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Random thoughts
Hi people,
I have been reading some notebooks lately and there is something what has highly paid my attention. As you know, this website has two kind of profiles: students and teachers. I can understand all of us try to make corrections in order to help the rest of users in a useful way, students included. But, sometimes I read unnecessary corrections, maybe we could call them "overcorrections", I mean, things which aren't wrong, however they are being corrected equally. In my opinion when someone decide to add another option or alternative, a new way to express a situation quoted in a story, essay, etcetera, it is always welcome. But such as an exercise of responsability, such as a way to keep secure the value of our corrections and avoid to create confusion, it would be great if we write some notes to explain that point of view in order to make difference between something which is wrong and need corrections, and something which can be accepted as a correct expression, despite you can provide new suggestions (to avoid confuse). Anyway, the regular practice here is to make good corrections and explanations, so this isn't a negative criticism but a written, random thought of a human being in this so spread community called "italki".
:)
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Two doubts in two songs
The first one is in Beatles' song "Don't let me down".
"Don't let me down
Don't let me down
(bis)
Nobody ever loved me like she does
Ooo she does, yes she does
And if somebody loved me like she do me
Ooo she do me, yes she does"
Sometimes lyrics and original video says "she do me" instead of "she does me". Why happen that?
The second doubt is in Clapton's song "Cocaine".
"If you wanna hang out you've got to take her out... Cocaine
If you wanna get down, down in the ground... Cocaine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... Cocaine"
My question is why lyrics says "she don't lie" instead of "she doesn't lie" or "It doesn't lie".
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Running a marathon
This is my first entry. I'll try doing it well.
Learning a new language is like running a marathon. Not everyone is in fit for running a large distance. But if you can believe it, you can achieve it. Maybe, you are not a great athlete now, but you can turn into an excellent athlete if you want. I just know a way: training, training and training. You can have the best world's teacher, you can study in a famose high school even you can have a lot of tools near your eyes, but all these things would lose their worth if you are not willing to take them.
Wake up! The best moment is now, yesterday has passed and tomorrow will be later. Whom are you waiting? Nobody will force you to study a new language, knowing a new culture or travelling abroad. It doesn't exist a magic formula for learning thousands of words just for one day. But pay attention, if you raise your hand will be able to touch your dream. You writes your own path, you must to keep working, nobody says it was easy.
It will have occasions which you will want to stop, you will want to take a rest, to have a drink, to sleep... but you have really thought in many times how would be that moment. You want to see yourself there, you want to be proud of yourself. You know it will come a day when you'll be able to say: "I have finished this marathon".
I feel like a professional coach after writting this little story. In fact, I have just discovered that I could become a good motivational coach, what do you think about it? Anyway, I hope you are enough motivation to keep learning, from the opposite I think about leaving my short career as a motivational coach before starting it.
Here we go!
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