[Writing Practice]-persuasive Are you still eating fast food to gain extra calories every day? I recommend dumplings for those busy people who don't have enough time to spend on cooking. You can make yourself a plate of dumplings in minutes. First, you can make dumpling wrappers from both unleavened and leavened dough according to your favorite. Second, choose your delicious fillings vary from chicken, vegetable, eggs, seafood and others which matches your appetite. For fillings, the less calories the better. The last step is to put dumpling into boiling water for about ten minutes, then you can enjoy your dumplings. The more important, if you store dumplings in a fridge, the dumplings can be kept for more than one week. It means you can make enough dumplings for the whole week in the weekend and store them in a fridge. If you find your friend are still crying for junk food to destroy their health, don't be hesitate to share your dumplings with them.

[Writing practice]-informative Dumplings are very common in my country. There are two main reasons make dumplings welcome. First, according to my culture, eating dumplings means peace and wealth. In Spring Festival eve, eating dumplings with family members is a very old tradition lasting for hundred years. Second, dumplings are easily to make. The mandatory material is leavened dough using for dumpling wrappers. You can choose any other food for fillings according to your appetite. You can also choose to steam to fry your dumplings. In theory, there is no limit of variants of dumplings with different fillings and cook methods. If you travel in my country oneday, you fan find dumplings everywhere.

【Writing Practice】：Dumplings is my favorite food Dumplings is very common in my country. It is super easy to cook. Because it doesn't need a complex ingredient, so everyone can make dumplings anywhere. What you need to prepare is leaven dough and some other food that you like. Such as, pork, beef, eggs, and other vegetables. You can cook dumplings with only a pot or other simple container. For many long distance travelers, dumplings is their favorite food to take out. If you think dumplings only means cheap food in my country, might you have some misunderstandings. In luxury restaurant. dumplings can be very expensive. Why? Other than you need pay extra fee for services, might they will choose exclusive materials, such as expensive seafood.

[2] Five useful expressions from my reading a novel: 1. Ask for more It means having more requirements. e.g. It is not always a good idea of asking for more from your company. 2. Look blank Blank here means no emotions, no feelings. e.g. He looks blank after lost a lot of money on trade. 3. I am certain It means I am sure about my feelings e.g. I am certain I don't like moldy tofu. 4. out of place It means something is special, or not same as surrounded e.g. You look out ot place with this old-fashion outfit. 5. turn...into... It means change something, or make something new. e.g. To achieve more, you need to change your daily actions into habits.

Five useful expressions from my reading a novel: 1. One thing at a time. Means to deal with one thing before starting to do another. eg. There are so many problems, but let's take one thing at a time. 2. The last thing I want(need) is Means I don't want(need). eg. The last thing I want is another mouth to feed. 3. Turn a blind eye Means ignoring of undesirable information. eg. I never take a blind eye to my weakness. 4. Tricky topic Means some topic you don't want to talk about because the topic makes you uncomfortable. eg. Salary is a really tricky topic to talk about. 5. Not impossible, but slim Means it is very impossible. eg. It is very hard for me to finish this task in two days, not impossible, but slim.

Is this sentence correct? Below sentence is from a very formal finical report of my company. Do you think it is correct? Quarterly revenues up 6.3% year-over-year to EUR 233.4 million. If I wrote this sentence, I would like to insert "is" in it. Quarterly revenues IS up 6.3% year-over-year to EUR 233.4 million. Would you think my sentence is correct?

Confirmations will help you a lot in grasping English

Confirmations help me a lot in learning English. Recent I focused on vocabulary learning for various topics. For example, I learnt vocabulary words used in bedroom, in kitchen, in restaurant, in supermarkets, and so on. I found that it was really easy for me to grasp those new items in vocabulary. I wanted to knew why I had been struggled with vocabulary learning for years before that. There was just one thing different. I used pictures and videos to help me confirming those new vocabulary. For example, when I learnt vocabulary about bedroom, I studied with every details parts of those items in it by a picture. Then I searched relevant YouTube videos. It meant that I got two ways to confirm those new vocabulary words, images and sounds. 

My suggestion is learning vocabulary with both sounds and images. Not just reading vocabulary lists. One more important thing is that learning vocabulary systematically. For example, learning vocabulary words about supermarket can be divided into many sub-parts: Vocabulary words about food; vocabulary words about households; vocabulary about wines, etc. 

On conclusion:

1. Confirmed by sounds and imagines;

2. Learn systematically.

Sometimes I didn't know where to go when I want to take my English to next level. Then I found some new things to learn, those things that I didn't know. The challenges in learning process help me find out what I really need to improve immediately. 

One gold guide for my learning process: the more in details I know, the more confidence I will gain. 

Do you agree? Learning something new is not a real goal in language learning.

I am an intermediate English learner. I am always stuck in my language learning process. What makes me to achieve a higher level? Do I need to learn something new everyday? 

Based me experiences,  I suggest not to try to learn something new everyday, but to make things that you already knew perfect.  For example, instead of learning new vocabulary everyday, I prefer to be familiar with some grammar issues. 

How to learn as much as you can when you watch a video

As an English learner, I want to learn as quickly as possible. But the fact always hits me back. Knowing much in English always means so much you still not know. My great challenge is expressing things in details. For example, if I can tell other people how to poach eggs in very details steps without any nonverbal expressions, then I think I reach my goal. It is not easy for me to describe the process of poaching eggs. First, I am not familiar with the utensils used in this process. The second is that I don't know the related expressions used for describing the activities. After I've watched a tutorial about poaching eggs, I find that in this video, there are less new vocabulary words, instead there are many new expressions. Then how should we learn as much as we can from this video? Here is my experience. 

I watched this video many times. And I sorted the vocabulary words and expressions like this.

1. Equipments used in this video. Such as whisk, saute pan, slotted spoon, plate, paper towel, etc.

2. Materials used in this video. Such as salt, vinegar, butter, asparagus, etc.

3. Related expressions. For example, crack eggs, pour into, make a swirling vortex, dab eggs, strain eggs. heat eggs, darn eggs.

4. Other very relevant phrases or words. Such as egg white, yolk, over easy, hard-boiled, old eggs, fresh eggs. etc.

Then after I reviewed the above notes,  I found that I could express the process of poaching eggs in details.