Hello everyone,
and welcome to the second episode of the new series
Reading Your Stories
In each episode, we’ll take a look at a short story that you have sent me and I’ll read it, and I’ll correct all the mistakes and add commentary what needs to be changed and why.
And I’ll add a translation.
AND today, you can also guess what the mistake is so you essentially get to practice
listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar AND style
Wow, so cool :).
The story of today comes from Ruth and she’s telling us about a somewhat unusual weekend trip of hers.
It’s pretty well written overall and has a good mix of long and short sentences. But there are some basic mistakes in it that many of you will be able to spot.
Like last time, I’ll give you the audio and then the corrected version first, along with a (rather close) translation.
And after that, we’ll go through the original text section by section.
And this time, I WON’T mark the mistakes right away, I’ll just tell you how many there are in a given segment, so you can see if you can spot them :).
So are you ready to jump in?
Then let’s go…
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