Short text just to learn some phrasal verbs. Could anyone, please, check out my mistakes? Thank you.

What is your favorite kind of weather?

It is hard to say what kind of weather is of my choice favorite. FromOn the one hand, I like spring days when it starts to warm up and the days begin to brighten after being cloudy all winter.sky clouded over, during the whole winter begins to brighten up. But on the other, I also love the summer with its sun beating down through clear blue skies.

However, the rainy weather is my most beloved of all. my most preferable kind. I would rather must say the stormy, rainy days when a strong winds blows down leaves and twigs from trees are the best my favorite ones. I love these days because of the rain that pours down all day long. To me, it is the perfect chance to stay at home and spend a lovely day relaxing, reading an interesting but long-delayed book. It seems to be an excellent excuse to postpone all urgent matters and just wait until when the storm will dies away and the weather will clears up.

I agree! but sun makes me happier. Nice write up!

Please correct my 2 little stories:)

How can I forget the big castle in Mucachevo which my husband and I visited last year? The castle, located at the top of a hill, was blown by wind from all sides. When I stood on the balcony of the castle and looked at the river which flowed around me, I thought about that lone prince who lived here 480 years ago and felt sorry for his loneliness...

"There is the city, which I see in my dreams..." - words of the famous song from Odessa reminds me of the beauty and happiness of this city. As far as the eye can see there are the laughing and funny people, the beautiful architecture and sunny weather all year round.  Near the city centre there is a nice beach with gold, burning sand and the smell of the salty sea.

Very poetic, I liked it!

Chris

Which word is the object of 'it takes'? 'time' or 'a wave crest'?

The basic features include a crest, a trough, a height, a wave length, and a period (which is the time IT TAKES a wave crest to travel one wave length).

I'm sure one of our highschool English teachers could explain this better but I'll give it a stab (grammar has never been my strong point).

IT in this case is time, or more precisely the duration there of, when talking about an action. eg: it takes 3 hours to write an essay. As opposed to it lasts, which is the duration of an objects life. eg, a pair of jeans lasts me 10 years.

take- verb

last- object

hope this clears it up a bit.

Chris

My daughter's English and tantrums.

I've been having a some hard times these days. My daughter who'll turn 3 in two weeks has tantrums. It's really hard to deal with them. When we're out in a store and she wants something in particular and doesn't get it, she rolls around on the floor and acts flips out. When I try to cope deal with her feelings and want to explain to her why she can't have what she wants, she hits me.
It ends up with me sending her to discipline in a corner of the store for a couple of minutes the of time-out until she cools down.
The problem is she still does it and even if I send her to a time-out she'll repeats the bad behaviour anyway again from one moment or to the another.

Today she is sick, she has a cold. She told me her ears were hurting. I understood suppose it was an 'otite' otitis (in French --> I don't know the name in English).
The doctor gave her antibiotics. So even if when she is complaining and not in a good mood, I stay understanding toward my little love.
Parenting is a hard job, I know understand my parents now when they had to get me disciplined me. I try to listen to podcasts about parenting. I want to get many point of views about this topic.

My toddler was so cute when she told me in English: 'I don' wanna go 'to' see the docta' ' No docta, no medicine'.

Then I noticed she had a band-aid on her knee because she had felt fallen at school: Don' touch my kneeeeeeeeee!
I replied: 'I'm not touching your knee, it's your thigh'
-Don' touch my figh!
My wife was lying on the couch wearing my jacket
'Look daddy, it's not mama's jacket, it's daddy's jacket!!!!'

She addresses to me in English and speaks French to with my wife. It's so cute. Sometimes she mixes both.

This is an adorable entry. Having a nearly three year old boy I know exactly what you're going through. Though he has toned down the hitting recently he still loves to pinch! And tantrums will plague us for many years to come i'm afraid.

How is it that your daughter can already speak English? Does she go to an international school?

Take care!

Chris

Time flies.

I realized today is Thursday and I was already halfway through the week already at lunch time,
and I have only two days left to go from now. It's so exciting and I wanted to share this good news with my coworkers but I couldn't say anything and show my happy face to my boss. I was thinking 'why he is was next to me right now this moment'.
Anyway, this a kind of this good news can make me happy and excited the whole all day, excited and to just imagining what will I do this weekend.
Also I'm also thinking about the rest of the months this year.
I really want to spend well my time with doing something fun and something interesting.

Nice entry Mikyoung. Hope this helps.

Chris

Cameras

Cameras are everywhere we go. They have become part of our daily lives, partly due to their being small, portable and easy to use: all you have to do to take a photo and share it with others is press a button. However, it was not that simple at in the beginning. That’s why I decided to talk about the Polaroid Land model 220. Although it was not one of the first cameras invented, it was the first instant camera, which makes it an extremely important invention, one that changed our lives.

It has nothing to do in common with today’s cameras. It was very large, bulky and heavy, and very slow to respond. When you pressed the shutter button, you had to wait for a while for it to completely process the image, so it was impossible to take several pictures in a row. It was not as intuitive as the cameras we use today. Also, it was difficult to carry. You couldn’t just take it with you when going to, say, a party. That would have been awkward and uncomfortable. It’s design was in accordance very typical in those days with that time standards, but it was not stylish.

hope this helps,

Chris

Be brave and speak aloud

English is a useful tool which helps me get to know the world better and meet more interesting people!! Also I love English TV series and movies! The plots are awesome and the actors are attractive .
I've been good at taking English exams since i was young, however, I'm still not confident enough. Sometimes I feel nervous when I talk to a native speaker and just forget what i actually wanted to say...
Now I'm preparing for the TOEFL and I hope to get a high mark in the speaking section.

If you speak as well as you write, you shouldn't have any problems doing well on the TOEFL.

Good luck! Chris