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- Karma is when you believe that your actions now affect your life later on. This is a little different from karma in a religious/spiritual context, the meaning here is just referring to the colloquial uses that I have experienced in which it is used very loosely. For example, if you are nice to someone today, then tomorrow someone might be nice to you.If you are nice then good things will happen for/to you. But the opposite will happen as well. If you are mean, bad things might happen to you. The expression "karma's a bitch" is generally used when you did something that wasn't especially good, and it comes back to you. It's kind of a "get what you give" type of thing.0 votedApril 8, 20180
Hi Rachel -
A movie that relates to your project is "Shower" that was released in 1999 in China (I think) and 2000 in the U.S. with subtitles. I know that this is not exactly what you are looking for but you might be able to use it in some way. I watched this in my Chinese class a couple years ago and it is about a family that owns a traditional Chinese bath house and how modernization and developments were affecting their town and the historical bath house. I think maybe the government was planning to build a newer city or something...? Anyway, I hope you might be able to use this or at least find it interesting!
0 votedApril 7, 20180A really good series that I read was "Bloody Jack" by L.A. Meyer.
It's set in about 1800 and is about a girl who dresses as a boy so that she can join the british navy. It has a really interesting storyline and should be good for you to practice English with because there is not too much complicated vocabulary. I enjoyed it a lot.
The first book is called "Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy" (Bloody Jack Adventures Book 1).
You can buy the paper book or get an ebook/kindle version. It is also available for free online at 8novels.net; this should be the link for the first book if you want: https://www.8novels.net/Young_Adult/Bloody_Jacky/
I think you would really like this book - it's really good!
Let me know if you read it and how you like it!
0 votedApril 7, 20180- A. Living abroad isn't as easy as I thought. Each day presents you with a new challenge to overcome. - here, "to overcome" if referring to the action that "you" must take B. Living abroad isn't as easy as I thought. Each day presents you with a new challenge to be overcome - Correction: Each day presents a new challenge to be overcome - here, "to be overcome" refers specifically to "challenge" - "you with" would make this sentence incorrect, otherwise this sentence would work as well A is correct and B works as well if you take "you with" out. It is not more common to say one over the other. Hope this helps!0 votedApril 7, 20183
- Do the *following* sentences mean the same *thing*? Do the *following* sentences *have the same meaning*? Basically mean the same thing, but I think the situation that you would use them in would be the difference... "It seems that you can't run *very* fast." Example situation: - you go running with your friend - they can't keep up with you - you say - "it seems you that you can't run very fast" OR "you can't run very fast, can you?" "You can't seem to run *very* fast." Example situation: - you friend is training to run a race - you are helping them by timing how fast they can run a mile - they think they are getting better, but they keep getting the same time - they ask you how they did - you say - "15 minutes to run a mile for the last 4 times you ran. Sorry but you just don't seem to be able to run that fast." Sorry this exaplanation is a bit all over the place, but I hope it helped!0 votedApril 7, 20180
