Describe your best friend
Instructions:
Describe your best friend using the vocabulary words from this lesson. What does he or she look like? Does he or she have a unique feature? Do you and your friend have similar features? Ex: My friend has blue eyes and broad shoulders. I do not have blue eyes; I have green eyes.
There are many favorite dishes in Austria and it is difficult to decide which one should gain a place ini the spotlight here. At first I thought of the world-famous Sachertorte, but then I chose to tell you how to make a real "Wiener Schnitzel". Basically you needveal chops, flavour, eggs, breadcrumbs and frying oil. Heat oil in pan. Pound veal chops between two layers of plastic cover until thin. Put the flavour in a bowl, the bread crumbs in another and beat the egg yet in another bowl. The bowls should be wide enough so you can dip the veal in! Now, cover the chops with flavour and shake it off well, then dip it in the egg until it is totally covered, and finally cover it with the bread crumbs and press slightly. Place in the pan with the hot oil until it is golden brown on both sides which is after apporximately two minutes for each side. Don´t leave the stove unattended at any time! Enjoy with a slice of lemon and Potato Salad!
Submitted over a year ago
English Writing Exercise 
Very good. I always enjoy your offerings because you are so very fluent and comfortable with the language. It is very much like simple corespondence between friends.
Funny though because I have never wanted to try Weiner Schnitzel because I thought people used hot dogs or sausage to make them. It seems that the authentic dish is both simple to make and delicious too. I would like to know more if possible. What is in the flavoring that you use? Also because I am of german decent and we share some culinary styles with your country. Is your potato salad made with vinegar and served warm?
Have a good day today.
Mike
There are many favorite dishes in Austria, and it is difficult to decide which one should gain a place ini in the spotlight here. At first, I thought of the world-famous Sachertorte, but then I chose to tell you how to make a real "Wiener Schnitzel". Basically you need veal chops, flavour, eggs, breadcrumbs and frying oil. The procedure is as follows: Heat oil in pan. Pound veal chops between two layers of plastic cover until thin. Put the flavour in a bowl, the bread crumbs in another and beat the egg yet in a third another bowl. The bowls should be wide enough so you can dip the veal in! Now, cover the chops with flavour and shake it off well, then dip it in the egg mixture until it is totally covered. , and Finally, cover it with the bread crumbs and press slightly. Place in the pan with the hot oil until it is golden brown on both sides, which is (after) apporximately two minutes for each side. Don´t leave the stove unattended at any time! Enjoy with a slice of lemon and Potato Salad!
Ich vermisse sehr das Österreichischen Essen... nun habe ich Hunger, also danke vielmals! ;)
This is excellent! Vocabulary, grammar, word order - everything is very good. I will point out only one thing, which is really very, very negligible - and I wouldn't even mention it except that your profile says you want to iron out your English! (What a disclaimer!) So: you wrote "beat the egg yet in another bowl", but it is better to put the "yet" after "in". See? Not worth mentioning at all! But I wonder: is that how you would say it in German? If so, then I just learned something!
Wonderful job, though, hands down. Your English is magnificent!
Regards,
Geoff
I agree with the others.
By the way, I have had authentic 'Wiener Schnitzel'. It was great!
There are many favorite dishes in Austria and it is difficult to decide which one should gain a place in the spotlight here. At first I thought of the world-famous Sachertorte, but then I chose to tell you how to make a real "Wiener Schnitzel". Basically you need veal chops, flavour (I would use the word "flavorings"), eggs, breadcrumbs and frying oil. First, heat the oil in a pan (or "in the pan"). Pound the veal chops between two layers of plastic coverings/plastic sheets until thin. Put the flavorings in a bowl, the bread crumbs in another and beat the egg in yet another bowl. The bowls should be wide enough so you can dip the veal in! Now, cover the chops with flavorings and shake it off well (or "shake the excess off well"), then dip it in the egg until it is totally covered. Finally, cover it with the bread crumbs and press slightly (normally we would say "press lightly"). Place it in the pan with the hot oil until it is golden brown on both sides which is after approximately two minutes for each side. Don´t leave the stove unattended at any time! Enjoy with a slice of lemon and Potato Salad!
Very nice! You have an excellent vocabulary and great grammar- this was fun to read! :)
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
Really good!
Great submission again! I agree with all of the changes that everyone else has mentioned- although, many of them aren't all that necessary because the way that you wrote it sounds the same as the way you read it in a cook book or even hear it when you watch a cooking channel on TV... It makes complete sense and aside from a few obvious type-os, (I don't know how to write that word! LOL) I would only make changes to your original if you wanted to sound more conversational as if you were actually talking to somebody in person. The way you wrote it was very generic as if you were talking to anybody who cared to read it rather than any specific individual which is totally fine when it comes to written English.
The only thing that really stood out to me was this sentence:
At first I thought of the world-famous Sachertorte, but then instead, I chose to tell you how to make a real "Wiener Schnitzel".
And another VERY minor detail that I could add is, just to be a little more clear, I would say, "... I chose to tell you how to make an authentic "Wiener Schnitzel". That is how we usually refer to a food that is commonly found in the U.S. but is probably not exactly the way you would find it in it's country of origin. But again, a VERY minor consideration.
Excellent.
I didn't spot any "fossilized mistakes". A few tiny errors:
- "ini the spotlight" - should be "in the spotlight".
- you need a space between "need" and "veal"
- "apporximately" should be "approximately"
This is an unusual exercise as cooking instructions are written in an abbreviated form - what you have said could be slightly improved to read better but in context this is fine.
I hope this helps.