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- It's a metaphor. You need to infer the meaning frome the other sentences. It's about human nature. It means that people respond to events and trends, including dangerous ones, which become history, in different ways. A few people are brave and face them. A few are also strong enough to make a slight difference. Most are not brave or strong enough. Most people would run away, hide, protect themselves etc.0 votedMarch 7, 20150
Can you recommend some interesting novels?
I bought a kindle last month but I don't know which English novels are interesting and fantastic.Can you recommend some to me? Thank you.
The novels mentioned above are very good but also pretty difficult. It depends on your level and interests. How about some high quality children's literature like Harry Potter or Peter Pan?
0 votedMarch 7, 20150- Mi fin de semana larga Hoy es Viernes el 6 de Marzo 2015. Estoy en el tren a mi casa desde mi trabajo. Soy una profesora de ingles, historia y filosofía. Trabajo con adolescentes en un escuela de ingles. Esta terma, enseño fútbol y las sciences natuarales también. Mi encanta mi trabajo pero estoy cansada. Esta fin de semana es largo porque lunes es labour day. Estoy emocionada porque mi padre va a visita mi. Vive en Hong Kong (vivo en Australia). Nosotros vamos a visitar Mornington co mi hermana, su marido y sus niños. Hay una tren modela en Mornington. Mis sobinos encantan las trenes y lod dinosaurios. ¡Son niño muy típicos!March 7, 201530
- There is no difference in modern English usage. The pronunciation is very similar. Words ending in '-ible' are generally older words. Words ending in '-able' may be newer. Unfortunately, that does not mean that both spellings are correct when it comes to individual words and there are no tricks to help students learn which is correct. If you're not sure, you'll have to check a dictionary.0 votedNovember 11, 20140
About Myself
I reckon I'll write something wrong here but I will try to show something about my experience with books anyway because I've been studying several languages for several months but my English is still poor. That's why I'm writing something here. I'm writing because I want to practice it (even though i'm doing a bad job). Actually, I don't have time to keep studying anymore due my work and university schedule/studies. Anyway, I remember when I was 6~7 years old and I took my dad's English book to learn something. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand a single word of that book but I tried to do my best to learn something. While my brother was playing video-games with his friends, I was there in my room learning and speaking. I thought: ''I can do it.'' Actually, I didn't know if I was speaking correctly but I tried.
Don't worry about making mistakes. Of course you will make mistakes while you are still learning, but that is why we are all here!
0 votedDecember 29, 20131Something weird about the Dutch Christmas
I work in a Brazilian city called Castro, a place known as the living place of many dutch descendents, that still keep their ancient traditions.
Some days ago, after work, me, my coworker and her family went to a famous restaurant in the city, and when we arrived, there was a Dutch birthday party happening there. As Christmas was near, there was a Santa Claus and his helpers in the place. And here comes the weird thing about it. The Santa Claus helpers were not elves, as we used to see here in Brazil, but... black people! Actually, not real black people, but white people (Dutch descendents) painted black and wearing afro wigs.
As it seemed so weird to me, after I got home, I started to seek explanations for it. Searching on Google, I figured out that in Netherlands they don't have the same Santa Claus we have here in Brazil, but they have San Nicholas, who was a kind of ''original Santa Claus'', and, according to Dutch Folklore, he has black helpers.
Although haven't read anything specifically about it, it seems to be a heritage from black slavery. As San Nicholas has been a traditional Christmas character for so long, and in the past so many people in the Netherlands had black slaves, maybe it seemed natural for San Nicholas to have his ''black slaves'' as well.
It might be something tradional, but it still seems a very weird and racist thing to me.0 votedDecember 28, 20131
