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florianna

Native language:: English

Total orders:: 3497

Nationality:: United Kingdom

Residence:: United Kingdom

Skills

Exam Preparation
Business English
American English
British English

Certifications: B.A Honours in English Literature from Cambridge University. Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Experience of teaching English language and literature and TEFL to school pupils and adults in groups and most particularly one-to-one. Interest in and experience of creative writing in English. I speak Spanish and French and have an keen interest in language learning and improvement. Through my daughter's learning of violin, initially by the Suzuki method,I have a great respect for and interest in learning by the mother tongue method. I see the way IDIY works as being very similar to this method in many respects and recognise the value of learning and teaching that involves native speakers. I have particular interests and experience in the arts, education, psychology, medicine, and have worked in both corporate and internal communications in business.
Announcements: I am happy to work for IDIY and to be reading and correcting the work of Japanese speaking customers. I've worked for IDIY for 12 years and find it very interesting and rewarding. My style of correction is to pay close attention to the language in your writing in terms of grammar, vocabulary, style and content. I see each customer as having different needs in your learning journey and I take care to respond to you and your writing as the developing work of an individual. In my comments and personal message you will find that I tend to discuss in some depth with you the content of your writing and you can learn from this personalised discussion as well as from specific corrections and suggestions for alternative wording where appropriate. I do my best to encourage you in your writing with constructive help along with a rigorous and disciplined approach. Your questions, additional notes and feedback are always welcome and can be an important part of the communication between you as the customer and me as the instructor. I am happy to receive requests and develop a rapport so that you have continuity in your learning and to help you with Basic and/or Advanced corrections as well as with proof-reading. I look forward to reading your writing and to writing back to you and I hope that you enjoy IDIY as much as I do!
Hobbies/Travel: I enjoy language and languages and words fascinate me. I like both reading and writing and currently attend a creative writing class. I'm a keen musician and enjoy playing the piano. I also play the violin and look forward to playing more than I have done recently. There are so many things to enjoy in Edinburgh where I live. I'm happy in the city enjoying the culture and also very much enjoy being in nature and exploring places when I have time. My now 22-year-old daughter keeps me busy and though she is very independent in some ways she is still young and growing up in a complex and busy world. I'm especially interested in the arts and feel lucky to live in a city where we have easy access to rich cultural experiences including the Edinburgh Festival. I've spent time in France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Hong Kong, Norway, Canada, America, and most recently, in Poland. I enjoyed all of them and plan to keep travelling when I have the opportunity.
Message from the instructor: I very much enjoy working for IDIY and look forward to reading and helping you with your writing. I am here to help you be able to write fluently, naturally and correctly, and, perhaps above all, to communicate effectively in English what you want to say. Writing is a complex process even in one's own language. When you are writing in another language there are even more layers of complexity and it can be challenging. It can also be a lot of fun and very rewarding. As a native speaker of English I aim to share with you what is natural to me and to help and encourage you through specific corrections and adjustments and also through response to and discussion of what you are writing about in any piece you send to me through IDIY. I discuss particular aspects of your writing in detail if you ask for an Advanced correction and will give you a corrected version of your text if you ask for a Basic correction. In both cases I aim to have a sort of conversation with you across the internet and to connect with you through language so that you can absorb natural English and further develop your language skills. I aim to tune in to what your needs are and encourage you on your learning journey.

Hikaru123

Thank you for your suggestions and explanations. Your feedback is always really helpful for me. I’ll be doing my best towards my New Year’s resolutions. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

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Hikaru123

My apologies for the late reply. I’m grateful for your detailed explanations and suggestions. I learned a lot of new things from them. I was happy that the event was a success. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

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teal89912

Thank you for your good instructions. I can imagine you might be annoyed with my not good English. I'm going to understand past simple of auxiliary verbs thanks to you. We are enjoying Shogatsu, you know. Why do you know Shogatsu? I went to shopping with my family. We call this first sales of the year 'Hatsu-uri'.

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maracas80473

Thank you for correcting my sentences into your beautiful sentences. I just realised this page accidentally. I am sorry I didn’t write down anything before. I appreciate it. I hope I will be able to write perfect sentences in the future.

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salak85727

wow, you described chocolate wonderfully with excellent vocabulary :) Thank you for your advice and information! I wanna meet a connoisseur someday!

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teal89912

Thank you for your coaching and message. What I hadn't noticed during Ihad been writing this composition appear clearly in your correction. It's the most helpful to learning English for me. I'm glad to meet you. See you next time!

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takuya37

Thank you for returning my piece. I don't mind delay in how you return this because I'm looking forword to your interesting messages.

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takuya37

Thank you for your correcting my sentence and your interesting view every time.

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gorichan

Hello, florianna, How are you doing? It's nice to see you here again. Thank you for the amendments you made on my essay. Your nice comments make me so happy, I enjoy reading your perspectives on robotic pet dogs. thank you. On top of that, I'm happy to know that seemingly the sentences I wrote make sense to you. The last sentence I think that the robot dog is just a craze and will not be popular any more like the Japanese robot dog was. I think the robot dog is just a craze and that it won't continue to be popular like the Japanese robot dog was. I meant to say that Japanese robot dogs were just a craze and they are not popular any more. I should have said... Chinese robot dogs won't continue to be popular like the Japanese one wasn't. When it comes to China, I tend to be judgmental. I know it's not good, but.... Hoping to see you soon again, bye for now. Yoko

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hideaki.t060

Than you for correcting sentences as well as providing comments. My son goes to bed according to the rule we set.

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mashroom

Dear Ms. florianna, I appreciate your advice! Have a wonderful week!

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Yoyoyo

Thank you for your corrections, florianna! What a sweet comments!! I’m really happy that you could understand what I wanted to say. Also you could share my happiness feelings! Thank you so much!

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Yoyoyo

Thank you so much for your corrections and kind comments, florianna!! I would say “ give him a piggyback”! I lied down and fall asleep which I didn’t supposed to do it. Yes, I was tired! Thank you very much again!

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wakaran

Thank you for correcting my essay and replying with such kindly written comments! I am glad to hear that your daughter’s violin was fixed appropriately.

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Yoyoyo

Thank you so much for your corrections and kind comments! I could say“It touched my heart.”! ;) I’m glad that you could understand exactly my feelings. Thank you very much!

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