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Bars in Ruins
My family and I visited Budapest this summer. When we were planning that trip, my daugher primarily wanted primarily to see two places, the Hungarian Parliament and the Szimpla. She was so just eager to spend an evening in the Szimpla. I had never heard about it before. „You will be suprised„, she promised. Yes, I was suprised. I was even overwhelmed! The Szimpla is a complex of very exciting bars in large ruins. It was has been built in the old Jewish town. The bars were the craziest most crazy ones I’ve ever seen. There were all the most weird wierdest things on the Earth in one place! Walls, floors and tables were covered with multicolored inscriptions. Mirrors were broken. An ugly doll hung from the ceiling and everywhere were crazy, scary scared or hilarious things. Plastic toys, vinyl LPs, a red plastic body, traffic signs, Budha, artificial flowers, old dishes and tools, beakers and test tubes. I noticed A great mix marriage of punk with hippie style. I didn’t know where I should I look first. We could choose if we wanted to sit on a seat, on a chair, on a toilet seat, in an old car, on an old TV apparatus or in a bath. The food was tasty, the coffee was strong, the beer was cold. Good job! I understood my daughter’s wish. It was an amazing evening!This is a really cool description! It sounds like an amazing place to visit. What a creative, artistic bar! Thanks for sharing this!
0 votedSeptember 14, 20182Travelling 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 get dressed and then I have breakfast at home, some coffee with biscuits. After that, I brush my teeth and I get 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 00:000 votedMay 31, 20171A R I A N N A - - Who I am English version.
Language learning has ALWAYS been a side interest of mine for the VERY longest...
I feel it's really time for me to express how passionate I am about language learning...
It all started my Softmore year in HS when I was starting to really take a liking ino to Anime and Japanese commercials (my Junior year is when the love for Eastern Asian culture especially Japan took over, because I did so much research on that and on the U.K as well)
I wanted to understand and watch them w/o the subtitles so I began studying Japanese...
Unfortunately I wasn't able to hold on for very long because I didn't really understand that much of what I was doing and my method for studying wasn't efficient and boring...
Going past all of my other years I not only wanted to just learn Japanese, I became fascinated by Welsh and French...
My Senior year, armed with a lot more knowledge and understanding, I wanted to try mastering learning another language, only starting with French this time...
It went on great for 3 months but French just wasn't my (soul liking) so I reverted back to Japanese going off to college.
Only this time in my life I have never been so serious about learning Japanese ever than I am rn...
I really honestly want to make a career out my studies so, I WILL MASTER THIS LANGUAGE THIS TIME, NO STOPPING PERIOD.Hi! I really enjoyed reading how passionate you are about learning languages. That is really wonderful to hear. I am happy for you! You have made very few mistakes. There were only two preposition errors I corrected. Keep up the hard work and good luck mastering this and many other languages.
0 votedSeptember 3, 20151First English classe
I was think about my first English classe and how much fun it was. I couldn't speak one word because i knew nothing. My first phrase was "I don't undertand", and to be honest, I am used to say that phrase a lot since then. I am not fluent, however you can see how much I have been learning for a year and I am getting better.
Great job! I underlined a few corrections. I enjoyed reading about your progress with your English classes. Keep up the hard work!
0 votedSeptember 1, 20151- An accident transferring credits Hi. I made a mistake by transferring credits into my teacher account instead of actually withdrawing the credits. This is the first time I have made that mistake and I want to see you can put them back into my revenue account since it was an accident and I made a mistake. I won't make the same mistake again. Thank you for your understanding!August 4, 201530
My learning process.
Hi everyone ! Today, I want to talk about learning a new language. For me it is English. A lot of people throughout the world have learned english as a second language at school. And the result is that you have a low level and can't remember very well how to use tenses, grammary etc... I got bored at school too ! But last year, I decided to learn by my own. I've watched tons of videos about topics that I like ( in English ) and I start over watching my favorite series which is Breaking Bad without subtitles. It helps you to get the slang, to be used to hearing native speakers at their real pace. But if you want to be fluent, you have to improve your pronunciation. I am remote far from big cities and I don't know places where I could speak with American people. So I decided to speak to myself as much as I could and it works ! Now I don't struggle with words in English and since I've started speaking with people on italki, they can understand me without difficulty.
Like a journey, learning a language might seem frustrating sometimes. You always have to learn new vocabulary to improve your speaking skills. I would say that the first tool to be at your ease when you have to speak in front of a native speaker is too be confident.Good entry! You make very good points about language learning and fluency. There are only a few mistakes that I see! I hope you continue using these effective methods!
0 votedMay 27, 20150My English Teacher
My English teacher is a British man named Chris. He comes from Manchester . He is social,enthusiastic and has a rich knowledge and passion for creating free English corner . His dream is become a photographer. Sometimes he shows us his photos, including still life and people, I even saw an old and wrinkled women in the photo,he seemed very satisfied at with it. He liked to tell us the stories behind the photos. Before he came to China, he had studied as a chef in a five -star hotel in France for 7 years. He cooked very delicious meals. I still remembered the Christmas dinner he cooked for us two years ago. The food tasted perfect! Especially the dish named "Bacon-rapped Apricots with Sage"was fantastic, we hadn't eaten it before. That night even the roasted turkeys were also very nice . Later he made a hot Christmas Pudding as a traditional British dessert , he poured brandy into heated hot pudding, it started a beautiful flame . Someone commented like this: even if you didn't like meat you would love meat since you tried the Christmas dinner here. We also exchanged gifts under the Christmas tree and got a lot of surprises. Everybody was so excited that night, a man suddenly standed stood up and asked us holding high wineglass following him cheering, "For Chris!"
Chris is a completist serious man. In order to prepare for 30 people at a Christmas dinner, he didn't sleep all the night at all. He is very serious on at everything. The activities in our English corner were pretty good, there were a lot of activities,including: skill training, culture introducing and having fun. It attracted many people to take part in it.
Chris learnt lots about China. He understood Chinese and seldom spoke it with us , but his pronouciation was quite standard. Some of us guessed : maybe his Chinese was better than our English. He could play zheng, a typical Chinese old instrument with over 20 strings, playing it would have a wonderful echo.Great job! I enjoyed reading this a lot and am happy to hear you have such a great English teacher!
0 votedMay 26, 20151Culture to Traveling
Traveling is a kind of experience that enables us to be happy and to feel relaxed. Despite the long and tiresome journey, we learn while we travel. while learning at the same time despite of the tiresome and long journey. It is a good chance for us to broaden our horizons. As an old Chinese saying goes: “Traveling ten thousand miles is better than reading ten thousand books.” We should go to the historic sites to see the relics and artifacts left by the ancestors and to get to know the profound Chinese civilization so as to learn more about it. By being in the scenic spots, we are able to see the marvelous landscapes directly and cultivate our taste and add to our knowledge.
Culture is the soul of traveling. Some people believe that what stimulate makes the tourists to consume in travel is eventually nothing but the culture, which is the core factor that attracts to the tourists and of most inflexible and hard to imitation. the most inflexible factor of tourism to imitate.Hi Vincent,
I really enjoyed your notebook entry about tourism and travel. You make such important observations about travel and I admire your perspective. If you have any questions, let me know!
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