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Rains In Summer Are Beautiful
I think that the most beautiful part of summer is the rain and raninstorms. After the rain, plants are greener than ever and its leafs shine in pretty green and yellow tones. Rain refresh the summer like an ice cream. When the day is cloudy you can walk in the street without too much heat. A lot o people relate a cloudy day to sadness but I think that rain is more related to nostalgy.
Haiku:
After the rainstorm
shining with the summer sunlight
plants become greener
Aug. 24, 2022
Les jeux vidéo
Quant aux jeux vidéo, j’aime bien les jeux de stratégie, surtout ceux qui a lieu dans un « monde ouvert » où on peut construire sans limite. J’adore cet aspect d’échappement au monde réel pour un monde construit en entier par moi-même. Quand je suis jeune, j’aimais bien les jeux « Tycoon », c’est-à-dire « Magnat », où on joue le propriétaire d’une attraction touristique comme un zoo, parc des loisirs, ou même un grand centre commercial ! En tant que propriétaire du zoo, on doit bâtir des cages et environnements pour les animaux, placer les sentiers, les restos, et les boutiques des souvenirs pour les clientèles, tout en maintenant le budget et la réputation de son propriété. Aujourd’hui, je suis fan des jeux encore plus compliqués, comme « Civilisation », dans lequel on pousse une civilisation en entier, en bâtissant des villes, des fermes et mines, en découvrant les technologies, et en soulevant une armée pour lutter avec des autres civilisations sur la domination du monde. Finalement, il y a « Cities Skylines », qui et un peu le roi des jeux du « monde ouvert ». Dans ce jeu, on joue maire d’une ville dans laquelle on doit construit presque tout : les routes, les parcs, le zonage des lieux résidentiel, commercial, et industriel, le déchèteries et centres d’épuration, les centrales d’énergie. Et, bien sûr, maintient le budget en même temps. Mais, avec ce jeu, le monde et à toi !
Aug. 24, 2022
What's better
I definitely prefer winter, because I can use my soft blankets, drink hot chocolate that I love, stay outside without burning and in general don't melt from the summer heat.
Summer has its advantages and funny things to do, but most of the time I'm in my house.
And I can eat cold things like ice cream in winter too, so I don't worry about that.
Aug. 24, 2022
What's better
I definitely prefer winter, because I can use my soft blankets, drink hot chocolate that I love, stay outside without burning and in general don't melt from the summer heat.
Summer has its advantages and funny things to do, but most of the time I'm in my house.
And I can eat cold things like ice cream in winter too, so I don't worry about that.
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Calvin e Hobbes: la lettera anonima - parte 11
Calvin è molto arrabbiato dopo aver scoperto che il suo amico Hobbes è l'autore di tutte quelle lettere anonime piene di insulti.
"È finito tra di noi! T'insegnerò a prenderti gioco di me, enorme palla di pelo che non sei altro!" grida Calvin mente i due si lottano a terra.
"Hai un pessimo senso dell'umorismo, tutto qua!", protesta Hobbes.
"Non è vero! Il tuo è stato un brutto scherzo. Non te lo perdoner...cosa?", comincia a dire Calvin ma si interrompe quando Hobbes gli sussurra qualcosa all'orecchio.
"Siiiiì, hai ragione! È davvero spassoso! Hahaha, d'accordo, siamo amici di nuovo", esclama Calvin mentre stringe la mano a Hobbes.
Nell'ultima vignette, Susi Derkins apre una lettera anonima ...nella quale c'è un disegno di teschio con le parole "SuSI: tU PuZzi! HahA!" scritte con delle lettere ritagliate da una rivista.
Aug. 24, 2022
Essen gehen
Ich ging heute zu einer Konditorei und einer italienischen Pizzeria. Obwohl die beiden Gebäude gegenüber stehen, musste ich eine Menge Zeit nehmen, um meine Dinge zu kaufen. In der Konditorei gab es eine große Schlange. Ich meine, dass sie es mit Absicht tun, nicht genug Arbeiter zu stellen, so man hat mehr Zeit, Artikeln zu ansehen. Ich habe dort eine Apfelkuchen und ein paar Muffins eingekauft. Dann trat ich Pizzaria ein. Ich wollte eine Pizza zum Mittag essen, aber sie hatten auch Döner in der Speisekarte, also habe ich meine Meinung geändert und ich habe Döner gewählt.
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Aug. 24, 2022
Gestaltzerfall?
I have been reading web novels on iPad recently.
I've been reading for a long time, so I thought it would be good for my health if I read while doing light exercise.
However, if I scroll the web page while exercising, the movement tends to stop.
Then I come up with the idea of using the iPad's voice control function.
And I thought that if I used it in English, instead of in Japanese, I could practice English pronunciation, too.
After using it, it feels really good.
Like "Swipe up" "Scroll down" are work nicely.
But "Zoom in" is not to work at all. For unknown reasons, It only works about once in 20 times.
I tried various pronunciations of "z", "in", and "m", and many linking patterns.
I seems to be Gestaltzerfall.
Aug. 24, 2022
"La siesta"
Everybody think that in Spain all people make a nap after lunch, every days of year. I live in Catalonia and I don't know nobody who does "la siesta" in weekdays. But is possible that some people in some days on holidays or weekend, they doing. In others spots more hot, where is not possible go out from home during the day in summer while the sun is stronger, traditionally they do this short sleep. The "siesta" should last around thirty minutes to 1 hour. If your nap last longer time, is possible that later at night, you will have problems for shut-eye to sleep.
Aug. 24, 2022
Les typhons à Hong Kong
Cela ne fait que trois jours que je suis rentré à Hong Kong, et un typhon frappe déjà la ville. Je ne suis plus habitué à ça : alors que j’ai grandi à Hong Kong, je passe désormais le plus clair de mon temps en Angleterre, là où je vais à l’université. Le climat anglais ne fait pas rêver, certes, et se plaindre de la météo est presque devenu un sport national. Mais, là-bas, on est au moins à l’abri des gros orages et des ouragans.
Évidemment, on ne peut en dire autant de Hong Kong. La ville subit de multiples typhons chaque été en raison de son emplacement géographique, et le changement climatique ne fera qu’empirer les choses. Or, la fréquence de ces typhons a fait que la ville est plutôt bien préparée à les affronter. Le gouvernement a mis en place un système d’alerte qui prévient le public des orages, et de manière générale, les habitants savent réagir avant qu’il ne soit trop tard. Résultat : la ville sort presque toujours indemne d’un typhon, et la vie finit invariablement par reprendre son cours normal, comme si de rien n’était.
Dans mon enfance, l’arrivée d’un typhon signifiait la fermeture des écoles pour la journée. Les jours de typhon, mes potes et moi avions donc de quoi nous réjouir ! En y repensant, je culpabilise d’avoir réagi ainsi, car on a beaucoup de chance ici à Hong Kong par rapport aux autres pays. Aux Philippines, par exemple, l’infrastructure est moins bien développée et les typhons y sont donc plus ravageurs.
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Dal virtuale alla realtà
In novembre, la prima città italiana che visitarò sarà Firenze. Non è una scelta molto originale, perché è una delle città più turistiche d'Italia. Ma perché Firenze? La prima volta que ho avuto visitare Firenze, giochavo a Assassin's Creed.
Per quelli che non conoscerebbero, Assassin's Creed è una licenza di videogiochi che sono ambientati a diverse epoche della storia, in diversi luoghi. Il primo gioco ricrea qualche città del Medio Oriente (come Gerusalemme e Damasco) nel tempo delle crociate, e il secondo si svolge in quatro città italiane nel tempo del Rinascimento, una grande epoca di fermento intellettuale e artistico, ma anche di disordini politici. Una di queste è Firenze, e si può andare liberamente in una ricostituzione della città come era nel XVI secolo, con qualche monumento come la catedrale Santa Maria del Fiore o l'Ospedale degli Innocenti.
Questa interazione viva con il passato mi ha incorragiato a impararne più sulla città. Quando giochavo a Assassin's Creed II, ero molto giovane, e solamente conoscevo Firenze come la "città dei Medici", ma poi, ho imparato molto sul suo ruolo essenziale nella creazione artistica di quello tempo. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Botticelli... Tutti erano fiorentini, e le sue opere stupende sono indissociabili da Firenze.
Infatto, la lingua in cui sto scrivendo l'è anche, perché l'italiano moderno proviene da un dialetto toscano. Peraltro, visto che le lingue mi interesano molto, esplorare i diversi dialetti e lingue italiani è qualchosa che mi piacerebbe moltissimo. Certo, per questo, avrò bisogno di più di un viaggio... Nel frattempo, penso che sarò felice di visitare in realtà ciò che ho giusto visitato virtualmente!
Aug. 24, 2022
マンダブラのフード・パントリー「food pantry」
ある近くの教会、毎週の木曜日は午前8時から午後5時までふーど・パントリーになります。食べ物や料理のスパイスや家庭用品などを売っています。品物はどこからかと言うと、大きいスーパーからです。多分オーナーがたくさん買って、転売します。スーパーにあるものより安いです。妹は豆乳が好きなので、いくつかを買いました。1箱は1ドルぐらいでした。家に帰って、冷蔵庫に豆乳を置きながら、有効期限を見ました。「えー３ヶ月前に期限切れだ！」と気づきました。彼女はちょっとがっかりましたが、なぜ品物は安いのをやっとわかってきました。次回、ふーど・パントリーに行くなら、もっと気お付けます。
Aug. 24, 2022
Email to private school teacher
Dear Ms Li,
Hope you are doing well. My name is Joyce I am Ryan’s mom.
Thank you for giving us a wonderful school tour last time, we were so impressed with Mulgrave’s value and facilities. We are certain that Mulgrave will be a perfect fit for Ryan next year if all goes well.
Summer holiday went by so quickly, Ryan enjoyed going to his daycare everyday and he made a lot a of friends in the school. He also loves going to gymnastics class and soccer class after school. We noticed that he really likes music and dancing, beacuse when we accidentally join the Katie Brock Music session, Ryan was dancing and singing all along with Katie. We took him to Victoria during the holiday and he went fishing for the first time, he was so happy on the boat and saw us fishing, we had a great family time over there.
Regarding the application this year, since Ryan’s birthday is Dec 11th 2019, would you consider him as a PK 3 candidate this year?
Aug. 24, 2022
Zu neue wohnung umzuziehen
Leibe Aya,
ich schreibe dir deise E-Mail ,weil ich dir über meinem neuen wohnung erzälen möchte.
Wie du weisst,dass ich mich letztes Wochenende entschieden habe ,in eine andere wohnung zu ziehen, weil unsere Wohnung zu kein ist.
Die wohnung befindet sich im stadtzentrum neben einem park,wo veile Menschen sich frische luft holen.
Es gibt nicht nur drei holles schalfzimmer,sondern auch eine prakteshe küche.
Was mir sehr gefällt ist,dass Hausteirn in dieser wohnung erlaubt, so wir könnten einen kleinen Hund haben.
AuBerdem gibt es einen schönen balkon, um wir in früh morgen frisch luft zu atmen.
Wie wäre es, wenn du am Wochenende bei mir zur Wohnung kommest.
Hast du zeit?
Ich freue mich auf deine baldig Antwort.
Liebe GrüBe
Maya
Aug. 24, 2022
My opinion of fashion industry
I think fashion industry doesn’t bother about problems and illnesses like anorexia or bulimia. It designs very small clothes and it promotes to be very slim, very skinny. People want to be like supermodels and I think it is very dangerous because many people obsess about losing weight so they leave to eat and this is a big problem. Since some years, there are people that are working in change minds about fashion and promote to have models with different bodies on the catwalks. Models with all types of bodies not only slim models. I think it’s good for everybody to see into the fashion industry supermodels with fat bodies and this should be a normal thing.
Aug. 24, 2022
Why There Are Fewer People Speak English In China
English has been a universal language for more than several decades and, of course, everyone knows its importance for cross-cultural communication, but there is indeed a smaller percentage of the Chinese population who can speak English than that of the majority of other countries in the world.
In this article, I will explain the reasons behind it, and will give according suggestions for improving overall English speaking skills for individuals in future articles.
All the following opinions are personal thoughts, and I didn't do much research regarding this topic, so any different standpoints and diverse comments are welcomed.
English education is not good enough in China
Although China is a rising country with long history and was an empire in ancient times, it has a relatively more rigid and inappropriate education system which is not suitable for active and interest-oriented learning but strangely helpful for students to get a satisfactory score in order to please their parents and accomplish their teachers’ job.
Why do I call it rigid? You may not know that, in China, even the open-ended questions like those in a Chinese test have a standard answer, again, in Chinese language tests and not even in maths exams, so if students can’t cover the points they will probably get a very low score.
Although I am not criticizing this system nor dare I to, however, let me give you some examples to elaborate on.
I remember when I started to learn English in junior high school, my English teacher was not able to pronounce considerable words in a correct way that I doubt she was not even trained in teaching English but rather like a substitute getting pushed up to this position, and what I don’t like more was her ways to teach words spelling, she literally only asked us to memorize spelling without any tips and then exams for dictation were imposed regularly. The terrible thing didn’t end here, “If anyone spelled words incorrectly, go spell these words dozens of times until you make them right!”, she said sternly.
As we know forcing oneself to memorize words doesn’t work, because English native speakers don’t force themselves to learn new words but, surprisingly, they can understand and use a massive amount of words by natural acquisition.
Another unbalanced trait in English teaching in China is to focus too much on grammar since grammar had been an easily examinable point to test students’ skills, though in recent years by far as I know, Gaokao, a decisive exam for pre-college students has the grammar part removed and added reading part.
English Speaking skills have also been largely neglected because for most students there is practically nowhere to speak English and they fear speaking practice in class only for not losing face if they spoke in a typical Chinese way or made mistakes, so teachers don’t think any value is in teaching oral English. I didn’t even practice speaking until several years ago when I thought speaking is primary for learning a new language and I had taken this ability underestimated before senior high.
It’s obvious that these abnormal teaching methods, pro-grammar tests, and speaking-neglected classes have reinforced this ideology – we learn English only for getting a higher score. Thus, students are less well-educated in English and soon lost interest after leaving school.
Society is not supportive of English learning
China is not an inclusive immigrant country, where most foreigners can travel to without a visa, so therefore there are fewer foreigners in China except that big cities hold more of them. Due to its comparatively low demand for speaking English with foreigners, only a small amount of people can speak English fluently, and those people tend to live in big cities. If you decide to have a trip to China, you’d better learn some basic Chinese beforehand as my number-one suggestion.
Based on historical recordings, China didn’t open her door to the outside of the world until 1978. This solitary country attracted no outlanders so there was even less chance to use English for doing international business and cooperation, though it is said that schools did teach English even before that time. The relatively late time to connect with the world made Chinese citizens think English barely has any practical use and it slowed down English education.
Another thing worth mentioning though it sounds a little stupid is some Chinese people start to diminish the importance of English as a subject as they point out that the majority of students won’t use English for their future jobs. Not long before, there were strong voices advocating pro-Chinese and anti-English online and, under this pressure, the government may consider reducing the full score of English in Gaokao.
Language difference is relatively bigger
As Chinese learners complain that Chinese is too hard to learn, Chinese is truly so much so different from western languages. When Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family and English belongs to the Indo-European family, fewer language similarities between these two may cause Chinese speakers to have more difficulties to learn English.
Chinese tend to cut out the subject in a sentence, if not so only when the meaning can be misunderstood, but in English I feel like there are fewer ellipses used commonly. Chinese is a tonal language while English has stressed parts in certain words and among a sentence. However, the overall intonation of a sentence in Chinese is more flat, which probably brings Chinese English learners a less emotional or even numb tone when speaking English. Moreover, when a question is being asked in English, be it an open question or yes-or-no question, the order of a sentence must be changed but in Chinese it’s not.
In this closely-connecting world, younger Chinese generations can’t avoid to some degree having to use English and the overall English level among individuals is increasing. However, there are still much more people who can’t understand English in China, let alone speak it, and I truly hope more actions would be taken for improving the status quo.
Aug. 24, 2022
Sentences with phrasal verbs
1) The prices are going up every day.
2) Please go on with your explanation.
3) These boots don’t go with this dress.
4) I went for that TV because it was very cheap.
5) I had to go back to my house, because I forgot my smartphone.
6) This file has several mistakes. Please go over it.
7) Go ahead through the hallway and you’ll find the bathrooms.
8) Please, stand up and introduce yourself.
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여름을 싫어합니다.
여름은 덥다. 겨울은 춥다. 덥고 땀범벅이 되는 것보다 추운 것이 더 좋다고 생각하지 않습니까? 적어도 저는 그렇게 생각하고 있습니다. 여름휴가는 매우 좋아하지만, 여름의 더위는 견디기 어려운 것이 있습니다. 그리고 겨울에는 벌레가 없습니다. 여름이 되면 꼭 벌레를 볼 수 있습니다. 벌레는 싫습니다. 이것도 여름을 싫어하는 이유입니다.
Aug. 24, 2022