B1: Submit
Date: August 06, 2000
Time: 22:48
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Hi Norbert,
is it possible to correct my first learning log once more? I prepared the text and I hope now it is better. Thanks a lot.
Kirsten
1. I arrived by plane on 30 July 2000. First I was shocked about my room but now I find it really nice and I'm feeling very good. This is my first stay in a flat with other students and we all have to be disciplined. I find it very interest {1} to live with young people from other countries. In my flat there live students from Korea, Taiwan, Austria, Japan and Turkey. So I have the possibility to learn about their different cultures. We are making a lot of jokes of {2} each other and one evening we were in a club. In my class there are also many different people. one day we spoke about introducing ourselves and someone else. That was very interesting because every student related about {3} the habits in their home country. 2. For me it was new that Asian people always give their business cards with two hands. This surprised me because if someone doesn't know these habits you {4} would get problems.
3. I have learned that the German meaning "okay" isn't the same as English {5}. When you use this word, people think you are unhappy. For example: "My flat is okay for me" - an English man thinks that I find my flat not very nice and that I don't feel very well {6} there. My impression of English culture is better than I thought before. The people ar friendly and the landscape is wonderful. Food shops are more expensive than in Germany but I find there my favourite food. The impression of the other cultures is also positive{7}. I find it so interesting to speak to them and find new differences to my own culture. By this way I am able to understand the "strange" traditions. 4. It could be useful to speak English fluently. But I think you also profit by having a good command of other languages like French or Spanish. In future it is also useful to be flexible and open to everything new. After my stay in Exeter I will move to Hamburg to a big advertising agency called SPRINGER & JACOBY.I am sure that my English improvement I can use there {8} because they have a department in London.
| Instances | Description |
| 3 | ARTICLE - you have made a mistake with the use of the article ( ie a, an, the or zero) with a noun or noun phrase. First check that you know whether the noun is countable or uncountable, and singular or plural |
| 3 | PREPOSITION - you have used the wrong preposition, or the preposition is missing, or you don't need a preposition |
| 1 | REFERENCE - you have made a mistake in how you refer to something previously mentioned. You may have used the wrong word to do this; or it may not be clear what you are referring to, or the referent (= the thing you are referring to) may be too far away; or a pronoun is needed |
| 1 | NUMBER OF NOUN - you have put a word in the singular when it should be plural, or vice versa. Or perhaps the noun is countable and you thought it was uncountable, or vice versa. Check that you have used the right article, as well. |
| 1 | SPELLING - the word is wrongly spelled. |
| 1 | VOCABULARY MISTAKE - you have used the wrong word. Check in the dictionary. |
| 1 | WORD FORM - you used a word in the wrong form. For example, you have used the adjective form when you should have used the noun form, or adverb instead of adjective etc. |
| 2 | WORD ORDER - you have written a group of words in the wrong order. Re-arrange. |
| 1 | CAPITALISATION PROBLEM - you have mixed up lower and upper case spelling. |