Sunday, my rest day When I used to go to school I was hating the Sunday. It was the worst day of the week, when you get the weekend is gone and a new week of homework and boring lessons was starting.

Rosa

Sunday, my rest day When I used to go to school I was hating the Sunday. It was the worst day of the week, when you get the weekend is gone and a new week of homework and boring lessons was starting. I couldn't find the sense of the Sunday, seriously. Since I started my gap year, I haven't paid much attention at the day I was living in, and I can deal with Sundays better now! Today I went to my auntie, who's actually my granma's sister, a sort of grandaunt? - I don't even know how to say it in my language! - she cooks sooo well! Every sort of vegetables but in such a delicious way, and I mean not the boring salad, but coloured and powerful yummy food! Me and her spent the whole day talking, even if she's 70 or older, I feel like I was talking to some 20 years old girl, that's crazy! She's so young but at the same time experienced, this makes her advice really useful to me. Today was very hot and humid here, and I've been feeling weak and tired the whole day. You know when you stand up and see all black with little stars? Well, that's the worst feeling ever, maybe not the worst one but one of those you wouldn't like to experience! ahah ps. This doesn't have anything to do with my day, but if there's something I don't like of my use of English (apart from some random grammar mistakes) is that I'd like to use more specific words, could you correct also some words/adjectives that you find too common to be used by a native speaker? Thanks a lot! x Rosa

Aug 2, 2015 10:38 PM

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Sunday, my rest day

When I used to go to school I always hated Sunday. It was the worst day of the week, when you get the weekend is gone and a new week of homework and boring lessons was starting. I couldn't find the sense of the Sunday, seriously. Since I started my gap year, I haven't paid much attention at the day I was living in, and I can deal with Sundays better now!
Furthermore, today I went to visit my auntie, who's actually my Great Aunt, a sort of grandaunt? - I don't even know how to say it in my language! - she cooks sooo well! She can cook every kind of vegetable but in such a delicious way. I mean not just the boring salad, but colorful, powerful, and yummy food! Also, me and her spent the whole day talking, even if she's 70 or older, I feel like I was talking to some 20 year old girl, it's crazy! She's acts really young but at the same time she is experienced. This makes her advice really useful to me.
Lastly, today was very hot and humid here, and I've been feeling weak and tired the whole day. You know when you stand up and see all black with little stars? Well, that's the worst feeling ever, maybe not the worst one but one of those you wouldn't like to experience! ahah

ps. This doesn't have anything to do with my day, but if there's something I don't like about my usage of English (apart from some random grammar mistakes) is that I'd like to use more specific words. Also, could you correct some words/adjectives that you find too common to be used by a native speaker? Thanks a lot!

x

Rosa

August 3, 2015

Your English is really good, Rosa! I'm not going to correct it word for word, but just add a few notes:

I was hating the Sunday.

--> "I hated Sundays". You might hear a lot of young people saying "I was loving x" "I am hating x". If you're using it just as slang, that's ok, but it wouldn't be correct in standard written English.

I haven't paid much attention at the day I was living in,

--> "I haven't paid much attention to what day it is."

coloured and powerful yummy food!

--> "colorful" Instead of powerful food maybe you could say "richly flavorful" or "powerfully flavored" By the way, what kind of food is it?... :)

Me and her

--> She & I ("Me & her" is slang again...)

could you correct also some words/adjectives that you find too common to be used by a native speaker?

--> alternatives to "boring":

Instead of "boring salad" --> plain, unexciting

"boring lessons" --> sleep-inducing, dull, repetitive...

August 3, 2015

No word is too common for us; however, there are some words that are considered basic. Also, I thought your story had a good flow to it, great usage of descriptive words. Further, if you want to be more specific when you write/talk then you could name the colors and texture of the things you are writing/talking about.

August 3, 2015

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