le 30 juillet J'ai rêvé de devenir un auteur un jour, mais c'est juste un rêve. Maintenant je rarement lis, et je n'ai pas lu un roman depuis lycée. Il ne serait pas comme ça, si j'avais pratiqué sans interruption.

Tenses I find that I don't know tenses quite well, so I'm going to write about the old days and practice tenses in the meantime. When I was little, the worst thing I had ever known was to be bored. In those days I spent most of my time at home, since my parents were busy and no one could watch[1] me and my brother after school. What was worse, our father hated toys (he was and still is a serious man), so we had to invent our own. We were big fans of drawing maps. We created our own continents, countries and cities on paper, and then gave names to them. We would look in the dictionary to find some complicated (and good-looking) characters and wrote down on our maps. God knows how much fun had (or have?) we had from this silly game. [1] I used "look after" at first, but then I thought maybe it's little babies that we "look after". We were students already, so maybe "watch" is the right word to use?

July 27 The electricity has been cut off this morning. Luckily, I came to my grandma's house and we have electricity here. I've slept for more than 9 hours last light, but I feel even more tired today. How long do you sleep in general?

"Don't be afraid." and "Don't leave." in French Don't be afraid. => N'aie pas peur. (Subjonctif Présent) Then why: Don't leave. => Ne partez pas. ((Indicatif Présent) but not => Ne partiez pas. (Subjonctif Présent) ?

"Future Simple" and "Passé Simple" I was told that "Future Simple" and "Passé Simple" are seldom used in daily communications. They're only used in literature. Is that true?

Saluton! Saluton! Mi estas studentino en Ĉinio. Mi estas lernanta la francan, la anglan kaj la esperanton. Se vi bezonus helpon por lerni la ĉinan, mi ŝatus helpi!

How to say "eat out" and "go shopping" in Esperanto?

Je me présente Je suis étudiant de la Chine. J'apprends le français, l'anglais et l'espéranto. J'aimerais vous aider à apprendre le chinois.