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yimeng

Jan. 1, 2025

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something about the new year myself

New years Eve I sat in the main room on a hard sofa with my sister. We didn't celebrate. At around 1 a.m, we went to bed.

In the morning, I somehow felt sick. I felt lonely at the first day of new year. The house was in solely silent, like a prison with transparent windows on walls, but everything was trapped inside. Dad wasn't here, nor grandpa or grandma. An email, within piles of advertisements, was from my friend, wishing me happy new year, and it came in at 5 a.m this morning from China. I am happy that someone else really remember me.

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sSomething about the nmyself on New yYear myself’s Day

The original didn’t really make much sense. You could also say something like “my new year self” or “myself in the new year”, but that would likely suggest that you’re talking about a New Year’s resolution.
Since it seems like you’re talking about the one specific day, I think this would work best instead

On New yYears Eve I sat in the maliving room on a hard sofa with my sister.

You need to use the preposition “on” for a day such as New Year’s Eve
“Main room” is also ok, but assuming that you meant living room that would be the more commonly used phrase I think

We didn't celebrate.

At around 1 a.m, we went to bed.

In the morning, I somehow felt sick for some reason.

Optional, but I prefer how “for some reason sounds” (completely personal preference though)

I felt lonely aton the first day of the new year.

Again, days use the preposition “on”

The house was in solelycomplete silent, ce, like a prison with transparent windows on wallwindows, but everything was trapped inside.

I’m not entirely sure what you meant here, so I’ve just changed it to what I think you might have meant
I can see what you meant by “solely”, but it would be used to describe verbs (like if someone is doing something in complete solidarity, or is in a state which doesn’t relate to anyone else). I will admit though that I also can’t really think of a good word to replace it.
Silent is an adjective (so you could say “the house was completely silent”), but your use of “in” means that it would have to be followed by a noun (or an adjective AND a noun). “Silence” is the noun form of “silent”, and hence “silent” is changed to “silence”.
“Windows” implies that it would be transparent and on the walls, so I deleted “transparent” and “on (the) walls” to make it more concise.

However, I don’t really feel like this comparison is the best (personally I find it a little confusing). I would probably replace “like a prison with windows, but everything was trapped inside” with “as if it was/had been abandoned” or something like that, which would also bring back the idea of it being kind of lonely. If you really wanted to play into the dramatic side of the abandonment you could replace “the house was in complete silence” with “the house was completely silent, and it had an eerie feel to it”. This would make the whole sentence “the house was completely silent, and it had an eerie feel to it, as if it had been abandoned”

Dad wasn't here, nor grandpa or grandma.

An email, within piles ofamong many advertisements, was from my friend, wishing me happy new year, and it came in at 5 a.m this morning from China.

This is really nitpicky, but the “within piles” kind of made it feel as if it was physical mail, especially because of the “piles” which made me imagine a stack of mail which was mostly advertisements plus the one letter from your friend.

If you wanted to make it more concise, you could also delete the part about the advertisements (“among many advertisements/within piles of advertisements”) since they aren’t really too important to the text.

I am happy that someone else reactually remembered me.

I prefer how “actually” sounds.
You would say “remembered” or “remembers”.
To me, “remembered” feels like your referring specifically to that moment in the past, while “remembers” talks a lot more about the present which makes it sound like that friend is the only person you have with you (it kind of makes it sound really sad as well)

Feedback

Good job! Happy new year as well! And it sounds like that’s a good friend!

Some advice though is to write these as just general English, instead of the one specific to Australia (you’ll have to go into your profile and add English to the languages you’re learning first though) because that way you would be able to get a lot more feedback since there are a lot more people there. Of course there will be some differences in spelling or word choice, but they won’t be too much of a problem.

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yimeng

Jan. 3, 2025

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thank you man lol for those very detailed corrections! I should tell you the way My ESOL teacher works. She only marks the paper and emphasises "English is hard, you really have to be focused". 2024, she teaches us to write simple sentence for the entire semester. I literally can't pass any writing exam with that depth of knowledge, say for a high school teenager.

However I still do self-learning and your suggestion are so helpful and thoroughly-explained. Thank you for twice for the language-setting suggestion. Really appreciated.

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Pandas62

Jan. 24, 2025

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No problem! That teacher does not sound very good at all especially for someone who’s meant to be teaching a new language. Like there’s no way to learn anything, let alone a whole different language, if the best feedback you get is to focus more while also not offering any resources or help to extend your knowledge and focus on new material (I have no idea how much that last bit made sense because I kind of got carried away but I hope you get the gist of it)

But that’s a good idea to do some self learning, and I think you’re doing quite well with English!

something about the new year myself


sSomething about the nmyself on New yYear myself’s Day

The original didn’t really make much sense. You could also say something like “my new year self” or “myself in the new year”, but that would likely suggest that you’re talking about a New Year’s resolution. Since it seems like you’re talking about the one specific day, I think this would work best instead

New years Eve I sat in the main room on a hard sofa with my sister.


On New yYears Eve I sat in the maliving room on a hard sofa with my sister.

You need to use the preposition “on” for a day such as New Year’s Eve “Main room” is also ok, but assuming that you meant living room that would be the more commonly used phrase I think

We didn't celebrate.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

At around 1 a.m, we went to bed.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

In the morning, I somehow felt sick.


In the morning, I somehow felt sick for some reason.

Optional, but I prefer how “for some reason sounds” (completely personal preference though)

I felt lonely at the first day of new year.


I felt lonely aton the first day of the new year.

Again, days use the preposition “on”

The house was in solely silent, like a prison with transparent windows on walls, but everything was trapped inside.


The house was in solelycomplete silent, ce, like a prison with transparent windows on wallwindows, but everything was trapped inside.

I’m not entirely sure what you meant here, so I’ve just changed it to what I think you might have meant I can see what you meant by “solely”, but it would be used to describe verbs (like if someone is doing something in complete solidarity, or is in a state which doesn’t relate to anyone else). I will admit though that I also can’t really think of a good word to replace it. Silent is an adjective (so you could say “the house was completely silent”), but your use of “in” means that it would have to be followed by a noun (or an adjective AND a noun). “Silence” is the noun form of “silent”, and hence “silent” is changed to “silence”. “Windows” implies that it would be transparent and on the walls, so I deleted “transparent” and “on (the) walls” to make it more concise. However, I don’t really feel like this comparison is the best (personally I find it a little confusing). I would probably replace “like a prison with windows, but everything was trapped inside” with “as if it was/had been abandoned” or something like that, which would also bring back the idea of it being kind of lonely. If you really wanted to play into the dramatic side of the abandonment you could replace “the house was in complete silence” with “the house was completely silent, and it had an eerie feel to it”. This would make the whole sentence “the house was completely silent, and it had an eerie feel to it, as if it had been abandoned”

Dad wasn't here, nor grandpa or grandma.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

An email, within piles of advertisements, was from my friend, wishing me happy new year, and it came in at 5 a.m this morning from China.


An email, within piles ofamong many advertisements, was from my friend, wishing me happy new year, and it came in at 5 a.m this morning from China.

This is really nitpicky, but the “within piles” kind of made it feel as if it was physical mail, especially because of the “piles” which made me imagine a stack of mail which was mostly advertisements plus the one letter from your friend. If you wanted to make it more concise, you could also delete the part about the advertisements (“among many advertisements/within piles of advertisements”) since they aren’t really too important to the text.

I am happy that someone else really remember me.


I am happy that someone else reactually remembered me.

I prefer how “actually” sounds. You would say “remembered” or “remembers”. To me, “remembered” feels like your referring specifically to that moment in the past, while “remembers” talks a lot more about the present which makes it sound like that friend is the only person you have with you (it kind of makes it sound really sad as well)

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