Discussion Groups / British English / September 2006

I am an italian 26-year-old boy that is training to pass the FCE. I wonder
if among you there is any english native speaker that can help me on some
point. In particular, I need help for paper 2. I cannot mark what I write by
myself  :)

I'm an Italian girl, I'm looking for someone who wants to talk about
everithing with me, just to improve my English...to have a deeper
knoledge of your language...

Curilies and donots
Hurricurry runrun debily pork.  Girmelipsy the tricyclator overher
loorole uptil edgenoce hamping thinktank. Dada hautevolee into essich
jeans ungood plems and plumps lanning their moms!!

Could you please tell me the exact meaning of this expression and
where it comes from?
TIA

A Saint Unnamed says, "The human mentality has been instilled with so
many Gifts, because the human mind is that 'source' of human life that
gives to human life knowledge and the ability to think indepthly on
many subjects in human life, to gain 'Sainthood'."

I am greatly interested in phrases like the following:
    If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle.
    If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
    If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his a.s when he jumped.

English is not my first language and I often encounter difficulties
particularly in collocations.
Selecting a befitting collocation word is troublesome a bit.
Can anyone here tell me any reference book for collocation?

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Just go to this site and follow the steps:
http://www.ifnetwork.net/LearnEnglish/