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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError
Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 11 new columns ({'range_end', 'ctrl_key', 'range_start', 'meta_key', 'key_code', 'shift_key', 'is_repeat', 'alt_key', 'type', 'text', 'key'}) and 36 missing columns ({'mark_a0', 'cefrlevel', 'countryres', 'task2_words', 'prompt_id', 'answer', 'layoutnow', 'task1_words', 'navigator_language', 'cefrself', 'cefrwhen', 'englishyears', 'mark_h2', 'mark_h1', 'cefr_a0', 'englishcountrymonths', 'task2_events', 'englishexposure', 'cefr_h2', 'cefr_h1', 'task1_time', 'comphours', 'task2_time', 'comptype', 'educ', 'handedness', 'layoutcomf', 'cohort', 'nativelang', 'prompt', 'otherlanguages', 'mark_h3', 'cefr_h3', 'navigator_useragent', 'task1_events', 'age'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/ALTACambridge/KUPA-KEYS/KUPA-KEYS-TASK-1.csv (at revision fa80c93fd9b9270e8b2bff473d7ce7a41478b0f0)
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2011, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 585, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2302, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2256, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
id: string
time: double
type: string
key: string
key_code: string
alt_key: double
ctrl_key: bool
meta_key: double
shift_key: bool
is_repeat: bool
range_start: double
range_end: double
text: string
-- schema metadata --
pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 1731
to
{'id': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'navigator_useragent': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'navigator_language': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'age': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'handedness': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'comphours': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'layoutcomf': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'layoutnow': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'comptype': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'countryres': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'nativelang': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'englishyears': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'englishcountrymonths': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'englishexposure': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'otherlanguages': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cefrself': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cefrlevel': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cefrwhen': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'educ': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'time': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'task1_time': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'task2_time': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'task1_events': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'task2_events': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'task1_words': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'task2_words': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'cohort': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'prompt_id': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'prompt': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'answer': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'mark_a0': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'mark_h1': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'mark_h2': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'mark_h3': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'cefr_a0': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cefr_h1': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cefr_h2': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cefr_h3': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}
because column names don't match
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1321, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 935, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2013, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 11 new columns ({'range_end', 'ctrl_key', 'range_start', 'meta_key', 'key_code', 'shift_key', 'is_repeat', 'alt_key', 'type', 'text', 'key'}) and 36 missing columns ({'mark_a0', 'cefrlevel', 'countryres', 'task2_words', 'prompt_id', 'answer', 'layoutnow', 'task1_words', 'navigator_language', 'cefrself', 'cefrwhen', 'englishyears', 'mark_h2', 'mark_h1', 'cefr_a0', 'englishcountrymonths', 'task2_events', 'englishexposure', 'cefr_h2', 'cefr_h1', 'task1_time', 'comphours', 'task2_time', 'comptype', 'educ', 'handedness', 'layoutcomf', 'cohort', 'nativelang', 'prompt', 'otherlanguages', 'mark_h3', 'cefr_h3', 'navigator_useragent', 'task1_events', 'age'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/ALTACambridge/KUPA-KEYS/KUPA-KEYS-TASK-1.csv (at revision fa80c93fd9b9270e8b2bff473d7ce7a41478b0f0)
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Make sure to review how to configure the dataset viewer, and open a discussion for direct support.
id
string | navigator_useragent
string | navigator_language
string | age
int64 | handedness
string | comphours
int64 | layoutcomf
string | layoutnow
string | comptype
string | countryres
string | nativelang
string | englishyears
float64 | englishcountrymonths
float64 | englishexposure
float64 | otherlanguages
string | cefrself
string | cefrlevel
string | cefrwhen
float64 | educ
string | time
int64 | task1_time
float64 | task2_time
float64 | task1_events
int64 | task2_events
int64 | task1_words
int64 | task2_words
int64 | cohort
int64 | prompt_id
int64 | prompt
string | answer
string | mark_a0
int64 | mark_h1
int64 | mark_h2
int64 | mark_h3
int64 | cefr_a0
string | cefr_h1
string | cefr_h2
string | cefr_h3
string |
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R_2EGIsZARLydD3Uc | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 25 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Italy | Italian | 20 | 1 | 5 | French | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,017 | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,294 | 441.5417 | 621.0259 | 6,309 | 6,756 | 302 | 278 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal, any at all, I would surely pick a bird. As to which one, I would probably wish to be an eagle. I would love to see the world from up above. Soaring the skies, feeling the winds and currents gently pushing me to one side or the other. Eagles live where mountains are, don't they? That is probably another reason why I would choose them in particular. I love the mountains. I would love to be able to just reach the top of a mountain in a blink of an eye, then be able to go back down in an instant and then up another top. I reckon the views would be spectacular. I did think of an eagle right off the bat. I always loved those drone-shot footages of mountain tops, snowy white, nobody there to be seen.
I like desolated places. I do, I really do. It takes your mind off the frenetic life of the city. You're always running, your mind constantly thinking about something and never really getting a moment off. Imagine really beaing an eagle, a few hours would suffice, soaring the skies and hearing just the leaves being blown by the wind. Nothing else, nothing at all. It would be as good as doing yoga. I reckon it might get scary after a little while. After all, we are "social" animals. But I am also curious about being inside a bird's mind for a day. Thinking about all the stress we are under each and every day, what do birds think? Do they think as we do, logically, or are they just pushed by their instincts? | 10 | 11 | 7 | 10 | C1.ii | C2.i | B2.i | C1.ii |
R_1obCaysaZCWZXoG | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0 | es-CL | 22 | Right-handed | 6 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Chile | Spanish | 6 | 0 | 4 | Portuguese | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,019 | High School | 1,517 | 488.516 | 765.346 | 5,780 | 6,059 | 302 | 253 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would like to be a bear. "But why? why would you like to be a bear?", that's an excellent question, I must say, well, physically, i have a lot of hair on my body: From the legs to my face: I'm very hairy. Another reason is that I'm big, I mean, I am smaller than, Lebron or Henry Cavill or Haaland, but I am still 1.81 meters long (apparently I'm more higher than the 80% of the population? i remember that i read something about it). "What else?" well, bears like fish, "Fish? So you like fish too?" thats right dear reader, this person likes fish a lot, although here were i live we dont eat it too much, just for you to know, i still live with my parents, because i'm at Uni, so I don't have any cash.What was i talking about? Oh right, bears and fish, well thats it, i like fish; I also like honey, and apparently bears too, or at least, Po bear likes it, so i assume that every bear likes it. What else? OH RIGHT I FORGOT, i already talked about the hair, but that amount of hair allows bears to survive in cold enviroments, like mountains for example, very useful!; what else? While they dont seem to be great athletes, bears run alot, that's right (or thats what i've seen on tv and the internet. Something else? they like to climb trees, or at least, the black bears do that, from what i've seen. | 9 | 6 | 5 | 8 | C1.i | B1.ii | B1.i | B2.ii |
R_3fqTek829k38iCk | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36 | pl-PL | 22 | Right-handed | 7 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Poland | Polish | 12 | 3 | 4 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,020 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 2,315 | 710.3919 | 857.4238 | 6,158 | 5,677 | 302 | 257 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be an animal for one day, I would definitely chose dog. Its because I also have my own dog. The dog called Nela and she is maltase. In my opinion dog's life was amazing. I tell only about the dog, who have the owner, because the rest of them actually don't have such a great life. If I could be a dog, I will spend all day laying on a sofa, sleeping on a pillow or running outside with my family. Dogs could do everything what they want, they don't have any duties and everyone loves them. If I would be a dog, I will eat every meal with my owner, its exacly the same as my own dog Nela. I hope my family go to the walk with me, because dogs love to be outside. There are a lot of things to smell and there are also others dogs, who can become my friends in the future. After long and full of adventures walk, I would obviously get a snack for good behaviour. Its really good award. I would also have fun using my toys, because I love it. Of course every animal have your problems. For us is just a perfect life, free of bad things, but dogs also have sad moment like spending time alone without their family or being far from friends, but to sum up, I thint that I would like to have life like a dog for this one special day. Its gonna be funny and really interesting. | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | B2.ii | B1.ii | B1.i | B2.i |
R_brxD7Q5ZnPW8Gn7 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 43 | Right-handed | 6 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,000 | High School | 1,220 | 507.925 | 437.1335 | 5,459 | 4,534 | 301 | 249 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could choose to be any animal for day I would choose to be a domestic housecat. I have 2 cats of my own and I often find myself thinking that it would be such a chilled out and easy life to be a cat. Quite often cats will spend the vast majority of their day sleeping, waking only to go in search for food, treats or a tickle from their owners. Most housecats are predominently lazy animals, they get food given to them almost on a constant level, so they can graze all day. I would love to be a cat so I could just prowl around my house and garden, chasing butterflies in the summer and sunbathing during sunny days. Cats tend to have very easy lives, and most people know that cats will choose their owners rather than the other way around, so I would be with an owner that I know would take care of me. I would spend most of my days lounging around in comfy spots around the house, like on my owners beds or in a hidey hole somewhere I know I won't be disturbed. Another reason why I would chose to be a cat is because of how satisfying a cats stretch looks! They look like they put their heart and soul into a good stretch! I would also spend my days gazing out the window and daydreaming about how I'd like to catch all the birds I could see. | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | C1.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C1.ii |
R_1k1RE78cBbZyZMA | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | pl | 23 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | AZERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 16 | 0 | 4 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,018 | High School | 3,355 | 677.659 | 1,966.441 | 5,686 | 6,522 | 274 | 263 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal I choose for one day I would probably be a bird. My choice would be obvious for a simple reason - birds can fly.
It is something that we as a humanity dreamed since forever, to be able to conquer the sky. Leonardo da Vinci few centuries back then made a sketch about flying machine and in today's world flying by plane from point A to point B seems to be normal. Even if we can reach the sky by a machine nowadays it would be much better feeling to be able to fly by ourselfs. Birds from ages were seen as a symbol of freedom because of their ability to fly. The feeling of being free as a bird in the skies would be incomparable to e.g. diving as a fish. People actually can dive with proper equipment by themself so in my humble opinion the bird option seems to be better. Why wouldn't I choose other interesting choices like lion or other fast or maybe even big animal? As a bird you could travel more freely, discovering the world would be easy and effortless not mentioning beautiful views! For that simple reason I'm pretty sure this would be best option if I could by any animal for one day.
The adventages of choosing a bird are really convincing if you ask me, I can't imagine any better choice - traversing the world freely in the skies is a superior argument, that's the main reason that I would rather be a bird than any other animal. | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B2.i | C1.i |
R_2zUd3XOFkwN8n67 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | hu-HU | 32 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Hungary | Hungarian | 5 | 0 | 1 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 4,014 | 1,237.9545 | 2,142.4108 | 5,929 | 4,550 | 300 | 253 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | It' a very difficult and interesting question, but I'll try to get my thoughts together. I think I would be a dog. It's not an easy decisin because thre are a lot of animals that have a good life. A dog , for example, has a very good life it has a good owner. He brings a lot of joy to other people and he has a lot of joy in his life. In addition, it hs all the food he needs and he doesen't have to hunt other animals. It he get sick, the dog can be sure that people will be help him. He can know that he will get well soon. If the dog has a good owner, it can be trusted with everything. The dog never has to be cold. A dog is cared for a lot and has a lot to live for. When yur dog gets sick there are myny different medicines avialable to help. The dog never has to go thirsty because his owner always gives him fresh water. A dog has many friends in his life when his owner takes him for walk. You can run your dog a lot and keep it healty throughout its life from all the exercise. When the dog old, many people help it and it can live longer than wild animals. So many good things can happen in a dog's life if it has a loving owner and cares about him. Being a dog is good for a day. | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | B2.i | B2.i | B1.i | B1.ii |
R_1NwuZMzRkVIR0WT | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 15183.78.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 32 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United States of America | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,270 | 346.0423 | 507.2708 | 5,639 | 4,724 | 302 | 257 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be an animal for a day, I would choose to be a golden retriever. I think it would be fun to have the ability to run and play and to put a smile on the face's of people around me. I also think it would be nice to take a break from human worries and to just follow where my instincts take me.
I would want to be a domesticated animal, rather than a wild one, because I wouldn't want to have to worry about predators. I would prefer to be protected and relaxed as an animal. I would also enjoy being able to go where humans can't - whether it be crashing through the forest or swimming in cold rivers. Though a wild animal can do the same, they don't have a warm home to go to afterwards.
I think that, as a golden retrieved, I would also have fun getting to play with other dogs. I could run and race with the best of them. Or, if I felt like it, I could take a nice long nap in a pool of sunshine. The freedom of a dog's life would be both fun and playful and simple and relaxing.
In short, I would want to be a golden retriever for a day so I could live a simplified version of an animal's life; one without worries and with the variety that comes with having your needs cared for. It would be a great chance to take a break from being a human. | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | C1.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i |
R_2t8LOS9nQDBQPA8 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | es-ES | 24 | Right-handed | 16 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Mexico | Spanish | 20 | 0 | 10 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,014 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 3,167 | 1,063.3269 | 1,443.6569 | 6,262 | 6,928 | 302 | 250 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | It is a very hard question for me, because I daily see how all kinds of animals suffer everyday caused by humans. But after analyzing it I think I would choose to be an eagle for a day, the reason is that I feel eagles have less contact with humans, so I would feel a little bit more protective, also eagles are hunters by nature so they have least possibilities to get caught by a predator. Also, I would love to experience flying, I often dream about it but I think that it would be way cooler to live it. As an eagle all I would do is fly around all day looking at beautiful sunsets and sunrises, I would also love to cuddle on a nest, I think it would feel very warm and cozy, especially with babies in it. I once read that eagles have one of the best sights, because they get to see the colors more vivid and with way better resolution than human beings. I would feel like the queen of the sky crossing it as an eagle, I think they are majestic. But the part that I would hate about being an eagle is the hunting time, I don't like the idea about being a predator and eat living animals, it would be too shocking for me, but I think I would pay that price just to live one day as an eagle and fly around all day long looking at beautiful landscapes scenarios.
| 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | B2.ii | B2.i | B2.i | B2.ii |
R_239Q0X5YLwB7U6Z | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 28 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,074 | 265.5916 | 567.0564 | 5,395 | 5,832 | 300 | 259 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | It's hard to choose something specific because I think what I would value most would be safety, and the animal kingdom fundamentally isn't a safe place to be as you are always on some predator's hit-list.
I think considering that I would only be the animal for one day, I would want to be an animal that lives or is able to be in places that humans typically aren't. At first I instinctively thought I would want to be an animal deep in the unknowns of the ocean so I could see what was really down there, like one of those fish with the giant teeth and the glowing bulb hanging over its head (I can't for the life of me remember the name), but I think maybe the darkness would be terrifying, even for a day. But I'd still get a glimpse of all of the unknown creatures that haven't been categorised by humans yet, though it may even be that there is simply nothing down in the ocean and it may be a wasted experience.
With safety in mind, I think it would be incredibly fun to be any kind of flying bird so that you could see the world from a completely different perspective, one that a human being really isn't capable of seeing. I don't know an awful lot about birds, but I'd choose to be the fastest flying bird so I could understand the experience of flying while also being able to see as much of the world as I could in a day.
| 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | C1.ii | C1.ii | C1.i | C2.i |
R_10xbkjEmnsusfb1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 32 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 8 | 3 | 3 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,326 | 500.321 | 568.996 | 5,976 | 4,871 | 304 | 249 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If i coult choose what animal i would be for one day i think i would be a delphin. I always wanted to dive but i cannot swim so water is only a mystery for me, so while i could swim i will use it to see all fauna of ocean. I will also squick a little, because it is really funny. I would also come to shore to see if there is any humans to feed me or just make photo with me. I wonder what else deplhins do or if there anything more in deep ocean so i will try my biggest dive maybe i would see a special fishes that humans never saw before.. I wonder also how long i could last before i would need to take another breath of air from surface. I also wonder how it would be making a combination swim with other delphins maybe i would try make some acrobatic things with them and have so much fun swimming with them. Also i thing delphins are really likeable and while im not that likeable person myself i would like to have some attention - and while delphins looks sweet i think i would get it. Maybe someone would recognize my big talent as obiedent animal and i could be even in tv or famous by other social media. That would be a great adventure to in same time swim throught ocean and and be most popular animal at the same time. | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | B1.i | B1.i | B1.i | B1.ii |
R_10CbLBzAnYKgWxB | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pl | 21 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 15 | 0 | 2 | Russian | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,017 | High School | 1,567 | 369.6677 | 797.8807 | 5,728 | 4,308 | 282 | 255 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would like to be an indoor cat. I wouldn't have to do anything. I could cuddle with my ownres, they would give me good food and I wouldn't have to get my own food. In addition, I could sleep as much as I want ald play whenever I want with my toys they would buy for me. If there were more of us cats I would have a super family and I would like to have cat children. It would be great if we would all be at home with our owners for the rest of our lives. We would give them joy, play with them, as if they had children of their own we would love to play with them too. As cats we would chase balls or lasers, and sometimes we would wade because that's who we are. Cats also have a good effect on people and feel when something is wrong with them. So if my owner of his children were depressed, for example, I would be happy to cuddle and encourage stroking to alleviate the sympthoms a bit. If there were dogs in my neighborhood I would also want to be friends with them, because why couldn't a dog live with cat? Sometimes I would like to chase a mouse of hamster, but I would know that if would be wrong to eat them. I also woulnd't eat fish, because my owners would be very angry with me. So much for why I would want to be a indoor cat. | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | B2.ii | B2.i | B2.i | B2.ii |
R_1NlbUxZcpNCVrx5 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 57 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 2,127 | 965.7739 | 681.4783 | 5,527 | 4,632 | 302 | 268 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could choose to be an animal then I would want to be an elephant as they are such a big, beautiful animal that is strong and steady. I love elephants and have always wanted to spend time with them and over 3 years ago I was able to do just that and loved the whole experience. The mother and baby were just so amazing and I just loved the whole vibe that I got from being with them. They are just such magestic animals and I felt such a love and connection to them. I felt that we could relate to one another and I know that if I needed to go on a long journey that this is the animal that I would want to take me there.
I know that other people feel that these animal are so big and dirty but this is anything but the case and that they are also dangerous but when I looked into this big mother's eyes I just felt a connection with her and I knew that I was safe. I felt as if I was at one with her as we were both mothers and just wanted to take care of our young and I felt I wanted to talk to her and did. I felt that she understood what I was saying and it was just awesome and because of this we spent another hour or so washing them and feeding them and it was just amazing and I will always treasure this memory and cannot wait to have another experience with such special animals. | 10 | 9 | 7 | 10 | C1.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.ii |
R_3fH0Mi9mCBQSRU0 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | lv-LV | 21 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Latvia | Latvian | 19 | 2 | 5 | Russian | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,020 | High School | 2,654 | 570.1165 | 1,626.6462 | 5,782 | 6,170 | 302 | 258 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal for one day, I would choose to be the king of the jungle himself. I would choose to be a lion, one of the strongest and fastest predators in the world. Being this beautiful animal for the day I would be able to explore African landscapes without any fear of the wildlife. As beautiful and gracious zebras, giraffes or hippopotamus are, they must fear for their life every single day. I believe lions live a very relaxed life, chilling in shade unbothered, hiding from the hot sun. For me they symbolize leadership, confidence, beauty, strength and fearlessness. Lions are also very intelligent animals because they learn from watching others. It may seem that while they are not hunting, lions just sleep to save up their energy, when actually they keep a close eye on everything that is going on around them. Lion has the most beautiful tan fur and an amazing mane that makes them look much larger and also distinguishes male lions from female lions. Lion cubs are the most adorable little animals in my eyes. Being totally helpless when born, while also being dangerous to a human, they look abnormally cute and cuddly. I believe every year lion population decreases in size rapidly, making it a one of a kind experience for me to be this amazing animal just for one day, because who knows how long they will be around us and how long will we still be able to enjoy the company of the king of the jungle. | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | C1.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i |
R_1K0ZJyEUObi0zc7 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 30 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,591 | 472.7446 | 746.7429 | 5,507 | 4,463 | 302 | 251 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal for just one day I would be a shark because they are one of the kings of the ocean and so nothing would probably eat me. I would be able to travel far because they are fast swimmers and explore deep in the ocean, seeing places that are unknown to humans and also see lots of cool sea life creatures. I would be interested to see animals like turtles, tropical fish, octopus and sea horses. I love being in the water anyway as a human so a shark seems like an amazing animal to become. I would travel as far as I could in just one day and see as many different things as I could see. I would dive deep into the dark untouch corners of the earth just to find out what is there. I wouldn't eat any other animal and wouldn't like if they were afraid of me. The only scary part for me would be if humans tried to catch me for food or just to hunt, or even larger animals like whales. I would love to be able to breath underwater without having to surface for air and feel all the sensations of a shark. Going with the flow and just enjoying a calm, relaxing day in the ocean. Overall, I think being a shark is a good choice to be for the day for me personally even though I'm sure I would love to be many more animals too. | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | C1.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i |
R_1FEx2T10BWa0c6J | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 34 | Right-handed | 12 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,887 | 419.2513 | 1,183.0943 | 5,770 | 14,941 | 302 | 674 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | With this question I am assuming that I would maintain the counsciousness, memories, and self-awareness that I currently have as a human, or at least remember the experience once I returned to human form.
With this in mind I think that I would want to be an animal that was vastly different than my current form. That is to to say it lives in, or is capable of going to, an environment that I cannot do as a human. I feel that this would give me the most unique and memorable experience as I would not ever be able to experience it again. I can think of two such environemnts that meet this criteria, underwater or the sky.
If I decide to go underwater what would I get to do I wonder? I would likely want to go extremely deep to places that humans cannot really go. But will I find it interesting at the bottom of the seabed? There will be little or no light so I won't be able to see anything to remember probably, and most of me senses will probably come in the form of some vibrations and perhaps sound. Is there anything down there that is even interesting?
The other option is the sky. Sure, it is possible for humans to fly with the aid of mechanical assistance but is it really the same as doing it as natually as I currenly run? I imagine there is a great freedom in that. Moreover, many flying creatures have excellent eyesight and can hear well too so I would likely be able to remember and interpret a lot of what I experience.
With this in mind I have decided I would like to become a flying animal. The only question now is what one? Tiny ones such as insects do not seem very appealing at first but upon more thought I have to imagine that the minature world is incredibly different and interesting. Imagine being the sive of a gnat or something and witnessing humans as colossal giants. The down side to that however is that I would be a bit limitied in the altitude I could reach and also the things I could interact with because of my small size. Alternatively I could choose to be a larger flying animal such as an eagle or falcon. They would be able to go much faster, fly much higher, and interact a lot more with the environment. Speaking of which, what exactly would I want to interact with and do apart from flying. Do I want to hunt? WIll that be an instinct I cannot ignore as a bird? Or If I become a mosquitoe will I have an irresitable urge to suck peoples blood? There are so many questions but I have to make this choice on limited information. I think I will choose to be an eagle. Flying aorund and seeing the environment from high, doing stunts in the sky, and even hunting a small creature. Although the last part I am kind of uncertain I would have the stomach for. It has just struck me that maybe I could be a parrot and use the time to actually speak and interact with people. What if I lose this memory after I change and cannot tell anyone. This as I could maybe convince some person to record me and even be able to vocalise what I am experiencing to some degree. Yes, now that I think of it I feel that I would choose to be a parrot. I would fly around for about 1 hour and then find someone to record me for the remainder as I do my best to explan to them my situation and document my experience beofre I have to change back. I think that it will be incredible to see a human mind communication through a parrot's body with a parrot's voice. This way I feel I will get to enjoy myself but also do something worthwhile and make the most from the opportunity. | 12 | 9 | 9 | 11 | C2.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C2.i |
R_sbsnXSfYqFZ9oxX | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15 | pt-PT | 23 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Portugal | Portuguese | 10 | 6 | 5 | French | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,020 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 2,096 | 813.732 | 779.351 | 6,114 | 5,618 | 301 | 258 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If i could be an animal, i would be a lion, once he's the king of the jungle. I consider myself as a strong person that always fights for the objectives I want to achieve.
During my professional path, I have a clear notion that all the goals I propose myself to achieve were achieved, for example, I wanted to apply to the most exclusive master in the world of wine, so, during 1 year I applied to all the activities that could improve my cv and making me as an asset for the master. The result was that I was able to get the scholarship and I was the first person from my country that ever be accepted into this master.
Since ever, I assume a leadership paper in all the group projects I have to work on, and even so, when I have groups with older and more experienced people than me, they are the ones that give me the paper of leader in a group.
In my personal life, I spend my time taking care of my family and my close friends, once for me that's the pillar that guides my happiness, but also I like to support people that don't belong to the close circle of my people.
All those characteristics that define me as a person, like, being strong, being a leader, fitting in to achieve my goals, and taking care of people, are common characteristics of a lion. So that's why I think I could be an excellent lion for a day. | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | C1.ii | B2.i | B2.i | B2.ii |
R_2uTCH9KkMRaOUPX | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | it-IT | 32 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Italy | Italian | 18 | 1 | 12 | Spanish | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 2,934 | 738.683 | 1,808.87 | 5,630 | 5,190 | 283 | 294 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would love to be a bird because flying has always given me a strange feeling like suspension, kind of like time slowing down.
So if I get that feeling when I fly in an airplane I imagine what the feeling might be to be a bird and be able to fly for real, flying over whole countries and being able to see them from above in all their glory.
I wouldn't have to worry about time passing, i could just focus on what i see and feel as i travel from one country to another feeling first the sea breeze on my wings and then the frigid mountain air freezing my beakand then finally perch on the hightest branch of a lonely tree and enjoy the sunset glimpsed on the horizon.
Finally after the sunset enjoying a well-deserved night's rest in a warm and cozy nest, among other birds similar to me in appearance but with a thousand stories to tell, about their travels, their adventures, what they have seen and heard, letting me be lulled by their chirping and dozing off in the shadow of a radiant moon and a night filled with millions of stars.
I know, i realize, it is just a dream, a crazy but wonderful dream.
It is said that if you can dream it then you can do it, well i would love for this dream of mine to come true if only for one day to really experience what it feels like to fly, to feel at one with nature around us, to feel the rays of the sun so close that it warms our hearts, to feel the soft and delicare touch of a whimsical cloud that endures lonely and stoic in a clear sky. | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | C1.ii | C1.ii | C1.i | C2.i |
R_1LLi8eIGazWAYTA | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pl-PL | 29 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 10 | 1 | 8 | German | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,401 | 282.66 | 829.7309 | 5,788 | 9,530 | 298 | 361 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If i could be any animal for one day, that i can choose. I will probably choose to be a dog. I will choose a dog, because I'm a really dog-lover. I have 2 dogs and i really love them. They are my best friends, one of my dog is 9 years older than second dog and he is male when younger dog is female, but returning to the topic I'd like to know, what my dogs feel when i'm playing with them, what they think and what are their emotions. I'd like to know, how they feel when i'm leaving home and nobody is in it and what they are doing in this time, what they are thinking about during this waiting time until somebody return to house. I'm working from home, so I'm almost everytime in my house so atleast they don't have to wait 8 hours everyday alone in house when me and my girlfriend are outside. Third thing is that I'd like to know how dogs behave when they are ill or they need something. For example when my dogs wants to get out or want food or play with me they just trying to get my attention by touching me with their noses or by or they squeaking at me. But i'd like to know how they feel and behave when something hurts them, because dog can't tell u that he feels bad or he feels that he is going to be ill, of course that he can sneeze when something is hurting him, but it's not enough and this is the problem, because my older dog have 13 years and i have to ride with hime on control examination to the vet everytime, so it will be very nice to know what dog feel when he is ill or something is hurtining him, and by being a dog for one day i will be able to try to understand that at least.
And this is probably everything what i can say about it. To sum up if i could choose, i'll choose that i want to be dog, to understand how and what dogs feel. | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | B1.ii | B1.ii | B1.i | B1.i |
R_2qdWv3rmKaYpowO | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | el-GR | 28 | Right-handed | 12 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Greece | Greek | 17 | 12 | 5 | German | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,659 | 503.725 | 734.6715 | 5,576 | 7,659 | 302 | 358 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I've never really thought about transforming into an animal for just one day. That being told, my answer does not entail a great amount of thinking into it. However, if I really had to pick I would probably choose to be a whale. Then you would ask me, why would you like to be one of the most heavy weights animal in the animal kingdom, with zero agility skills. The answer goes beyond having the ability to move quickly, or having the ability to fly to see the world from above. My choice is closely connected to my curiosity. Whales are one of the oldest creature in our world. They are highly respected in the sea-world, or that is what I would like to think. I find it fascinating that they can communicate through "screams". It takes one very intelligent creature to master that type of communication. In addition to this, the feeling of being literally the biggest animal alive must be intimitating even for your ownself. I could not imagine how you would feel if everything around you, in terms of size, is irrelevant. You would possibly feel like the most superior creature. That alone imagines quite scary, yet incredibly interesting. Last, but not least, being a whale comes with an additional privilege. We, as humans, have evolved and progressed. We have managed to travel through the infinite space, land on the moon, see galaxies millions of light year away. Yet, we are still unable to study our own planet fully. We are aware, partially at the very best, of what lies at the bottom of the ocean. You would imagine that creature that travelled to space would have know what the secrets of the ocean are. Being a whale can give you this knowledge. You can see the depths of the ocean with your own eyes, and all that by being a natural part of it, not as an intruder. And who knows, you may ensure whether mermaids are fictional. Because by not being fully aware of the entire marine life, you could never be 100% sure that mermaids aren't real. There is always that possibility. | 12 | 8 | 7 | 10 | C2.ii | B2.ii | B2.i | C1.ii |
R_3LXNC1oloyifnSd | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 34 | Right-handed | 7 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Doctoral Degree or higher (e.g., PhD, MPhil, etc.) | 800 | 278.9874 | 359.3294 | 5,616 | 5,393 | 302 | 256 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I think my answer comes in two parts. Firstly, as a recreational gymnast, I've always admired big jungle cats for their combination of speed, agility and stealth. So I think being able to explore a jungle environment as an apex predator, along with the enhanced senses would be of great interest. Perhaps something like a puma/spotted leopard, being able to explore both the jungle ground and inside the trees. The second thought is that whenever I travel, I always try to do some nature hikes or go to the highest point in the city. Being able to have that visual exploration from up high would also be of great interest, perhaps as an eagle based somewhere in the US given the beautiful vistas on the West Coast. You might notice that both of these options have no predators; I'd be very worried as an animal for one day! Both of these animals are based in exotic locations so I think there is an appeal to me of combining the novel experience of being an animal with exploring a new environment. I've had a similar feeling in the past when scuba diving, having the nature experience of being underwater and in a completely new habitat, whilst simultaneously feeling like I wasn't disturbing the natural fauna (sea creatures seem relatively unperturbed by scuba divers as it turns out). I think that would have to be a third choice, some kind of underwater animal for the day! I think a seat turtle around the Galapagos Islands would be ideal. | 12 | 9 | 9 | 11 | C2.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C2.i |
R_3oECSi57YP8BpdN | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | en-US | 27 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Slovenia | Slovene | 7 | 0 | 4 | Croatian | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,013 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,535 | 529.093 | 666.026 | 5,829 | 5,262 | 302 | 250 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal I choose for one day, I would be a cat. They get as much snuggle as they want and almost everybody likes them. I would eat and sleep all day. I think it would be a very relaxing experience. I'm under a lot of stress lately at my job and I feel like a day as a cat would give me much needed rest. Maybe I would go explore the neighbourhood. It would probably be an exiting experience. Maybe I could even catch a mouse or two. I wonder how they taste like. It must be interesting to see the world from the cat's perspective. They are small and can squize in small holes. I would feel like a spy. But the world is also quite dangerous for them. There are cars, bigger animals and evil people. So I should not be too adventorous on my day as a cat. My favorite part of the day as a cat would be to lay on the bed near my girlfriend. She would pet me and snuggle with me. She would be so happy that I choose to be with her. She likes cats and is sometimes sad when no cat of ours wants to snuggle with her. When she would pet me, I would purr and make her calm. And when she would fall asleep I would lay on her chest and we would sleep together. This would be my perfect day as a cat. | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | B2.ii | B2.ii | B2.i | C1.i |
R_2U6ffEdcz13GEhD | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 45 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is A1 or A2 | 2,000 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,955 | 469.2291 | 892.8919 | 5,800 | 8,274 | 302 | 268 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal for the day I think that I would choose to be a bald eagle. One of the main reasons I have chosen to be an eagle is that it would give me the opportunity to fly which obviously is not something I am currently able to do! It would be incredible to understand how the mechanics of flying works, and to have the chance to experience to do it. I would love to feel free in the sky with very little sound, I think it would be a peaceful and liberating experience.
Bald Eagles are mainly based in the North of America and Canada, both countries that I love visiting, which is another reason I would choose this animal. I would spend my day flying over the spectacular scenery in Canada, perhaps in the British Columbia region, gliding over the mountain and lake regions. I spent some of my honeymoon in this area, so this would envoke special memories for me, being able to visit the area but view it from a different angle & perspective. As an eagle in this area, I may be able to see other incredible wildlife, such as wild bears, whales, moose & wolves.
I have seen bald eagles in the wild and they are extremely beautiful creatures which is another reason that I have chosen them. They are a powerful bird of prey who are endangered so it would also allow me to potentially obtain an insight into what life as a bald eagle is like so that I could perhaps help with their species protection.
| 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 | C1.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C2.i |
R_3ESfOUrwA20mGy5 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | pl | 20 | Right-handed | 6 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 10 | 0 | 6 | German | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 3,972 | 282.715 | 2,476.463 | 5,096 | 6,682 | 272 | 261 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I had to choose what animal I would like to be for a one day it would probably be an eagle. He's fearless, self-sufficent and can fly. In my opinion an eagle is a symbol of loyalty, bravery and victory (That's probably why they are used in so many logos, it reminds me of the 101st Airborne Division from II World War). It would be interesting to see a world from the high skies while flying. Since eagle is a predator, most of the time he can easily get some food like fish. If they can't find fish they will probably eat whatever they can find, even other birds. The eagles are also one of the fastest birds and can strike with precision out of nowhere. I think that eagle also has to be out of his comfort zone because he's feeding on live food. The eagles are also very important in maintaining balance in food chain and are very strategic in their actions. The other fascinating thing they have in my opinion is their sight with which they can see up to few kilometers. In conclusion I think that living one day as an eagle would be very interesting thing to experience - living on the edge, hunting for the prey, being up as high as clouds in the sky and getting respect or fear from most of the other animals. I think that this experience would be also very intense since the eagles are living probably way less years than average human being (atleast that's what I assume). | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | C1.i | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i |
R_2EAdrOl8BnZOt3a | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 31 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | South Africa | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,010 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 5,565 | 725.0655 | 902.8177 | 5,606 | 5,426 | 299 | 262 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | That is truely an interesting question. I have thought of this question a few years ago. If i could be any animal for a day, I would definitely be a puppy. Reason being, I have noticed how carefree they are and how everything is super fascinating to them. They do not put too much thought into things. For instance, when one gives them a blanket, they do not see it as something to keep them warm, but rather, they think of it as something they can dismantle or destroy. To them everything is a "Toy". That carefree nature they have is what i would enjoy most. Having a big heart for people especially my owner would make me the happiest. Furthermore, they are also loved by alot to people. I rarely come across people who say they do not like/ ove puppies, including those who are afraid of them. I would enjoy being carried around EVERYWHERE and being taken for pamering every now and then at the dog parlor. Moreover, puppies sleep for alot of the time. I am someone who really enjoys sleeping so this makes another reason why i would enjoy being a puppy. Basically, being taken care of from start to end, having someone else feed me, bath me, pick up after me would really make being a puppy for a day very nice. Having people picking me up or giving me all sorts of compliments would also make me choose this option. Lastly i wouly be a puppy for a day because of all the cuteness they exude. | 10 | 7 | 7 | 11 | C1.ii | B2.i | B2.i | C2.i |
R_3MtVJsiRayvcdsp | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 55 | Right-handed | 4 | IDK | IDK | Laptop | Mexico | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 2,425 | 942.3954 | 916.9761 | 5,766 | 5,594 | 302 | 280 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could choose to be an animal for a day, I think I would choose to be a lizard. It might sound sort of strange, but lizards seem to have a good life. They live in warm or outright hot weather, and I love hot, sunny weather. In fact, I hate cold weather. I am very sensitive to the cold, as it affects me not only in a physical way, but also emotionally. During the winter months, when it gets cold, I feel sleepy most of the time; my energy levels are low and I wish I could sleep in until warm weather returns, kind of the way polar bears do when they hybernate.
On the other hand, lizards sunbathe frequently, at least the ones I've seen. They thrive in the sun, actually. When I visualize lizards, I see them lying in the sun, or roaming around plants, I imagine them living in tropical weather, with lush vegetation surrounding them, with food being pretty much easily accessible to the. When they get hungry, they catch insects and bite away at plants with their tiny mouths, which seems pretty awesome. Contrary to other animals who have to scavenge around for their meals, lizards don't seem to have to make too much of an effort to keep themselves fed. This seems to leave them a lot of free time to roam around and explore, and also to worship the sun much like humans do at the beach.
Additionally, lizard can hide very easily from predators by simply going into a hole or camouglaging themselves against some plants. All in all, I believe lizards have relatively easy and comfortable lives, generally speaking. | 12 | 9 | 7 | 11 | C2.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C2.i |
R_3QGkW4pFz1X6Irf | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 30 | Right-handed | 7 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,477 | 699.9572 | 584.0066 | 6,074 | 4,947 | 302 | 265 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I were to choose an animal I would choose to be a dog. Dogs are universally loved by all types of people across the world. Dogs have the capability of loving all sorts of different kinds of animals as well as humans. Most dogs have enough cognitive ability to be able to understand the world around them. Those kinds of things mixed with the curretn domestication of dogs in the developed world would make this an appealing anima to be for a day due to the provisionof food, water and a place to live without having to put in any effort on your part except for "looking cute". Another advantage of being a dog for a day, especially in a country where dogs are domesticated, is that in all areas of where you would most likely explore, whether than be indoors or outdoors, is that there would not be any kind of fear of predation form any other animals in the vacinity. Being a dog for a day would lead to an increase in my postive state of mind as, from my perosnal poit of view and experiences, dogs are seen as some of the happiest and most contnt animals I have ever come across. Conversely the day spent as a dog would make me consider my own happiness as a human and make me wonder at to whether life in itself would be better and perhaps if we all lived a life which was a bit simpler and less difficult to navigate perhaps as a society the human race would be better off. | 11 | 7 | 7 | 11 | C2.i | B2.i | B2.i | C2.i |
R_pPKsvYDQq98sNA5 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pl-PL | 24 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 12 | 2 | 3 | German | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,934 | 568.4919 | 1,041.3999 | 6,094 | 5,342 | 302 | 256 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | Well, just for one day? That's a hard nut to crack to answer this question but I will do my best! So let's begin!
If I could be any animal for the one and only day, I would choose to be a bird. Being a bird would allow me to experience the world from a different perspective, no more "boots on the ground" and moving just in 2 dimensions, I would be able to soar high in the sky and get a bird's view of the planet Earth. I would be able to winess places in ways I've never seen them beforme. I woul be able to observe the beaty of high mountains, the splendor of splendid lakes and much more! I would also be able to experience the freedom of flying in the air, feel the wind in my wings and sun on my beak. Being a bird for a day would also allow me to experience the joy of being alivem I would be able to feel the joy of flight and contentment of neverending exploration. In this case I could be truly experience a sense of freedom, that I could experience right now as a human being. If I were a bird, I would't have to worry about my loans, daily problems and my annoying boss I could just fly away further where borders don't exist! Overall in my opinion it would be an experience that I would never forget! I envy all bird species this sense of freedom, unavalaible for human mankind.
| 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B2.i | C1.i |
R_25MYROZBV5FOXwl | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | en-GB | 42 | Right-handed | 11 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Vocational qualifications | 2,124 | 693.585 | 594.967 | 5,887 | 5,481 | 301 | 261 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal for a day I think I would like to be a monkey. I think they are fun creatures and they seem to live their lives in quite a care-free way.
I would like to be living in a place that were cool, but warm; perhaps somewhere like South Africa. I remember going to Cape Point and the monkies there seemed to be having lots of fun and were extremely cheeky, I think thats alread a little bit like my character already!
I would imagine my day being quite relaxing. I'd get up in the morning and first greet my monkey friends and family. Then I'd go and look for some food, play with my monkey friends some more and have a little bit of fun. I would imagine later in the day I would be with the rest of the monkies and look for even more food or maybe go back to where I found it before, then relax in the sun for the rest of the day.
During the day I'm sure I could also fit in a bit of time to clean myself and help my friends do the same. Jumping around and playing would get all bits in my hair so it'd be important to get that off as it wouldn't be very comfortable to sleep with it all making me itch and digging into my skin.
I think I would try and spend as much of my time as I could lazing around in the sun and generally taking it easy. | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B2.i | B2.ii |
R_1LA5WTyCA34npEV | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 59 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Chile | Spanish | 10 | 0 | 6 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,244 | 305.8866 | 451.5127 | 5,460 | 6,030 | 302 | 314 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be an animal for one day, I would be a cat. The reasons why are many: One, they are a pet, and almost all pets in the world get treated very well and are loved by their family. Two, wild animals have a very rough life, they constantly have to survive and there's many who have natural predators. Three, I could sleep as much as I want to, as I barely get any time to sleep properly and feel very exhausted on a daily basis. Four, they have no responsabilities, so they don't need to have a job or worry about bills or taxes, they simply exist to be loved and cared for besides entertaining themselves however they want. Five, cats can see in the dark, and as I am very afraid of the dark, this would be lovely and also very useful. And finally, they are one of the top three most liked animals in the world, so there's a good chance I would live with a good family that loves and cares for me if I were to be their pet cat.
There's plenty of other animals I could have chosen, such as dogs or other cool looking wild animals that I like, such as tigers, but as I explained above, wild animals have very rough lives in which they constantly have to worry about survival and their only purpose is to reproduce. As for dogs, they usually are treated very badly in lots of countries due to being mostly seen as just "guard dogs" instead of pets or family, and I would also hate to be crated every day for hours on end just because a human decided to go out and that it isn't cruel to put me in a box where I can't move freely or do anything else. That is why, I choose cats instead. | 12 | 8 | 9 | 9 | C2.ii | B2.ii | C1.i | C1.i |
R_25QP6qzCJW0aG1G | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 29 | Right-handed | 13 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,263 | 426.5299 | 644.9415 | 5,459 | 7,660 | 300 | 371 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal I choose for a day then I think I would choose to be a whale. Some sort of big whale, maybe a blue whale. I mean, whales fall under the category of animal right? I can't remember biological phylogenetic trees or whatever it's called, but I think every living creature from bird to spider is an animal. Anyway, yeah, a whale. It would just be such a different experience living in the sea. You would have this gigantic brain, there is conscioussness there I think. Feelings and thoughts, complex ones. There would be a real rich experience being a whale I think, and the sort of rich experience that is utterly different from being a human. The noises, the sights, the sounds you would experience would be like being transported to an alien world.
I can imagine swimming deeply into the depths, the feeling of temperature, the darkness creeping and sourrounding me. I can imagine swimming to the surface, taking a big breath of air; I wonder what it would feel like breathing in the lungs of a whale and pushing air and water from my... whale spout? again I am not a biologist. Diving back down, seeing a shoal of fish and just opening my gaping maw and consuming. What it would feel like to see a cluster of plankton and gulp them. What the flavour would be like, what the sensation would be like.
Maybe being a whale from the context of previously being a human would be a sort of horrific experience, it would take some getting used to. I am not sure what being an animal would really be like. I suppose you could think of it as being in the body of an animal but with the brain of a human experiencing it. But to truly be an animal means having the mind of one, and to have the mind of any animal in the given moment requires going through the cycle of life as one.
To be just transplanted with a blank slate brain into any adult of any species, or to have the mind of a human suddenly in animal form, this is less fantasy then true horror. | 12 | 9 | 9 | 9 | C2.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C1.i |
R_1dpmlkvn9V8uVqK | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 41 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,002 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,597 | 503.7697 | 544.6505 | 5,275 | 4,957 | 282 | 254 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal for a day, I would probably choose to be a lion. A lion is strong and powerful, and is known as king of the jungle, for me that would be the animal I would choose to be. I admire Lions in their natural habitat and is my favourite animal of all the animals out there, so this would be my choice of animal for a day, To be king of the jungle for a day, that would be an amazing experience, and one that would be the best of all time, for me that would be thrilling. I have always admired Lions throughout my life, and watched movies such as Disney's The Lion King, and as such makes me a great admirer of the Lion species. The Lion is a great hunter, as it strives to provide for its cubs, which makes it a great provider, which I think is great and really admirable. There have been times where Lion's have killed humans, which I think is sad, but a lot of the time it is down to the Lion protecting its territory from hunters, whos main aim is to kill Lions for sport, which to me is very wrong, as Lions are beautiful animals. I conclude my essay by saying that my choice of animal for the day would be a Lion, for all those reasons listed above, and also to state they are very admirable animals, that deserve recognition for the great species that they are. | 9 | 8 | 7 | 9 | C1.i | B2.ii | B2.i | C1.i |
R_XSRWf9zlWq8ePAJ | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | it | 39 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Italy | Italian | 25 | 0 | 1 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,892 | 676.193 | 836.584 | 5,443 | 5,215 | 302 | 251 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | This is a very interesting question, a question someone makes on job interviews to explore psicological things or during a casual meeting for example at a party or somewhere else. But I don't think this is a very psicological question. Normally no one thinks of himself as an animal. This is the typical question with multiple answers and with multiple explanations to these aswers, so we could write a lot of words for this test. For example, I can answer I like to be a domestic cat: all day sleeping, served with food and with a very large degree of autonomy. Or I could be a fly, to enter some special places to listen the conversation of other people or spying some secret documents... Someone would want to be a powerful lion, a king in their land. But I think this is not for me. I'm a very peaceful person and strong animal, ferocius animals, doesn't make for me. But there's a thing I really want from the animal world: the capacity to fly. This is a very different and strange sensation, different from something anyone could experience day to day. Sure, there were planes, air balloons, the sensation of falling down where you are in an elevator... But the capacity to open the wings and take a jump and fly: this is a very different thing. So, definitely, if I could be and animal for one day, I think I will choose to be a chicken. May I miss something? | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | C1.i | B2.i | B2.i | B2.ii |
R_2TQO8KS7p0wlmwA | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | hu-HU | 29 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTZ | QWERTZ | Desktop | Hungary | Hungarian | 20 | 0 | 8 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,015 | High School | 1,622 | 476.8471 | 678.4876 | 5,453 | 5,273 | 302 | 268 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | That is a most interesting question! Cat would seem an obvious answer, as I share a lot of their attribute; love of comfort, laziness, being a night owl, and having a fairly good sight in the dark, which is ironic considering my miopia. However, being a cat would be somewhat familiar, I would chose a bird instead, let's say eagle. I would love experience what it is like to sore on the cold winds, while not falling to my death, seeing the world from a bird's view and possible scaring the boots off of unsuspecting bystanders. As an eagle I would have a chance to see many parts of the world, simply by traveling around freely, and being the national animal of many countries is not too shabby either. However, I am not too fond of eating animals alive or raw, so if my cognitive abilites remained the same, as in a human mind/soul in an animals body, then I would likely skip a couple of meals. Getting in fights as an eagle however would be very interesting. Unlike drunk humans, who sputter around, or professional fighters who are mostly aiming at effectiveness, there is a sort of grace between a fight between birds. Claw and beak, wings and feints, the "dancing steps of war" to quote a classic. But to finish off in a more positive note, as I said earlier, soaring in the sky and seeing the patchworks of fields and forests, the concrete jungles of cities from many different heights and angles would be the most interesting thing about being a bird for a day. | 12 | 9 | 7 | 10 | C2.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.ii |
R_1rB0506hb4YBFOb | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 29 | Right-handed | 5 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,159 | 363.8354 | 449.467 | 5,488 | 5,239 | 301 | 285 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I think that if I could be any animal for one day, I would like to be some sort of migratory bird that is able to fly high and far for hours at a time, so that I could experience what it would be like to see the world from such a height (under my own steam, not trapped inside an airplane) as well as experience the feeling of surfing the air currents and propelling myself into the air with my wings. Although not as spectacular as a hawk or an eagle, maybe I would like to experience being a seagull, because I could experience the skies but I could also rest on top of the ocean even far out to sea if I would like, and with my wings I could access cliff edges and tops as well as remote island locations that are inaccessible to humans.
Although there are many animals that could provide me with very interesting experiences if I was to be one of them for a day, I do think that birds are uniquely different to humans in a way that any warm-blooded animal is not going to be. Being a fish of some sort for a day would be an interesting experience as well, but I don't think their senses would be as keen as a seagulls, so some of the experience would be lost to the darkness of the ocean and poor eyesight. I could not travel as far in 24 hours as a fish either. So overall I would choose a bird like a seagull, because the views through their eyes and the feeling of wings would be sensational and the ideal use for the short timeframe. | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | C1.ii | C1.ii | C1.i | C1.ii |
R_25BKOSk03wyxUVg | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | it-IT | 27 | Right-handed | 1 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Italy | Italian | 5 | 0 | 3 | Other | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | middle school | 1,584 | 593.339 | 714.817 | 5,769 | 5,188 | 302 | 269 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | This is actually a very deep question, after meditating about it for a bit I came to a conclusion: an eagle.
Since I can be this chosen animal for just a day, I would like to anjoy this 24 hours without any worries. Being an eagle I am a top predator on the trofic chain, meaning ther is no animal that lives off of my meat.
So, I can do whatever I want and I don not need to be too careful about where I go and who I meet.
Second, I have a very amazing ability, I can fly. Eagles can fly at a very high speed and they can cover deep distances without stopping. I can fly all over the world and access places that human beings can only imagine. I would love to fly above the grand canyon, stop for a visit in the wild africa but also see antartica from above with its immense white desert of ice. I would probably try to fly as high as possible and enjoy every single sensation I would feel. Something that I am very courious about is: what is like eating raw meat? I would probably find my prey, attack and then taste the fresh meat. I know this is strange but if you think about it we as human beings in 2023 are not predators and we do not hunt and eat so the adrenalin of getting your food with your own hands it's not something we experience. This is sadly impossible but I would pay to be an animal and live purely out of my instinct. | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i | C1.i |
R_3KIutploWsAGYDz | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/93.0.0.0 | hu-HU | 23 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTZ | QWERTZ | Desktop | Hungary | Hungarian | 13 | 0 | 4 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,020 | High School | 1,606 | 316.403 | 748.3076 | 5,352 | 5,316 | 302 | 268 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | To be honest, beeing an animal would be a cool thing, because the animals don't have to do things what the don't want to. They don't have to work, don't have to get up early.
If I have to choose an animal, maybe it would be an eagle. Why the eagle? Because the eagle is a very beautiful animal. The feathers of the eagle are very beautiful. Eagles are the kings of the air. They have a very good vision, and they can hunt and catch almost every one of their prey. Eagles are flying in the high air, they can feel the whistling of the wind anytime they want, and there are no other bigger bird in the air that would try to catch them. Also the eagles are not in danger, because the people don't hurt them, so they don't have to be afraid of being shot or being catched.
If I could be an eagle for a day I would probably just fly in the air almost all day, because the sight is very beautiful in that height. I would just enjoy that I am the king of the air, and I can do whatever I want. If I want to hunt down a little animal, then I can easily just do, and there is nothing that I have to be afraid.
I would go to high places, and I would just look down at the towns, peoples, and to other animals. Everyone would look up to me and be afraid of me. So thats why I would be an eagle if I could choose. | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | B2.ii | B2.i | B2.i | B2.i |
R_3EHd90nmiSav5pJ | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pt-PT | 28 | Left-handed | 5 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Portugal | Portuguese | 14 | 3 | 6 | French | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,012 | High School | 2,233 | 463.237 | 1,557.312 | 6,587 | 6,465 | 330 | 252 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would probably choose to be a dog, i would love the experience of being a dog for one day, they're smart, supportive and the bestman friend.I always loved dogs fo my whole life and that's the answer that makes more sense to me but i would enjoy to experience other animals as well, like a monkey, or a dolphin. Dogs usually have a long and joy life, they are not much agressive and they socialize with all kind of animals, including us, humans. Would be interesting to feel what they feel in certain moments and experiences from their life, their happiness and energy it's something really excitable to be experienced as well. That being said, I would enjoy to experience others animals because there exists a lot of variety and diversity that I would love to try, like flying animals or animals from the sea. An Eagle for example would be a wonderful experience as well, it most be a sensation out of this world to be on the sky and do the miles on their lifes that they usually do with the instinct that they have. A dolphin or a whale would bring other sensations from sea and forms of living, it's really a tough choice to be made on that question! The most joyable would be definitely experience that for one day only, because as humans, we still have a lot of questions to solve for a better understanding of the animal world, from a lot of different animals. | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | C1.ii | B1.ii | B1.i | B1.ii |
R_1gFSXx6DmmZ4QMS | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 15183.78.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 72 | Right-handed | 5 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 2,817 | 878.9325 | 1,340.7957 | 6,132 | 6,099 | 302 | 262 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would most definitely choose a Bird. In particular, a Dove. I would choose a Dove because they seem so angelic and heavenly and free. Furthemore, being able to fly high, above in the sky and to feel the wind beneath my wings would be the most incredible feeling. The feeling of being safe and protected as you could just fly away, anywhere in the world, whenever you feel uncomfortable in certain situations. Exploring new locations throughout the globe and seeing new places from a, as they say "birds eye view". Also, known as the "bird of love", I think is a really cute nickname given by people and dove's being symbolised with weddings and being in love is such a prestigious thing to be represented by. I feel as though I relate to Dove's because being married for over 50 years has a certain amount of sentimental connection to the love aspect of the gorgeous creatures. Adding to what the Dove represents, next is peace. If this world was full of dove's there would always be peace and in-turn, no Wars. How different history would look then and futhermore, the state and aesthetic of the current world's look as a whole would be greatly improved and overall beautiful. To sum up, they bring peace, love and an overall beauty to globally signify what the Dove represents. No intimidation, no anger, just content and for these reasons, I feel as though there is no better choice for myself to choose the most amazing animal/ bird, which is refered to as the Dove. | 12 | 8 | 9 | 9 | C2.ii | B2.ii | C1.i | C1.i |
R_XTGFkxKAWng0C5j | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-ZA | 26 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | South Africa | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 3,442 | 928.9696 | 1,893.0558 | 5,286 | 5,412 | 282 | 268 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would choose to be a lion because it is one of the most dominant and powerful animals in the animal kingdom. They are known to be the "King of the Jungle", and they have a charming trait that allows them to move swiftly. Lions are brave, courageous, and vicious, but most importantly, they are leaders. They guide their families and teach their young how to be independent hunters and predators. If a lion would be a politician, I believe it would be a strong-willed, opinionated individual. Always looking for dirt on their opponents or a way to outdo them. They are most likely to be charismatic public speakers who can easily sway a crowd. They would be widely respected as a public political figure and would go after the undesirable elements in any country with vengeance. In my opinion, they would make excellent politicians. They would be on the far right because they are so powerful as animals that I believe they would match the energy of the most extreme conservatives. They would keep their beliefs close to their hearts and fight indefinitely for what they believe is right. They would always try to come out on top and push their agendas. They would go to great lengths to make their plans known and not necessarily care about a perfectly polished reputation. For example, Trump embodies a political lion very well. Trump wants what he wants and does everything in his power to get what he wants. I see braveness in both, as they take risks even if it may jeopardize the progress they have already made. | 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 | C1.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C2.i |
R_1rvpxP1EqG25UXb | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-PL | 21 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 15 | 0 | 7 | German | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,022 | High School | 1,686 | 530.3952 | 631.1866 | 5,955 | 5,363 | 301 | 282 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | I would want to be a gorilla. For some time now, I've been obssesed with gorillas and I've watched over hundred videos of them. I think they are funny and I love the way they walk, it always makes me laugh. The way they act make me want to be one of them. It is not just that they are cool, but I love watching funny things and I like when people think I am funny. That is why I would like to be a gorilla. Everything about them makes me laugh and I love to make people laugh. My love for them started when I first saw a video on social media app, when one gorilla was acting like he was in dramatic movie scene. He was throwing hay all over the place and banging on some wood, when there was another gorilla on the other side. It reminded me of dramatic Indian movies with a lot of close ups and slow motions and just made me laugh uncontrollably. After this I started watching tons and tons of videos of gorillas. RIght now my favourite is the one with gorilla sliding like a wizard and turning over in front of other people and presenting his bum. Every video with bunch of gorillas walking like they are drunk makes my day better. I always show these videos to my friends, I want to make my friends happy just like I am watching these videos. I hope one day I will see gorillas and send them big kisses. That is my dream, and that is why I want to be a gorilla. To be one of them and observe them all the time. | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | B2.ii | B2.i | B2.i | B2.i |
R_YYNT3yFzxhTwVax | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 22 | Right-handed | 2 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Poland | Polish | 12 | 0 | 6 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 2,478 | 789.5973 | 1,117.6007 | 5,467 | 5,257 | 302 | 275 | 1 | 8 | If you could be any animal you choose for one day, what animal would you choose? Why? | If I could be any animal for one day I would be a lion. Not a lioness, but a male lion. The reason is very easy. They do nothing all day. They just lie on a grass field, under a shade of a big tree watching as lionessess hunt for him, while he does absolutly nothing. The only thing he has to do is fight another lions who try to take control over the pride (lions pack name I think) and I will just hope that the day I am a lion I wouldn't have to do any of that. Just sleep, eat and cuddle with other members of my pride. Also nobody could tell me what I should or shouldn't do. I would run if I wanted to run, I would roar if I wanted to run and I would lie on grass if I as much as wished to. I would enjoy as much freedom as I want to.
Another animal I would choose is some species of a big bird. For example a hawk or a stork. Maybe even a parrot. I would just fly away. It is very convenient. If I don't like something or if I'm bored I can just simply leave and settle far away. Well I guess it would be impossible if I was a bird just for one day, but oh well. I would also like to see how flying feels like. If it is the feeling of freedom that everyone gushes about or just wind in your face and trying to outmanuver as many bugs as possible. Seeing beautiful scenery wouldn't be a bad idea either. | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | C1.i | B2.ii | B2.i | B2.ii |
R_23f4LxjgHkE0Zni | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/105.0.1343.33 | en-US | 28 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Mexico | Spanish | 20 | 1 | 10 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,016 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,348 | 376.2339 | 632.0023 | 6,078 | 5,916 | 302 | 276 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hey Pal!
You know, I've been thinking about what you said the other day about trying to improve your English reading skills and I started thinking about how I could help you in some way. Maybe this won't be super useful, but I think you might find some of my experiences as, at least, good 'you shoud know' material.
First of all, I think (as you may have already guessed) that the best way in general to get better at any type of skill is to fully immerse yourself in it, so you should try to read as many things as you can in English. I'm not telling you to go to a library and get a dozen books, but you could try to watch movies with English subtitles, visit websites that are mainly in English like Reddit, if you want to give the book route a go you could try ready a book you've already read in Spanish so you already have a general idea of what's happening and you can focus more on the 'translation' part of the deal.
Now, of course knowing your fundamentals is super important, there's no real benefit on learning how to 'read' in English if you don't really know 'why' phrases are written like that. Don't forget to pay attention in class, or look for a basics english course on Google, remember that strong fundamentals make everything easier, to the point where even if you don't really know how to write something you'll end up developing this 'feeling' when something isn't written quite right.
Well, we can always voice chat if you want some more in-depth answers.
Good luck! | 12 | 9 | 6 | 10 | C2.ii | C1.i | B1.ii | C1.ii |
R_2EgiQ6rqJkr6O52 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0 | hu | 46 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTZ | QWERTZ | Desktop | Hungary | Hungarian | 10 | 0 | 2 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,000 | High School | 2,271 | 672.155 | 1,184.291 | 6,572 | 6,538 | 299 | 293 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Dear Frank!
I've heard about your problem with reading in English.
I had this problem in the past and had a difficult time to get over it.
Mostly I had problem to pronounce classic words like family names, names of places.
Luckily today I much easier to practice and improve.
Of course you can start with a simple dictionary where you can find, in written how to pronounce the word but it isn't the best without proper help from a teacher or from someone who has the experience.
The second method is to get a newspaper (it is better than a book because of the different topics) and ask someone to read it with you.
Unfortunately this method needs another person too.
By the way. Start with light reading, I mean children books, nursery rhymes. I know it sounds silly but remember when you learned you first words. You didn't start with Shakespeare right?
So take your time and take it slow.
Ever since we have youtube there are countless videos in English so you can easily find educational videos.
So head on to these channels (see links below) and you can see by the title that what topic they cover in the video.
The text is on the screen and just like in karaoke a little dot moves forward above it as the reader reads.
You can repeat any segment thanks to the timestamps in the description of the videos.
You are able to choose between different accents too, so if you like to learn Australian accent, you can do it using these videos just look for the playlists.
I really hope that I could help with your problem.
Write back if you have any questions and/or you have improved.
Sincerely:
A. | 10 | 6 | 6 | 11 | C1.ii | B1.ii | B1.ii | C2.i |
R_1PUAWLMxjvndZKX | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pl-PL | 25 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Poland | Polish | 15 | 0 | 2 | German | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 3,041 | 827.2392 | 1,870.9006 | 5,580 | 6,773 | 281 | 281 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi Jack,
How are yoy? I hope you're fine. I'm writting because I heard that you want to improve your English reading skills. I understand you because it is also difficult for me. I find that reading in English is problematic because we don't know every word in English. I lost a lot of time to chcek in paper dictionary.First I wanted to read long stories and it was mistakes because I should start read easier texts first. But parctice makes perfect and I want to give you some advices. It may be difficult at first sight to read all book in foregin language. It is important to reading books at an your English level. But you should start reading short texts - news article, magazines, fiction. Read about things which interesting you. Sometimes you may bypass some words because they' re not important to understand context. You may use online dictionary then you find the word faster. Remember practice makes perfect so set aside 15 to 25 minutes each day to read. You could take a book out in bed, on a train or at the office. You need to focus and study. Take notes while you read. For instance, you might write down new vocabulary while reading. After that ask yourself questions to make sure you understand what you re reading. Read text again it is also good advice. Sometimes reading just once is not enough. Read many kinds of texts. Read anything and everything!
I hope that if you follow these steps to learn English reading, you might suddenly discover that you are reading better and sometimes you understanding more even in polish.
Write me soon!
Your Adam
| 9 | 6 | 5 | 8 | C1.i | B1.ii | B1.i | B2.ii |
R_2sR8jtEtUznvOW5 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | pt-PT | 23 | Right-handed | 9 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Portugal | Portuguese | 13 | 0 | 5 | Spanish | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,214 | 306.566 | 640.564 | 5,783 | 8,741 | 301 | 363 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi mate, hope you are doing well.
I understand your point. Though your English reading skills are good enough for you to get by, you still want to become more proficient because it may bring you benefits both in personal and professional matters. I feel the same way. Though I often read stuff in English, both in terms of things I find online as well as books, I still feel I have plenty of room to improve.
I mostly get this feeling because I've come to notice that I take quite longer to read a book in English than I do a book written in my native language. The main culprit for this is, of course, the fact that I sometimes don't know the meaning of some words. I often am too lazy too look for their meaning (specially shameful since I do most of my reading on an ereader with instant access to a dictionary) and just try to figure out what the author is trying to convey with them from the general flow of the sentences. This is a big mistake, and I'm mentioning it so that you don't do the same. It's always worth searching for the meaning of the words you aren't familiar with with. First of all, it makes it easier for you to understand what you're reading. And second, it's always nice to have a large vocabulary.
Another thing that I've come to do is not only search for the meanings of words, but for their way they're pronounced as well. On countless times I've said a word the wrong way because I didn't bother to learn properly how it is pronounced. I think this is something really positive for learning English, so I guess you could do it as well.
My last advice would be to try and read slowly and reread sentences or even entire paragraphs or pages as many times as you need to figure out their meaning. Not only will you enjoy more whatever book you're reading if you're able to fully understand what the author means, but you'll also be improving your English level.
Best regards and hope I see you soon | 12 | 10 | 9 | 11 | C2.ii | C1.ii | C1.i | C2.i |
R_2YazP1o2wdEYFfH | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | el-GR | 26 | Right-handed | 9 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Greece | Greek | 18 | 10 | 5 | German | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,012 | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 1,927 | 801.812 | 817.3076 | 6,481 | 6,359 | 302 | 257 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hello Mark,
I'm writing this message in order to help you improve your English reading skills. I persinally know how difficult this is, but you have to try even harder. You have to spend time practising and reading as many books as you can in English. I tried to highlight some words that were really hard for me to remember, even to understand, and read them again and again. Don't forget to take some tests that really help you improve. Maybe a teacher is a very good solution. You can easily find someone on Internet. You don't have to pay a lot of money. You can also buy some audiobooks. Audiobooks can really help you improve your accent and make your mind think how to pronounce some words while you read them. All you have to do is to read as many as possible books, magazines or whatever you want that's in English, obviously. You can do it just don't worry. If you practice you will see a result and something that seems diffucult for you right now, in lees than you think will be pretty easy. You can also read loud the books so you can hear yourself. To sum up, the most important think is to devote some time on something you want so much. Do not get frustrated or alienate. This should make you try even harder in order to see the final result. Just be patient. I would like to get a feedback from your improvement. Hope i somehow helped you.
Best wishes. | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | C1.i | B2.i | B1.ii | C1.i |
R_AurQSBdbX74X0rL | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pt-PT | 50 | Right-handed | 2 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Portugal | Portuguese | 7 | 0 | 2 | Spanish | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 2,616 | 763.0939 | 1,014.3454 | 5,486 | 6,532 | 299 | 307 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi Marlon.
As you've asked, I will try to my best to give you some advice on how to improve your english reading skills. As you know, I never had difficulties reading and understanding english. I don't really know why, never could explain it to myself... Tha fact is that i've been exposed to english from an early age, mostly through television series and movies (films still are aired in their original language and subtitled in portuguese).
I think this is first reason for my "ability" to learn english. Of course listening is not the same from reading or writing, but it gives you a predisposition for it. Whan i first had english classes, and we started with simple words, I couls see the relation between spoken and writen words. It seemed that they fitted together.
So, first thing is to listen, listen, listen (and have a "translation" for what you listen to - as I had the portuguese subtitles).
Then, I began trying to think in english. As you know, there are some differences in how phrases are formed (the place of the verbs in a sentence, for example). I got better and better as i practiced.
So, second advice is to start thinking in english.
Reading was another challenge. I started buying some english magazines on subk«jects i was interested in. As i wanted to learn more from the subject, i did an effort to fully understand waht was writen in the arcticles. That's how i improved my reading. Noeadays I read a lor in english, mostly online stuff. When i do not know a word, I try to guess it's meaning through context. Is i can not understand it that way, i'll go to a dictionary and try to make sense of it.
That's it dear friend. I hope this can help.
Best regards.
| 9 | 7 | 5 | 9 | C1.i | B2.i | B1.i | C1.i |
R_12F4UPzeZSHpwmB | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 30 | Right-handed | 12 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,842 | 358.8833 | 1,116.4029 | 5,433 | 7,041 | 302 | 250 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi there friend, I have become aware that you have a desire to improve your English reading skills. I would like to take this opportunity to perhaps share some of my personal experience of reading the English language and some common issues I think you may encounter. Hopefully this will be of some help and interest to you.
One of the first problems that to come my mind is that it can often be difficult to understand the pronounciation of certain words just from the text alone (pronounciation, meaning how you say you words). This is because text and pronounciations do not always follow consistent rules. One example of this is 'silent' letters - meaning, letters that are written in text but that you don't actually pronounce (hence, "silent" letter). This occurs in words like "palm", for example, which is simply pronounced to something closer to "pam" than it is to "pall-m". For such instances, it would be wise to seak out auditory examples to better grasp how certains words are pronounced.
Another piece of advice I would give you is to seek out reading materials that match the type of style of language you are interested in (eg. modern day slang; classical english; posh, etc.), and that match your current proficiency of the language. Even the very best native English speakers started off by reading simple books made for children, so there's no shame in getting some books with big pictures and that use simple words and setence structures! | 10 | 9 | 7 | 11 | C1.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C2.i |
R_2uJnM6g3ytxldQv | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | es-419 | 26 | Right-handed | 6 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Chile | Spanish | 15 | 0 | 3 | null | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,022 | High School | 2,417 | 590.3366 | 1,399.7442 | 5,874 | 6,697 | 301 | 254 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Dear friend,
I know that you've been having problems with learning English, so I tought I would give you some advice on how to improve your reading skills.
When I was at your level I struggled a lot with long sentences, I would try to read fast like in my native language and skip words or read the wrong word completely. So my first advice would be to be patient with yourself, you can take a bit of time to put the words in order and decode the actual meaning of what you're reading. Other issue I had was with vocabulary, I would'nt really practise my reading skills, I focused on my listening and pronunciation because I thought it was more fun, as a result my vocavulary was poor and I would have to stop every two or three sentences to google the meaning of a new word I found, this is natural I guess, but I would get frustrated and it made the reading comprehension more difficult because I would lose track of the text, so I think it can be useful to have a notebook or something like that where you write some of the new words you learn that you can't decipher or that make you curious. This would also serve as a diary or log book for your progress. Finally, I think the most important lesson when learning a language would be to be curious and patient. Hopefully my advice is useful in your effort to learning this awesome language. | 9 | 9 | 5 | 10 | C1.i | C1.i | B1.i | C1.ii |
R_2ALppS6HAsKLyMY | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | es-ES | 26 | Right-handed | 5 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Mexico | Spanish | 11 | 0 | 3 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 5,519 | 794.849 | 3,459.785 | 6,166 | 7,758 | 303 | 286 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | My dear friend
Someone told that you want to improve your english reading skills, that is awesome, english is a wonderful language, you will learn many things once you become fluent in the language (btw why i am writing this in english if you struggle reading english? Oh anyway...). I want to help you with some practical advice that worked for me.
Well, in order to improve your english skills you will need two things: Study and practice. By study i mean learning the grammatical rules of english, the verbs, substantives, etc. And then there is the practice, this will be much more easier and fun. Start by picking an interesting book and read it, if you have already read the same book in your language it will even better as you can compare paragraphs that you do not understand in english with the same ones in your native language, as you already know some words that exist in english does not exist in other languages, thus, in my humble opinion, the important thing is to grasp the meaning of the sentences, once you master this you english reading skills will improve greatly.
Finally, if you want to improve your reading skills then you should also improve your writing skills as well, both set of skills help each other. Write any kind of stuff, you can even try to write what you read in english but using different words, if will help you with the meaning thing i mentioned. What about this idea: Log into an online chat with english speakers and try to talk with them, you will struggle at first but you surely will get more skilled with enough time.
Good luck and cheers | 9 | 9 | 5 | 10 | C1.i | C1.i | B1.i | C1.ii |
R_3oRP8A121rXqPsS | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 22 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,018 | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 6,876 | 4,279.29 | 1,443.0839 | 6,122 | 5,844 | 296 | 271 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | hello Jane,
i know you want to improve your reading skills in english, english is not really somthing tough atleast not like mathematics and some other thins to learn. English is an essential language which everyone needs to know or rather learn if it not a native language, English is not only neccesary but also compulsory for evryday life.
Acknowledging the fact that english is neccasary it is a must to know how to read fluently in english which also includes writing, english is very acceptabe in most continents which includes country.
Some reasons why some people dont know how to speak fluently in english is always because English is not their native language or they have not dedicated time to learning how to learn because of how they were brought up or the region where they were raised. Some come from nartive speaking countries wher their languages are very different from english, most of these are the reasons why people do not have reading skills and and learn how to write well also in English.
I find reading in english difficult to some extent and also fun. Reading in english can be tiring to some extent fun and reading often makes an individual more perfect and more fluent in english.
reading novels can improve your reading skills a great deal as you know prctice makes perfect, the more you read the more you get better and improve your reading skills.
it is important to improve reading skills, it is a great deal and will want to hear your genuine feedback on how you are doing on improving your reading skills. | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 | B2.i | B1.ii | B1.i | C1.i |
R_3IbYJd8CnTW2ZjV | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 30 | Right-handed | 12 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,151 | 296.2559 | 695.8784 | 5,699 | 5,778 | 302 | 253 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | English can be a very difficult language, especially with how many words are spelt the same yet read differently. One word for example, I have just used, read. The best advice is to first get used to the context of the sentence and try to understand which pronunciation should then be used. For example; She read the book. Which is pronounced "red". Do you want to read the book? Which would be pronounced "reed". Another good way to remember this and know which is the correct pronunciation, if you are speaking about the past tense, it should be pronounced "red". If you are talking about the future or present tense, it would be "reed".
A couple of good ideas I would give to help with learning the language would be to actively try to use words or phrases you know in every day life. Become familiar with what you're saying. If you're shopping and you see a product, try naming the products in english as you walk round.
Active take note of new vocabulary that you hear! Talk to friends, colleagues, try to have simple, short conversations and build your way up to longer and more complicated conversations. Get used to every day conversations.
Watch TV shows and Movies that you're familiar with in English with subtitles on. Read English books and newspapers. Even label things round your house! The more you familiarise yourself with every day object and items, the more you practice, and you'll pick the language up in no time. | 12 | 9 | 7 | 10 | C2.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.ii |
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I have been thinking about ways you could improve your English reading skills. In this email, I will send you some of the suggestions I have on the matter.
Personally, I think that reading is all about practice. English as a language, unlike French, does not have an incredibly complex set of rules concerning grammar and spelling, for exemple, in English, there is no difference between feminine and masculine articles, everything is just "the". I think that what you should do, is to start reading books you have already read in German, but in their English translation. This way, you already have the general content and the important points of the story in the back of your head, and you can focus on the language practice.
Furthermore, I think you should start about writing down the words that give you trouble and practice them after reading. I wouldn't recommend you to do this all the time, as the constant noting could turn into frustration, giving you the feeling that you don't understand anything at all - and this would be exactly counter-productive: learning is all about making progress, and understanding that it takes time to improve and grow. Therefore, you should be gentle with yourself and maybe after every ten or twenty pages or so, stop, and go back and think about the words that gave you trouble. You note them down. And once you have finished reading, and put the book aside, you start looking for translations and noting them in your textbook. With this method, you will quickly grow an entire dictionary of words and terms, and expressions for you to practice and strengthen yourself.
You will see. You will make progress in no time, which in turn will motivate you to keep going.
Good luck and best wishes, | 12 | 10 | 9 | 11 | C2.ii | C1.ii | C1.i | C2.i |
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the best way to practice english very well is to do caught up on shows that display more like regular basic english, such as kids shows, and in that way, have soemthing to write down as the show goes on and on. then later use multilingual dictionary that can easily simplify the meaning the words, in that way, the vocabulary will be increasing with new words, and better understanding of words, and try to engage into conversations with few words that were accumulated in the process and that it will help on some of the ideas, abd the ways to improve english is to stay in touch, mostly with local news, reading articles and other sort of news and maybe to watch some online. | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | C1.i | B1.i | A2.ii | C1.i |
R_3dRrTXy5SZZr18J | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | es-ES | 35 | Right-handed | 7 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Spain | Spanish | 10 | 4 | 2 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,018 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 3,393 | 467.854 | 2,152.0727 | 5,545 | 5,437 | 300 | 264 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi dear;
I so sorry to hear that you are having trouble learning to read English properly.
I know that it is difficult reading English because the phonetics it is totally different to your mother langauge.
I think taht it is a good idea use a videos of Youtube with subtitles and put the speed 0,5x. This way you will be able to hear how the words are pronunced.
Also, you can listen music with the lyrics. So you enjoy listening to music and listening to how the words are pronunced. Even though you will think you are at a karaoke party hahaha.
Another idea you can use to learn to read English is to write the most difficult words and below them, write how they would be read using your phonetics.
For me the hardest thing is when I see a word for the first time and I do not know how to pronounce that word, so I start pronouncing the word in my head in different ways before looking up how to pronounce it in a dictionary.
In any case, I believe that with perseverance, without stress and with effort, everything can be achieved. You have to read as much as you can.
If you want, we can meet sometime in person or online to practice reading and at the same time, we can see each other.
I hope you find this advices helpful and enjoy reading English.
Best regards from your friend who loves you very much.
P.D.: If you would like more advice, do not hesitate to contact me again
| 10 | 7 | 7 | 10 | C1.ii | B2.i | B2.i | C1.ii |
R_3GcW2YrAw3w6NF5 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | en-GB | 30 | Right-handed | 9 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,069 | 338.916 | 471.866 | 5,373 | 5,344 | 302 | 292 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Dear Mike,
I think it's wonderful that you want to improve your English reading skills. It will allows us to communicate more clearly and it will open up a load of new opportunites for you. I suppose I have been lucky to be born in an English-speaking country and haven't really struggled to read the language. Although there are times when I'm reading a book or an article and come across a word I'm unfamiliar with. In those instances I just look them up in a dictionary or find the correct pronunciation. I think the best advice I could give you to improve your English reading would be to just immerse yourself as much as possible. It will be hard at first but the more you read English words the easier it will become. You could watch your favourite movie with the subtitles enabled, or play a video game with subtitles. You could read the news in English too. All of these things will quickly improve your English reading ability and soon you'll be unstoppable.
I understand how tough it can be to learn and improve your language skills. When I was in school I took German lessons and could never really get the hang of it. In some ways it should be easier to learn English because of how much media there is available in English. It would be difficult for me to follow the same advice I have given you, for me to become better at German, because I wouldn't know how to find my favourite movie in that language.
I wish you all the best in your continued work in improving your English and feel free to let me know if you'd like any further help.
All the best. | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | C2.ii | C1.ii | C1.ii | C2.i |
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How have you been? I hope you're doing well. Your sister told me yesterday that you want to improve your English reading skills and asked me if I could help you out in some way.
First of all, if you want to improve in another language what you need to do is to really inmerse in said language. Choose a book from an english speaking author that you really enjoyed but read in your language and get a copy in english and start reading it. If you remember the version you originally read you can easilly follow the plot and if you get stuck or don't understand something you can check the book in your native language and compare. What this exercise accomplishes is to help you "let go" of the fear of reading a large piece of text in another language. Also, since a book is usually long you practice reading comprehension because you must piece together the plot from start to finish.
If you want to take a more academic approach I recommend that you read Cambridge's "English collocations in use" and English phrasal verbs in use". These books contains many real life examples of conversations in different settings that should help you understand how and why some english words are used in different contexts.
Lastly I strongly recommend that you expend some times in forums or communities of your interest where english is the main/sole written language. Is easy to learn when the topic being talked about is something that you enjoy. | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | C1.i | C1.i | C1.i | C2.i |
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So you say you want to improve your English reading skills? Well, there are a lot of ways you can do that. Firstly, you could try watching English children's shows on TV. The shows are designed to teach young children new words in English and often they come with subtitles so you can hear how the words sound as you read them. English children's books such as short stories may also ba a good idea as they will teach you new expressions and give context in simple sentences.
If you are loooking for something more advanced, you can probably find English language classes that will teach you basics skills to improve. Some of the difficulties of learning English is that some words use letters that change the sound of a word. For example: using "ph" at the beginning of a word changes the sound to "ff". So the word "physics" is pronounced "fizzics". Some tother challenges can be learning to use the right context for certain words and using past, present or future tenses. An example of this is using when word like "driving" is present tense, but the past tense chages it to "drove" It can be challenging, but I have every confidence that you will manage to learn it.
I hope this helps and that the fact that I typed all this out in English isn't too challenging for you. I suppose you may need to get someone to translate for you.
Hope you are doing really well!
Yours sincerely,
Dave. | 12 | 8 | 8 | 10 | C2.ii | B2.ii | B2.ii | C1.ii |
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The English language can be very confusing to read sometimes so do not worry. One of the main reasons I think is due to inconsistencies in the phonetic sounds of certain letters. For example; the words 'threw' and 'through' are phonetically identical in English, meaning that they sound the same. When reading these words though you may not realise that the letter G in the word 'through' is silent in this instance. In addition, to add more confusion, consider the word 'rough'. While you may read this and in your mind draw a comparison to 'through'. Understandable, as the words 'through' and 'rough' look very similar. This though would be a mistake, as in the word 'rough' the letter G is not silent but combines with the letter H to make an F sound! There are many examples like this in English reading. Another thing that can make reading English tricky is the fact that we have some phonetic words that have multiple uses and definitions depending on the spelling. For example; the words 'there', 'their and 'they're'. Also, be aware UK English and US English have some slight spelling differences.
My advice on how best to improve is through a lot of practice, when some of the quirks of the English language become clear it does become easier. Watching your favourite shows, or the News with English subtitles on is also a great way to learn how different spellings of words are used in different contexts in English.
All the best - Speak soon ;)
Dain | 12 | 11 | 9 | 10 | C2.ii | C2.i | C1.i | C1.ii |
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I find that when coming to reading English, that there can be some challenges or difficulties that a person can face. Firstly , it can be that the proununciation of certain English words can be problematic to read. Secondly, it can be that a person does not have the knowlegde of how they should use punctuation marks when reading a sentence in English. Lastly, a person could be experiencing a problem of dyslexia and they cannot read.
Firstly, to solve the problem of not being able to pronounce certain English words is by starting from scratch, like starting to learn your alphabets, combining this with learning short words and also getting to the longer words. Then a person must be taught how to break down the words, which means this where syllables a taught, to finally teach the person how to eventually pronounce the English words properly. Then this will lead the person to also start learning how to use these words in a sentence or combining them with others to create meaning.
Secondly, when coming to the use of punctuation marks in English reading, a person needs to first learn the definition and meaning of these, like when do we use them and how they are used in English reading. Then that is when a person will know, for example that when reading a full stop meanings to stop reading.
Lastly, there people also having a problem with reading. It could be that they did not get any reading lessons when they were young or they are suffering from the problem of dyslexia, having trouble reading. The best way to solve this is by finding educational centres that help people who suffer from dyslexia, that are dealing with many people everyday to help them. | 9 | 7 | 7 | 10 | C1.i | B2.i | B2.i | C1.ii |
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how are you, I hope you good, I received your last email about your difficulties with learning English, so I wanted to write to you with some advice and tips that helped me.
As you know English is not my first language, I started learning in school when I was six years old but the school system didn't really work for me, I had problems with everything, until couple years ago I started reading in English, I started with social media, Twitter was a great choice because of the words limit that make tweets really short. It wasn't easy at first, I needed google translator help but with time it got better. Then I started reading fanfiction online about my favorite books and TV shows, familiar characters and story make it easier to understand, still there were a lot words I didn't know but thanks to context I manage to guess most of them. Then I moved on to real books, and here, ebooks I great because a lot of apps has dictionary, you can check the meaning of the word without going to different pages and also it gives you a description of the word in English so you learning more. For me, the hardest part was to learn specific words, for example, medical terms that are not used daily but I get through that. So my advice for you is to do what I did, I know that you may think that you won't understand anything but trust me, you know more English than you think you do. So good luck I write back to me and tell me if it works for you.
Love, Ann | 10 | 8 | 6 | 10 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B1.ii | C1.ii |
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How are you? I'm fine thanks. I'm writing this email for answer your question about how to improve your English reading skills.
I'm glad you asked me for these suggestions but I have to remember to you that I'm probably worst than you in this subject. I find English language really easy to learn compared to other languages but I think that the most difficult part of it is that you have to understand the meaning of a lot of different words. Tha grammar is really easy and logical but there are so many different words to know. Another difficult thing to understand is a bit more advanced. It regards the dialectal constructs or the proverbs, the already made way to say something that is very different by the literal way to say it. In this case you can only learn these things one by one when you find them in a text or talking with someone. The last difficult thing I see in these topic is about the technical terms in a specifical study area. If you want to read about, for example, anthropology, before you can easily do it you have to know a lot of specifical and scientifically terms that belongs to this subject. And if you change the study area you have to do all the work again, restarting from the beginning.
But there are also some tips that I can give to you if you want to improve faster your reading skills. First of all, you should avoid old literature because is full of very difficult and rarely used terms that will only make you mad without really help your ability. Another thing you can do is to read about an interesting topic for you, something you can't find in other language. With that you should be helped to finish the text and you will be not annoyed because of the new terms you will find, because you will naturally want to finish the text.
I think that that's enough, your work around your reading skills should be helped with these tips.
Hope to see you soon! Bye. | 12 | 8 | 6 | 10 | C2.ii | B2.ii | B1.ii | C1.ii |
R_d4l5yRNXVDWuS0p | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 59 | Right-handed | 7 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,949 | 697.1444 | 962.3344 | 5,608 | 5,149 | 300 | 254 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Reading English can be difficult as the grammar and punctuation is not always logical in their use. One way to help with this would be to read a book while listening to an audio version of the book so you can follow the words in the book while listening to them being spoken. Join a spoken class to practise speaking which will help with reading. Watching TV programmes using sub titles to help connect the spoken word to the written word. Connect with people with similiar problems through social media to help each other. Join the local library to borrow as many books as you can of varying difficulty. They also have papers delivered daily which can be read. Different tenses can be problematic and words that are combined such as didn't, they're and she'll etc. what is meant is not always that obvious. Sentence composition is different from other foreign languages so it doesn't always seem a logic layout. Emmersion is no doubt one of the best ways to improve being able English reading skills so creating and getting together with other people is a good way forward. From this group see if someone would like to buddy up to become an email pen pal so written and reading skills would improve. There are comprehension, grammar and understanding workbooks available to purchase which could be purchased to use to practise reading and writing skills. Contact your local college to find out about evening classes and how to enroll to help improve reading skills. | 10 | 8 | 6 | 10 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B1.ii | C1.ii |
R_qVDLthcx0KPWCQN | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | pl | 20 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 13 | 0 | 4 | German | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 2,709 | 389.099 | 1,217.284 | 5,196 | 5,546 | 273 | 273 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hello, Michael!
I heard you've been learning English lately and you need to learn to read the language better. I am writing this email to help you with that. I've been learning English for a long time, so I think I can give you a lot of advice. Like me, it's probably hard for you to get used to the way some words are read at first. At first it seemed impossible for me to learn it. But as I got older, I became interested in different things. Why am I telling you this? Because that means I had to search for knowledge on a lot of really different topics. In our native language - Polish, there was not much information on how to start programming. I was very motivated to learn it because I want to connect my future with it. So what did I do? I was looking for information on the English-speaking Internet. In the United States, a lot of tutorials on various programming languages have been created a long time ago. So I had no other choice. I had to learn to read English. I downloaded a translator which, if I didn't know a word, would translate it for me and say it. It turned out to be very helpful. I recommend you do the same, which is to find an English forum about your interests and read it. There are no shortcuts. It is also a very good way to watch movies in English with English subtitles, because you learn the pronunciation. I'm sure you will learn it and you will be happy. You just need time.
Regards! | 12 | 9 | 7 | 9 | C2.ii | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i |
R_NVbR7hl9HBM04IF | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | es-419 | 52 | Right-handed | 10 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Chile | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,005 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 5,655 | 1,487.3232 | 1,505.1965 | 5,545 | 5,281 | 301 | 263 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hello Pancho. I know that you want to improve your english skills, both read and write in english. But, for my own experience you must learn first to read in english. That will help you to undestand the most of words, sentences and phrases. Don´t give up if at the begining you see that your rhythmn is slow or not have the speed that you want. That is completely normal. Start with books for beginners wehre you can find the most of sentences that people used on normal instances. You have to be consistent and persistent. You must repeat again and again the lessons, this is practice and practice. Think about a child learn to speak and read. You will see that day by day you will understand more and more words and you will begin to recognize and understand common phrases, words and sentences. If you do not understand a word there is no problem to use a translate, but try to use it the less you can and obly for the words that you don´t aunderstand. Another technique that I use is to read manuals of a lot of implements, like smartphones, TVs, computers, etc. As many of this type of manuals come in a lot of languages, if you don´t understand a section of word you can check the same part in the language that you understand. Also you can try free internet questionaries where you have to read a short story and then answer a short questionnaire. That is a method to check if you understood what you read | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | B2.ii | B2.i | B1.ii | B2.ii |
R_1jDGMu1jIhJ4GaU | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-US | 22 | Right-handed | 9 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | My CEFR level is C1 or C2 | 2,017 | High School | 1,266 | 291.9839 | 724.9512 | 5,643 | 9,571 | 302 | 318 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi there Andrew,
I was really pleased to recieve your email regarding you wanting to improve your English reading skills. After living in the United Kingdom for all of my life I would like to think I am quite knowledgeable on the English language. When I first started learning to read, I used to struggle with understanding the past and pre tenses. I had a lot of practice in this due to attending education in the U.K. I used to do lots of worksheets to help me understand the past and pre tense. For example: If you carried a bag to the shop, that is the past-tense however if you are carrying a bag to the shop, this is in the present-tense. A good idea for you to practise this may be writing a small 50 word essay of what you did today? Explain where you went, what you did and try your best to get the tenses correct. I found grammar is also quite hard to get a full grasp on, it took me years! I think grammar comes with a lot of practice, for you to practice I would recommend: Maybe find an audio-book or some form of audio media that you could try to transcribe, take your time and choose a slow piece of media so it isn't adding pressure. Try your best to accurately transcribe the media with accurate punctuation and grammar, once you have completed this, find a online grammar checking software and get it to audit your work and then you will be able to see where you are going wrong! It all takes practice but I am sure you can get there Andrew.
I hope this helps you and if you have anymore questions please feel free to contact me, if you are able to be more specfic, I am sure I can give you more accurate feedback.
Kind regards,
Johnathon | 10 | 7 | 10 | 9 | C1.ii | B2.i | C1.ii | C1.i |
R_3kImcMSWzbbZnbu | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/93.0.0.0 | pl-PL | 22 | Right-handed | 12 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 17 | 0 | 6 | German | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,433 | 459.9175 | 562.5749 | 5,642 | 6,221 | 303 | 265 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi xyz
I've heard that you want to improve your English reading skills. Honestly that's a geniune idea from you. I've got a couple tips&tricks to help you to become more succesfull with achievieng your goals. First of all as somebody would say "Practice is the key", so naturally you need to read more, i know it's kinda obvious but i have a speciffic tip that could help you out, you should create account on site wchich is called "Interpals" it was meant for foregin exchange, you can talk to people from all around the world. That way you can improve your reading skill via reading messages that people send you, and also you can overall work on english skills like writing or even talking when you decided to exchange voice messages with some strangers. But if you don't fell that's your cup of tea i have another sollution, that is trying to read the books that are not in your native langugae, i know this could be kinda hard at the start, but trust me it gonna pay off really quickly, every time when you don't understand some words you just quickly come up to the dictionary and start searinch what this word means. The last tip i can reccomend is watching every show with an english dub with subtitles enabled, you can loudly repeat every sentence that show characters say. That's all i can think off. Hope you're way to become more skillfull in English reading will be easy. I hope you're dooing ok, hope we'll see each other soon. Take Care.
Konrad | 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 | B2.ii | B1.ii | B1.ii | C1.i |
R_1MXHi1QDEUYDSc8 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/94.0.0.0 | pt-PT | 21 | Right-handed | 16 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Portugal | Portuguese | 7 | 0 | 2 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,463 | 488.1756 | 698.5861 | 5,970 | 6,791 | 302 | 266 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hello Paulo.
I know you want to improve your English reading skills, I'm writing this Email to try to help you improve it, I'll try to explain how I improve my reading and my English skills.
I know going to the English class insn't enough, wans't enough for me either, what help me a lot was wathing movies with the original audio in english but with the subtitles in portuguese, and while you are watching the movie try to read the subtitles and listen to what they are saying and try to understand in the tradution what are the words that they are saying in English. Then when you are comfort with the subtitles in portuguese try to watch with subtitles in English and when you don't know 1 ou more words pause the movie and go to the dictionary and the next time your see that word you will note forget what it is. Other method that help me alot was watching videos in English only, after a few weeks/months you will start to understand every single word they are saying. Last method the was the most usefull for me was talking in English alone and when you forget the word for what you want to say dont "cheat" and go to the dictonary try to remember the word and dont continue the conversation until you remember the word your trying to speek.
I hope this helps and I'm excited to know if this help you like it help me, and who knows in the future we can only speak in English with eatch other.
| 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | B1.ii | B1.i | B2.i | B2.i |
R_xreu4JnTrrfJX4R | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | es-ES | 29 | Right-handed | 4 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Chile | Spanish | 23 | 0 | 4 | Other | Advanced (C1, C2) | My CEFR level is A1 or A2 | 2,010 | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,653 | 511.863 | 639.0968 | 6,065 | 6,121 | 303 | 266 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi, friend:
You have asked me about what to do to improve your English reading skills, so I'll start by writing about what I find difficult about reading in this language, and how to overcome that.
First, the problem I remember having the most was that the order of words in a sentence was very different from Spanish to English, so if I tried to translate word for word I ended up with a word salad I couldn't understand at all. How did I go about it? I chose to read the sentences in parts: first the subject, then the action, then the effect, and I tried to make sense of those parts first and then did my best to weave those three ideas into one that made sense in Spanish. With time, that excercise became unnecesary as my brain did it more automatically, but I still do it when I need to translate something in a more exact way.
Second, the language. Most words in English do not resemble their Spanish equivalents, so if I didn't know what one meant, what i did was check in a big dictionary I had at home (remember, this was in the early 2000s), and chose the translation that best fit in the context of what I was reading in the same excercise from the previous point. I then just did my best to remember it if it ever came up again. I still do this to an extent, if I've forgotten a word or haven't seen it yet in my life.
I hope this helps.
Your friend, George. | 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 | C1.ii | C1.i | C1.i | C2.i |
R_56jIwXfGPWTuJQR | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/93.0.0.0 | pl-PL | 21 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Poland | Polish | 10 | 1 | 2 | Dutch | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,021 | High School | 2,003 | 612.4203 | 1,090.1159 | 5,760 | 5,310 | 301 | 254 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi Damian, I heard that you want to improve your English reading skills. That is great idea and I am proud of that you want to improve your English. So you know that my english is better than yours and you will listen my advices. For me the best option to improve your english reading skills is to read a lot of texts with english words. I have an idea that you could read your favourite book: Harry Potter, that I know you have read this in the past. I know that it will be great option for you. When you will be reading this book I think the proper way is to speak loudly every sentence of it. I know also that you like to watch movies and cartoons in netflix. Another good idea I think will be to watch them with english subtitles with the original sound to improve also how to prononcue words perfectly. It would be joyful for you, I hope that you will do it systematicly. The effects in my opinion will be immidietly. When I was learning this stuff I was enjoying every moment of it. I knew that my target is possible to reach and that was motivating for me. Remember to make it regullary, that is the most important thing in my opinion. Sometimes effects are not the best but with your effort I know that you are going to make it. I hope you will speak to me sometimes and inform me about your skills. | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | B2.ii | B1.ii | B1.i | B2.ii |
R_1KkTxwBxq4ltsNm | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 | pl | 33 | Right-handed | 5 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 10 | 0 | 2 | null | Intermediate (B1, B2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Master's Degree (e.g., MSc, MEng, MRes, etc.) | 3,747 | 863.631 | 1,661.606 | 5,339 | 5,311 | 289 | 256 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hello! I know how much you want to improve your reading skills in English. Well, the most important thing is practice, I know it's from my own experience. You must read a lot, even if it's difficult for you at the beginning. Try to buy some English newspapers several times a week and read all the articles several times. Books are also a good idea, I practiced this and until now I really like books in this language, it develops a lot reading skills. I remember that the first books were the series about Harry Potter. The beginnings were difficult but then it became a pleasure. Another idea that has worked very well for me is reading subtitles while watching movies. It's very good method because subtitles often disappear quickly and this is good training for reading speed. Well, you must know that there is no quick way to learn to read English, practice makes perfect. You will get better and better over time, I am sure. But remember that regular practice is essential for success in this matter. Try to read at least a small amount of text every day and increase the amount over time. After few weeks you will notice the difference and this fluency in reading. You will see how after some time you will read whole books with pleasure. In the future I will be happy to recommend you some great novels in English. And one more advice, treat this learning as a great pleasure adventure. I wish you good luck! | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | C1.i | C1.i | B2.i | C1.i |
R_2SjXF2wNE125rsi | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | en-GB | 46 | Right-handed | 8 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,216 | 380.87 | 445.5137 | 5,777 | 5,658 | 301 | 264 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi Friend,
I was so pleased to find out that you want to improve your English reading skills. I can imagine this is a scary thought at how you will manage this as your age. I guess when you think of learning to read its just something you do as a child starting with picture book and then moving on to books with word which are more focused for children. But I thought that it is not uncommon for adults to have been failed at school or during their childhood or one reason or another and not have gained the skills to reading and writing to an acceptable level. Its will be quite alot more common that you would expected. There are specialist courses as well as resources, such as books expecially for adult learns. It won't be like going back to primary school and learning it the same way as a 5 year old with baby books. There will be books designed for adults learners, topics that will appear to adults. Whatever you are interested in i bet there is a book that you will be interested in and wanting to read. Reading about something your interested in will be key to you getting better at reading. Making it something you enjoy will keep you motivated to carry on learning, even if its difficult. Please, don't feel ashamed at not being able to read well. There is really no shame in it and I am so proud that you have admitted you have a problem and are trying to do something about it. | 10 | 8 | 5 | 9 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B1.i | C1.i |
R_29h9L4RpcvbZLyS | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pl-PL | 21 | Right-handed | 7 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Desktop | Poland | Polish | 11 | 3 | 6 | German | Advanced (C1, C2) | I have not taken an English language exam | null | Bachelor's Degree (e.g., BSc, BA, MB, etc.) | 1,537 | 366.3788 | 882.9777 | 5,931 | 8,013 | 302 | 258 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Dear X,
You said you want to improve your English reading skills. I think I can help you with it. First of all, if you want to improve reading skills you have to read a lot of books/articles written in English. Everyday practice will make you read faster and faster with better understanding of what you are reading! Secondly, eversince I was a kid I always loved watching English YouTubers on the Internet. I think thats the most fun way to practice reading skills - by hearing native speakers using their own language. It can help you with the way you read words, understanding context of text, and overall knowledge in grammar. Overall it improves your fluency in reading while having a lot of entertainment. I almost forgot about another good method. While reading text you should ask yourself questions about what you've just read. By doing so you will test yourself if you understood the text corretly - if you don't know how to answer your questions read the text again. Its a perfect way to master your English reading skills. While reading in English i found spelling of some words difficult. When you are reading you hear that "voice" in your head and I've caught myself a lot of times that I don't know how to actually spell something. If that problem appeared I always did research such as writing that word in Google Translate and clicking speaker emoji to hear how you pronunce it. Hope you wont have that problem though!
See you soon!,
Y | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B2.i | C1.ii |
R_10AE2HcSqmPLsLY | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 Safari/605.1.15 | en-gb | 37 | Right-handed | 1 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | United Kingdom | English | null | null | null | null | null | I have not taken an English language exam | null | High School | 1,827 | 629.148 | 818.141 | 5,331 | 5,169 | 301 | 264 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Hi, so that main parts of English that I find difficuly when reading is that I still don't know when certain grammatical rules are used. Obviously I am ok with the easy ones liked; full stops, comma's and speech marks nut many of the other's confuse me and to be honest I don't really know when I should be using certain one's when writing English either. I think some I just recognise when using them. So after reading alot of English I can see a pattern when they are used and that helps me to learn when I should be using them when writing. Unfortunately they're I think some grammatical rules that are broken so I would suggest trying to learn about the grammatical rules of the English language and this should help you when you are reading English. Then hopefully you will start to memorise these rules. If you find something that trips you up then it's easy to search what something is or why it was used in a particular place. Other suggestions that I have for learning English would be to; socialise with native English speakers, watch English language films, read English language novels or newspapers and also you could listen to English language music. Keeping a dictionary is also helpful too. Hopefully, all of these suggestions can help improve your knowledge of the English language and will help improve your English reading skills. I guess the more you practice reading the words the more familiar they will start to feel and also the grammatical understanding will start to make sense. | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | C1.ii | B2.ii | B1.ii | C1.i |
R_2zCuwzDFeH2WWc0 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | pl-PL | 22 | Right-handed | 3 | QWERTY | QWERTY | Laptop | Poland | Polish | 14 | 1 | 1 | German | Intermediate (B1, B2) | My CEFR level is B1 or B2 | 2,018 | High School | 3,084 | 982.9414 | 1,644.2168 | 6,002 | 7,432 | 293 | 317 | 1 | 20 | Your friend wants to improve their English reading skills. Write an email to your friend: remember not to reveal personal information (so just use a first name, for instance). Write about what you find difficult about reading in English and give some ideas for how to practise and improve English reading. | Dear Mark
When we were talking last time , you mentioned that you often find it difficult to read fluently in English. Honestly , You should not feel ashamed because of that, it takes some time for people that ause English as second language to have similar reading skills as native speakers. I'd like to give you some advice on how could you improve your English reading skills.
Firstly, you eed to deal with big amount of new words . The more you readdin foreign laguage , the harder it gets to memorize all of the words that you encountered for the first time. You should be patient , and learn them step by step, for example by dividing them to a certain grups ( for example: these connected with medicine etc.). Then use quizlet ,or some similar app/website to learn them in most effective way. Soon you will start to recognize more words that you learned in new texts , and eventually your reading will get better thanks to that.The second idea is to record your pronounciationand practice it regularly. This is the aspect of language that in my opinion is strongly underestimated in schools. Knowledge about pronounciation of words that yuou read is crucial factor in effective reading.By learning that you minimize the risk of changing meaning of the sentence, which might be problematic in real life. Last but not least, practice as much as you can . It may sound trivial for you , but this is the truth that I learned myself: practice beats talent. By reading many kinds of texts like articles , essays, novels etc. you will develop much better reading skills that you could imagine.
Overally I think that after doing things I mentioned in my email you will eventually get much better in reading in English. I hope that my ideas will be helpful for you. Best wishes
Radek
| 11 | 7 | 6 | 9 | C2.i | B2.i | B1.ii | C1.i |
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This repository hosts the dataset collected during the project, 'Deep Learning for Language Assessment', as detailed in the paper "Logging Keystrokes in Writing by English Learners", to appear in the proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024.
The dataset is named KUPA-KEYS (King's College London & Université Paris Cité Keys). It contains texts written by 1,006 participants in our crowdsourcing study, recruited on Prolific. Task 1 involved a text-copy task; Task 2 involved essay writing in response to a 'Just for Fun' prompt from Write & Improve (W&I), used with permission. Keystroke data for these texts are included in the dataset, as well as metadata and CEFR level grades for the free-text essays. Further details about the data collection process, annotation and analysis may be found in our LREC-COLING paper.
Contents:
- KUPA-KEYS-META.csv : information about each participant, including computing environment & keyboard layout, education & level of English, task 1 and task 2 statistics, the essay prompt for task 2, the final form of their task 2 essay, and the scores / CEFR levels received from human markers (h1, h2, h3) and the W&I automarker (a0).
- KUPA-KEYS-TASK-1.csv : all keystroke events for each participant undertaking task 1, the text-copy task.
- KUPA-KEYS-TASK-2.csv : all keystroke events for each participant undertaking task 2, the essay writing task.
For more information about the contents of the files, see our paper forthcoming at LREC-COLING 2024, or the DatasetDescription page.
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