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My dream
My dream is to be an astronaut. In my opinion there's no nothing is impossible but some people are telling tell me that I'm just dreaming and I won't be able to do it because it so very [1] difficult to be an astronaut. Sometimes their words affects me, but I always I remind myself that Allah is with me and He will help me to make my dream comes true. I'll do my best to prove those people that they're are (هذا مفهوم، وليس من الضروري) wrong.[1] Here you have two choices with a small difference in meaning:
a - very difficult to be an astronaut = very difficult, yet possible
b - too difficult to be an astronaut = so difficult that one cannot be an astronaut (that is, impossible)
I deduced you meant the first one
با التوفيق والله معك. :)
0 votedJuly 19, 20171- 1) Quite here is used to mean 'all the way'. It is a rhetoric question that can be translated as 'A fashion sense that old?'. Such a usage of 'quite' is fairly limited to the Central Americas and we generally do not apply it in formal usage. 2) This is not odd at all and is a valid response. 3)This is, again, not odd but we say " it was of no use". Include the 'of'. Also, other choices are 'it was of no avail', 'it was of no effect'.0 votedDecember 15, 20161
Here are two studies that directly correlate mass media and media in general to public opinion.
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60796/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_Anstead,%20N_Social%20media%20analysis_Anstead_Social%20media%20analysis_2015.pdf
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/mbaum/documents/BaumPotter_AnnualReview2008.pdf
I'd say since most teenagers are highly impressionable, portrayal of unnecessary violence and outright obscenity should be banned as a principle as such depictions mostly do not affect the core content in question and might leave a trail of teenagers exposed and indoctrinated such that some go on to view violence and objectification of women (in case of male teenagers) as something very commonplace and acceptable to their notion of society, slowly degrading the value of it as a whole.
I'd continue to include some literature, fine arts and video games too as sometimes these are also used as instruments to publish offensive and obscene articles under the guise of "artistic expressions".
0 votedDecember 15, 20160- Today I spent my day as always. I woke up at 7 a.m. in the morning. I couldn't get out of bed because it was cold in my room. Eventually, I got up at 8 a.m. As I have to be at work at 9:30.,I started putting my clothes on while having breakfast. While I did all these I was watching the movie "Love, Rosie" in order to understand English better. By the way, this movie is amazing; you should watch it someday.
When I looked at the clock, it was already 8:40. I took my computer and bag, and got out of my house. It takes 15 minutes to arrive to the bus stop. When I arrived there were many people who were waiting for a bus. Fortunately, most people were not waiting for my bus :D. In 10 minutes, the bus, I was waiting for, came. It took 30 minutes to get to my office. When I reached office, I realized that I wanted to eat something sweet. There is a small store nearby so I went to the store and bought some Russian chocolate. During the day, I was translating a biography of Russian painters into Korean, because I am a tour guide and am currently preparing for the next season of tourists. But I couldn't translate any longer because you have to be really focused on words and on the meaning of the sentences which you make.
I got out of the office at 6 p.m and walked to bus stop. I got a bus and went home. All people go home at this time so there is huge traffic on the road. I came home in an hour. During supper I was watching a movie in English and then I started practising English pronunciation with American teachers' videos on Youtube. And now I am writing this essay.
I am now going to write the same thing in Korean.0 votedDecember 15, 20161 You see 'to do' is to do a verb. It is the act of performing a deed, that is, performing a verb. Eg: painting means doing the act in which one paints something. Reading means doing the act which entails reading something.
Making is one of those verbs that you do. It entails creating something. Eg: Making a picture is to either sketch or paint a picture.
To make is to do something, but to do might not necessarily mean to make something. Eg: Making a picture is doing the act of sketching or painting, but doing some work like reading is not making something.
I hope this works but feel free to contact if there are any more doubts. Do not feel shy; everybody has difficulties learning a new language.
0 votedDecember 15, 20160My Weird Au Pair Experience
Today I would like to talk about my weird au pair experience.
In October I decided I wanted to go somewhere to be an aupair and give myself time to think about what I would like to do in the future since I'm very confused. After some days of research I found a family from London, we spoke in Skype and after some days they said I could go there and work for three months. So I bought my ticket and landed in London on the 9th of November. At In the beginning I was feeling very weird and I had become home sick for some days because I was living with another family and I didn't feel very welcomed. I noticed there was were no feelings between me and the family and this gave me a lot of insecurity and
in the following days I started to "get in trouble". They went off for a little trip to Sussex and left me alone in the house for three days and made sleep let a guy they know sleep in the living room and they didn't even call me once. Apart of this, during those days I once opened the fridge and I accidentally broke a glass sheet and it fell onto the floor. When my host mom hostess arrived she found some glass in in the food and she was about to eat it. But it's not over yet. Two days later I went to the nursery with the little baby (6 months old) and while I was playing with her another kid came close and gave her a kiss.(Best break the sentence here) Then she came again and I thought she was going to give her another kiss, but I was wrong because she bit the baby in the chin. The nursery was very angry with me and said I'm unqualified, not professional and they feared about the baby's safety. The mom came and sent me home saying that I could hang up the wash. So I went home and I wasn't sure if she said to hang up the wash or turn the washing machine on hence I checked the clothes and they looked dirty for me so I turned the machine on and washed everything again and she got a bit angry (it's better to use annoyed here) because I didn't understand her. Anyway, I asked if she wanted me to leave and she said yes because this wasn't going to work. I tried to look for some other families but they some wanted references (my family didn't want to give me one), they some were too busy, and they the others didn't reply so I was very so frustrated that I came back home.0 votedDecember 3, 20161The Chrysanthemum Tea 菊花茶
The night was very quiet and I was a little tired. While making a cup of tea with dry chrysanthemums, wolfberries and honey I admired the petals opening slowly in the water. I took a sip at of the fine tea then and those chrysanthemums blossomed in my heart. I remembered (a better word to use here is 'recalled') the a line verse in from "Memorial to Yueyang Tower" - "When I got to the top of the tower drinking in the gentle breeze I would forget sorrow and joy and feel refreshment."
夜很静，我泡了一杯白菊花茶，放了点枸杞和蜂蜜。欣赏着那些花瓣在水中慢慢地舒展开来，品一口香甜的茶水，那些菊花便开在了我的心里。不觉想起《岳阳楼记》中的几句诗：“登斯楼也，则有心旷神怡，宠辱偕忘，把酒临风，其喜洋洋者矣。”A few tweaks here and there but it was a fair effort. I assumed you referred to Memorial to the Yueyang Tower (Yueyang Louji) by Fang Zhongyan. Can you provide a link to the best English translation of that poem. I'd read it long ago and loved it but can't find one now. Personally, I never liked the smell of the tea made from Twinnings Chrysanthemum teabags. Love the Dark Tea, though.
0 votedDecember 3, 20162The bill--worth a meal!!!:)
Well, we, at some point in time might have told to anyone or to ourselves that the meal was great. By the way, I do not think not that many people use the word "meal" to describe their dinner, lunch or breakfast. But here in my country, in some parts, people use it to order their lunch, dinner or breakfast. I wrote it here because, some a few days before, ago I went to the southern part of my country and I was completely new to that place and language. So when I went to a hotel, I couldn't decide what to eat as there was no menu card, so I told him that I wanted a meal. So He said all right and gave me a bill receipt (Strictly speaking, 'bill' is almost exclusively used to refer to the slip one receives after the meal, this here what you refer to is plainly a receipt) and I went to the counter, and gave the person the bill receipt and sat down on a chair. After some time, that person came to me holding a plate of rice and some other recipes dishes (Recipe means the set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required) in small bowls. I ate happily and it was completely different as there was no match between that food with the food here in at my place, except the rice. But it was good and I think the the bill was worth a the meal:)It was good mate! Keep trying. Bahut Khoub!
0 votedDecember 3, 20162I CAN'T remember
I have a big problem in learning English, cause I can't remember the words which i have saved it, and I wanna to improve my language specially in conversation. I need a help.Try using flash cards and keep them on your person all the time. Now take a word and try to picture that object/action with its equivalent Arabic term. This is how my Arabic vocabulary improved. Eg: I equated ba66aneya with a heavy blanket (ba66aneya is a long heavy word) and l7aaf for a lighter one (you force air through your throat for the 7 in l7aaf, so l7aaf is light as air). I know it's a wee bit ridiculous but it worked.
For conversations, try a website which has both English and Arabic versions. Now open an article webpage in both languages and notice how they construct sentences in English based on the Arabic versions. United Nations website is what I'd prefer.
Hope it helps!
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