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My day with English. 1. day
Today is Saturday, 26th of January. I started at 3 p.m. with my English exercises. First I took the list with the irregular verbs which has three columns: for Infinitive, Past Indefinite und Past Participle forms for each verbs. There are about 90 verbs. I know three forms from some of these verbs but not all.
I opened my favorite dictionary and started to find the transcriptions for each form of the verbs. I think the lerning words without transcription can lead to mistakes in the pronunciation. We know that a correct pronunciation is very important if you speak English. This work was laborius:::)) and took min two hours time, because I wanted to listened both versions of the pronunciation - British and American. In some cases they were the same, but in another cases they were total different. In this situation I desided to choose the version which was easyer to pronounce for me. You can think that it calls crazy:)) May be...
After my 50th word the dictionary asked me are you a bot and required to make a special test - I have to type some criss-cross written words and numbers. It was funny. I enjoyed it.
But I checked the transcription for all words in the list.
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my first day with italki, 12.07.12
Today I read an article. This article is entitled “Culture shock”. It is about the culture differences between English and Russian people. The English woman Miranda, who is married the Russian man Alexander, tells in the article the Russians don’t say “please” and “thanks”, if they ask somebody for something. She wright that in Russian it was fine- you don’t have to add any polite words. She thinks that Russians are much more directly, because her mother-In-law told her that her soup needed more flavouring. And Russians don’t like smile.
But she makes all these conclusions without experience and known the Russian people.
In the all country of the world you can see people without good manners.
Certainly you can find the Russian version of “Would you mind passing me the salt, please?” just in the classic literature of 19th century. Today nobody says those words. But if someone doesn’t say “please” when he asks somebody for something and “thanks” when receives something, this person is impolite and has bad manners.
I can’t imagine say for example to my husband or my mother or somebody else “pour me some tea without “please” and “thanks”. And just make a noise like a grunt when I receive it. )) This is a real cultural shock!
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