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  Bill the English Teacher February 9, 2009 19:22

  Maybe someday I can save enough money to go to so many beautiful countries, such as Iran. I do know that there are many interesting monuments and beautiful mountains. I have a student in on of my classes. She has told about the monuments, the mountains and the beautiful rugs. She is an excellent student and she helps to make my class a joy.
  Thank you for the invitation. And I think it would interesting for you to visit the United States. It is quite a big country with many climates and land formations. Our history is not very old, however. And you would find that the American people are usually very friendly, in spite of the politics of our leaders. I hope Obama will bring better relations between the leaders of our two countries. George Bush is gone, thanks to God.
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  ajay yadav February 9, 2009 17:59

  because it is recently in news
  about its neuclear programme
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  ajay yadav February 9, 2009 17:56

  please come i will welcome you
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  ajay yadav February 8, 2009 22:01

  u are right feri
  and i know very well about iran
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  ajay yadav February 8, 2009 18:34

  i am from india
  and i am a student
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  ajay yadav February 7, 2009 13:43

  hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii feri add me as your friend
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  HUBERT HSU'S BLOG February 6, 2009 10:27

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  HUBERT HSU'S BLOG February 6, 2009 3:26

  Hello! nice to meet you.
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  Bill the English Teacher February 5, 2009 22:22

  Very good. You are a good learner.
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  Bill the English Teacher February 1, 2009 21:06

  Hi Feri,
  It is also an honor for me to meet you. I have a student, Shahnaz, in my advanced class who is from Iran. She is an excellent student and a good friend.
  I am always happy to hear from people who love to learn and speak English. And I will be happy to correct your mistakes as you asked. And here is my first correction and lesson. I hope you won't be sorry that you asked for corrections.
  
  First, we don't say "talk it fluently." We say, "speak it fluently." Now here is more than you asked for:
  
  Speak and talk are similar words, but we often use them differently in different contexts. So we always say "speak English". We don't talk English. Speak is often used for the physical action of speech or the ability to make speech, so we speak English, speak Pharsi, speak too loud, speak too soft, speak when we shouldn't, speak it fluently etc. It does not refer to the specific words or meanings in a language.
  
  Talk is sometimes used when we say something that has general meaning but not the specific ideas or words. We talk about our friends, we talk about life, we talk about our family. Another way we use talk is when we refer to discussion. I entered the room and suddenly everyone stopped talking. My sister and her friends talk too much. Don't talk to me now, I am angry.
  
  We also have the word, say. This is more specific and usually refers to the meaning of words someone said or the specific words that were used. When we talk about the general thing that was stated we use say with that. Did you say that your mother rides a motorcycle? I can't believe that you said that. She says that she loves English, but she says that she is too lazy to study it. However, sometimes we do not use that. She says she likes English. I think it is much clearer when we use that.
  
  We also use say to quote the exact words of another person. We have to use quotation marks to do this. We don't use that for a direct quote. He said, "I will no longer pay for your English class." So I said, " I will find a job to pay for it".
  
  And the last word in this group is tell. We use this word instead of talk or say in certain situations. But I think tell in place of talk is more the idea of giving a specific or limited piece of information as opposed to information in general.
  1. He talked (in general) to me about his wife. From what he said, I think she is a nice person.
  He told (specific information) me about his wife. He said she was very sick.
  2. He said she was very sick. He told me she was very sick. In this use, the meaning is the same. Tell requires a receiver of the message. He told me.
  3. She said, "I don't like your mother." She told me, "I don't like your mother."
  These are the same although the first is more commonly used in my experience.
  4. We also use tell customarily with certain types of information.
  We tell a lie, the truth, a story, a fib (small lie), a whopper (a big lie), a joke, the time, the future and a secret.
  
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  Also we usually don't say, "make my mistakes correct." We usually say. "correct my mistakes."
  
  Hope this helps a little. You will learn with me that if you ask for a glass of water, I will give you a swimming pool. In others words, I probably will tell you more than you wanted to hear. :)