Stromae

Paul Van Haver is a musician for his time with the charts, headlines and Youtube clicks to prove it. His stage name is Stromae. He rose to fame with a single called "Alors on Dance," which reached number 1 on the chart in 19 countries.

His music is often playful but almost always cut tough with a darker strain... His most popular songs of the moment are "Formidable,""Papaoutai" and "avf." 

His music is ambiently morose, with an eclecticism that has earned him critical praise. He's very famous throughout the world. He draws inspiration from rap and hip hop, electro, congolese rumba, etc.

His mother is a Flemish Belgian and his father is a Rwandan Architect. He was absent for Stromae's childhood and he was killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Stromae has the unimposing physique of a high jumper, with hunched schoulders and a marionette's jumbly, longs limbs.

The official "Formidable" video has been watched more than 32 million times. His most recent album "Racine Carrée" has sold nearly 400 000 copies in France since its release in late August.

<em>Really good! </em>

English class

Tonight, I took my fourth English class with David. It's always difficult to speak, to hear correctly, even if my concentration is very strong. We have worked with "must, have to, had to, should, should have," and we have spoken about a lot of things. I think that I should have worked before, but even if there is still enormously to a lot of work to do, it's never too late to make well improve, so I prefer to make do my homework right away.

Thank you very much for any corrections
Didier

<em>This is well written! Here is just one thing I noticed: it only matters in writing, but generally in English the comma (,) goes at the very end of the sentence it's attached to, then a space, then the next sentence starts; not at the beginning of the next sentence. For example:  to speak, to hear correctly (correct)      VS      to speak ,to hear correctly (incorrect)</em>

<em>Speaking and listening are the hardest parts. I am learning French and have the same problems! You're doing very well, good luck!</em>

How was your day ?

So, I'm going to use this to write anything that comes through my mind :) For example, today, when I was in class, I couldn't focus on the lesson because of the rain that was pouring outside. I was literally fascinated by this big storm, the wind, the lightning, every second the view changed just in front of me. This weather is gorgeous, but I prefer snow ! I mean, well, we are in December so it would have been awesome that for the first day of the month, we to wake up with snow everywhere!! So that happened my first hour of class. Then, when I finally listened to what my teacher was saying, he was talking about procrastination. We talked about that for like 20min (well, I stopped listening because I was bored) then we started talking about physics for 4 hours ! In the afternoon I went to the hospital for a blood donation and then I went to work for another 4hours. That's my usually day, working, thinking a lot about anything but class or work, a lot of laughing before/during/after high school! How was your day ? Boring ? Awesome ? Exiting ?

<em>This is really good, everything makes sense - just a couple of little changes. :)</em>

WiFi in subway

I live in Moscow and today I have heard some great news. Starting today there is free WiFi all over the Moscow subway, in all subway trains, on all subway lines! Before we had free WiFi just on a couple of lines but today it is everywhere.
Usually cell phones does not work well underground so it is very convenient to have good Internet access through WiFi while you are riding the subway. Now I can learn English and do other useful things while I am on the subway. And long rides on subway will not be so boring.

<em>Really well written - just a couple of small changes!</em>

Vapors

Humor is a good character trait to have when we (have to)/must speak to unknown people. I often look for a smile when I engage in a conversation. Between a smile's shadow, Between the shadows of a smile, there's the window of loneliness. Or, between the shadows of a kiss, there's the windows of loneliness. If you're nostalgic, both hypotheses are correct. So, an enigmatic entry again! And filled with mistakes probably.

Note ; you can read above the translation of one of the russian entry I made earlier in the russian section, and it was apparently not very well written. I wonder if my english translation of that broken entry, wich was coming from my french-thinking mind (there's at least 2 cases of « lost in translation » here, one above another) will be more understandable.

<em>Interesting about the double-translation! It is mostly readable, almost sounds like a poem to me. Only thing to really note is that when using "between" the thing you are referring to must usually be plural, so for example either "Between a smile's shadows" or "Between the shadows of a smile" would be correct. </em>