Thread: Looking for language exchange

Originally Posted by kgcole

It is surprising for me (to me). I have never saw (seen) or hear (heard) about a woman working as a long distance truck driver.

When I saw your “seen” and “heard” I started laughing nervously. I even couldn’t believe my eyes. I’d known that for years, yet I put it that way. This is how things are about learning a language with some individuals.

Originally Posted by kgcole

You surprise me to say that you think male writers are better than female. I wonder why that may be?

Just because I think that an average man is cleverer than an average woman. Didn’t you know?
The great majority of the scientists and writers have been males, btw.

Originally Posted by kgcole

I looked up “публицистика”, and it said that meant “social and political journalism”. “Познавательный” apparently means “cognitive”.

It seems to me that cognitive goes with such words as abilities, when we speak about conscious intellectual activity. I'm afraid I cannot say a cognitive book.

Originally Posted by kgcole

Of course, I’m continually amazed at your English. You don’t seem to have much problem expressing yourself in writing, with just a few mistakes here or there and not knowing a proper word. Occasionally you’re not sure about a tense.

But along with this I can hardly speak. It takes me a huge amount of time to find the proper word. I'm continuously like, "Umm... Ehh ... Umm" The speaking part of my brain must be turned off, I guess