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Hi, I am Elham.I am a software developer and I am learning English by myself, I need some friends for speaking. My native language is Persian(Dari) so I appreciate having friends who are interested in learning Dari or speaking English.
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A Taxi Driver
I overslept today, so I decided to take a taxi to make my lateness a little bit less explicit. I managed to catch a cab in a minute (it's very unusual to me to be able to literally hail a cab without using Uber and other mobile applications, so I really like it). However, the taxi driver had no idea about where the street I wanted to get to could possible be. So I opened a map application and gave my smartphone to him.
The subsequent events made me want to leave the car and have a fifteen kilometers walk. Firstly, the driver pulled a pair of glasses out the glove box. Then he put them on and zoomed in a map to the maximum. And finally, he got the phone so close to his nose that it made me doubt that (if) he actually saw anything - I used to think that no human being can possibly focus their gaze at that distance. But then he said “Alright”, took the glasses off, gave me my phone back and started driving.
Usually, I'm very relaxed sitting in the back seat - I read, I listen to music, I phone and text - but this time I fell felt silent. I couldn't stop keeping my eyes on the road, and when we finally arrived, I felt absolutely exhausted. I forgot to take the change (and the cabby 'forgot' to give it to me), and I left my breakfast bag on the seat. Of course, I unfroze in a few minutes after I got out of the car and laughted laughed at the whole situation, but I still don't understand why I didn't refuse to ride with this cabby in the first place.
Сome to think of it, maybe I was wrong complaining about the local driving culture (I have to summon up all my courage and hope for the best every time I cross a street at a pedestrian crossing). Maybe all these drivers simply don't see me because of their farsightedness! That's an interesting thought, really.0 votedNovember 2, 20171Quarrel with a Colleague
I had a big fight with a colleague today because of a work-related issue. She has her work style, I have mine. But we need to work on an item together. I was so emotional that I couldn’t talk to her anymore this morning and decided to talk with her later.
We had that talk later, even a very long one, which kept us together the whole afternoon. We both were very open-minded and rational – or tried to be rational at least. In the end, we came to a closure which we both agreed (At least I think she agreed as I did.)
I’m feeling very relived relieved and appreciated now because of the talk and even the fight. Because after all the discomfort, I have more understanding about my work.0 votedNovember 2, 20171Travel journal
Last week, I decided to travel by my own for the first time, so I booked the tickets and reserved the hostels. To following follow my heart and not thinking too much were the words which I kept saying to myself. When the travel day was closer, I started to feel scare scared because all things happened there seem unsure. It makes me stressful stressed because all things happened seems unsure. To be, frankly speaking, I lives live in my hometown- Taipei almost 30 years and never been to anywhere by my own. This seems the biggest challenge for me. I hope I everything will going go all right and well.0 votedNovember 2, 20170Listening summary
The audio talks about the experience of Kaneko Takuya on decision-making who works in a global electronics company. In his point of view, the decision-making is a slow process and it needs to be accelerated; so, the key is that if you make quickly quick decisions, you will have a competitive advantage. But when a company accelerates the things to reduce time creates pressure on workers and it’s a hard target.
In Kaneko’s enterprise, decisions follow a bottom up bottom-up process. Firstly, there is a creative process to found find new ideas. Then, they are checked in different management levels.
Kaneko thinks that Japan’s companies take more time to take a direction. So, he proposes an agreement style which collect collects individual ideas and all departments work together.
Also, he thinks that distance is a problem on decision-makings because it is less efficient. When you talk face to face it’s easy to understand each other and there is a connexion between people. But if you speak with somebody by telephone, it’s more common (There will be more) misunderstandings and you will need more meetings to take a decision. For all this, in this last case, he prefers concrete a 1st meeting to connect emotionally. He wants to decide quickly because problems appears appear at any time.0 votedDecember 2, 20160My Choice
I'm from Brazil, and despite living in the a hot and tropical country hot and tropical, I like cold places cold. The time hot paralyze me and I have no attitude to do things(I didn't understand what did you mean in this sentence). I stopped to imagine, I think and I feel bad-tempered. My country is a varied different place. So, my city for example sometimes becomes cold and when it happens I feel happiness('happy' would be better). But here too have hot places with beach for people who like(Couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence).0 votedNovember 25, 20160My School, My favourite Favorite Subjects
There are few subjects at my school: Biology, Maths, Chemistry, phisics Physics, Geography, English and Russian languages, Arts, IT lessons and the others. (Or you can simply say 'etc' instead of 'and the other' because they are equal)
My favourite favorite subject is Biology because I'm deeply interested in how the bodies of leaving features work living bodies function, especially human body. I also enjoy learning about plants. I use these knowledge in my grandparents' garden.
I hardly do homework on history. The paragraphs are too long and boring. By the way, the teacher never gives me bad marks.0 votedNovember 25, 20161"From the experience" couple of examples from me.
Could you please correct me if there are misatkes in sentences?
She knew from experience not to go with an unknown person.
Peter knew from the experience that he better do his homework, than try to write it off then from a classmate.
As time passed passes, every person on the internet finds out from the experience to not to download things from unknown sites.0 votedNovember 25, 20160Consumer d Durables
In our report, we study the consumer durables include central heating, television, video, vacuum machine, dishwasher and telephone are owned in Britain from 1972 to 1983.
The table shows that, in 1972 year, we have had low percentage of using central heating (3%) then this percentage is increased suddenly to (43%) in year 1974 and using of central heating continues to increase increased in descending order until the 1983 we find 64% of British use a central heating.
If we turn to T.V, we report that television from the beginning achieved high rate of using(93%)in 1972 and this rate is lightly increased to 98% in 1983.
The relation between using video and the time is not detected, but in 1983 the percentage is measured (18%).
From 1972 to 1982, we find the percentage of using vacuum cleaners are 87%-95% respectively. On the other hand for the percentage of household with the refrigerator in 1972 is 73% then raises to 94% in 1983.
According to dishwasher, we don't detect any result from 1972 to 1976 then we report the low percentage (3%)in 1978 and1979 then this percentage is lightly increased to 5% in 1983.
Near the 50% of British Nearly 50% of British used Telephones in 1972, and the number of British are increased to 77% in 1983.
In overall, in 1983 at least the half of British use central heat and telephone and most of British people use television , refrigerator and washing machine and finally the dishwasher is not achieved did not achieve the high score in the Market.0 votedNovember 19, 20161
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