Could You Please Help Me To Study English By Myself? I'll write below the sentences on my textbook to study English by myself because I don't understand some points. I have showed it by **. But I can understand contents and meanings of the sentences with Japanese translation. === Dear Mom, I wanted to tell you the latest about Mandy. You know what a faithful and devoted companion *she has been to me* over the years. Well,I recently read about "therapy dog" helping others. So I train her to become one. She learn quickly, and we visited the nursing care facility in neighborhood. You should have seen the effect that she * had on * the elderly patients there. Everyone was genuinely delighted*,* and wanted to interact with her. And Mandy loved all the attention,too. I think we are going to go there again in a few weeks from now. Well,I'll write to you again soon. I hope everything is fine with you. Please take care. Love, Maria(and Mandy, too) === 1st of ** >Could you please make the other sentence as same meaning? >Could you please make the other some sentence by using "have been to / has been to"? 2nd of ** >Could you please make the other sentence as same meaning? >Could you please make the other some sentence by using "have on / had on"? 3rd of ** >I don't know why is *,* needed. Could you please teach me about that? That would be really helpful if you could consider to my questions. Thanks in advance.

My First Notebook Hi there, I'm Koji from Japan. I'm in The Netherlands for business. However My English skills are not good yet. I have been to here since 15th Sep. I'd like to ask everyone following my question. What did you do when you were discouraged and gloomy in foreign country? It has been Just one month, I feel it is important thing to do more aggressive. It means that to meet and talk without fear. Anyway I tried writing here without fear :)