la facevo + in ingleseeeeee!!!

I beg your pardon

(anche x l'inglese stesso, of course

)

 

[LucaXY]

E se qualcosa non è giusto...accattatevill' lol

P.S. e vabbè Luca! Non ce la facevo + in ingleseeeeee!!! I beg your pardon :ros:
(anche x l'inglese stesso, of course )

Hi Sevi!!!! You mustn't speak italian
Welcome in this "group" :ros:

 

[Sevi]

Hi Sevi!!!! You mustn't speak italian
Welcome in this "group" :ros:

Thank you very much, Luca :flower:

The fact is...that I had just written a screed (a little "papyrus" )
so I felt very very tired, voilà! (a bit of French is always a touch of class, isn't it? )