五月十二号的第二篇日记

可是我不想用“去看”，因为我认为“去看你父母“是不客气的说法（we don't use the future tense in this content  ）。所以我说”探望“。 我大度的 （?I can't understand why you say your friend is generous ? so I can't choose the right words for you）朋友告诉我探望一般用于病人，老人。 因为我试图着念快点，所以我只念了”于“。现在我还是不明白”于“的意思。我想说的是”由于“。（于 means on , at in and etc ,由于 means because, same as 因为 ） 再说用外语聊天时，可以轻松将自己的意思带到句子里。 如此我想我的爸爸是病人和老人，我以为我的朋友的意思是他父母回老家是因为他们不健康，很老。 所以我以为他说的是他需要立刻处理的事情，例如，为某个必须接送孩子去幼儿园难题寻找解决措施，即使这个周他可以靠休假解决。 所以我说了这些。 他说是他父母已经回来了的。

But I didn't want to use 去看. For some reason I thought it would be impolite. So I said 探望. My generous friend told me that 探望 was used for visiting the sick or the elderly. But I was trying to read quickly and I just saw 于 and I'm not completely clear on the meaning and use of 于。 I think maybe I thought 由于. Moreover, when having a conversation in a foreign language, its easy to bring one's own meaning into it. In this way, I thought about my own father and his being sick and elderly, and I thought my friend was saying that his parents were returning home because they were not healthy and were very old. So I thought he was talking about practical matters that he had to deal with now, for instance, finding a solution to who would take his son to kindergarten, even if he had a solution for that this week by his taking vacation. So I said as much. Then he said that his parents had already returned.

我真的尴尬了。我试图讲了个笑话。我说”也许我花很多时间去了解，甚至是你解释以后，他们去和回来了“ 可是我不知道我的朋友是否觉得好笑。

I was so embarrassed, I tried to make a joke. I said "Probably it took me so long to understand, that while you were explaining, they went and came back." But I don't know if my friend thought it was funny.

别的朋友和我一样晕。 再说有时最单间句子最难懂。 很少的词且没有语境，彻底晕。

With other friends, I have similar confusions. Moreover, sometimes the simplest sentences are the most difficult to understand. A few words with no context, thoroughly confusing.

昨天是一直不挺好。 我的模拟测试做的并不好。我降下了十点。 再说以前我教过自己怎么做网页图表，并且我做了关于我的考试进步的表图。 所以当我做昨天测试真的不好的时候，我感到特别笨。

Yesterday was a generally lousy day. I also did poorly on my practice test. I dropped ten points. Moreover, before I took it, I taught myself how to make website graphs and made a graph of my progress. So when I did badly, I felt extra stupid.