Joke:

What do you call someone who speaks three languages? A Trilingual.

What do you call someone who speaks two languages? A Bilingual.

What do you call someone who speaks one language? An American.

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The truth is that many people tend NOT to take the trouble to learn the language of the countries that they are visiting, although once on the ground (meaning when they are in the foregin country), they may be inspired to learn the basics. So I don't think your Spanish-looking friends are conducting an experiment :)

 

"Good Morning" rather than Evening because "Good Morning" is used much more frequently than Afternoon/Evening. "Good Morning" is commonly used as an social ice-breaker or friendly greeting. Good Afternoon/Evening is mostly only used in formal situations, like when you want/need to make a good impression on a customer/boss/associate. Good Night is usually synonymous with Good Bye, and it usually means the speaker is signalling they are ready to call it a day (i.e. leave).

An unforgettable experience today

When it wasAt about 9 o`clock in the evening, my roommate received a call and was informed that one of my classmates disappeared. He left a tipnote about life and death. All of us were so worried and guessed there werewas something wrong with him and he might be in dangerous now. [dangerous => a danger to <em>others</em>]
Soon we all went out to look for him. Since our school was near the Qiantang river, some of us went to the side of the river. I had a bicycle, so I rode it along the river. There were no lights there and the river was really dark. I shouted his name but no one answered. After a long ride, I could still could not find him. Fortunately, when I was about to ride in the opposite direction, my roommate called me and told me he washad been found. I was about to cry when I heard this news. On the way I returnedback to my dormitory, I realized that the wind was really cold and the darkness was definitely horrible.
In fact, it was a misunderstanding. He was studying in the self-study room and the tipnote was just nothing. He just wrote down some words from the web. Anyway, he is safe now and itthat is the best news.

The course caters to Adult Beginners. We have trilingual teachers who will explain key grammar concepts and sentence construction rules in English, French or German. We strive to make beginning students feel completely at ease in this class.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I want to (wanna = colloqial) learn english. I can speak english, but i want to improve (ammend = change) my english. I am in the 9th grade at a grammar school in germany. I want to improve my english because one day I want to study and live in the USA.
I am from Germany and I live in Hamburg (Hamburg is a city in Germany, not a nearby city to Gerbany). I want to make friends from North America, espicially from the USA. I love the series Pretty Little Liars -- maybe you are a big fan from that series too, then you can contact me here. I watch it in english, but I don't understand everything; this is another reason too why I want to improve my english, I want understand everything that they are talking about. I read the book Pretty Little Liars, but it's really hard to understand it, because there are so many words I've never seen at school. But i look up the words.
I am a normal teenager from germany. :) And I am a guy (boy = very young).
Please contact me if you are from the USA, or love Pretty Little Liars.

I recommend the following strategy:
1. Study the new set of flashcards. Trace out each character with your finger and arm => exaggerated motion to recruit muscle/motor-memory. App will show correct stroke order.
2. Close your eyes, mouth the word, trace out the characters. Then, without opening the eyes, mentally recall and visualize the building-blocks of each character -- some words are are constructed left-to-right, others top-to-bottom. This is very important after you've learnt >~100 characters ... you'll notice repeating radical patterns.
3. Peruse the example sentences.
4. Work through the entire list, set it aside. Lying in bed at bedtime, try to recall the words and characters, again silently mouthing and using graphical visualization (no motor learning in consideration of other nocturnal partners!)
5. The next day, click "Start Training". During each phase of testing, verbally enunciate each word aloud, thus recruiting all of audio+visual+motor-memory.