La pubblicità

Oggi è certamente di attualità parlare della pubblicità (Direi piuttosto: La pubblicità è certamente un argomento di attualità). <s>La pubblicità </s>è diventata una parte importante della nostra vita e non è più possibile evitarla. Ci colpisce da ogni parte, senza sosta e con ogni mezzo.

Viviamo nell'epoca del consumismo irresponsabile, la pubblicità con i suoi meccanismi di persuasione <s>stringe</s> spinge l'uomo a comprare sempre più cose inutili. La pubblicità moderna è basata sull'uso delle emozioni e dei valori e al giorno d'oggi le persone non comprano solo un prodotto, ma anche una "storia" legata ad esso <s>questo prodotto</s>. Per esempio, il marchio Gucci promuove la parità di genere, la diversità e l’empowerment delle donne. Per questo i consumatori che rispettano(/sostengono) questi <s>qualità</s> principi lo preferiscono agli altri marchi. Purtroppo, però, tutti questi slogan e valori non hanno niente a che fare con la realtà e sono stati creati solo per attrarre l'attenzione.

Alcuni prodotti come iPhone o Bentley servono anche per comunicare lo status sociale o emotivo del consumatore. <em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">(Molto interessante, ma vorrei sapere perché.. Un esempio?)</em>

Anche le persone comuni prendereanno sempre più parte a questa competizione sfrenata. Grazie ai social network tutti possono creare il proprio negozio e promuoverlo usando i diversi strumenti disponibili.

Purtroppo, però, senza investire nella pubblicità è abbastanza difficile farsi notare. Anche se un prodotto è veramente buono e utile, bisogna creare una persuasiva campagna pubblicitaria per venderlo. Inoltre, tutti marchi devono continuamente aggiornarsi per restare al vertice.

<em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">CIao! Testo ben fatto e molto interessante! Ho fatto alcune aggiunte per farlo suonare più naturale e modificato alcune cose per essere più coerente con il contesto. Ancora una volta, brava! :)</em>

Ciao:)

Ciao, sono Masha. Piacere di conoscerti. Sono russa, abito a Khabarovsk con la mia famiglia. Io lavoro di mattina e studio di sera. Sono insegnante di inglese e traduttrice di giapponese. L’italiano è una bella lingua!

<em>Ciao! Brava!</em>

Water scarcity

Nowadays, we are facing the threat of water scarcity. This essay will discuss the reasons behind that, and think about how to solve it (a strategy to solve it - sounds better).

With the growth of population (population growth), the demand for water resources is increasing tremendously (dramatically) . Whatever agricultural, industrial, or domestic use of water has been rising at a dramatic rate. At the same time, some rivers, lakes, and seas are suffering from pollution <s>from</s> due to frequent human activities. Also, improper use of water can be seen everywhere. Huge amounts of water are wasted by factories, farms, and families every day.

Therefore, we should take some measures to solve the problem. The government should control the population growth rate for sustainable development. Meanwhile, those factories or individuals who cause (produce) a lot of water pollutants should be punished <s style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">at</s> and heavily fined. As <s>a</s> citizens, we should try to cherish more water by doing things as simple as reusing the dirty water to flush the toilet, turning off the tap when we are brushing our teeth, etc.. And the educational department should emphasize the shortage of freshwater, and make students care more about the use of water and reduce waste of water. In addition, scientific research on desalination technology should be encouraged and funded more. For example, scientists can focus on converting seawater to freshwater.

In conclusion, there is a range of reasons for the lack of fresh water, such as the growth of population, water pollution, and the arbitrary use of freshwater resources. We should take some steps to ease the issue, like control the population growth rate, promote the academic research on alternative sources of freshwater, and most importantly, do some simple things to reduce the waste of water by ourselves.

Diary 2019.8.2

Today I met Dasha through Italki and I had a great conversation with her.She is a very responsible teacher I think and I like her American accent.She said she would help me improve my English grammar and she recommended a list of comedians to me.The weather is not good, it rains cats and dogs <s>all day</s> (or <em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">It has been raining cats and dogs the whole day</em>).

Reading "The Empire Should Die"

I'm still trying to maintain my <em>practice </em>(habit) of writing two notebook entries a day - one devoted to new words and another one devoted to work with a context. It simply means that I write two different structures: separate sentences and sort of a story. However, every time I struggle with choosing a topic\I have some difficulties with choosing a topic for a narrative. It's not so easy when you've already written about 500 entries.

This time I'd like to write about a book I'm currently reading. Its title is "The Empire Should Die" and It was written by the young and talented Russian journalist Michael Zygar. This is a wide picture of the Russian life not long before the two Russian revolutions of 1917. Michael wrote it in a popular style but <s>referring to\</s>with reference to a broad range of historical sources. He claims that that "inevitable tragedy" wasn't inevitable at all, and he tries to <em>view </em>(or <em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">picture</em>) the historical process through the roles the most prominent Russian people of that time played in that tragedy (or <em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">that were played by the most prominent</em>....). It's (I would repeat the subject. sometimes it's good to remind people what we're talking about) The book is easy to read and it absorbs you completely. I also remembered <s>our</s> the poor and miserable textbooks we used when we were Soviet schoolboys. <s>The</s> History looked like something that had started exactly in 1917 with the most significant and leading role of the Communist party and Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin. However, it's so clear today that the country was full of brilliant and charismatic people - businessmen, artists, scientists and liberal activists - and this enormous contradiction between all of them and the old, absolute Russian monarchy was the sole (the base?) for the revolutions.

I like that time - the beginning of 20th century - not only because of the flourishing Russian culture, but also because we completely lost that country later on. <s>The</s> World War I and the consequent revolutions destroyed everything the empire had managed to accumulate to that moment (everything? You could expand, or give some examples of things that were accumulated during the imperial period). The rest of the history of Russia in the 20th century was a story of suffering and tremendous number of human casualties due to the experiment the Communist Party <em style="background-color: rgb(255, 235, 204);">organized</em><em> </em>(<em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">undertook</em>) in 1917. A handful of bandits managed to <em style="background-color: rgb(255, 235, 204);">use</em> (<em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">take advantage of </em>) the situation of national strife and сame to power for a long period of 70 years.

However, nothing can be hidden and the historical truth will,<em> sooner or later</em>, be rediscovered.

Hey! good job! I hope I haven't missed anything and that this can be useful!

About my mother tongue (Japanese)

My mother tongue is Japanese.

There are about 127 million people who speak Japanese as their native language.

In Japanese, there are three types of written characters, <em>which are </em>(I would have used namely) Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

Kanji was <em>made </em>(or <em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">created</em>) in ancient China. Each <em>of them (</em><em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">character</em><em>)</em> has its own meaning.

Hiragana and Katakana are used when there are no Kanji representation or <em>write its Kanji</em> (meaning: <em style="background-color: rgb(204, 232, 204);">the text is in Kanji</em>?).

The difference between Hiragana and Katakana is that Hiragana is used for native Japanese words.

On the other hand Katakana is used for writing loan words, foreign languages and foreign names.

For example, when we write the word ''Philippine'', we use Katakana.

Due to these reasons, Many people say that Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn.

The 28th of July - a Friend of MacDo

Hello, I am Machi. It’s nice to meet you here.

Could you correct me? I would love to learn more natural expressions for the spoken language.

After it's corrected, I will try to practice speaking it. Thank you so much! =)

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A few months ago, I got a new friend who lives in Mulhouse in France. <s>And </s>we've met several times before.

Yesterday, he came over to Strasbourg, where I live currently, for <s>his </s>work. So we decided to meet (each other) after <s>the </s>work. It's been a long time since we met last time so I was excited.

We met <s>together </s>and we went to MacDo to grab a bite and talk. But he was basically looking at his phone. Moreover, in less than an hour after we met, he said, 'I'll take a train in 20 minutes to go back home.' and soon he left. He looked fine, was not in a bad mood or a trouble. So... WHY DID YOU ASK ME? I felt like I was just there for you not to be alone while <s>to </s>grabbing something, or <s>something</s> what? Am I such a boring person? What the hell was that?

A while ago, <em>even though he was like this yesterday </em>(unclear. Like this? How?), <em>he asked me on the text</em> like (I would have used "He texted me") “Hey Machi, Maybe I will go to Strasbourg to chill next week, MAYBE” ...Hey, come on...

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p.s. I replied just "Ah good!" haha

Thank you for reading and I would be so happy if you correct me. Thank you again.

Hey! I did my best. Your text was already really good, I hope this can help!

My opinion about Italki

I think Italki is a great way to learn languages. You can upload your own <s>written </s> text and <s>to </s>be corrected at time ("right away" may be a better option?) by members from all over the world, and of course, <s>make </s> do the same with the questions or entries of others.

It’s great when the things work with just the feedback that all (I would have used everybody) <s>propose </s> give (gives if you use everybody)together. It’s a clue (I would have written "It's the evidence") that human will is still alive.

Unlike <s>to </s>other social networks, italki is one where you can learn from others, share your knowledge, and even make more real friends than other ones that just find (not clear. What do you mean?) to show us superficial things from the member’s life.

Therefore, I think Italki is called to be (is going to be) a more popular social network <s>in </s>some years <s>forward</s> from now, when more and more people <s>left </s> will leave (left is the past tense but you're talking about the future) other network sites (websites/social networks) in order to spend their time in a profitable way.

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Thank you for reading my post. If there are mistakes on it you're welcome to correct them!