May 2, 2023
Imitation Exercise
Mario: And how long have you worked in Japan?
Luigi: Since I left university — that’s ten years ago now.
Mario: Do you travel a lot in your job?
Luigi: Quite a lot. I love travelling so I think I’m very lucky.
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Mario: Well — (laughs) I haven’t been to East Asia yet! I’ve been to Thailand several times, and Singapore of course, and last year a couple of weeks in Malaysia…
Luigi: Wonderful! I’d love to go there.
Mario: Yes, it was fascinating.
Leaning new punctuation marks:
Em dashes can be used in pairs to mark off additional information that is not essential to understand the sentence.
Brackets (parentheses) are punctuation marks used within a sentence to include information that is not essential to the main point.
