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CK CK December 18, 2016 December 18, 2016 at 4:50:58 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

It is recommended that you contribute sentences in your own native language. You could be helping us much more that way, since people would be able to trust that what you have contributed is likely to be good and natural-sounding.

[#1230823] If you translate from your second language into your own native language, rather than the other way around, you're less likely to make mistakes.

[#1907470] It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.

Even if some sentences by non-native speakers are good, it's really hard to trust that they are good, so members would be helping us much more by

cueyayotl cueyayotl December 18, 2016 December 18, 2016 at 5:24:43 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Maybe something like this would sound more natural?

"I've traveled a lot thanks to my job. In the last few years, I've visited eleven countries."

UsuarioX UsuarioX December 19, 2016, edited December 19, 2016 December 19, 2016 at 3:46:34 PM UTC, edited December 19, 2016 at 5:06:39 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

The english sentence above is from an english dictionary book that contains explanation about phrasal verbs in sentences examples. I think is not possible that a native english book make mistakes.

Seriously: is this sentence really wrong?

Cueyayotl: i'd prefer using "get about" instead of "travel" in this sentence, because I was making a list of sentences with the phrasal verb "to get above" in order to study by "tematica".

cueyayotl cueyayotl August 3, 2017 August 3, 2017 at 1:17:25 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Yes, it sounds like a native Spanish speaker translated it. And yes, even native language textbooks DO make mistakes, often when a native speaker has to switch languages and doesn't do so completely, so that they write a sentence in their native language incorrectly without realizing it.

If you'd like to use the phrasal verb "get about", I would say:

"I've gotten around a lot thanks to my job. In the last few years, I've visited eleven countries." (or better yet: substitute 'visited' with 'traveled to')

(Sorry for the late response, I don't know why I didn't get a notification by e-mail)

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I get about a lot with my job last years I visited eleven countries.

added by UsuarioX, December 17, 2016

I get about a lot with my job. Last years I visited eleven countries.

edited by UsuarioX, December 17, 2016