To Mr. Torsten: I have received your reply with a great happiness...

[Yassin]

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Hello Mr Torsten,

I have received your reply with a great happiness,and i would like to thank you about it.Despite i speak Arabic, it is not my mother tongue.My first language is tamazight and it is very old language. Amazing people were the first people who lived in north Africa before the advent of Arabs.

The purpose of preparation for TOEFL exam is to study at the university of Oslo,and im supposed to study European languages.

I hope Mr Torsten to hear from you some advices.
Thanks
Bye.

[Tom Kane]

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Hello Yassin,

How are you. My name is Tom Kane. I live in the United States. I am a friend of Torsetens and he asked me to post a reply to you. I will try and help you with your pronunciation. If you would like to hear how to properly pronunce a word, a phrase, or a sentence, please "type" out your question, record it if you can, and I will respond back to you.

It sounds like you are speaking very well, Yassin. I look forward to hearing from you.

Talk to you soon,

Tom

[Tom Kane]

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Hi Yassin,

This is Tom Kane again. I have recorded the exact message that you sent to Torsten. This way you can hear the difference from your recording to mine. I hope this helps.

Hello Mr Torstan,

I have recieved your reply with a great happiness,and i would like to thank you about it.Despite i speak arabic, it is not my mother tongue.My first language is tamazight and it is very old language.Amazigh people were the first people who lived in north africa before the advent of arabs.

The porpuse of preparation for TOEFL exam is to study at the university of Oslo,and im supposed to study Europian languages.

I hope Mr Torstan to hear from you some advices.
Thanks
Bye.

[Torsten]

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Hi Tom,

Thanks a lot for responding to Yassin's recording. I think your idea of re-recording Yassin's voice message is great because it helps him compare his own pronunciation to yours.

Maybe what we should also do is to correct Yassin's grammar mistakes. For example, a very common error made by ESL speakers is to say some advices instead of some advice. For some reason the noun advice is uncountable while the translation of the word advice is countable in many other languages.

So the solution to this problem is to create texts that our forum members can read out loud. I'll get to that later today.

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
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[Tom Kane]

HI Torsten,

That's good advice. I will also correct the mistakes when I see them.

Tom

[Yassin]

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Hi Mr Tom Kane.

I would like to thank you Mr Tom for your repons. equal thanks go to Mr torsten who suggested not to give advice on pronunciation only but also on correcting grammatical mistakes.

Despite the difficulties that i suffer from in my home country to practice english, this site helps me to improve and evaluate my english language.Hence, i appeciate all the efforts you do for us.

Thanks bye.

[Tom Kane]

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Hello Yassin,

Thank you for your kind words. I think your English skills are coming along very well. What I would like to do for you is re-write your message to Torsten and me and correct any mistakes you may have made so you can see how it should be written.

I will make a separate post so this message is not too long.

Thanks Yassin! I look forward to hearing from you.

Tom

[Tom Kane]

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Hi Yassin,

I have re-written your message that you posted to Torsten and me. You will notice that it is written slightly different, but still has the same meaning.

Hi Tom,

I would like to thank you for your response. Equal thanks go to Torsten who suggested to correct any mistakes I made with my grammar. I would also like to thank Torsten for suggesting that you, Tom, help me with my pronunciation.

Despite the difficulties that I suffer from in my home country to practice English, this site helps me to improve and evaluate my English language. Hence, I appreciate all the efforts you do for us.

Thanks again,

Bye.

[Torsten]

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Hi Yassin,

Thank you very much for your encouraging words and also for making such an effort to improve your speaking skills.

I've noticed that your English quite fluent and your grammar is also pretty good. As for your pronunciation, you can improve it even further if you concentrate on stressing words properly. There are three words I'd like you to re-record. Please say the following words three times: response, evaluate, appreciate.

And finally, please repeat the word country three times too.

Regards,
Torsten
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[Yassin]

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HI Torsten,

Thanks to Tom and you Torsten, i feel that i am going well in english.
Now; im going to re-record the four words:response, evaluate, appreciate, and country.
thanks
bye

[Torsten]

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Hi Yassin,

Thank you for your latest voice message. Your words sound pretty good now. There are two words I'd like you to repeat again. The first one is evaluate. Please note that the second syllable is stressed: Evaluate.

The second word I'd like you to record again is country. The vowel is a short 'ʌ' sound as in 'mother' or 'fun'. So please say these words:
- fun
- mother
- country

My mother and I are having fun in the country.

Speak to you soon,
Torsten
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[Yassin]

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Hi Torsten,

Thanks for your help. Now, i will try to repeat the following sentence and words:
- fun
- mother
- country
- evaluate
- My mother and I are having fun in the country.

Thanks.
See you soon.