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Je suis crevée !
Dans la vie, une des choses les plus importantes pour garder le bonheur est de savoir comment prendre soin de soi-même, sans s’appuyer sur ses amies. Je ne suis pas une personne qui a une énergie illimitée. Quand je suis entre mes copains, j’essaie d’être attentif et présent. Je fais des blagues et je leur raconte des histoires rigolotes, mais pour moi c’est comme si je joue un rôle. Être bavarde ne vient pas naturellement pour moi. Après un week-end
sociable, j’ai besoin d'une période de repos ou je m’enferme chez moi et je ne vois personne ! Sans avoir de temps pour moi, je me sentirais fatiguée et irritable. Tout m’accablerais, même les tâches quotidiennes.
Dans le passé, j’ai souvent senti que mon manque d’énergie a été une faiblesse, et j’avais peur que, si je ne sortais pas assez, je perdrais mes potes. Heureusement, au fil du temps je me suis rendu compte que beaucoup de gens éprouvent le même problème. Du coup ce n’est pas un "problème", plutôt que un trait de personnalité qu’on ne peut pas changer. J’aurais aimé l'apprécier plus tôt.
En ce moment, je me sens épuisée. J’ai des poches sous les yeux, je suis pâle et j’ai envie de faire une sieste tout le temps. Je viens de déménager dans une nouvelle ville et je fais un grand effort pour rencontrer des gens et établir une nouvelle routine, mais ce n'est pas facile ! Alors, pendant mon cours du français hier, je suis restée muette la plupart du temps et j’ai eu de la difficulté à m'exprimer d'une manière cohérente. Au lieu d’être découragée, je me disais que ma vie est en désordre aujourd’hui et je devrais attendre un peu pour me sentir mieux et plus énergique.
June 2, 2022
I'm translating something serious
I like translating things into Spanish. It's a kind of hobby for me and I enjoy it a lot. But I'm working on something lately. It's a a speech from a member of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. You can tell from his words that all these people were really confident about their cause being the cause of liberty. When you read those words you can think to yourself, "man, these guys really think they're going to win the war because they think they have a good reason to and are fully confident on their own resources and possibilities". That speech doesn't make you suspect that there is some evil or flaw in their system of beliefs.
I wonder what people will think of our beliefs when they learn about them from a distant future. We think there's nothing wrong with our present ideas, values and beliefs, but ... Who know what history has to say about our generation.
June 2, 2022
No encuentro mi tarjeta de crédito
Un mensaje ficticio a mi banco
Hola. Ayer perdí mi tarjeta de crédito. Creo que lo perdí cuando estaba buceando en aguas profundas o quizás cuando estaba escalando rocas. En todo casos, pídeme una nueva tarjeta por favor. También si hay cargos por velas de baño perfumadas o la tienda se llama Spa Suave para el Día de la Mujer, cancele esos. ¡Soy muy masculino y Claramente no puede ser mia!
Gracias.
June 2, 2022
Dragon Boat Festival
Tomorrow is the starting day of the dragon boat festival, but its Chinese name is 端午节(duān wǔ jié)
There is a story about the festival. In ancient China, there was a famous poet. His name was 屈原(qū yuán). He wasn't satisfied with the rule of government, and every time he would be very sad when he saw the common people's miserable lives.
He could do nothing to change the government, the same for changing common people's miserable lives. In the end, on the lunar May fifth, he dived into the 汨罗 (mì luó) river to commit suicide.
In order to commemorate him, on the day he died, people in the Miluo River Basin threw rice dumplings into the river. They believed that the fish in the river wouldn't eat Quyuan's body because the fish had rice dumplings to eat.
Years later, making and eating rice dumplings on Duanwu became a tradition.
As to why its English name is "dragon boat festival", I really don't know. Dragon boat competition is also a traditional activity during Duanwu festival, but I don't know the relationship between it and the festival.
When other festivals come, people will say "happy XX" to other people, for example, happy new year, happy mid-autumn festival and so on. But on Duawu festival, we are only supposed to say "peace and health on Duanwu festival" because it is a day to remember death.
There are at least three or four different legends of origin about the Duanwu festival. This is just one of them.
We will have three days off starting tomorrow for this Duanwu festival, and I will be on duty with another colleague on the second day of this festival.
At the moment the dragon boat festival is going to come, I wish peace and health for you guys in advance.
June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022
Games We Played in the Old Days
When I was young, mud was my convenient toy. As far as I can remember, we played it in two main ways.
The first one is called 摔泥碗 (shuāi ní wǎn) throwing down mud bowls.
Before you play it, find a piece of wet mud and make sure its moisture is just right. Then, forming it bowl-shaped and throwing it heavily upside down to the ground.
The moment that the bowl hits the ground, the bottom of the bowl will explode because of the high air pressure inside it and create a loud bang. Who makes the bang louder is the winner.
The second one is called 甩泥蛋(shuǎ ní dàn) throwing mud balls.
Find an elastic, one meter-long branch and a piece of mud. Form the mud into many small three centimeters diameter balls.
When you play it, attach a mud ball tightly on the thin end of the branch, hold the thick end of it and throw the mud ball forward faraway.
Kids who throw the mud ball farthest are winners.
These games may seem very boring to modern people, but they amused us a lot in the old days.
June 2, 2022
Why do people want to have a healthy body?
Why not? You won’t ask this question if you seat in the emergency department of a hospital. You will never thought of you want to get an unhealthy body.
There is a Chinese old saying:” Body is the basement to do everything.” You can not do the most of things in the world if you don’t have a healthy body. You can’t eat delicious food if you don’t have a strong stomach. You can enjoy running if you don’t have healthy legs.
The reason is simple!
June 2, 2022
Comprendre les Québécois
Il y a deux mois j’ai acheté un cours qui s’appelle Comprendre les Québécois. C’était super intéressant. Avant d’arriver ici j’avais une base en français, mais je n’étais pas capable de parler couramment. En plus, j’avais la difficulté à comprendre l’accent ici.
J’ai remarqué que les québécois prononcer certains mots différemment qu’en France. Par example quand il prononce “tu” j’ai entendu “tsu”. En plus, quand il prononce “difficile” j’ai entendu “dzifficile”. Au début, j’ai pensé que je les avait mal entendu ou que mon français n’était pas assez fort pour entendre la différence. Le cours avait expliqué que cet phénomène s’appelle l’africation. C’est la tendance à prononcer les “t” comme si il y a un “s” qui le suivre et les “d” comme si il y a un “z” qui le suivre. J’étais fasciné qu’il y avait un explication technique pour ce que j’ai entendu.
La deuxième chose que j’ai remarqué c’est la façon dans lequel ils prononcent les voyelles était tellement différent aussi. Par example quand ils disent “père” j’ai entendu “paere” ou quand ils disent “beurre” j’ai entendu “Baeurre”. C’était comme s’ils ajoutent un “a” avant les “e”. Ça s’appelle une diphtongue.
Le cours a aussi expliqué pourquoi ils utilisent les mots de l’église comme des gros mots. C’est parce que la culture québécoise était fortement influencé par l’église pour des années et malheureusement ils ont pris advantage de leur pouvoir. Ils ont l’utilisé pour manipuler la population et de gagner d’argent d’eux. Le résultat était une grande rébellion contre l’église et les gros mots on sortir de ça.
J’ai vraiment aimé le cours et je le recommande fortement à n’importe de qui, qui veut mieux comprendre le français parler ici au Québec.
June 2, 2022
It was a bumper year
It was a bumper year.
I saw that the cherry tress were covered with full of cherries.
It was my friend's orchard and I went to there to buy some cherries.
The sun was a good reason of bearing abundant fruit.
Because of the spring drought it hadn't rained for a month.
It has been about eight or nine years since he had planted the trees.
But the trees hadn't yielded well until now.
But the yield was not good until now.
It looked good when I saw the cherry trees with abundant fruits.
He had blueberry trees too.
He had lots of blueberry trees and I bought four trees.
They are growing in my garden now.
But they were still planted in the pot because he said it was not good to plant it on the ground.
He said they need a well-drained soil.
If not, they would be died.
In addition to this good news, I want to say about my fig tree.
Lately I was sure it was dead.
The branches were broken easily.
Actually it was small that it wasn't over my knees.
I neglected it and I found the new leaves sprouting out from the bottom yesterday.
It was already grown about a span long.
I googled it and I found that the fig trees can't withstand the winter.
Some people dig it and locate it in the house and replant it in spring.
I didn't know that because I had lots of things to looking after.
I felt sorry about it so I dug it and replanted it another place where the soil was better.
I think I didn't know anything about the farming when I first planted it.
But now I am relaxed more than then cause I got some experience.
I will do many sort of things as well today.
June 2, 2022
A Short Reply
After the last lesson, I checked how to express fraction in English, and I totally got it. Before, I didn't have any idea about it. In the last lesson, I was very confused and felt upset when you were talking "fraction", "an (one) eleventh", "two over fifths", and so on. I also heard your audio about the difference in the pronunciation of "fifth" and "fifths". Although the difference is very tiny, I had spotted it. Okay, just let you know about this. The best to you always.
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
Chicken Fighting
The games I played in the old days.
When I was young, I didn't have any toys because I lived in the countryside where life conditions were very poor.
But I still played many games with other children. All the games are really simple, and the game materials can be easily found in our daily life. Here are some games.
斗鸡(dòu jī) chicken fighting
Children can play this game anywhere, especially in the winter. It will warm you as you play it.
This game is only played between two children. Standing with one leg, using your hands lifting the other leg up to your thigh and keeping it there. You could only move by hopping.
When you fight with someone, use the knee of your lifted leg to knock on the other until they fall down. While you are fighting, you need to hop to change your location and find the best chance and angle to fight them.
I have at least three tips for chicken fighting. One is putting your knee above theirs and pressing them down hard. The second is placing your knee under theirs and lifting them hard. The third one is that when they’re going to jump up and strike you heavily, just know this in advance and avoid them flexibly. These three tips can all lead them to fall down because they will lose their center of gravity.
That is all for today and I will introduce the next one soon.
June 1, 2022
Filme - II
Mein Lieblingsfilm ist "Parasite". Er ist ein südkoreanischer Film. Der Regisseur ist Bong Joon-ho. Nachdem ich den Film angesehen habe, habe ich wochenlang an ihn gedacht. Er ist ein beeindruckender Film. "Parasite" hat vier Oscars gewonnen.
Ich schaue Filme lieber mit Freunden. Ich mag über Filme mit Freunden diskutieren. Ich esse oft mit Freunden zu Abend, nachdem wir Filme anschauen.
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
Une dictée-2
J'ai fait une dictée de cette vidéo -> https://twitter.com/mashup_talk/status/1527009955148091395?s=20&t=l8zKc36ctFaen1fRmRCy-A
Je voudrais que vous l'écoutiez et me corrigiez. Je vous remeriee pour vos corrections par avance !
vous ne pouvez pas convaincre chez nous.
Donc on allait avec de petites drapeaux, ça on était trois, on était emsenble trois gallois qui est dans un village romain pour affronter un petite peu le combattant locale.
0:12 forcément la décision elle se faisait souvent ouais, mais bon c’est comme ça on n’avait l’habitude, on avait inventé un terme qui s’appelle « déci…décision sauce maison », je t’explique. Ça c’est quand tu sais qu’il y a une décision très litigieuse, et que bah voilà les gars balancent un truc et ils se disent tu es perdu je ne comprends pas pourquoi et ils ne peuvent pas expliquer non plus pourquoi.
0:29 donc ça c’est les problématiques qu’on avait justement à toujours être les étrangers. Et bah pour le coup elle vient et elle légalise du sport, ça ne permet d’organiser chez nous, ça nous permet d’encadrer le sport aussi,
0:41 Votre propore jury qui est maintenant…
Exactement ça !
Et ça permet de former des jeunes. Parce que l’avenir est là finalement et c’est les jeunes.
June 1, 2022
Perfekt (BBC Bitesize)
Haben oder sein?
Ich bin gelaufen.
Ich bin geschwommen.
Ich habe gelesen.
Ich habe gebacken.
Ich habe geschlafen.
Ich bin gefahren.
Ich habe gemält.
Ich habe gespielt.
Übung
Change these five present tense sentences into the perfect tense using haben.
Sie kauft eine Tracht. Sie hat eine Tracht gekauft.
Ich esse Spätzle. Ich habe Spätzle gegessen.
Ich spiele Handball. Ich habe Handball gespielt.
Wir tragen eine Uniform. Wir haben eine Uniform getragen.
Sie sehen den Film. Sie haben den Film gesehen.
Haben oder Sein?
Er isst den Kuchen. Er hat den Kuchen gegessen.
Die Katze läuft hinter das Sofa. Die Katze ist hinter das Sofa gelaufen.
Spielst du Fußball? Hast du Fußball gespielt?
Ich höre die Nachrichten. Ich habe die Nachrichten gehört.
Wir bleiben hier. Wir sind hier geblieben.
Write these sentences in German;
I went to Germany - Ich bin nach Deutschland gefahren.
I drank lemonade - Ich habe Limonade getrunken.
I read a Newspaper - Ich habe eine Zeitung gelesen.
I ate Spätzle - Ich habe Spätzle gegessen.
I went on foot - Ich bin zu Fuß gegangen?
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
Book - A Shot in the Dark - 79
Summary no. 79
DCI Peplow wasn’t just a man of law, he was one of Britain’s most popular public figures. Just like many prominent people, he pushed a narrative, creating a public image of himself as someone to look up to. So, bringing a whole tv crew when he visited his friend and notorious journalist Harry Jupiter, who was recovered in hospital, was completely in character. Of course, Peplow thought it a good idea—from a PR point of view—to take some shots with Jupiter where the incident had occurred. Peplow could already imagine the newspapers’ titles hailing him as a good man given to “charitable” work. Reporter Ben Oliver, who had been in the room with Jupiter since before Peplow arrived, was enthusiastic about the idea, and said that going there might jog Jupiter’s memory. However, the hospital staff refused adamantly to dismiss Jupiter without authorisation from a next of kin. Being a charming and persuasive man, Peplow had his way eventually. Though, astonishingly, no one cared for Jupiter’s opinion. He dreaded the prospect of leaving his hospital room and venturing out with all these strangers. He resented all of them, he just wanted to rest.
June 1, 2022
Nuevos Cursos de Ejercicios
Esta mañana leí dos anuncios sobre dos cursos nuevos. El primero fue sobre el fortalecimiento. En ese curso, trabajarás los músculos del abdomen durante treinta minutos. En el otro curso, aprenderás a hacer Kayak. Los dos cursos, me parecen buenos, pero me interesa más el curso de Kayak. El único problema es el equipo de Kayak es muy caro.
June 1, 2022
How do you make someone feel special with a card?
Writing the words seriously and honestly in the card. The power of words is incredible and amazing. You can use this power with an honest heart.
Your question makes a recall of my memory to me. A girl moved my heart by a simple card with a mail. We are deskmate when we are studying in a junior school. She is a gentle and kind gril and easy to cry by other’s bullying. I am the boy who always against the rule and is naughty, so I protected her every time when she is bullied by others. At that time, I thought she was my good friend even though she had already fallen in love with me.
Time goes by, and we went to different high schools, and there is nothing special happened before I receive a mail from her.
“Hey! ZHOU! You got a mail from a girl.”
“Thank you!”
“Who will write a mail to me in this era that everyone has a phone?” I opened the mail with confusion and I read it.
Dear ZHOU,
How are you today? We don’t have a chat long time, so I can’t stand myself to send this card to you. I am writing this mail with a warm heart. Although I decide to study hard and do not make myself in an embarrassing situation which I need to miss a person every time, I still do it.
I guess you already have a girlfriend? A lot of girls like you, I know that. I guess you have a good academic grade. A lot of effort you do it every day in your daily life. I guess you don’t think I am attractive. I am only a good friend in your heart.
Even though I know this, I want to talk with you. To ask how are you now, what are you doing and so on. Could we hang out on this weekend?
Yours,
Lu
This is an email with love even if it doesn’t refer to any “love”. I feel moved and really appreciated.
I hope this story can help you. If you want to write a nice card, plz take it with love.
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
Rückgabe einer Matratze
Sehr geehrte Frau Knaller,
Ich schreibe Ihnen um das Missverständnis mit der Bezahlung der Matratze zu klären.
Laut meinem E-mail Anbieter wurde vor einem Monat Ihnen eine E-mail geschickt, wo um eine Rückgabe und um ein Abholungstermin gebeten wurde.
Deswegen ist es jetzt eine Überraschung, dass weder die von Ihnen erwähnte E-mail noch ein Vorschlag des Abholungstermins, sondern eine Zahlungsaufforderung gekommen ist.
Es ist wahr, dass ich mich zwar darum früher kümmern sollte, aber meine Arbeit ist gerade sehr aufwendig und es bleibt nicht viel Zeit übrig für andere Aufgaben. Deshalb bitte ich Sie um Ihr Verständnis und hoffe, dass es noch möglich wäre einen Abholungstermin zu bekommen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Tilax
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
Das Inserat
Hello Leute,
Die Miete Des Zimmers ist 200 Euro. Nebenkosten sind ungefähr 25 Euro. Miete Zimmer ist 35 Quadratmeter. In der Wohnung gibt es einen Balkon aber keine Terrasse. Ich suche einen ordentlichen Mieter für Zimmer. In dieser Wohnung werden Hausarbeiten gemeinsam erledigt. Sie können den Müll rausbringen oder kochen. Bitte rufen Sie an, wenn diese Bedingungen auf Sie zutreffen.