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Well Sagacity, finally you come to this domain I have been eagerly expecting you to drop a few lines
First of all let me commend the corrections made by leogaga. I find them most satisfactory, and to the point.
@leogaga: I am looking forward to your future activity on this forum, cheers

@Sagacity: Since you have been expecting me to correct you, I shall comply and provide you with another slightly altered version of your text

I have been on a trip to London for a period of seven days, so I would like to share my impressions with you. Regardless of the fact that I am not very good at speaking English (I'm a + dufferI presume that this is slightly more appropriate term, though I would avoid using it for foreign languages) I have had copious communication and ... what is most important ... nobody had trouble understanding me.
Some friends of mine extended their invitation to me, and that turned out to be an excellent opportunity to see everything that I find of interest. Amongst other, these are the more notable of locations that I have visited: the London Eye (I took a ride on it), Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, (I had a cruise along the Thames), Oxford Street, Notting Hill, Hyde Park, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden ... etc.
Also, I have visited Madam Tussauds museum and I was in the Novello Theatre where I had an opportunity to watch Mamma Mia. In London I usually travelled by underground or taxi.

I realized that people there are excessive drinkers, so I had trouble matching them. It wasn't possible. Also they mix different kinds of drinks. And.... what is most interesting, they seem not to get drunk.
I tried different kinds of meals and drinks, and I have to state that London is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen.
I am aware of the fact that my English is not very good, but I don’t have any complex about that and I would like to chat here, because it is an excellent opportunity for me (and all of us) to improve English language.

Now, I'm waiting for Fil or Bluewortex to correct mistake which I have made in this text...

p.s. It was no easy feat to write after Silija who speaks English fluently.

@mcrule: You have been duly forewarned of your transgression of the topic rules. Since you have not found it pursuant to rectify your post in a timely manner, I have been obliged to delete it. When (if) you find the time to alter your post feel free to contact ThePhilosopher or myself, and your post shall be returned.

@Neprimetna: Your post is also in transgression of the topic rules, so I have taken the liberty of translating it for you on this occasion. Feel free to continue with posting, but be forewarned that any other non-English posts will be deleted.

• 6Ovo se svidja korisnicima: srecko81, Neprimetna, Sagacity, bluewortex, leogaga, mcrule
  
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Sagacity, your writing powered-by-Vuk kicks ass
Not only will you learn how to construct your sentences correctly, but also how to exercise correct spelling and tenses in this topic.

So, you must be a heavy drinker, if you tried to drink your friends under the table
I am really glad that you thought better of it.

Regarding this term – shwam, I burst into tears, really, when I saw the first page of Urban Dictionary.

I recommend you to read these articles:
http://www.mycity.rs/Engleski-jezik/Pregled-vremena-u-engleskom-jeziku.html
http://www.mycity.rs/Engleski-jezik/Slaganje-vremena-Concord-of-tenses.html

Thank you, @leogaga for the excellent post.

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@bluewortex "slightly altered" indeed. This reminds me of a book by Raymond Queneau en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercises_in_Style in which one story was told in about 100 different ways. It was also translated in Serbian by Danilo Kiš and can be found in our bookstores.

to y'all

• 6Ovo se svidja korisnicima: ThePhilosopher, Neprimetna, srecko81, E.L.I.T.E., leogaga, mcrule
  
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Thank you Neprimetna for your encouragement

@leogaga
Thank you for your advices and suggestions.
I have already printed everything you wrote. You've explained very clearly

No, you haven't discouraged me with your comments. I know how much I don’t know. .

I never studied English at primary school. My first foreign language was French. In high school, English became my second foreign language. After that, I had a big break and after a couple of years ago, I started with some Business English...But were changes in my job, and I no longer needed English.
It was one of the reasons why I stopped to learn...

‘’ shwam’’...I don’t know, where I have picked it up... I just remembered....I didn’t know the true meaning ...apparently....

@bluewortex
I think that I’m not adequate ’’specimen’’ for this PDF
Wow, what kind of text...I will know to write like you for 20 years....(maybe)
I printed everything you wrote...

@Fil
Thank you Fil for your recommendations...

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Hi.

What are you talking about these days?

Sagacity, are you learning English for fun or you have to do it? Oh, btw. pardon me on being lazy to read the previous pages. I know that Phil would be so kind to make it short for me, wouldn't you Phil?

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Well saten it seems to me that you have been completely ignored by phil
Not much going on in here, seems we have all fallen prey to sloth
But I suppose that can be easily amended.

So saten, how are the studies going, anything interesting happening?

And phil, if you want to come across multitude of words such as "indolence", I can recommend you a book (or ten)

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Fil loves everyone So stop talking gibberish
I made the deal with the blue devil, so here I am Safe and sound

I am planning to read something, I do not know yet which book.

And, Saten, how are you

• 1Ovo se svidja korisniku: Fil
  
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Oh, well, there are so many things going on lately... Hopefully many of them will come to an end in October. Well, I think I will become senior in October, but I have to pass many more.
I am a mess, but I would gladly talk about anything else..


Fil doesn't love me. jk, Fil.

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You are a mess? Sorry to hear that. I think that the things will work out for you
Because fortune favours the bold

Do you like my new nick, or the previous one suited me better

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I guess that being a mess is my normal condition. This is me, at my best..

I believe it's weird. I guess I am accustomed to your previous nick, but in those days I would always call you Fil, so it's fine. You shouldn't have changed your nick.