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I see a doctor. She is a helper. What is the meaning?
My son recently read a book (in English), "She is a Helper" by Liza Charlesworth.
There are sentences like
I see a doctor. She is a helper.
I see a teacher. She is a helper.
When I explained the meaning to my son, I found that I am not sure what the meaning exactly is.
My wife and I got two opinions:
1. She is a helper means she is a person to help others. At the same time, she is a doctor/teacher/etc. So she is a profession and doing a job to help people.
2. She is a helper means she is not a professional doctor/teacher/etc. but a helper, maybe volunteer, to help.
Which one is the correct one?
Or both are wrong?
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What are differences about these Oh My XXX phrases?
I learned a new phrase, oh my word, today from Peppa Pig Polly Parrot.
Here is the video: https://youtu.be/AimZP13JBNE?t=4m19s
I know some phrases have the same meaning that expressing surprise, such as oh my god, oh my goodness.
I want to know what are differences among these phrases. And when you would use which as a native speaker?
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Are stomachache and sore tummy interchangeable?
Today I heard Peppa Pig Best Friend. Near the end of this episode, Daddy Pig said he had a sore tummy.
I did not know both sore and tummy before, so I looked them up and got the meaning.
I have known a word, stomachache, which has a similar meaning.
So are they interchangeable?
If not, why?
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Is there any words between 'maybe' and 'the detective'? Peppa Pig episode 2
I am practicing English by trying to write transcripts down when watching Peppa Pig.
In episode 2, Mr. Dinosaur is Lost, Mummy Pig was giving a hint to Peppa about what a detective should do.
Video is here: https://youtu.be/6xJhCJI5Ixw?t=2m44s
I heard she said: maybe, but the detective should ask George some simple questions.
However, the transcripts I found is 'maybe the detective should ask George some simple questions.'
http://glamour-and-discourse.blogspot.com/p/peppa-pig-episode-transcripts.html#2
I listen this sentence many times, and I still think there is something, even it is not 'but', between 'maybe' and 'the detective'.
Is there really nothing there? If there is a word there, what is it?
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Did Peppa Pig say 'it's only mud' or 'it's only muds'?
My four-year-old son loves Peppa Pig recently and I find it is a great material for English learning. So I am trying to listen carefully sentence by sentence and write the transcripts out. I started today from the episode 1, Muddy Puddles.
I heard Peppa Pig said 'It's only muds' many times and I think it should be 'mud' according to the grammar knowledge I learned, but my ears told me it sounds like 'muds'.
https://youtu.be/WdvGYRaRHUs?t=2m35s
https://youtu.be/WdvGYRaRHUs?t=4m29s
I also found a transcript here: http://glamour-and-discourse.blogspot.com/p/peppa-pig-episode-transcripts.html#1
and it is 'it's only mud'.
Which one is exactly Peppa Pig said? If 'mud' is the correct one, why it sounds like 'muds'?
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What does this sentence mean?
Have a nice day, and please, close cover before striking, friends! Breed drit, aw rootie! So say the Junkions!
This sentence is come from The Transformers the Movie. And Wreck-Gar said this.
You can find the scene here:
https://youtu.be/XrMbkbTPrPA
at about 3:30.
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Entries in which language are the most corrected here?
There was almost one month since I tried this site and wrote my first entry here. Thank @Shaynie who corrected my first entry.
Today, I came here again and read some entries in English, Chinese and Japanese. And I found that almost every entries in Chinese had corrections while many entries in Japanese had no correction. Does this mean that Japanese users are much less than Chinese users in italki? Or just because Chinese or people can speak Chinese has the most population in the world?
Entries in English were also corrected, while the number of corrections was less than corrections in Chinese entries.
Entries in which language are the most corrected here do you think?
ps. To find out the accurate result, I might need to create a web crawler, while I have no such a plan now. :-P
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Trying italki
I am a Chinese who working in Japan, using Japanese everyday of course, now. At the same time, I absolutely do not want my English and Chinese to be lost because of the lack of practice. So I decided to start English learning again, although I cannot remember how many 'again's before. :-P
Today, I learned a word, renowned, which means famous, well-known. I was just curious what the different between renowned and famous is. So I searched the question on google and the first result bought me here. After read the answer, I did a little explore on this site.and I found some useful features, like this writing corner, for me. So I am now writing this just to know what kind of correction I would receive.
Anyway, thank this site and thank everyone who will correct this writing or will leave a comment here in advance.
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