Some young adults want independence from their parents as soon as possible. Other young adults prefers to live with their families for a longer time. Which of these situation do you think is better? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.Outline:Independence is a common quality that a capable person should bear. As far as I am concerned, being independent earlier is better ...
Today I go to an English class which is given by a native speaker . In the class, we are asked to write an essay in disscusion groups after he read a story to us.We four are responsiible for one part seperatly and my work is to summarize the story and copy the whole essay to a single paper.well, I have talked about the context, and what I want to say is that in the essay I u...
Telll an holiday in your country and tell how people celebrate it. The winter solstice is a very important solar term in China, and it is also a traditional festvial. As far as in the Spring and Autumn period 2500 years ago, ancestors adopted some kind of methods to determin the 24 solar term and the winter solstice is the first to be fixed, roughly around 22-23 December in lunar celender. Th...
参考信息：http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/Staff/brownjulie/important.htmlMusic is so common in our ordinary life that we sometimes nearly failed to realize how important it is and why. If you are asked the following question: “Why is music important in your life, and to the world as a whole?” What will you think of? Here is just a sampling of the wonderful ...
...d the remainder Italian!There was no nominative-genitive-dative-accusative in Italian. Not a trace, except in a few pronouns which I knew I could easily take prisoner because we had the same thing in English (me is the accusative of I). Italian verbs did misbehave a little, but not to the psychedelic extent of Latin verbs. And Italian verbs were a lot easier to look at.I bought Hugo’s book a...
...t, I understood entire phrases from it from my university Russian. I became aware of “families” of foreign languages, something that doesn’t occur automatically to Americans because English doesn’t resemble its cousins very closely. It’s something of a black sheep in the Germanic language family. They say the closest language to English is Dutch. Dutch is about as clo...
... told me to go to Pieck’s Inn. At Pieck’s Inn the bartender said, “Room nineteen.” The fact that I was getting all this in German without looking around for somebody who spoke English was a convenience, but that’s not what I mean by the power of another language. That CAMe next.I went upstairs to room nineteen and knocked on the door. “Who’s there?” ...
...ng as many words and phrases as I could from each and writing them down.The U.S. Air Force gave its Luitpol barracks over to the Hungarians, who promptly plastered their own signs right on top of the English signs on all the doors. The door that once said “Doctor” suddenly said “Orvos.” The door that once said “Clothing” suddenly said “Ruha.” And so ...
...ldquo;he does” and not “he do.” How does he know? “He do” just doesn’t sound right.That’s all! And that’s enough!Years later he will be taught that the English verb in the third person singular of the present tense adds an s or es to the infinitive form, which serves uninflected for all other persons singular and plural.You don’t have to know g...
How to Learn Any Language 9 Now let the adult mind enter and make peace. Obviously, no language tries to be hard just to keep you out. Whatever rules you find perplexing in your target language, that language CAMe by them naturally and organically. Grammar does change, but so slowly you’ll never have to worry about it. Approach the grammar with a smile and your hand extended. That which you ...
...igh school and college. We’ll find all the excitement – reading and conversation – elsewhere. Grammar is all you need from this one.DICTIONARYMost language dictionaries are two way: English-French (or whatever) and French-English. Make sure the dictionary you buy at least lives up to that. (I have walked out of bookstores with dictionaries I assumed were two way that turned out t...
... cassettes for the study of foreign languages. We’ll call them flat single rep, flat double rep, formatted, and cultural.The flat single rep cassettes, usually the least expensive, give you the English word or phrase followed by the foreign equivalent uttered only one time.The flat double rep cassettes are the same, except the foreign phrase is repeated twice. (When you begin making your own...
How to Learn Any Language 14 The Multiple Track AttackSo is there really a magic way to make learning a foreign language painless?Yes and no. We have some magic, all right, tricks and tactics that literally shovel the language into your head, as opposed to your high school Spanish class that teaspooned it in or didn’t bother getting it in at all. The system, however, won’t work u...
...in the dictionary spelled exactly the way it is in your newspaper (from now on we’ll say “text” – it could be a magazine or even a book). Take a blank flash card and write the English on one side; then flip it over and write the foreign word on the other. Write in block letters so your flash cards will always be easy to read. I hesitate to labour the procedure for making yo...
...em with you at all times. Don’t mix them up with the question cards. Keep them separate. The cards with the dictionary forms of the foreign words from the text you didn’t know, with their English equivalents on the reverse side, are the beginning of your collection of linguistic growth protein.Advance!Now you’re ready for paragraph two. Between paragraphs one and two, you’v...
...ou can.When you’re ready – actually, long before you’re ready – challenge the cassette to a duel. Start at the beginning and see how many words and phrases you know. After the English, stop the cassette recorder with the pause button and ask yourself, “Do I know it in the target language? Do I almost know it? Do I know any part of it – how the word or phrase beg...
...country whose language you’re learning and, like a rookie cop about to make his first collar, you risked your ego by attempting a greeting. He laughed appreciatively – and answered you in English.Hidden moments will heal your deficiencies soon enough, but first let’s talk about the unhidden moments, the study time you’ve arranged to commit to your endeavour. This book is wr...
... or shower, wash dishes, and so on through all the moments when those less ambitious turn on the radio or TV. Don’t forget, passive listening is better than nothing, but not by much! Engage the English mentally and try to beat the voice on the cassette to the foreign word.“Harnessing hidden moments” is a three word course in language learning all by itself. It offers a side benef...
...; (LI-ar). Easy. The man is rapidly winning the woman’s heart in the movie, but you don’t wish him well because he’s such a lajar!“Horse” in Russian, transliterated into English script, is lo-shod, pronounced almost exactly like LAW-shod. You try to bring your own horse with you into the Soviet Union, but at the border the Soviet customs officer tells you Sorry, he&rs...
...ine, and neuter nouns. The Scandinavian languages call their two noun genders “common” and “neuter,” as does Dutch. Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Hungarian, and Finnish, like English, have no noun genders.How do we remember whether the French noun for “train,” also spelled train, is le train (masculine) or la train (feminine)? It happens to be masculine, le tra...
How to Learn Any Language 28 Commit Language LarcenyThere are interesting lessons coiled up inside ordinary greetings in different languages.The Estonian greeting Kuidas (käsi käib) literally means “How does your hand walk?” An old Chinese greeting is Chr bao le, mei lo? which means, “Have you had food yet?” – no small achievement in the China of some period...
...er of another language. If your driver is Haitian, lean forward and say (phonetically), “Sa (rhymes with “ma”) pass (“pasta” without the “ta”) SAY (as in the English “say”), pa-PA (“papa,” but accented on the last syllable). Sort those sounds out and try it. “Sa paSAY paPA?” It means something like the French Comment &cc...
...e is a prince of in order to show respect, as long as you’re sure he’s a real prince. Likewise, with Anna Sosenko doing the yelling, everybody was convinced I could bring Ibsen to life in...
...er Romance languages.Hindi and Urdu, the principal languages of India and Pakistan, are virtually the same spoken language.Dutch is far more than the language of a tiny nation between Germany and the English Channel. It’s almost identical to Flemish, which along with French is one of the two principal languages of Belgium. Dutch is the foundation of Afrikaans, which along with English is a m...
...above, or most of it? If so, you don’t need this chapter, though some of it may come as a welcome refresher. This chapter is offered as catch-up for all of you who didn’t pay attention in English class. Now you want to learn another language and you realise suddenly that your teacher was right, you were wrong, and here you are unable to understand the English you need to take command o...
How to Learn Any Language 36NOUNA noun is a person, place, or thing – either a tangible thing, like a block of ice or a head of cattle or your mother in law, or an intangible thing, like a concept or an emotion.PRONOUNThe dictionary tells us that pronouns are words that serve as substitutes for nouns. If that’s confusing, ignore it and let’s get right down to the pronouns. In Eng...
How to Learn Any Language 38NOUN CASESJust as ice, water, and steam are merely different forms of the same thing, I, me, my, and mine are merely different forms of the same word. You pick the form according to what CASE you need. (Yes! You already do this in English.) Let’s advance on case now and destroy its mystery before it destroys your enthusiasm.Noun (and pronoun) cases turn more peopl...
...ips among nouns; they often indicate position or direction, and they are often short words: to, at, by, for, with, from, toward, on, over, behind, between, etc.DEFINITE ARTICLEThe definite article in English is the word the.INDEFINITE ARTICLEThe indefinite article in English is the word a or an. English has both the definite and indefinite article. Some other languages also have both. Some have on...
How to Learn Any Language 40 FORMS OF ADDRESSEnglish is deceptively easy in forms of address. Everybody in second person singular and plural is you. Your spouse is you. Your four year old child is you. Your interior decorator is you. The President of the United States is you. Your cocker spaniel is you. In almost every other language, speakers differentiate, sometimes sharply, between the FAMILIAR...
...rner. Learn to catch yourself several times a day, indoors or outdoors, and look around. What are the first five things you see that you don’t know how to say in your target language? Write the English down on a blank flash card and fill in the target language words when you get home to your dictionary.At least once a day pretend you’re a United Nations interpreter simultaneously inter...
...l your own rules. It’s painless. It’s fun. It’s character building. And it rushes you forward to quicker results.Profanity and VulgarityForget it. Whoever uses foul language even in English among people he doesn’t know well loses standing. When you go out of your way to use bad language in a foreign language, it’s much worse.One night in a blockhouse on the Austrian s...
How to Learn Any Language 43 To Speak or Not to SpeakBe neither too boorish nor too reticent with your new knowledge. Don’t go barrelling in with scant command of a language if doing so causes ungainly delays in a busy restaurant. Neither should you let shyness deny you a good opportunity to send a few volleys of conversation across the net.Don’t be like the beginner who took his party...
How to Learn Any Language 44The Language ClubIn 1984 some of us language lovers decided that, although there were plenty of places in New York to learn foreign languages, there were no places to go to practice foreign languages.Sure, you can let fly a greeting in Italian and a request for red pepper at the pizzaria and practice similar performances at even the busiest French restaurant, but there ...
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...ages of the world with comments on their prevalence, their usefulness, the difficulty or ease with which each may be learned, and special characteristics the potential learner should know.FrenchAfter English, French is the world’s most popular second language. Several other languages are spoken by more people: Chinese, English, Hindustani (the spoken form of Hindi and Urdu), Russian, Spanish...
...and, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia – in fact all the way from Germany’s eastern border with Poland as far east as Moscow and from the Baltic Sea in the north clear down to the Mediterranean. English may edge German out by the time of the next scientific poll in Eastern Europe, but that leaves a tremendous number of German speakers across Europe and elsewhere. Germany’s reunification...
...ry of Chinese. Don’t fear that, because there’s a middle language, you’re being called upon to learn two languages to acquire just one! It’s a shortcut. The middle language is English – the way a Chinese person would say it if all he could do were to come up with the English words literally and nothing more. Thus, “Do you have my pencil?” in middle languag...
.... But even if your Japanese never reaches a level of proficiency enabling you to do business in Japanese, your Japanese host and associates will appreciate your efforts. They, after all, had to learn English. You did not have to learn Japanese. Yet.ArabicArabic is elusive, guttural, and rewarding. Arabic script, written from right to left, writes each letter differently depending upon whether it o...
... less so with Danish. A Norwegian can deal comfortably with both Swedish and Danish.The Scandinavian languages are relatively easy for Americans to learn. They’re Germanic languages, related to English, but vastly easier to learn than German. The verbs don’t change for person and number, and only slightly for tense. The word order follows English obligingly most of the way. Like Dutch,...
How to Learn Any Language 52IndonesianIndonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Consisting of hundreds of islands spread out over a South Pacific area the size of the United States, Indonesia is easily the largest country in the world about which the most other people in the world know the least. With enough mineral wealth in the ground to make it an economic superpower, Indonesi...
How to Learn Any Language 53EnglishThe mere fact that you’re reading these words right now calls for self congratulations. It means you’re fluent in the winner, the international language, the number one language of all time!When a Soviet plane approaches the airport in China, the pilot and the control tower don’t speak Russian to each other. They don’t speak Chinese. They ...
小时侯，把English读为"应给利息"的同学当了行长；读为"阴沟里洗"的成了小菜贩子；读为"因果联系"的成了哲学家；读为"硬改历史"的成了政治家；读为"英国里去"的成了海外华侨；而我自小读成了"应该累死"结果成了普通职员......工作辛苦了。 祝大家笑口常开，天天快乐！！ ...
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. 如果你想别人快乐，要有同情心，如果你自己想快乐，也要有同情心！Success is doing the same right thing over and over again until you become excellent at it.成功就是重复做同一件正确的事，直至通向卓越。One of the best ways to learn American English is to listen to VOA and it’s Special English学美国英语最好办法之一就是收听《美国之音》和它的慢速英语节目Reading will&n...
Today I joined an English lecture, which is given by Erica, a beautiful American lady,who has been teachiing English for ten years.Erica’s pronouncation is wonderful, which impressed me deeply. I also attained many inspirations from her lecture about how to impove reading, listening, writting and speaking. For example, she stressed practice much, and pointed out that pure reading b...
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企业人力资源管理师（二级）专业词汇表序号认知词汇中译词意1360-degree feedback process360度反馈过程2Absence缺席3Acceptability可接受性4Achievement tests成就测试5Action plan行动计划6Accountability有责任7Adolescent青少年8Adverse impact负面影响9Aggressive有闯劲的，敢做敢为的10Allowance津贴，补助11Ambition野心，雄心12Analytic approach分析法13Announcement公告14Applicant求职者15Application申请16Appraisal评价,评估17Appoint任命18Arbitrary仲裁19Assessment center评价中心20Attitude awareness and change progr...
很晚了，虽然项目组的事情多，但是我不想做了，突然想到好久没有碰过英语了。温习温习。◆break off 折断～；断绝Don't break that branch off.别把那根树枝折断。They broke off their engagement.他们解除了婚约。◆on board 在(飞机、船、车)上The jet plane had 500 passengers on board.这架喷射客机上有500名乘客。They went on board a ship for New York.他们搭船前往纽约。◆blow out 吹熄～；烧断He blew out the candles on the cake.他吹熄了蛋糕上的蜡烛。The fuse blew out and the house was in darkness.保险丝烧...
