British Climate and Personality Hello there! It's me again with my translation. So my previous homework was to translate a text about British weather. I don't think It's completely correct at all, that's why I want to you ask you to show me my mistakes. Thank you! "Merry green England" - English poets often call their motherland like that. Refreshingly tender green of England's landscape is usually attributed to humid sea climate. The winds, blowing from the Atlantic, bring rainess to the British Isles. British rainess makes lawns green all year round. Sometimes it is even called the eight wonder of the world. The UK people more often observe white winter with snow-covered cottages on the postcards, not life-size. Typical English winter is fogs and rimes which brought by the East winds. Nevertheless, unpredictable English weather presents surprises: occasionally in November during mud and yellowish fog (called "pea soup"), gold and warm as in summer days are happen. The papers said, that people swam in the Channel on the Isle of Wight on the 31 December 1963. Rainess not only defined the exterior of Britain, it also defined some personality traits of dwellers. Inasmuch as they permanently overcame the reluctance of leaving house and home and walked in the rain, they formed their famous habit - showing up on time. Even raining cats and dogs can't make English people change their plans whether it be a friendly meeting in a pub or a camping for nuclear disarmament. Let's consider such original English traits as caution and parsimony. A lot of people think these traits have developed because of rainess. English people always concerned about forgotting an umbrella and so on. If truth be told, umbrellas are often replaced by raincoats. To the contrary, the head office of London urban traffic still find about 70 thousands of umbrellas, forgotten in buses and tubes... P.S. I don't think that the facts of this text are completely true. And I don't like stereotypes about nations/countries. However, this text needs your correcting. Hope it will obtain it :)

After the Battle of Hastings Hi! My homework at university was to translate the text about the Battle of Hastings from Russian to English. I will be so thankful If you guys correct my mistakes. On the 14th October 1066, fate of England was sealed. This fateful day William's I the Conqueror army made a landing on England shore. The army of Saxon was waiting for them there under the leadership of Harold II. It wasn't clear for a long time who would gain a victory but then it tipped the balance in favour of William only after a host of clever distractions. He ordered the soldiers to pretend they were leaving the Island and when the triumphant Saxons set off after them, William stopped his army and ordered to shoot up so the arrows killed a good many. One of them was Harold II, the last Saxon king. He was struck with the arrow right in his eye. Afterwards William ordered to build the St. Martin de Tours Abbey better known as Battle Abbey. Its ruins still overlook the valley where the soldiers of the Conqueror was preparing to the battle. The sea, by which arrived the Norman fleet, look through the hills were covered with woodland in times gone by... A heap of stones points where Harold died. It's an isolated little nook, where the tragedy took place, which is hidden by the trees from the of the world. This place is in complete silence, through the trees the church can be seen, and nothing else but its chime is heard from time to time. The stones were the witnesses of the greatest events in human history, now are covered by heather. William I the Conqueror was a practical man with iron will. He had capacities which didn't have his new lieges. He never doubted and hesitated, he was an optimist to the core. He lived a quite short life but completely changed his new motherland. This island, such a familiar for invaders, was never taken over again.