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I'm forgetting my english !
I've been working so hard to improve my french lately that now that I need to speak fluently in english I get troubled because I know better the frech expressions.
I tried hard to not forget my english, and I don't think I have lost the language but I have not worked on it as I used to do it.
I struggle a lot to focus on my ideas now that I know more about french.
I'm looking foward to work in a call center from
Canada so it is important to me to master the two languages.
I need to answer the usual questions in the interview such as "tell me about yourself" and my mind goes in blank, syntax error !
Maybe I kinda hate questions that are about me, such as what will you do in the future?, who are you?
I know the purpose behind those questions, they are not interessed in me, as a person if not as how valuable I could be for them or how long I am staying etc. But still it is hard to evaluate a decent answer.
I need to explain how the service works but it is all in french, and translate it, it is really difficult to do so. I do not know what the outcome will be but I hope I am skilled enough.
Feb. 1, 2023
Cuidar del planeta
Cuidar del planeta tierra a mi me importa mucho. Intento cuidar del planeta en todo lo que hago, pero es muy difícil.
Soy vegetariano, porque producir carne emite mucho más carbón que otros tipos de alimento. Me gustaría ser vegano, pero es muy difícil encontrar restaurantes que tiene opciones veganos. Para la mes de enero, intento ser vegano, pero no tuve éxito totalmente. En la futura, intentaré cocinar comidas veganas cuando cocino para sí mismo, pero continuo ser vegetariano en restaurantes.
Además, no tengo un carro. Camino, monto en bici, o paseo en el tren para ir a lugares. Los trenes en mi ciudad no funcionan bien. A menudo, los trenes necesitan reparaciones, y los trenes paran para un fin de semana y tenemos que usar autobuses. Sin embargo, puedo caminar a muchas restaurantes y tienda dentro de veinte minutos, así que prefiero caminar la mayoría de las veces.
En 2022, sólo compraba ropa de segunda mano. Esto también fue difícil, pero el sitio ThredUp que vende ropa de segunda mano en línea me ayudaba mucho. Comprar ropa de segunda mano ayuda la planeta porque se previene ropa vieja entrar en vertederos. Y además, producir ropa nueva requiere energía y produce los gases de efecto invernadero. En la futura, probablemente sí compraré ropa nueva de vez en cuando, pero he aprendido comprar de segunda mano más que antes.
Feb. 1, 2023
My Life in SZ (10)
Started from the next day, sister Wang introduced more about our job and taught us how to sell products to tourists when they entered the exhibition center.
The center was divided into two parts. The first part was for greeting, we named it as Greeting Hall. In the hall, one of us would give a brief introduction about SZ, some history of China, and implied how precious the jade it was over a long period because we planned to sell some jade crafts to them. The second part was a small room around 25 square meters, we called it as learning Room where we would gave them some knowledge about Traditional Chinese Paintings, ancient coins or other additional information. The third part as you may have guessed was the Selling Area where around 200 square meters.
I believe the layout was and is popular in most shopping places for tourists in China, however, it was new for me and other newcomers recruited from job market at the time.
Sister Wang was responsible for teaching us. I even remember her words now which let me succeed in the company.
“Always follow a customer from beginning to end, do not give him or her up in the middle, unless you are 100% guaranteed the person disgusting you.”
“You’ll be feeling excited about the job in the first three months, then bored by it.”
“You must continue learning by yourself, then you are ability to make sense to the porcelain wares.”
She was right since she already had over 10 years experiences in the tourism. A local high rank police officer was her second husband who supported her business.
Feb. 1, 2023
Les inquiétudes
Je suis inquiéte par mes études. Je suis presque de devenir une profe d'anglais. J'ai passé tout mes cours déjà. Il reste deux examens.
Un s'appelle ECAP qui signifie à l'espagnol "Evaluación de Competencias Académicas y Pedagógicas" J'ai fait l'ecap le dernier 26 de janvier. J'attends le résultats qui seront envoyés le 7 mars. Une semaine avant mon anniversaire ! L'ecap est obligatoire pour toutes les personnes que veulent devenir profs de n'importe quel especialité.
Si je rate l'examen je ne pourrais pas me graduer cette année. Je vais attendre jusqu'à l'année prochaine.
Je suis preocupée de rater l'examen, je pense est-ce que les inquiétudes vont arreter un jour?
Il arrivera le jour dans lequel je ne serai pas inquiéte pour rien?
Parce que je ne crois pas que tout mes inquiétudes seront disparues quand j'ai fini l'université.
À mon avis j'ai fait un bon travail à l'ecap dans certaines tâches.
Par exemple j'ai dû faire un essai, un entretien et répondre à 100 questions de option multiple en 4 heures.
Avec l'essai et l'entretien ce où je pense que mon travail marche bien, mais les questions d'option multiple étaient tellement compliquées. Mon dieu, pour cette raison je suis inquiéte.
L'autre examen c'est le TOEFL " Test of English as a Foreign Language" cet examen est difficil aussi mais je suis à laise avec le type de questions. Il inclu 50 items d'écoute, 30 items de grammaire et 50 items de lecture. Cet examen est seulement pour des personnes qui veulent devenir profs d'anglais.
Pour la section de grammaire ce sont 25 minutes et pour la lecture ce sont 55 minutes.
Pas complique pour moi, je suis tellement à laise avec l'anglais MAIS il y a toujours l'inquiétude de " que feriez-vous si vous ratiez l'examen !?
J'ai l'inquiétude aussi du travail. Serai-je embauche?
Un jour les inquiétudes seront arretées? Je ne crois pas, si ne je ne serai plus inquiete pour les études, une chose de noveau arrivera comment dans le travail.
Hahaha que triste est l'existence parfois !
Jan. 31, 2023
生活更新
大家好，
我一两年前常常上这个网站，但是现在已经好久没上。我觉得这是因为我上大学就非常忙，再说我这几年的心里保健不怎么样，总之时间和精神不够。好在，现在开始渐渐地变好一些。反正，这个网站还存在就让我很开心。
大学过程中，我上着蛮多中国文学课，我都觉得很有趣，这些课也让我多重视一点中国的文化和历史：连在看很现代的文学时，其都会影射中国各中各样创作的文艺。
因为中国最近缓解了他们的zero covid政策，所以我希望近期可以去中国旅行一会儿。
因为我现在很久没上中文课（每门都上完，哈哈），所以我现在只是通过跟中国朋友聊天进步。我去中国的话也许可以把中文水平提高一些，要不然...“逆水行舟，不近则退”。
谢谢你们读我的日记！希望大家过了一个非常好的新年
Jan. 31, 2023
Mi primero diario :)
Hola. Yo no he vivido en otros países. Mi color favorito es turquesa. Tengo dos cuis, Cookie y Peanut(Galleta y Maní en español). He estudiando español en escuela, pero no estudio ahora. Mi español no es perfecto. Pues, nosotros aprendemos siempre :)
La pregunta del día: ¿Qué es tu comida favorita?
Buenas tardes.
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# IX
J'ai beaucoup réfléchi sur quoi vous présenter; en fait, je pourrais remplir des pages et des pages sur elle, mais je dois bien choisir ce qu'est de votre intérêt. Dans ces intentions, voilà sa nausée.
Donc, clairement je ne va pas parler d'une nausée physique, ou plutôt d'une maladie physique, mais d'une nausée metaphysique, d'un mal de vivre, d'un douleur d'être. En fait, sa anxiété était seulement une petite partie de tout ça (d'ailleurs qui n'a jamais eu du mal de ventre ou des migraines avant un test ou un rendez-vous?). Si vous pouviez l'interroger sur ça, elle vous raconterait de son stress tout court; et on ne peut pas la critiquer de toute façon: personnes comme elles considèrent leurs sentiments et leurs idées les plus profondes comme inestimables. Par conséquent, n'hésitez pas à rêver au-delà de ce que elles vous présentent, à vous perdre dans la flânerie la plus belle que votre coeur vous peut donner.
Cela dit, sa nausée était plutôt le mal d'être malade, le douleur de ne pas être assez forte pour réussir à ne pas en ressentir; autrement dit, elle était écoeurée parce qu'elle ne réussissait à ne pas être écoeurée. Tout la confiance en sa intelligence était une exclusivité de son monde: quand devait la montrer, rien.
Jan. 31, 2023
It Doesn’t Make Sense to Give Up
Just about everything I heard from people around me half of my life turned out to be untruth. Sure, not everything, but a great deal of it. I was told that if I finish the university, I get any job I choose. I was taught that girls should be calm and polite, that they have to wait for their “prince”; otherwise, they’ll stay alone and in despair. I was told that the world is a friendly place, full of people who are ready to help and resolve all my problems. Overall, all these maxims proved to be false, and I had to come face to face with this fact by myself.
As it turns out, this world is not that good. Sure, some people with privileges — like a rich family, for example — may believe our planet is like a truth heaven on earth; yet I don’t consider it to be truth. There’re crimes and inequality, generalized poverty and violence. While factories are killing the planet, our presidents are killing people in wars. Corporations are gathering our data, waiting for the momentum to sell it to other corporations. We’ve endured COVID, and now some of us are enduring high prices for products, low wages, health problems, the list goes on. So what are the chances that we keep our sanity in the world as it is now? Don’t ask me.
Put it another way, believing in the idea of a "friendly world” seems ridiculous to me today. Which is to say, not the happiest news. All that said, I don’t mean we have to give up and look how the world is deteriorating, eating popcorn and throwing in ironic comments about the futility of it all. It’s not really worth it, sinking into despair and waiting for our end on this planet. What I suggest is quite the opposite — we need to learn to live even at a complete loss of resources, meaning learn how to rely on ourselves.
Was I happy when I figured out that the world was not going to shower me with outrageous bonuses? Not at all. Was I frustrated when it turned out that people around me couldn’t answer the question of how I should live my life? Of course yes. Though many of them have trouble understanding how they should live their own lives. Long story short, at a certain point it turned out to me that no one except me really care about my future. More so, not only does nobody care, but some of the people back then was deliberately trying to hinder me from having a happy life. With that said, I could have become a depressed and unfriendly person. Fortunately, somehow I didn’t.
Realizing that people don’t care that much about me made me reconsider my values and attitudes toward life. I stopped dreaming of magical helpers who would come and resolve all my problems; instead, I started thinking about ways of creating the life that I want by myself. At the end of the day, if we don't care about ourselves, who will?
No doubt, it takes a great deal of courage to admit that our lives depend only on ourselves. But without realizing it, we are doomed to repeat our mistakes and be chronically unsatisfied. We can’t stop other people doing what they do, nor can we force them to do something in the matter of our happiness. All the same, shifting our focus from others to ourselves and committing to taking responsibility for our lives is what we can do. Do I know how to deal with all my problems and dilemmas? Maybe I know how to tackle all my troubles and doubts? The answer is no. But at least I don’t try to hand all that over to somebody else.
Having found ourselves in a place of frustration, we’re still able to look inside and find the courage to act against this emotion, and live according to our convictions. Being exhausted and feeling tired, we’re still able to believe in our intentions and meet daily obstacles with a smile. Even in the face of harsh life experiences, many of us are still hoping to be improving their lives, and we should honoring them — and us — for our hard work. Accepting our imperfection and limited resources could mean suffering from these reality, but by making this, we just in the same way embracing ourselves and learn to draw strength from inside, just like from each other.
Jan. 31, 2023
Diary 1/31
Today I went to the library as usual. I didn’t eat breakfast because I overslept. Although I didn’t eat lunch either, I felt energetic from beginning to end. I felt a little hungry two hours before I planned to go home. I was so surprised! I thought that I may feel hungry before noon. I always eat a lot of breakfast before going to the library. Then, it happens that I feel sleepy between one and two o’clock. Therefore, next time I go to the library, I will do the same thing as today. I hope I can be more productive than before.
In the end of January, I really appreciate everyone who corrected my diary before. Without your helps, I can't persist for a month and I will keep going for the following month! By the way, I will force myself to record the diary here, instead of recording on my smartphone.
Jan. 31, 2023
Diary 1/29 & 1/30
1/29
Today I went to the New Year market with my high school friend. There are a lot of foods but most of them are expensive. Therefore, we only bought four kinds of snacks. By the way, today’s performance is stand-up comedy. It is the first time I watched a live performance. It’s hilarious. The comedians had a good interaction with viewers.
In the evening, we went to an exhibit of lanterns that is being held in the city where I have lived. It is held around the lake and there are many food stands. We walked around the lake and ate from start to finish. Although the food is delicious, it isn’t like the lanterns exhibit that I saw before. It’s only a few lanterns and they are all made of balloons, not like the traditional ones made of iron wires. I thought it was the fly in the ointment.
1/30
Stock market was open after ten days of close. Many of my friends invest some money in the stock market. The price of one stock I bought rose! It's been so long that I finally waited until the situation I anticipated. I don't have much professional knowledge about investing. The only thing I consider is whether this company gains profits or not. I’m learning from the podcasts and books.
Jan. 31, 2023
Diary 1/27 & 1/28
1/27
Today I stayed at home to prepare the necessary materials for exchanging. It took me a lot of time, but I felt so happy due to being one step closer to my dream. When I was preparing, my roommate told me the information I’m excited about. It's about the exchange students from France that want to find a school buddy. The deadline will be in three days, so I need to prepare for it first. Even though the quotas are only five, I will try my best to get this golden opportunity!
1/28
Today is my birthday! I went to another city to see an animated exhibition with my besties. The animation is our childhood memory. We went to the Taipei session, but it was packed with people. In addition, most of the merchandise was out of stock. However, today we did everything that we couldn’t do at that time. We not only had the collaborative meals but also made the photo booth. It’s the best birthday gift!
Jan. 31, 2023
Diary 1/25 & 1/26
1/25
Today we went to the department store. We seldom go to that department store even though it is near my house. It’s because there are many luxurious goods. It is boring to stay at home. Therefore, we just walked around and went window shopping. We didn’t feel our feet were aching until we went home and sat down. No wonder some of my friends asked ''Why can I walk for a long time?''
1/26
Today we went to my grandmother’s home. There is also a department store near my grandmother’s house. Its square has held a market and a book fair for a month. After lunch, we went there to find something special. Unfortunately, the sizes of them are small. But I still found some books which I’m interested in. Most of them probably can be found at the library of my university where I have studied. Hence, I will borrow them when the new semester starts.
Jan. 31, 2023
Diary 1/23 &1/24
1/23
Married daughters will visit their parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year. As a result, we always visit my grandparents’ home today. We meet some relatives who only come once a year. My grandmother prepared a big meal for us. When we were full, it was time for UNO! The most hilarious part was when the ''plus two’’ card was thrown by my sister. There were five people playing. By the way, we always say ''start a war!'' when the ''plus two'' card or ''plus four'' card is thrown. In that round, every player had a ''plus two'' card and my sister who threw the card first had two pieces of it. At the end of the war, my aunt had to add twelve cards. We all couldn’t stop laughing.
1/24
Today I went to the temple near my house with my father and twin sisters in order to pacify Tai Sui for my grandfather and pray for his health. We knew the former president would give a small gift for everyone who wanted by accident. This is the custom that famous politicians will visit some temples and give people a gift during the Lunar New Year. Therefore, my sisters got in line, and my father and I did the major thing. Fortunately, they got the gifts before his next schedule even though there were so many people.
Jan. 31, 2023
Diary 1/21 &1/22
1/21
Today is New Year’s Eve! I always clean my great-grandmother's house with my family before noon. And then we played UNO after lunch. UNO is an extremely interesting table game. At first, I just played with my brothers and sisters because my aunts and uncles didn't understand how to play. When we had had fun and they had just seen for a while, we invited them to play together. Now, they play better and better than before! Next goal is let my grandparents accept our invitation. By the way, we enjoy a reunion dinner on this day. We ordered New Year dishes this year. They are flavorful,so perhaps next year we will also order them instead of cooking for ourselves.
1/22
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Everyone will go out to another city with their family. When I was a child, our family went out on this day. As we get older, we don’t go to the tourist attractions because there are so many people. Therefore, we play mahjong at home. It’s been a long time since I've played mahjong. In the first round, I had four white boards. They should not discard, but I forgot the rule. When my father saw I discarded them, he laughed at me, and when my mother understood what happened, she also laughed at me! I self-draw won after about two hours. Mahjong is a really interesting table game!
Jan. 31, 2023
Reasons Why Agricultural Land Becomes Less Productive.
This chart and this table present information about the causes of land degradation and this problem in three places in the 1990s.
Over-grazing is by far the biggest reason for less productive land, specifically, at 35%, in contrast to 30% of land degraded by deforestation and 28% caused by over-cultivation. And also, some low-productive lands are influenced by other factors without listing in this chart.
As shown in the table, the percentage of land degraded in Europe was the highest, with 23%, among which deforestation was attributed to nearly 10%, which was the priority reason in this area, compared with other two factors. The total figure for Oceania was much lower, at 13% in the 1990s. The data for over-grazing was distinct, almost taking up 90% of the total number, even though there was no data for over-cultivation in Oceania. Only 5% of land in North America was degraded, but its main cause was over-cultivation, which was different from the other places.
Overall, over-grazing is the primary factor, leading to degradable land while the number of degraded land in Europe was higher than in other regions in the 1990s, and the main contributor to land degradation was different in three regions.
Jan. 31, 2023
31 janvier 2023 - l’observation - première partie
C’était la rentrée après les vacances de la nouvelle année chinoise, et pendant la pause déjeuner, je suis allée dans un cafe de l’université. Il y avait du monde mais je pouvais quand même trouver une place libre. Je me suis intallée près d’un groupe de quatre jeunes étudiants. Ils étaient en train de se bavarder en anglais, mais de leur accent, je croyais qu’ils viennaient de différents pays. La fille asian qui portait une rouge à lèvres très vive et s’habillait d’une chemise blanche me semblait d’avoir 18 ou 20 ans et de venir de la chine mais peut-être qu’elle a grandit aux États-Unis. Le garçon à côté de cette fille parlait anglais avec un accent français, italien ou espanol. Il était beau aussi : les cheveux rouleaux et noir, les yeux émouvants et le figure afiné. Je pensait qu’il était peut-être français ou italien. Il y avait aussi un autre garçon face à la fille, qui parlait anglais sans accent. Je ne voyais pas très bien son visage mais rien de spécial. Il avait des cheveux blondes. Le dernier, c’était aussi un homme portant du masque. (Il est encore obligatoire de mettre les masques en ce moment à Hong Kong.) En écoutant sa première phrase en anglais, son accent m’a confirmé qu’il était local. Ce groupe des étudiants avaient terminé leur repas, et semblait d’y passer une longue pause déjeuner.
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The Spread of English
English has become more and more popular in today’s competitive world. I admit that the popularity of this language is definitely a positive trend, even though it poses a threat to the local language.
The widespread use of English is a great way to promote international cooperation between various companies located in different countries. There are a wide variety of languages in the whole world, which presents some challenges to cross-cultural communication between people having different backgrounds. At the same time, people are difficult to share their creative ideas, state-of-the-art skills, fresh thoughts and so on with potential foreign collaborators. Conversely, if people are all fluent in English, knowledge-sharing will be very easy to achieve, and thus some international projects will process smoother and quicker, which make a lot of money for two parties.
The growing popularity of English also allows people to be able to keep pace with contemporary worldwide development. Nowadays, English has become the widest language. Not only is it used by the largest number of people but also many primary worldwide news outlets, such as BBC and CNN, all choose English as their general language. Therefore, if people have a good command of English, they will get the latest current affairs from different countries, the most up-to-date research breakthroughs in various scientific fields, and stuff like that, which will definitely help people become a broad-minded person.
On the other hand, pushing forward the use of English has some negative influence, which will cause damage to the development of the local language, especially minority languages. Since almost these languages are likely to hand down from ancient times, so they usually contain their local characteristics and can be seen as a symbol of traditional culture. If people, especially the young, devote a lot of their available time to learning English, they will not pay much attention to their native language. As time goes by, the culture behind the mother tongue will be vague, leading to the risk of cognition of own identity.
In conclusion, I know that facilitating the spread of English is good for the work between multinational enterprises and individual development, but it also has an adverse effect on other languages.
Jan. 31, 2023
The Spread of English
English has become more and more popular in today’s competitive world. I admit that the popularity of this language is definitely a positive trend, even though it poses a threat to the local language.
The widespread use of English is a great way to promote international cooperation between various companies located in different countries. There are a wide variety of languages in the whole world, which presents some challenges to cross-cultural communication between people having different backgrounds. At the same time, people are difficult to share their creative ideas, state-of-the-art skills, fresh thoughts and so on with potential foreign collaborators. Conversely, if people are all fluent in English, knowledge-sharing will be very easy to achieve, and thus some international projects will process smoother and quicker, which make a lot of money for two parties.
The growing popularity of English also allows people to be able to keep pace with contemporary worldwide development. Nowadays, English has become the widest language. Not only is it used by the largest number of people but also many primary worldwide news outlets, such as BBC and CNN, all choose English as their general language. Therefore, if people have a good command of English, they will get the latest current affairs from different countries, the most up-to-date research breakthroughs in various scientific fields, and stuff like that, which will definitely help people become a broad-minded person.
On the other hand, pushing forward the use of English has some negative influence, which will cause damage to the development of the local language, especially minority languages. Since almost these languages are likely to hand down from ancient times, so they usually contain their local characteristics and can be seen as a symbol of traditional culture. If people, especially the young, devote a lot of their available time to learning English, they will not pay much attention to their native language. As time goes by, the culture behind the mother tongue will be vague, leading to the risk of cognition of own identity.
In conclusion, I know that facilitating the spread of English is good for the work between multinational enterprises and individual development, but it also has an adverse effect on other languages.
Jan. 31, 2023
Divagaciones 14
Casi nos habíamos convencido que dejar la butaca sería mejor que llevarla con nosotros en la mudanza.
La pluma de vaho que emana de esa chimenea se ve más grande cuando hace frío, aunque no creo que estén haciendo nada diferente, más bien todo se debe al clima.
Si logran poner en práctica este nuevo método de detectar las malezas y solo aplicar el pesticida donde sea necesario, sería una victoria para todos menos los productores de pesticida.
Le salió un eructo más fuerte de lo que esperaba y solo entonces se dio cuenta de que todos lo estaban mirando.
Jan. 31, 2023
Qui a tué mon pére
J'ai juste fini de lire mon premier livre en français. S'appelle "qui a tué mon père", l'auteur s'appelle Édouard Louis et ce livre parle de son enfance, sur toute la relation avec son père. Edouard est né et grandi en Normandie, son père était un homme traditionnel masculin qui a travaillé toute sa vie dans une usine. Maintenant, il a des problèmes graves de santé, de douleur dans son corps et il ne peut même plus aller voir la mer. Edouard pose la question, pour quoi est-ce que son père est malade comme ça ? Il donne la réponse en direct : c'est grâce à la politique pendant les dernières années qui a détérioré les conditions de vie pour la classe ouvrière en France.
Le livre m'a plu beaucoup. L'auteur écrit en une manière directe, il ne gaspille pas des temps où des mots parce qu'il sait ce qu'il veut dire. Il décrit son père sans trop de sentimentalité, mais avec tendresse. Même si le père parfois a fait d'injustice face à son fils, Édouard ne l'accuse jamais, il explique simplement pourquoi. Bref, le livre n'est pas seulement un manifeste politique, c'est aussi un livre psychologique qui décrit le process de comprendre, et pardonner, un parent.