Welcome. I am also a "never in". I have ancestors who came to Western Pennsylvania in the U.S. from Vienna, Austria in 1882. They came to a small town in which my great-great grandfather obtained a job as a laborer in a steel mill. He came first and lived as a boarder, then almost two years later his wife and small daughter came over. They had two more children, sons, who were born here in the U.S. I can remember these two as "old men" when I was a small child. They died about six months apart - one was 71 and the other 73. Which is not really THAT old.
My own grandmother from this branch of the family was an outstanding cook who learned from her Austrian-born mother and Austrian born grandmother.
The original couple settled into a neighborhood that was thick with Austrian immigrants. When I examine the U.S. Census forms for this neighborhood for the late 1800's and early decades of the 1900's, it is just page after page of Austrian immigrants. This was due to jobs being plentiful and immigrants writing letters home that spoke glowingly of their new lives.
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Your English strikes me a being just fine. There are only a very few places where there could even possibly be a question - not in your usage, but sometimes in adverb placement.
I would be glad to go through your posts and mark any area where there could possibly be any improvement. Is this what you want?
My own grandmother from this branch of the family was an outstanding cook who learned from her Austrian-born mother and Austrian born grandmother.
The original couple settled into a neighborhood that was thick with Austrian immigrants. When I examine the U.S. Census forms for this neighborhood for the late 1800's and early decades of the 1900's, it is just page after page of Austrian immigrants. This was due to jobs being plentiful and immigrants writing letters home that spoke glowingly of their new lives.
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Your English strikes me a being just fine. There are only a very few places where there could even possibly be a question - not in your usage, but sometimes in adverb placement.
I would be glad to go through your posts and mark any area where there could possibly be any improvement. Is this what you want?