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People in rural Chinese (This rule is kinda tricky, so go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Adjective_order for an explanation of why we say rural Chinese and not Chinese rural) areas tend to spend too much money on marriage
In order to get a bride, some families may need to spend as much as 500 thousand Yuan(about 80 thousand US dollars), which is a very great amount of money, because the average income of a rural family is no more than 30 thousand Yuan per year. That means most families have to borrow money to complete a marriage.
There are quite a few reasons for this situation, including China has a notorious one-child policy, which leads to sex-selective abortions due to a strong preference for having at least one boy. As a consequence, the ratio between boys and girls is becoming increasingly unbalanced. In other words, the supply is bigger than demand from the male's point of view. In addition, for girls, it is easy to enter cities by marring young men living in cities. But this is not the case for men because of high house price. Actually, it is more and more difficult for a man to settle down in cities. In a summery, young men can not get a mate easily. Therefore they must spend more to marry.
Unlike western societies, people live independently until they get married. So earning money and preparing for young people’s marriage are usually a business of an entire family. In fact, this may be the main purpose of a family. They have to work hard for many years through their life to get a girl.0 votedMarch 30, 20140- Mine tænker om min "Engelsk Detox" undersøgelse I de sidste to uger har jeg forsvoret alle benyttelse af mit computer og det engelske sprog, som en del af min indsats til at lære det danske sprog, med det navnet mål til at glemme en (små) del af mit modersmål. Dog undersøgelsen har ikke været en helt succes, jeg synes at det var meget interessant, og jeg fortryde ikke at jeg har gjort det. Selvom jeg fjenede mig fra en hel masse engelsk, jeg stadig hørt en godt del mere engelsk end jeg har ønskede; Jeg har nogle venner, der, selvom de forstå mit situation og snakker det flest til mig på dansk, stadig glemmer (eller, så siger de) nogle gange til at snakke på dansk. Der var også en godt tal af samlinger hvor skolens engelsk lære var vært, eller den gang hvor jeg var til en middag hvor en af gæsterne (en meget fin mand) kunne ikke tale dansk, og på alle disse tidspunker, havde jeg ingen vælg end at bare lytte til engelsk, så jeg var ikke i stand til at glemme så meget engelsk som jeg ønskede. På den anden side, dog, jeg også tror at undersøgelsen hjalp mig, selvom mit mål var ikke en succes. Jeg finder at jeg tænker en hel masse mere på dansk (Mit forsværgelse af engelsk var, selvfølgelig, ikke bare i hensyn til det der fysisk sket), og jeg læste en hel masse på dansk; jeg købte den tredje bind i The Hunger Games (Oprør, a.k.a. Sladredrosslen, a.k.a. Mockingjay) kun 5 dage siden, men jeg færdiggjort det bare et time før jeg skrev det her. Jeg har ikke så meget mere at sige, så tak for at du læste!March 30, 201410
- En kort forsvindelse Hej! I dag har jeg besluttet at jeg skal gøre en "Digital Detox" - Det mener, at jeg skal ikke bruge min computer for to uger; Måske du har hørt om den slags før, men hvad du måske har ikke hørt er hvorfor jeg gøre det; Jeg gøre det ikke fordi jeg har noget imod at jeg tilbringe de størstedel døgnen på min computer (Jeg mener, det har været min livstil siden jeg var 3 år!). Jeg har blevet meget seriøst med at lære Dansk i den sidste par uger, og jeg har tvunget alle mine venner til at snakke til mig på Dansk, men de flest jeg gøre på min computer er på Engelsk, og jeg regner at jeg kan bruge en helt masse mindre Engelsk, og derfor meget mere Dansk, hvis jeg undgå at bruge internetet, så jeg besluttede at forsvinde for 2 uger, så jeg kan måske glemme en smule af mit Engelsk. Vi ses i to uger! MikkelMarch 16, 201410
A great day!
Hi!, My friend went into the hospital last night; she's pregnant but she doesn't have the baby yet. She has a few pains and contractions. Her husband is staying with her, and he is holding her hands and he saying beautiful things to calm down her.
I'll talk more about this when the baby's been born.
Bye!0 votedMarch 12, 20144A Relaxing Sunday
Hi!,
I'm enjoying my Sunday... just doing nothing. It has been a hard week, and yesterday I returned home too late, so I didn't wake up early this morning.
We're having paella for lunch, which we always do on Sundays. Maybe, after lunch I will call a friend who had a baby just three weeks ago, and maybe I also will go to Santa Pola (a small city in the seaside in Alicante, Spain) to see then. Or maybe I will just have a nap and watching a movie.
One thing I hate about my Sundays is that I usually do nothing. Ever since my company changed our work schedule, I always arrive to home very late. I usually arrive home at 20.30 or 21.30 (it depends on if I have English lessons that day), so my main task on Sundays is that: doing nothing. I know that I need a day to relax and disconnect, but when I'm doing that I feel like I am wasting my time.
It seems like the windy days are over, so maybe it's time to cycle again. Maybe next Sunday... who knows?
So, this is my Sunday, unstructured and nonsense writing. But that is because today is Sunday, and I don't work on Sundays.
Thank you all for reading and for your corrections!0 votedMarch 9, 20141Stød er en suprasegmentale træk (En ændring i lyd som er hverken en konsonant eller en vokal), som man kan findes i "Hund" i modsætning til "Hun" - Hund and Hun lyder næsten de sammen, men Hund er mere pludselig end Hun, og den "Stød" er i Mænd (Faktisk, man kan sige at selvom d'et i Mænd ikke laver en "d" lyd det er faktisk ikke helt uudtalet; det er en almendelig kendetegn at en ord har stød). Jeg ved godt at Mænd og Hen både slutte med den "en" lyd, men det er også sandt at "en" lyden i "Mænd" er mere pludslig end "en" lyden i Hen, og min spørgsmål er om subjekten af det.
0 votedMarch 1, 20140One of my friends from the (US is short for United States, and since "United States" can be used to refer to other things than the US, such as in "The United States of Brazil", the definitive article must be used to specify that we mean the United States of America) US
One of my Friends from New York came to Japan in the end of August, she is from New York, to teach English in the institute in Tokyo. She will stay in Tokyo for one year. We knew eachother via another website before but I haven't met her before. I'm looking forward to the day when we can meet.
Also, since she loves to go cycling (Maybe say Biking here? Cycling works, but sounds a bit odd), she brought her bicycle and goes out with it when she has time and it doesn't rain. Last weekend, she went around the center of Tokyo, visited one of the parks and the Imperial Palace and wrote about it on her blog with beautiful photos. If you are interested in them, please take a look it.
Please correct my English and I would like to know the most natural way to phrase things in English.
Thank you.Good job, you have really well formed sentences.
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