Hello. I'm Lorna and I'm from Scotland. I've just started to learn Chinese. I would love to help you improve your English, if you can help me with my Chinese :)

Diary; May 30th, Tuesday

I went to attend attended the English class. Today we studied "can" "be able to" "used to" and their negative form and interrogative form. When I was a student, I learned "can" mainly. We didn't learn "be able to" very much, and now we often use "can". But our teacher said that most of natives often use "be able to", and you should use "be able to". "Will" and "be going to" are also similar. We should use "be going to" than "will".

*How about you? How do you use  often "be able to" and "be going to"?

Travelling to work and daily routine

I´m lucky because I always go to work by car, and it only takes me about 15 minutes. I work in a hospital outside the city, so I have no problem with rush hour. The journey is short and relaxed.

In my country, the cities are very small, so we hardly ever have problems with commuting. People normally goes to work on foot or by car, although sometimes people take the bus in the cities.

I get up early in the morning, at about 7:00. First I dress and then I have breakfast at home, some coffee with biscuits. After that, I brush my teeth and I take the car to go to work. I start to work at 8:00 and finish at 15:00. When I leave the hospital I have a lot of free time in the afternoon, so I can always do a lot of things, like studying English, doing some exercise and other activities, and spending time with my partner.

I usually go to bed at about 23:00 and I fall asleep at about 00:00

Chinese learning diary (1)

The first thing I did after deciding to learn Chinese seriously is  was to look for a good teacher.
Why did I not first try to learn it by myself ?
I had already tried to learn it a few years ago at school and I knew that Chinese could be hard to learn, especially if we consider its tones.
Besides, I had seen how hard it was (and it still is  is still being) to overcome my English learning past years in the past and I did not want to make the same mistakes.

When I decided to pick up my English studies again, I had a huge need of for structure. I needed help to evaluate my weaknesses and someone to show me the way. I often felt discouraged at that time but I went through it.
I still have a lot of things to learn and to improve but I feel more comfortable now.
I know where I am going.

Anyway, as I was saying, the very first thing that I did is was to look for a good teacher who could help me to deal with the Chinese tones and who I could stick with, someone I feel comfortable with as both a person and a student.
I think that I have found her :-).

CHANNEL

Now i'm my room writing a text the commentary to my channel on YouTube- my first video.

First Day of Ramadan

I thank Allah for being part of this year's Ramadan because many people left this life and didn't have the chance to fast this year ,may Allah have mercy upon them.
Our first day has passed gently quietly despite the hot weather where when we went to school for the final tests exams.
In Ramadan we have two meals -the 'Sahour' which is midnight's meal before we start fasting and 'Fatour' which is the meal we eat after sunset . We tend to care about these meals and put out the best dishes .
Dates ,Laban and Lentil soup are the main starters that we break our fasting with,then we pray and return to have the main course .When we fast we always eats little small amounts of food so this is a great chance to customize get ourselves on healthy regimes.

Help(please)

Hi, there

Could you help me? Please!!

1)Do you say "All that whining just for washing these few dishes" or "All that whining just for washing such few dishes"?
.. or "All that whining just for washing so little dish"?

All that whining over washing a few dishes

and can I say "Just for washing .."? or should i say "is all that whining just about washing.."?

either :)

2) Can you say "I am still going to be a while to get home"? ? Or maybe "It will still take me a while to get home"?

I am still going to be a while getting home

3) Does it sound odd for a mom to say to her child: (in a joking way) You never pay attention to me, but when you need me, it is mommy all over." ? What could I say?

"...you're all over mommy", 

Please! I really need help.