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The Sign of Four

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  A few days ago I read the simplified version of The sign of four by Arthur Conan Doyle .  This version was been adapted for pre-intermediate English students, so it was easy for me. It is hard for me to use the correct time verb, I do a lot of confusion between the past simple and past perfect. Of course, there are a lot more things that I do not know about English than I know. I do a lot of confusion also the position of adverbs, about conjunctions... and when I listen to the English phrases, I need to listen to them many times. I become crazy to listen to the impossible pronunciation of native English speakers on Memrise . These people are not professional speakers, they are common people and they often have pronounced dialectal inflections. These inflections are definitely instructive but I need to listen to these phrases many, many times before I understand the words. It is very different to listen to the speaker of The Sign of Four with his perfect English pronunciation. In ita

I understand nothing

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  I don't know who will be the next president of the United States, of course, I am afraid of Trump's victory and all things that could follow this disaster. I see many American movies and tv series, I follow the NBA basket, and many of my favorite writers are American. I am studying English e I know nothing about the United States, but I have my opinions about all American events. I was thirteen years old when I wished that Mc Govern could win against Nixon, but it went different. So I understand nothing about American political life, but I can't help but be interested in the presidential election. I read Michelle Obama's autobiography and I will want to read Barak's autobiography when he writes it. I hope Trump will be beaten very, very hard. In italiano avrei scritto una cosa del genere: Non so chi sarà il prossimo presidente degli Stati Uniti, ovviamente ho paura della vittoria di Trump e di tutte le cose che potrebbero seguire a questo disastro. Vedo molti film