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La perpetuelle géopolitique de la Russie
Pendant un demi-millénaire, la politique extérieure russe a été caracterisée par des croissantes ambitions qui ont excédées la capacité du pays. À partir du règne d'Ivan le terrible au XVIe siècle, la Russie a réussi à se développer à un rythme moyen de 50 miles carrés par jour pendant des centaines d'années, finalement couvrant un sixième de la masse continentale de la terre.
Vers 1900, elle était le quatrième - ou le cinquième - le plus grande puissance industrielle et le plus grande producteur agricole en Europe.Mais son PIB par habitante n'atteint que 20% de celui du Royaume-Uni et 40% de celui d'Allemagne. La durée de vie moyenne à la naissance en la Russie Imperiale était de 30 ans - plus élevé que celui de l'Inde britannique (23), mais identique à celui de la Chine de Qing et bien en dessous du Royaume-Uni de (52), le Japon (51) et l'Allemagne.
L'alphabétizacion russe au début du XXe siècle restée inférieure à 33 pour cent - inférieure à celui du Royaume-Uni au XVIII siècle. Ces comparations sont bien conuus par la classe politique russe, parce que ses membres ont voyagés à l'Europe fréquemment et ont mesuré leur pays contre les dirigeants du monde (ce qui est vrai aujourd'hui aussi).
March 26, 2021
Korossol On The Road 3
Hello again!
This time, I will try to write a short story. It's not for publishing, I swear! And I’m not using you as beta-readers, it’s because I love stories : to read them, to tell them and clearly to write them. I will use them here as my favourite communication tool and try to improve my English storytelling. Thanks again for helping!
"So she was a witch. A witch. Of all the things…!
She swallowed a laugh, or maybe a sob. She couldn’t begin; she didn’t know if she would ever stop. Still, it wasn’t as much a surprise as it should have been. There have been… incidents. A lot of them.
She had asked her mother about… heritage and weird things and got a rant about puberty. None of her others overtures gave better results. She asked a father too. Nothing. Either they knew nothing or they were better liars than she always thought.
Maybe she always was a witch. Family stories said that she always found interesting things in the grass : toys, insects, money sometimes… but what child hadn’t do the same? She never lost herself, always finding the path home. Again, not extraordinary. Ans then there was the incident where a boy chased her off the sandbox and dig a scolopendre five minutes later. (Poor kid. She still feels guilty about it.)
But isn’t it always the same with familiy’s stories? All little incident that occurs to a kid, to be told again and again at parties, diners and anniversaries. Whan it’s about a kid, funny happenstances doesn’t translate in ‘weird occurrences’. Kids do strange things.
She herself only realized when she was eight."
March 26, 2021
有钱能使鬼推磨
地狱到了一个新来的瘦鬼，他很想变胖。有一天他碰到一个胖鬼，他羡慕极了。他问胖鬼变成胖方法。胖鬼说：“你去人间找人们一些麻烦。他们一害怕，就给你好吃的”。听了胖鬼的话，瘦鬼马上去人间。他根本没有调查人们家庭情况，就立刻进了一个房子。他看见房子里边有一个磨，二话不说就推了起来。房子主人一听到外边有动静，就出来看，发现屋子里没有人，磨就自动了。他没有害怕，反而还哭着说：“连老天可怜我，让鬼来帮我推磨。”听了主人的话，瘦鬼还以为他会给它很多好吃的。结果瘦鬼推了半天磨，累要死了，但是什么都没得到。因为他选的家特别穷，自己都缺衣少食，根本没有多余的东西给鬼。瘦鬼本来想用吓唬人方法得到好处，没想到反而帮了人。
March 26, 2021
I Can't Bear It Anymore (pt.2)
It is already the second day in a row that my roommates told me that they want to boycott foreign clothing and only support national products. This article is a follow-up to the Xinjiang Cotton. Besides being disgusted that the press is not free, I'm also sick of the damn boycott. I hate this top-down call to boycott products. I'm a Gen-Z, and I've experienced countless boycotts in China when I grow up. I am no longer willing to support the boycott as mindlessly as I used to. My first memory of boycotting was safeguarding the Diaoyu Islands, and that was the only time I ever saw a street march in China. After that, people take it as a "good" example of the "freedom to march". Then there was a boycott of Korean products. Korean music was taken down from all Chinese music apps, and Korean stores were closed, including Korean BBQ restaurants. I don't know when the ban was lifted again. Then the boycott of Japanese goods. Even some people went to smash Japanese brand cars. The most recent one was the boycott of the NBA because of the Rockets' pro-HK comments. This year the ban of the NBA was removed. I used to think that following the officials represented justice, but now I don't want to be a puppet. Many of the production lines of the boycotted products are in China, and boycotting these products is in a sense destroying our own jobs. It's a meaningless protest.
This time, already many stars have taken a stand to lift their endorsements. But there is no clear official statement to boycott those foreign clothes. I believe they dare not. For example, many national team athletes are sponsored by Nike, Adidas, etc. A full boycott of these foreign apparel would also be tantamount to a kind of shutdown. I watched the CCTV News on the bus today and it kept playing the stunt that H&M is "Huang Miu (ridiculous)". What's really ridiculous? This morning a review of Chinese Cotton was 404'd. What sensitive words were involved in this article? No, simply a combination of multiple articles analyzing the cotton situation in Xinjiang. Thousands of articles have been removed for inexplicable reasons. Where there have been no cases of outbreaks for months yet masks are mandatory on public transportation. Universities are still lockdown, with only one door open after 7pm. The door closest to the dorm was closed. Going back to school tonight was the 3rd time I've jumped off a fence at one person's height. I guess that's what's really ridiculous.
March 26, 2021
Caro administrador do langcorrect
Caro administrador, seu programa é ótimo! Mas há sempre quase 300 posts para mim que não foram corrigidos ainda... Então eu quero corrigir aqueles que são os mais velhos, que eu posso mudar nas configuracoes, eu sei. Mas cada vez que eu terminar uma correção, os últimos posts são os primeiros...
March 26, 2021
O meu inventário de musicas de Capoeira (parte 1)
Ouço músicas de capoeira desde 1992 -
Não porque a considere uma música de fundo particularmente harmoniosa para a minha vida aqui na Alemanha,
mas porque evocam memórias da energia dos eventos da capoeira,
que eu visitei.
Mas o que sempre me incomoda, e especialmente desde que eu treino regularmente,
é que eu não consigo identificar todas as músicas igualmente, muito menos cantar junto.
O refrão ainda é possível, mas nem sempre entendi... Porque a pronúncia nem sempre é clara e o barulho em tais eventos é grande.
Além disso, nas canções são palavras de várias línguas africanas, palavras antigas do tempo da escravidão e,
se são canções mais modernas, mesmo palavras dos eventos atuais no mundo.
Na semana passada eu encontrei a primeira música que contém "Zoom" no texto, e aqui realmente significa o provedor de reunião, não uma palavra floréia como "La La" e "Êeeeee".
Eu achei isso muito revelador e eu não estou surpreso que eu não consigo entender todos os textos de 400 anos, mas eu sou assim:
QUERO entender todos eles. Eu amo os detalhes...
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March 26, 2021
Thinking before buy something
Recently, I have been trying to buy essential things not for wasting my money.
If I want to buy something, I always think about this principle.
Do I need it caused by needs or uncomfortable ?
If it is decided as an essential one, I will buy it whether it is expensive or not.
However, if I am uncomfortable without it, then I am waiting more than 100 days to think about it.
If I will still think about it 100 days later, then I am going to buy it finally.
By this principle, I can save not only my money but also my space at home.
March 26, 2021
Shogunzuka
Shogunzuka is a small mountain which places the center of Kyoto city, and it's famous for the night view. According to history, the emperor had people buried a cray figure having armor, a helmet, and weapons there in order to protect Kyoto. (Kyoto was the capital city at that time.) There is a myth that this mountain vibrated when significant things happened in Japan.
March 26, 2021
Meaning of my name
Mi username is my real name. What do you mean I have to explain my real name? alright, then. So I'm gonna give 2 versions of this: 1 why is my name Miguel. And 2, the meaning of the name Miguel.
1 Why my name is Miguel: So I was named Miguel as a way to remember one of my mom's uncle who died shortly before the day I was born. So asking my mom about him, she would tell me that he was a very quiet man, very reserved, but once he wasn't quiet he was the funniest chap in the room. And I think that it represents me very well (the first half that is) I am also very quiet and reserved.
2 The meaning of my name: According to the internet, my name means "He who is like god", meaning the archangel saint Michael the "protector of the church". Anyways, I'm not a religious guy, but i't cool seeing my name has such an important meaning.
March 26, 2021
Making Sentences Using New Vocabulary
Undergraduate:
This is my first undergraduate year at the University of São Carlos. I'm so excited to learn more about Computer Science!
Percolation:
Today I've learned that the percolation process is more complex than I thought. Fluids don't just pass through objects magically.
March 26, 2021
Random thoughts of a mindless person - ep.1
I don't have the wit to write something funny or truly compelling. I don't even have the vocabulary to do it, to simply reflect my mindset, and express my complex mental state. The thoughts are overwhelming, changing, disturbing. They always accompany me, preventing me from concentrating on what really matters, on the moment. They decide. They make the rules. I shall just abide, like a puppet not in charge of its own life. Like a mindless spirit, a robot who has been programmed - quite badly - to obey a dysfunctional control centre.
Sometimes, the puppet awakens and seems to have regained an autonomy, thoughts of its own. It's free, happy, reckless. It feels like the world is at its feet, as it is ready to paint the town red. Reckless, because now it's free, it is not ready to abide by anyone else's rules.
March 26, 2021
Drinking Coffee
As you all know, we Chinese are not very into coffee, we just like drinking tea. But this afternoon, I went to a cafe called Luckin Coffee. This Cafe is located on the first floor of my office building. I often smelled the strong fragrance from it, and it was very tempting. A few times I wanted to get into it to have a try, but eventually I didn't go because I think coffee from this kind of shop is always overpriced. This afternoon it rained when I finished my job, and it was earlier to go home at that time, so I decided to go to the shop for a cup of coffee. Ordering is through my phone, I scanned a QR first, then ordered a cup of sugar-free classic latte and a piece of oat grape cookies. When my orders were done and I went over to take them, they didn't look bad, simple and fresh. I didn't know the right way to drink coffee, so I just took off the cup cap and drank it like it was boiled water. (haha, please don't laugh at me). I also tasted the cookies. It was a little too sweet (I hate eating sugar contained cookies). The reason I ordered latte is because I often see coffee items of "latte" in many English learning materials. But its taste was not bad too, thick and with strong fragrance, and that was my thing. The most important thing is that it didn't cost as much as I expected originally. Maybe I can come here often for a rest in the upcoming days. Bye, that is all for today.
March 26, 2021
Le petit déjeuner français
Pourquoi les français trempent ils leur petit déjeuner dans le café au lait?
Dans le pays de haute cuisine le petit déjeuner est simple. Trés simple. On pouvait dire presque non-existant. On mange un croissant au beurre ou une tartine, que on trempe dans un bol de café au lait. Comment s’explique cet bizarre comportement? J’ai une théorie personelle sur cet sujet.
C’est tout a cause de la baguette, ce pain délicieux bien français. La baguette fait pas long feu. Il faut l’acheter chaque jour, ou même plusieurs fois par jour, parce que après quelques heures elle devient rassise. Dure et sèche. Elle est une vrai belle de jour, ou bien belle d’après-midi.
Je me souviens que quand j’était à Paris (en 1969, oui oui, je sais, ça fait plus qu’un demi- siècle) ma hôtesse racontait à une amie q’elle avait essayé une nouveauté, le pain suédoise. Elle était complètement surprise que on pouvait manger ce pain plusieurs jours après de l’avoir acheté. Une chose comme ça était inouïe!
Quand il se lève, après un bon repas bien arrosé hier soir, le vrai français trouve dans la cuisine des morceaux de baguette qui restent de hier. Immangeable. Il ne lui reste plus que de les tramper dans son café pour de les mastiquer. Á l’epoque il y avait bien sur de croissants et des tartines, mais le français simple n’avait pas cet luxe. Alors, le petit dejeuner français classique était de veille baguette trampée dans le café. Et cette tradition survive.
Alors, si un jour le matin vous voyez dans un restaurant dans votre pays une personne qui a commandé un petit dejeuner, et qui verse son café sur ses œufs au plat et saucissons frites, ce pouvait être un vrai français traditionalist.
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Drei kurze Geschichte
Ich hatte gedacht, dass dieser Mann auf der Straße der Vater eines meinen Mitarbeiters war. Ich bin zu ihm nahegestanden und habe sogar Wie gehst es Ihnen gefragt, aber dann habe ich bemerkt, dass er es nicht ist. Ich habe ins Fettnäpfchen getreten.
Alice wollte sich ein gebrauchtes Kleid kaufen, um zur Hochzeit ihrer Tochter zu gehen. Nicht weil sie das Geld nicht ausgeben wollte, sondern weil sie es nicht hatte. Ihre Tochter war sehr wütend, als sie davon gewusst hätte. Sie hat dann nach einem neuen Kleid, das nicht so teuer ist, zusammen gesucht.
Diese Brücke sieht nicht sehr stabil aus. Ich bin nie zuvor eine Brücke aus Holz uns Seile über einem Fluss durchgegangen und ich habe auch keine Lust dazu, heute oder wann auch immer es zu tun.
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March 26, 2021
Apprendre une Nouvelle Langue
En repensant à mon approche du français au début, je crois que je m'y suis mis mal. Je parlais le français uniquement en classe au lycée, et je n'ai rien fait en dehors de la classe: ni regarder les films en français, ni lire les romans. J'étais sans but! Ce n'est lorsque j'ai étudié à l'étranger en France à l'université et j'ai habité avec une famille d'accueil que j'ai vraiment appris comment de parler le français dans une manière utile. Si j'avais su que parler souvent est le meilleur moyen d'apprendre une langue, j'aurais commencé à parler avec les autres plus tôt. Mais à cause de cela, j'ai appris quelques astuces pour apprendre des langues:
- parler souvent
- faire des fiches pour mémoriser les mots et les temps des verbes
- regarder votre séries Netflix préférées dans votre langue cible
- prendre des cours sur Lingoda.com
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March 25, 2021
¿Qué tengo que hacer hoy?
Me levanto en la mañana y preparo el desayuno. Después desayuno, entonces empienzo trabajar en la computadora con mis clientes. Hablaría con un o dos personas antes me paro.
Me preparo para el trabajo primero y traigo algo de comer para el almuerzo. Pero hoy, no está buen día. Mi carro no encendería y no sé por qué. He tenido que llamar por un Uber para me ir al trabajo.
March 25, 2021
Die Reise
Heute will ich meine Reise zum Strand zählen. Das Wochenende letzte hat ich mit meinen Freunden nach Mallorca gefahren, wir kommen den Freitag um 20:00 Uhr an, alle waren wir sehr glücklich. Nächste Morgen haben wir zum Strand gegangen , der ist sehr schön und sein Wasser ist super durchsichtig, dann Am Abend haben wir der Diskothek gegangen, dann wir habe den Hamburger gegessen zuletzt gehen Fuß nacht Haus.
Der Sonntag gingen wir wieder zum Strand , hier habe ich schnorchelte gekonnt , dann ich aß ein Oktopus ins Restaurant , der Oktopus war sehr lecker. Am Abend spazierte wir den Platz und uns fotografieren uns mit dem Strand.
Leider fuhr wir Montag früh zurück nach Berlin. Ich vermisse der Strand und Mallorca :(