Fake accounts? Hello, friends! I am still thinking of why people avoid communication by Skype. How do you think whether there are fake accounts on italki? I heard that people made fake accounts on different chats because they didn't want to be recognised. Then I thought to myself what if people here who "don't have Skype" or "don't use Skype" or anything else are just fake? They want only to be penpals (I mean only writing). No realtime (face-to-face) communications. Moreover, it is very strange when someone wants to improve speech doesn't use Skype. They all want to be friends on italki. Look at these phrases. "Plz don't ask my messanger", "I don't use Skype", "I am very shy for Skype", "I am not always online", "It doesn't work for me" Who has another examples for "avoiding phrases"? I don't want to be right, I want to believe there are some real people here.

Instrumental Case - Prepositions By With Hello, everyone! BY I came home very late and asked my friends not to disturb me, yet, the next morning at seven a.m. I was awakened by the telephone ringing in my room. The police officer was killed by the robbers. I paid for our lunch by my debit card. Don't jump on the express by mistake! Every day I go to the office by train. It takes me about two hours. When we were seven years old we built nice stools. Our parents were pleased by our work. The building was ruined by tsunami. I will contact you by email. We were pleasantly surprised by the company, who managed to build the building in time. WITH I close her eyes with my hands. I wrote the letter with a pen. The picture was painted with a pencil. They were talking with a loud voice. He was hit with a stik. The apple was cut with a spoon. (There was no knives in their kitchen.)

Language exchange by Skype

Hello everyone!

My name is Sergey and I have a question to ask.

There are a lot of people who are interested in language exchange (according to their profiles). At the same time they don't use (don't want to use?) Skype.

I received a lot of emails with skype-id but I have never met people there...you may say "because you have a time-zone difference". That's odd...what will you say on that - I sent them emails but didn't receive answers after that?

One of my "favorite" case is when we had a formal talk (like hello-hello-how do you do-I am fine, thank you, and you?-I'm fine, thank you) and then the person said "I will back soon, I have to go to store." A couple of hours later I sent a message like this one "Are you here?" but received no answer. Since that I have not received any messages from this person. :-) I hope the person is OK. ))))

Here is my question.

How do you want to improve your language skills if you don't use on-line tools?

Russian words consist of... Hello, everyone! I am Sergey and I'm a language exchange partner, and I would like to show you the structure of Russian words. I have devided my talk into three parts. First, I'll show you main parts of words, then we'll discuss how to sign them on the paper, and finally we'll look at examples. My talk will take about 15 minutes and I'm happy to take questions at any stage. Okay, so let's start with main parts of words. There are four main parts - приставка (prefix), корень (core), суффикс (suffix) and окончание (ending). The main part of a word is a core - корень. There is may be one or several prefixes before a core. ..... Right, so let's move on to the second part of my presentation. In the second part of my presentation I want to show you how to indicate the main parts of words on the paper. ...... So, that conslude the second part. Now moving on to examples. Let's take a look at "лесной", "прочитать", "сходил", "перевёз". Who wants to deconstruct them? What is the core? Okay, very good. To conclude, I'd like to summarise the key points. Russian words consist of four main parts and those parts can be used several times. Ability of seeing a structure of a word and understanding what they mean helps you to write words correct. That's the end of my presentation and I would like to invite any questions you may have.

Could + please Hello everyone. I have a question to ask. Is it Okay to use words "could" and "please" in one sentence? (in case of formal speech) For example, if I want to clarify if I don't quite understand the question how should I say: "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Could you say it again please?" (or "Could you say it again?" will do?) "I am sorry, I haven't quite got you. Could you repeat your question?" (or "Could you repeat your question please?" better?) Thank you in advance!

We bought some ice-cream. Hello! The case is we bought ice-creams (it doesn't matter how many ice-creams we bought). Each ice-cream costs two euros. How should I say this case in one simple sentence and using Possessive Case for "two euros". Thank you in advance!Thanks all for your answers. But possessive case is a must! Also Simple Sentence is a must too! The sentence have to start with "We bought ...". The sentence "We bought [our] ice-creams for two euros each" is very close but there is no Possessive Case. (And yes, that is a main point - each ice-cream costs two euros.) "What type of ice-cream did you buy?"