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Hello! I'm Oliver and my Chinese name is 龚敏瑞(Gong Minrui). I proabably can't help you with some finacial stuff, although that's what I learn unfortunately...= = But I'm confident about my skills dealing with PS, AI and so forth. We can share some experience about these softwares if you like~ or you want to have your photos PSed... Besides I like jogging, though not really good at it XD, phtographing and traveling. You can be my guest if you plan to visit my city, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, which is famous for pandas, and sadly the earthquake that struck my hometown in 2008, as long as you need a local tourguide. English is now a hard and urgent case for me, since I could hardly get a full understanding of the lectures given by my foreign teachers and not least because in the forthcoming semester I'm going to have a great number of them... In a nutshell, feel free to contact me if you are intersted in picking up some Chinese~ v
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Ian
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Aug 12, 2016
I will not have had a lot of time with Oliver before his IELTS exam. However, I am confident that that he will give a good account of him self. I have thrown a lot of information at him in a short time. My advice to anyone taking IELTS exams is to prepare thoroughly with the help of a good teacher. Good luck Oliver.
Ian
English
Aug 9, 2016
Oliver is now focusing on structure more than content. Once he is more confident with the approach then his vocabularly will grown. I think he is capable of getting a 6.5 but it depends on speaking practice and the written parts of the test. Good start so far!
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    Why Is Perserverance So Difficult? Everyone must have such experience: you started an orchestrated study plan full of passion, but began to feel bored and repugnant only several days later.You registered at a gym, and determined to get into shape instead of leading a couch-potato life, only to put your VIP card aside and climb back to the sofa after three fitness lessons. Why is perserverance so difficult? Willpower is a kind of resource, according to an essay I read before. Resources are limited, and so is willpower. This means no one can rely on willpower to persevere with something forever, because there's only a finite amount of it available. In this sense, giving up halfway gives no cause for much criticism. It's a rather natural and common phenomenum that happens to everyone. Another theory points out that, people tend to give priority to things that will translate into utility immediately rather than those that will pay off in the long run. There is ample evidence to support this argument. The trade-off between health and pleasure for a smoker when deciding whether or not to quit smoking is a vivid example. That being said, theories are not excuses for laziness. Theories are valuable in the sense that when idleness does happen, you don't have to beat yourself up, but find out the causes and try to avoid them in the future instead. To stick to a plan, first and foremost, assess if the plan is by far beyond your ability. You don't want to devastate your confidence, so make sure the plan is accomplishable. Secondly, give yourself some punishment if you fail, likewise some reward if you succeed. Thirdly, if possible, find someone to supervise you. This essay is actually something I want to say to myself. Don't ever succumb to temptations that try to blind your eyes and drag you back!
    August 17, 2016
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    自从今年的开今年年初我通过了一些中文的考试，我却问自己是否我可能有更 大的进步。最近我采取了新的方法。我看到了别的留学生在一个讨论区推荐好的方法以便学习，于是我模仿这样效仿了他们的做法。所以目前我依靠看连续剧以便来提高我的听能力。尽管连续剧无论在初步的阶段难以听明白，但我觉得需要成为使去习惯，尤其是因为好像一个其中包含正式的对话。

    此外使用除了看连续剧，我还用抽认卡记单词，结交语言的伙伴们，向一个老师学习，读他及其抄出下来的小朋友的故事和文章。我看到过一个文章，它推荐建议不要忽略任何本领，我并非常同意， 除了书法都，我试试几乎事事。几乎什么都尝试过。


    I can see that  you work really hard learning Chinese! Good job~

    But pay attention to the order of words. The order in your essay is mostly in english way.

    祝你看电视剧看得开心~

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    August 15, 2016
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    在很早期阶段我选择了集中于考试以学习汉语。(better: 在前期我把精力集中在汉语考试上)

    中国的部门‘汉办’为留学生处理设立考试为留学生。(better: 中国“汉办”为留学生设立了汉语考试)

    我想起来那时，跟人家谈论起对考试又的优点和缺点。虽然考试可能确定你的语言水平，但是我同时觉得，如果你过分依靠它，它们可能歪曲你的轨道，（better: 可能让你走弯路）如果你过分依靠它。为了通过考试你会平时会学习考试的资料，另外你经常集中专注于考试的词汇量。（Here are two examples supporting the disadvantages of learning aimed at tests, i guess? better: 为了通过考试，你的学习范围会局限于考试的资料和词汇 ）


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    August 15, 2016
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    Resurrection! It's a shame to break my word that I would write an essay on itaki every day... It's been two days without taking down anything. Nonetheless, I have fortunately gone over all those negative emotions, which I would largely attribute to the "haunted school" I visited yesterday. I have passed by that haunted school several times, but never had the guts to step in. Yesterday, after having lunch with two of my classmates back in junior high, whom I had hardly heard from, we made an incredible decision: visiting the haunted school. Given that none of us are bold enough to finish the tour alone, we paid extra fee in order not to be sparated by "ghosts". The beginning was a little bit silly. We saw a spooky girl sitting on the bench in the corrider, with her unkempt hair covering her entire face. We were too scared to walk through in front of her, so we tried to negotiate, expecting her to rise on her feet, instead of catching us off guard. Well, she would never respond. It took us a long time of hesitation to make perfectly sure, she was merely a dummy. As we walked deeper into that school, the thrilling sound, abrupt move of "real ghosts"and shimmering blood-red light all added to our fear. We kept murmuring the incantation to prevent ghosts from getting close. That was, to be honest, a little bit exhausting. And in most cases, the ghost looked not frightening anymore after his unexpected appearance. So once when a ghost followed me closely, wielding a blunt chopper at me, ostensibly at full tilt, of course never really landing on my arm, I decided to play a trick - I rubbed his head. I was quite puzzled by my behavior either, but it just happened. I could sense that he was struck dumb for an instant, but in no time realised what he was, and roared at me in a hysterical way. I had no choice but keep apologizing, but he just wouldn't stop! Scared to death... We bought some cold drinks after leaving, trying to chill out a little. I could feel epinephrine surging in my vain, and the downbeat mood that had bothered me for a long time was completely knocked out of my mind.
    August 15, 2016
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    Financial Crisis The global economy is on decline. So is mine. I have unfortunately run out of my money, but the tragedy just begins. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. I think it's probably high time to give myself a new name. If the emotional cycle really exists, I would be standing at the rock bottom. Tommorrow I will read another article on the Econimist, sacrificing millions of brain cells. I need to go out for some fresh air, have a nice dream, then embrace the dawn, gathering myself, with a heart full of hope.
    August 12, 2016
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    我去饭店吃午饭

    今天我去吃了午饭了，但我忘了饭店的名字，。我在哪那家饭店吃了炒饭和煎鸡蛋了，很好吃，！我喜欢炒饭，。以之后我买了单，当场时我很惊讶，因为他是日本人，我觉得世界真是小狭窄（狭窄 is a little bit negative），我说了他对他说了错的汉语，但是他会说日语，我有一点不好意思一点儿。
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    August 11, 2016
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    Day 2 with italki Today morning I overslept. It was nearly 11 when i finally decided to get out of my bed. Sleeping in the morning is not that comfortable, mostly due to the sunshine directly cast on my face. I could only drag the quilt over my head to shut it out. Once again, I logged in on Quora, and tried my best to write another answer related to Chinese language. In order to make it as detailed as possible, I searched the internet for some pictures to support my answer. It took me about one and a half hour to finish that. Although I didn't receive many upvotes, at least I had fun writing that. It was about Chinese character writing. ( Check the following link if you're interested in it. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-to-write-Chinese/answer/Oliver-Gong?srid=uW8tI ) I'm going to take my second lesson on IELTS speaking test at midnight (I hate time difference...). I still found it a little bit difficult when I answered the questions. Sometimes my mind went completely blank, and every now and then I mumbled. I could sense my heart beating fast even when I practice on my own. OMG... Anyway, I won't be daunted. It's just what language learning is all about.
    August 11, 2016
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    August 10, 2016
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    城市交通的问题

    如今，世界（上）所有的大城市都有严重（的）交通的问题。


    由于道路越来越拥挤，道路显然跟不上人口的增加。

    This sentence is not logical. Some possible corrections:

    1）由于人口的增涨，道路变得越来越拥挤 / 人口的增涨导致道路变得越来越拥挤

    2）由于道路修建的速度赶不上人口增长的速度，道路越来越拥挤 / 道路修建的速度赶不上人口增长的速度，导致道路越来越拥挤

    We're more used to describe the increase of population with “增长”


    政府有什么办法（来）缓解这些情况（呢）？

    It would be better like:

    政府采用了哪些方法来缓解这个情况呢？

    "采用（cai yong）" is more specific than "有". 

    you listed 3 possible solutions, so "哪些" is better than "什么"

    the '"situation" refers to "traffic congestion" alone, so "这个" is better


    有些城市新建高架道路，
    有些城市新建地铁网络，
    (还)有些城市甚至加宽道路。（it's more fluent this way）
    我觉得与其发展道路，不如更发展公交痛（通），同时故意经常往返者乘交通运输。（Sorry didn't understand this sentence）


    拥挤
    新建
    加宽道路
    跟不上

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    August 10, 2016
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    Make Good Use of English But for the requirement of the exchange program, which is at least 6.5 points of IELTS test, it would have been a miracle if I spent so much time of my precious summer vacation learning English. Although my English level is far from excellent, I still used to have some mysterious confidence to muddle along. But what I just experienced today really gave a blow on me. I feel really lucky to get to know a website called Quora, where people can raise questions and answer freely. I have a Chinese version, "Zhi Hu", intalled in my phone, and I usually take it as a brilliant time killer, skimming countless useless answers, every now and then bursting into laughter. Seems that I found its English counterpart, and it's worth trying to read English anecdotes given that it's inevitable to get lazy anyway. Perhaps I will also pick up some interesting new words or phrases that are closer to daily life. After reading several of them, to my surprise, they are unexpectedly easy to understand, totally different from those nerv-killing academic articles in IELTS reading section. I quickly built a sense of achievement so I kept reading for hours delightfully. I've been always curious about how foreigners think of chinese language, so I jumped to the topic "Chinese". To my surprise, manderin is by far more popular than I imagined. I saw a great number of well-organised answers demonstrating an amazingly wild rang of knowledge and some creative thought-proviking perspectives. What's even more astounding, many of them are written by foreigners from all over the world. Despite strong admiration, as a chinese, I could only walk away in shame. Then came the turning point. It's not until I finally decided to answer a question, that I really realised how weak my English actually was. It asked the difference between two simple Chinese phrases, which was for me only a piece of cake. Before I confidently typed the first word, i got stuck. I searched rapidly in my mind and I just failed to find a proper word! It was so frustrating that I just paused for a while, staring at the screen, not knowing what to do. Finally, an answer that can't be simple enough, took me over 10 minutes to complete. What a shame! After that, I considered seriously why that kind of thing happened to me. I figured out in spite of reading and once in a while writing, I didn't have many opportunities to practically use Engilsh. (too many words...) In a nut shell, I decide to write an essay every day on italki!
    August 10, 2016
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