💬 Teacher Comment
✅ Your grammar isn't a problem, I think we both know that. We're mainly here to add vocabulary and maybe make a few corrections with complex tenses. However, it still makes sense to notice small slipups...
🎯 Improve: Be careful with singular vs. plural distinctions. For example, rather than 'many customer' we should say 'many customers' because we're talking about multiple countable objects.
✅ Sometimes words in English are such close cognates to the German version of the word that it feels strange to say them as they are. For example, when we were talking about a unified piece of legislati...
🎯 Improve: We struggled a bit with 'anomalies' but I think that was less a pronunciation issue and more a product of being stuck between 'abnormalities' and 'anomalies' separately. If you're not sure about a wor...
✅ I always have to celebrate a self-correction. When we were talking about how countries can meet particular cybersecurity regulations, you initially said 'fulfill this regulation' but used 'meet this r...
🎯 Improve: I'm not really sure why you perceive yourself as needing to practise English so much as you have an excellent level. Perhaps we should try pushing you into complex tenses to see how you handle conditi...
✅ I think sometimes you add an extra verb to sentences because you feel they lack complexity when sometimes it really is just that simple. For example, rather than 'to prevent to do cyber attacks' we ca...
🎯 Improve: Be mindful of the use of articles. When we were talking about how the billboards in Times Square run on MS Dos, you said 'I was at the Times Square'. In this case, as 'Times Square' is a well establis...
✅ Today we learned: Behind the 8 ball - a phrase for being stuck in a difficult position or condition. Ex: I've got so much to do with my new job and I feel like I don't know how to do any of it. I'm ...
🎯 Improve: Good job with using the correct form of words given the tense. This one is particularly tricky because the verb is irregular, but rather than 'binded on gold' we should say that fiat money used to be ...