This is good English. It means - how do you get on with your parents?

tenfold sounds better to me.

Hi yes, a pigeonhole is literally a small section of a cabinet which has been divided up. Often such a cabinet is used for delivering post to communal buildings. For instance, when I was at university and living in a hall, there was a set of pigeonholes. I had one as did all the other students there, and that is where our post was delivered. But it has also come to mean a way of dividing and categorising things or people in your mind in a short-cut way which stereotypes them. Sometimes the connotation is of doing so in a narrow-minded or prejudiced kind of way. So in this poem, the author has formed a prejudice about the girl she has just met, who has a very unusual name 'Storm' taken from nature, and is into astrology as she says she's Sagittarian. Maybe the poet has pigeon-holed her by also believing she is a hippy of some kind, lives in a commune, eats vegetarian food, protests about environmental issues, that kind of thing. Saying 'is immediately filled with pigeon' is the poet using poetic licence - that is not a normal expression in every day spoken English. Hope this helps

Although both are correct, the second doesn't sound quite so natural to me. I would always use 'of' in this context. Not sure if that's just my style, or if others would agree.

I would use it in conversation. I would say that I did something in an ad hoc way, meaning I didn't have a plan, but just made it up as I went along. I work in the UK civil service, and maybe it's the culture of our work but people quite often use Latin phrases in speech in the office. Other examples of Latin I've heard used in conversation include: Mea culpa (it's my fault) or Ad nauseam which is usually repeating something ad nauseam (that is, until you're totally sick of it!)

Also your question would be better if you say, 'How should I say it better?'

English Abilities in Japan

Let me quote a news story in Japan related to English.
A The Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology in Japan has investigated four kind of abilities of English, - reading, listening writing and speaking - with in examinations for high-school students.

The results of the investigation showed that any kind of their average abirlities arewere poor. Moreover, writing and speaking are were so poor that the accuracy rates they got are were less than ten percent.
According to a questionnaire given to the students after the examinations,58,4% 58.4% of the students dislike English and only 14% of the students aspire to acquire enough English skills enough to go abroad to study or to do for businesses abroad.


...the teaching of English in Japan as country has full faces many problems.
...and my English skills still have full many problems too?...perhaps yes,oh well,but I have high aspirations.