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Take note: "I don't care whether you call on me..." -> "I don't care whether you call me..." "...but we are going to polishing it (getting better)..." -> "...but we are going to polish it (improve it)..." or "...but we are going to be polishing it (improving it)..." however the (getting better/improve/improving) is redundant since that's what "polishing it" means as an expression. "...with teens in the High School even so I know superior Math." -> "...with teens in High School even though I know superior math." (or you could say "university-level math", if that's what "matemáticas universitarias" means) "I don't understand the correlationship." -> "I don't understand the correlation." or "I don't understand the relationship."
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