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The way you study english grammar - a question to the honorable audience
My wish is to be able to express myself and convey thoughts in a language that is plane but not primitive. Thus some knowledge of grammar is necessary.
At the current level (B2) I've stumbled upon the necessity to organize my studying process in a way that makes it precise and less time wasting.
At the beginning of weighing up the ideas I was thinking of just reviewing grammar rules randomly and building up the knowledge as a puzzle. Piece after the piece. But this approach can lead to spending time uselessly on familiar topics.
Also in a grammar book I've read a notice from the author not to read it straight from the beginning to the end.
Now I'm thinking about doing random grammar tests and reviewing only topics I have problems with in a test.
It would be hugely appreciated if share your ideas with me.
Sincerely, yours.
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Sorts of Truth
Truth, Untruth and Anti-Truth
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A time to ask for help
“In the past I didn’t know how to ask for help because a thought it was going to picture me as a one who had failed in life completely. Thus it would uncover my complete weakness. Now I can admit it and ask for help.”
“Is it possible to ask for help before you feel like you’ve ruined your life?”
“I didn’t think about this way…”.
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Shame
(feel free to suggest any corrections)
This text is a voluntary translation of the text written by Ilya Latipov.
Shame is the most difficult and hardly bearable feeling. Sometimes we want to avoid facing shame so eagerly. Finding out that we are ashamed often pushes as to the idea that it’s forbidden to be embarrassed, confused and awkward. A confident person with normal self-esteem and healthy mindset has no reason to be in ashamed under any circumstances. That idea pushes a person to the feeling of shame for being in shame. The feeling becomes stronger when discovered by someone else.
The truth is that it’s just natural. It’s natural human condition – to be confused and awkward, frozen in shame, feel isolated, silly, feel like don’t belong the others. It’s not bad, not good. But it’s natural and inevitable. It’s natural to feel ashamed and embarrassed when fail in some public activity (presentation, lecture, concert, etc.). It leads to the urgent natural need to disguise the shame and embarrassment. It happens often when the ashamed person lacks support from other people and has no inner strength.
It’s natural to uncover the shame in front of others even when the reason for the shame seems insignificant and negligible.
The feeling of shame doesn’t uncover human silliness. It says that some one is urgently lucking presence of some one else who can help to accept human fragility and weakness.
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A camel and a way.
A camel was asked to choose between going uphill and downhill.
“Can’t I choose a horizontal way?”, the camel replied.
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What is Self?
There is a wide range of different concepts describing the mining of the word “self” or “me/I” or “myself”.
The one I like most is a theory that describes “self” as a sum of the next three things:
- doings – the things someone is doing;
- people – the people someone is communicating with;
- thoughts – the things someone is thinking about.
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Why do we love sometimes things from the past?
A short parable has a hint to the explanation.
A man was asked to tell about the period of his life he likes most.
“When J. Stalin was the ruler of the USSR” – the men replied immediately.
“Because I was young and loved by women” – he added then.
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A question to the honorable audience.
I'm going to get back to english language practice after a three years break.
Need advice on a good plain grammar book.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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The best software for online calls or how to fix bad connection
Hi, everyone. I usually use Skype for talking to my online teachers. But sometimes the connection becomes so terrible and frustrating that it sounds like an old and obsolete radio receiver. I would appreciate any suggestions from the honorable audience about some alternatives to Skype. Please share your positive experience of fixing the problem of bad connection and using some other software apart Skype.
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The easiest way to get in to Pyongyang
Hi everyone here! I would appreciate any corrections and help:)
Several days ago I walked around the downtown of Khabarovsk – the capital of the Far East of Russia. It was late evening but the weather was comfortable and warm enough. People around me were strolling and enjoying fresh air and chilling gentle wind.
By the time I was walking from the Amurskiy Boulevard on the halfway towards Lenin Street I saw a Korean café where I’d been once before. I’d been there once in order to try their kuksi soup – one of my favorite dishes of Asian cuisine. The café was going to close and some people were standing outside. They looked like Asians, but they definitely were neither Chinese nor Japanese. “Based on cuisine they must be Koreans?” I thought. But where they were from? What Korea? Somehow that question has become more actual since recent news about possible meeting of Donald Trump and Rocket Kim. I decided
to glance at the signboard to recall the name of the cafe and when I looked at it I found out that the name was Pyongyang. Moreover something strange was on the signboard – it was purple with white letters and two red flags with narrow stripes of blue and white color were on the both sides of the signboard. Something a bit communist was in those flags – red five-pointed stars on each flag. I frowned and tried to recall the country which Pyongyang was the capital of. It was suspicious. I failed and used Google.
The discovery was shocking and fascinating at the same time. At that moment I was standing right in front of the café named after the capital of Great and Horrible North Korea! At the centre of the capital of the Far East of Russia! And people standing nearby the café probably were from North Korea! The discovery was too overwhelming to my susceptible mind since there have been so many news around North Korea, nuclear deals, meetings of presidents and other historical events.
I’ve been aware of the fact that some people from North Korea had been working in the Far East and Siberian areas of Russia, mostly in timber cutting and repair of apartments giving away the most part of their salary to their bosses allegedly for their country’s needs. Moreover workers from North Korea once made repairs at the apartment building where I’m living in now. And we even exchanged a few words in Russian. However to name a café after the capital of the country which has become a world threat was a very brave and to a certain extent exotic act! Maybe it was another reminder of the fact that people of North Korea are just the same like people from all over the world?
By the way visitors testimonials in the Internet state that the staff of the café almost can’t speak Russian. So if you ever decide to visit “Pyongyang” here is the address: Russia, Khabarovsk, Volochaevskaya street, 124.
Several days ago I walked around the downtown of Khabarovsk – the capital of the Far East of Russia. It was late evening but the weather was comfortable and warm enough. People around me were strolling and enjoying fresh air and chilling gentle wind.
By the time I was walking from the Amurskiy Boulevard on the halfway towards Lenin Street I saw a Korean café where I’d been once before. I’d been there once in order to try their kuksi soup – one of my favorite dishes of Asian cuisine. The café was going to close and some people were standing outside. They looked like Asians, but they definitely were neither Chinese nor Japanese. “Based on cuisine they must be Koreans?” I thought. But where they were from? What Korea? Somehow that question has become more actual since recent news about possible meeting of Donald Trump and Rocket Kim. I decided
to glance at the signboard to recall the name of the cafe and when I looked at it I found out that the name was Pyongyang. Moreover something strange was on the signboard – it was purple with white letters and two red flags with narrow stripes of blue and white color were on the both sides of the signboard. Something a bit communist was in those flags – red five-pointed stars on each flag. I frowned and tried to recall the country which Pyongyang was the capital of. It was suspicious. I failed and used Google.
The discovery was shocking and fascinating at the same time. At that moment I was standing right in front of the café named after the capital of Great and Horrible North Korea! At the centre of the capital of the Far East of Russia! And people standing nearby the café probably were from North Korea! The discovery was too overwhelming to my susceptible mind since there have been so many news around North Korea, nuclear deals, meetings of presidents and other historical events.
I’ve been aware of the fact that some people from North Korea had been working in the Far East and Siberian areas of Russia, mostly in timber cutting and repair of apartments giving away the most part of their salary to their bosses allegedly for their country’s needs. Moreover workers from North Korea once made repairs at the apartment building where I’m living in now. And we even exchanged a few words in Russian. However to name a café after the capital of the country which has become a world threat was a very brave and to a certain extent exotic act! Maybe it was another reminder of the fact that people of North Korea are just the same like people from all over the world?
By the way visitors testimonials in the Internet state that the staff of the café almost can’t speak Russian. So if you ever decide to visit “Pyongyang” here is the address: Russia, Khabarovsk, Volochaevskaya street, 124.
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