Training for Eiken(free talk2)
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I'm practicing for an interview for Eiken, 2nd grade.
I would be very grateful if you would correct following.
Q1:Have you ever been to over seas?
A1:Yes,I have. I have been to 6 countries, Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Swiss, Italy.
Q2:Which was your favorite country?
A2:It is Swiss. It has great beautiful mountains and kind people.
Q3:What do you usually do in your free time?
A3:I usually surfing the internet. I love Wikipedia, it's huge encyclopedia.
Q4:Do you have any plans for winter vacation?
A4:No, I don't. I will spend with my family and just relax.
Q5:Would you like to participate in volunteer?
A5:Yes, I do. I'm participating in two volunteers of X city.
They are "international communication" and "ecology activation".
As the former, my family accepted a Canadian for a homestay last year.
As the latter, we participates in events of X city, and report quantity of
our garbage and so on.
I would be very grateful if you would correct following.
Q1:Have you ever been to over seas?
A1:Yes,I have. I have been to 6 countries, Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Swiss, Italy.
Q2:Which was your favorite country?
A2:It is Swiss. It has great beautiful mountains and kind people.
Q3:What do you usually do in your free time?
A3:I usually surfing the internet. I love Wikipedia, it's huge encyclopedia.
Q4:Do you have any plans for winter vacation?
A4:No, I don't. I will spend with my family and just relax.
Q5:Would you like to participate in volunteer?
A5:Yes, I do. I'm participating in two volunteers of X city.
They are "international communication" and "ecology activation".
As the former, my family accepted a Canadian for a homestay last year.
As the latter, we participates in events of X city, and report quantity of
our garbage and so on.
I would be very grateful if you would correct following:
Q1: Have you ever been to overseas? (Anything that is naturally 'volumetric'--a linguistic term used to mean 'abstractly quantitative'--is going to be without 'to'. So, if you say "down south", for example, you will use "Have you been down south?" It's when you have something that is countable, like "a location down south" or "The USA (there's only one)", you're going to use "to".)
A1: Yes, I have. (Make sure you're using space properly. Two spaces after a period. One space after commas, colons, semicolons, en dashes, and close parentheses and quotes. No spaces after open parentheses and quotes, em dashes, and asterisks.)
I have been to six countries: Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Swiss, Italy. (If you're using a single hyponym followed by a list of hypernyms, use a colon after the hyponym. Also, in most cases it's stylish to spell out numbers 1-10, bruva.)
Q2: Which was your favorite country?
A2: It is Switzerland.
It has great beautiful mountains and kind people.
Q3: What do you usually do in your free time?
A3: I usually surfing the internet. (Simple present tense describes routines. 'I am ~ing,' states current action and is not appropriate or grammatically correct, here. Nice try!)
I love Wikipedia. It's a huge encyclopedia.
Q4: Do you have any plans for Winter vacation?
A4: No, I don't.
I will spend it with my family and just relax. (Very important: "it". Have you seen the movie?)
Q5: Would you like to participate in volunteer programs? -or- '...as a volunteer?'
A5: Yes, I would. (Notice: would-to-would:: do-to-do. Yes, what I said does sound funny.)
I'm participating in two volunteer programs at X city. ('At' may be like 'へ' or 'に' in Japanese.... More like 'e'.)
They programs are with/for/by "international communication" and "ecological activism" groups/organizations. (Activism? Action? Group? Organization? Program? With? For? By? X}} We get it, but it could be more clear. heh)
As per last year, my family accepted a Canadian for a homestay. (Yuck. Canadians. Maybe I should do that, too. Learn to like them.)
This year, we will be participating in events in X city and reporting on garbage level and other such things.
our garbage and so on.
More grammar:
Pull it together, man! You're letting your experimental side drive your writing, and it's getting eccentric. "Sooner" and "latter" reference two items in a sentence they immediately follow, such that they could still be referenced by pronouns [as subjects]. It's really better to use it as an indicator that there is comparison going on and not as a pronoun tool, by re-stating the referenced item parenthetically, unless it's reflexive (i.e., "There were two sister Mary's, Mary and Mary. The latter Mary was a witch, the sooner Mary a lime."). Here's some examples:
My friends, Sue and Tom, are retired Navy Seals. By some twist of fate, "they" became wed. The sooner of "these two", Sue, became a police Lieutenant. The latter, a fireman. They truly have the most amazing stories of any of my friends.
Airplanes are complex machines to control, whether they be the stick-in-hand variety, or the radio-controlled sort. You're probably thinking: 'the sooner, stick-in-hand, requires hundreds of hours of hands-on training, and the latter doesn't,' but you couldn't be more wrong. Radio-controlled flight is a fine skill that requires equally as much training and hands-on experience, if not more, to master as pilots master aircrafts. Any experienced Air Force veteran will tell you the same.