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Hello there. My name is Reishi. I'm a game content designer from Vietnam. I'm 25, and happily married. Honestly, conversations with strangers are usually not my thing - both in virtual life and in real life. I've always considered myself an introvert. And I didn't quite bother with this, until recently. I guess I've reached that state in life - when we feel like it's time to step out of our comfort zone and take a peek at the world around us. So yeah, this is my first step x"D I have no problem with my standard reading and typing skills, as I do read and write a lot in English. But when it comes to speaking and listening... *poof* there goes my confidence, in the blink of an eye. Sadly, unlike the former skills, this is not something I could improve on my own. So here I am, looking for conversation partners. You don't need to be super fluent in English or so, as long as you don't mind talking with an introverted/childish person in a casual way, I think we're good :"D (you might still need some *extra* patience to deal with me though... ah wait, perhaps you've already got it if you still haven't skipped this hell of a long speech xD) What could I offer you in return? Let's see... I could sing a bit (my voice won't kill ya, I guarantee xD). I could show you cute photos of my beloved cats :"3 (yes I'm totally a cat person LOL). I could meow in different styles too (I learn these from my cats x"D). Just pick your option for a good laugh :"3 If you're interested in learning Vietnamese, we could try exchanging languages too. I've never done this before but I hope this could be a nice experience for us :"D (or not, I tend to get nervous easily so things might get awkward sometimes... but don't worry at least you can have something to laugh at x"D) P.S: Please contact me only if you're looking for friendly conversation partners, not for flirting purpose. Thank you :"D
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    Because the sentence is long, I will break it down into 2 main parts to explain better: - Each component demanded just slightly less than it gave => each component gave you a lot of benefits, but in return, you also needed to take care of them (through maintenance work, as Michael has mentioned in the answer above). The amount of care they required ("demanded") is almost equal to the benefit they gave ("just slightly less than") - needing to be tended and maintained, filled and unfilled, hauled and dumped, pumped and primed and stoked and monitored. => this part is just listing down the particular actions for the maintenance work
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    Could someone help me make sense of this sample recording, please? Hi there. I've recently taken an online listening test. And out of their sample recordings, there was one that I couldn't understand at all. I asked a native English friend and he helped me to interpret several parts of it, but we still couldn't make sense of it overall (there was no way to save the recording directly from the test, so I recorded it again through my speaker, which led to quite a drop in quality) It's been bugging me ever since. If you have the time to spare, would you please help me on this matter? Please find the recording here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxycMOcpOsmQV9ZMXRRVUhQWmM/view?usp=sharing (I've uploaded it on Google drive because I don't know how else to share an audio file here) This was the original question of the test: "The woman is talking about a talk which happened in 1.a university 2.parliament 3.a law court 4.a church" I figure the answer might be the 4th option. But I couldn't be sure unless I really understand she was talking about.*This is what I could make of the recording so far, with the help of my friend: "I think that I want to come out of it feeling that I've been changed, that I've been taught something, or more than that. I wanted to feel stirred, and they (just?) pay attention. I want to feel a sort of passion. I was particularly thrilled (?) by Jenny Greyson (?) and got a sense of this place, its history, this now (?) and I thought it was very vivid. She brought these scriptural (?) texts into the present and said "this is about you and about me", and I think it doesn't matter where you are on the faith spectre (?) because these texts are universal and they speak to the human hearts in all times and in all places. I think that's what I want to feel (...???) (I can't figure out the last words she said) Please let me know if there is any wrong word. I'd really appreciate some further explanation, too. Thank you for your time!
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    I cannot speak for other people, but here is how I deal with my loneliness: I don't try to overcome it, I accept it, and even embrace it sometimes.

    I've come to realize that the more I try to deny or suppress how I truly feel, the more likely they would take root and slowly consume me from the inside. Of course, vending out how I feel with others isn't always an option. It'd be great if you could find someone to reach out at the time. But often people might be too occupied with their problems to bother with mine, and relying on others to make me feel better would just make me become more dependent and desperate against my emotions. Nope, this is own my feeling - so I had better face it myself. And I do that by writing it down, or even do some doodles to visualize what I feel, or listen to songs about loneliness and sing along. Books and movies could help a lot, too. Or if I feel so overwhelmed, I'd simply cry my eyes out until I fall asleep. 

    As I've grown used to it, I realize loneliness isn't that bad. Not really. It is just one of the pieces of life, a moment that would come and go. It'll come back again, but it won't last. Also, when I write down how I feel, it helps me to reflect and understand a lot about myself. The side effect is that I might have become quite an introverted and self-centered person, but on the bright side my mind could focus on what I truly want, and my own kind of happiness, instead of passively following what other people tend to expect from me just for the sake of avoiding being lonely or 'left out'.

    Again, this could work for me but not for you. Even though we all call it 'loneliness', how each of us perceives our loneliness may be different. Keep trying whatever you think that could help, and see what would work best for you. Best of luck :)

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