Ich verstehen nicht, kann mass mir erklären ob ich das scrheiben kann ? Hallo ! ich weiB das diese Phrase recht ist : " Manche Funktionen, die im Benutzerhandbuch erklärt werden, benutzt man fast nie. " Aber ich will wissen ob ich das verb "sein " benutzen kann : " Manche Funktionen, die im Benutzerhandbuch erklärt sind, benutzt man fast nie ". Wenn muss ich werden benutzen und wenn muss ich sein benutzen mit dieser Gestaltung ? vile danke !

Serge Brusselo extract I had to struggle with myself to hold back my urge to smear them in black. I never dared to do so of course. My instinct would whisper to me that such an act would drive my mother into hysteria or even insanity and that she wouldn’t hesitate a second to ditch me  at the bottom of the well.     I didn’t trust her. Her mood would change too often. Two women lived within her, two irreconcilable co-owners: the fairy godmother and the naughty witch. In the course of hours, and without any reason, she would become one or the other and the paradise would change into nightmare. It was quite unsettling. I believe she let herself get possessed by her characters without even noticing. As the fairy godmother, she spread kindness and tenderness. As the witch, she became mean unfair and intolerant. You could never bother her when she worked in her workshop. Leaning on the drawing board, she went into trance. The house could have burnt, she wouldn’t have noticed.    Over the years, I learnt to subsist on the fringes, without getting spotted, as an illegal alien in my own house.       We lived at the foot of the mountain, on the edge of a posh winter sports resort. Our house was a nice postcard chalet, which long ago belonged to a black and white movie star who died in an avalanche. Some used to say he was a UFA star who had actively contributed to the Nazi propaganda.     A den mother would come up from the village to do the cleaning and the cooking. She spoke French with such an accent that I only understood one word out of four, which didn’t help us to get along. Obviously we irritated her. My mother’s paintings scared her, she studied them wincing, As for me, in her eyes I was nothing more but a lazy posh girl not even able to watch over cows.      My father, I knew him then under the false name of Harisson Crawford, was often absent, busy to haul a roped party of young dynamic Texan executives on the other side of the world. He was a very muscular massive man. Some kind of big teddy bear who told me stories of Indian extermination, slavery and civil war to get me to sleep. By driving me into this reality without concessions, he probably hoped to offset the ethereal world that my mother’s fairy tales set up in the house. I remember he had hooked up above my bed the facsimile of a notice from the proslavery south. :for sale, beautiful negress with two male brats, very healthy. Might be bought separately.

Translation from a french book by Serge Brussolo Underground storm My father was a criminal on the lam: at least, this is how my mother always put it. On evenings when she would feel to behave as a mother, she would tell me, whispering, that daddy had been part of the Weather Underground. He was one of these weather men who, a long time ago, had made the US government shake by advocating for the civil war. I was 6 years old. This Weather underground would move my childish imagination and make me picture underground storms, hurricanes devastating the sewers of a city and making the buildings  collapse. My father, whose name I am ignorant of, had fled the USA two seconds before the FBI would catch him. From this time on, he had gotten lost into the wilderness, the icy deserts, where no federal agent would have the guts to come for him. His physical condition and a particular talent helped him in this: he was an outstanding climber, a matchless mountaineer. In order to survive, he became a high mountains guide and left for the other side of the world to practice his profession. He was paid quite a price to train Japanese businessmen and take them to summits such as the Chimborazo, the Aconcagua, the Kibo, the Godwin Austen or the Nanda Devi. My mother, Anne Katz, met him during an excursion. She was French but lived in Switzerland. Lately graduated from the Beaux-arts, she wrote tales for children that she illustrated herself. She was a marvellous drawer but she lived out of touch with the real world, in a fantasy filled with dwarves, fairies, unicorns and other fancies which delighted me as a child. She had painted on the walls of her office a fresco representing a medieval castles landscape with small misted valleys where legions of gnomes fought in an unpredictable battle. Quite strangely, this fantasy world seemed more real to her than the one in which she lived. I saw her crying when she had to make one of her characters die whereas she paid little attention to the accidents I suffered (a broken leg, a peritonitis, a concussion, etc…). It was quite strange for a little girl around ten years old to compete with individuals existing only on paper. I would often sneak up in her workshop to observe my enemies, whose faces taunted me from the center of the sheets tacked on the drawing table.

Hi m looking for native english speakers to correct my writings in exchange for french classes/corrections etc

Hello ! I am looking for cool, patient and serious language partners (hell, that's not such a hard combination ^^ ). I am a french native speaker. My spanish is really good and my english is not that bad but I really want to improve it, specially my writting. I m currently learning german and italian, but I am mostly looking for native english speakers to correct my writings iin exchange for corrections in french or in spanish, classes etc

I love traveling, History, litterature, music, movies and I usually learn my languages through my hobbies. I m quite a talkative guy and I like to get to know people. Exchanging with people is quite a pleasant way to improve one's language while discovering new cultures and stories. Even though am more interested in writings, I have skype so we can also chat online if you wish so. Money is out of the question, so please if your are a professional teacher, forget me, unless u r actually looking for a free partnership. I wish u all the best and don t hesitate to get in touch with me.