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I'm a mature age student and a single mum, I learned Chinese at university via the text book, Xin shi yong han yu ke ben 1, 2, and 3. I would like to speak more and develop some fluency. I really would like to speak to Chinese people and be able to listen and understand them. My son will be learning Chinese next year with the Kongzi Xue Yuan here in Newcastle and as a parent I have to sit in his class with him to help. I want us to speak Chinese at home to practice and really be able to take our learning to the next level. I aim to live and work in China for a little while, we love Chinese food and Chinese culture and really want to experience this. I know from a couple of trips there and to Singapore, that if we can speak Mandarin we can access the culture more and go exploring off the tourist track. Me and my son have also studied a bit of zhong guo shu fa and I absolutely love it! It is a passion of mine and I hope i can share that with my son when he starts learning. My background: I come from ten years of Teaching ESL and Humanities subjects. My last teaching job was in Brunei in SE Asia teaching to the iGCSE ESL. I have taught in Melbourne, Western Sydney and England. I aim to do my CELTA and enjoy a four week holiday in Sydney and be able to go to China to study Archaeology and speak Chinese and maybe teach adults. I have moved on from teaching in schools and at this stage in my life I am looking for other experiences as there is more to life than just the classroom :)
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    Diary on 13th Dec

    Now, I'm looking for a place to move into, and I've got a viewing yesterday in the evening. I didn't expect this at all but the viewing went in an interesting way (this is a little awkward perhaps another way to express this?) and I had a lovely night after all.

    The thing What I like the most in the house is that they have a fireplace in the living room. When I got arrived at the house, the landlord first let led me in to the living room to get warm. The evening was very cold and windy, so I was more than happy to follow.

    Another great thing was that there is a girl living there, and both the landlord and the girl loves music. She plays the guitar and the piano, and he can also play the guitar, and the tin whistle! The landlord got excited when I told him I can play the whistle as well. He took out his whistle and asked me for a tune. When I was playing, the girl came back home and we three played together. Each of us played their favorite tunes one after another. The landlord opened a bottle of red wine for us. (Not needed, but express maybe a different way or expand on this idea of the red wine. The paragraph isn't finished here.)

    When I left the house, (we already know it's the house) it was almost 11pm. I was spending spent more than 3 hours there! I'm not sure I'm going to take this room, but even if I didn't, don't I'd like to come over to (to what? need something here? What are you going to do to them? ) them sometimes.

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    December 15, 2018
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    To me the first sentence sounds more natural, I actually find the same with my text book chinese...
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    December 4, 2018
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    No, it's all bogus.

    You need to research regenerative farming. Key players include Peter ballerstedt, Amber Ohern, Dr Shawn Baker, low carb down under has some good YouTube clips.

    Basically, eating wheat or rice for example, releases huge amounts of carbon stored in soils. Regenerative farming practices for beef ag requires less water, no turn the soil and releasing carbon, supports the ecosystems and soil micro organisms, restores the water cycle. Beef is also a complete food full of nutrients with regenerative farming we can feed the world and reverse global warming with in five years. 

    But don't take my word for it, look at the research in this field, those names will get you started. And have an informed opinion yourself.


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    December 4, 2018
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    English food culture, please help me to have a check

    Because of most fresh vegetables that citizens people could buy in the English supermarkets, are imported from Africa (Dolan et al, 2000), .the vegetables bought in to London won’t change because of the weather, so that the dishes won’t be changed with the seasons. Also, the warm weather allowed English people hint (not sure what you mean here exactly? )animals and fishing as food for a long time, and after getting prey, they use fire to roast it( are you talking about the Neolithic period?) (Mingjuan, 2012). In the modern society, this habit has been preserved，when English people cook dishes with less spicy e and keep large pieces of meat or seafood, thus retaining the natural flavor of ingredients.

    English people emphasize (American spelling here, British and Australian us an 's') everyone as individual, this traditional thinking also affect the English eating process. Customers, from the old to the children,    (I  know what you mean but maybe there's another way to say this, when I eat with my family I don't see them as customers.)own their own dishes in their own plates, they just need to manage their own dishes (Chinese people eating culture, 2017). Therefore, they can use knives and folks to cut the food in their own dishes.

    OKay, great, meaning is a little unclear in some cases. A rule of thumb, keep it simple! Is your meaning clear? Sometimes less words are better. If referencing with APA you need a reference list on a separate page. I'm not sure about some of the information.

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    November 26, 2018
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    Should you say "I don't know what/which the best place to stay in NY is" or "I don't know what/which place is (the) best to stay in NY" or "I don't know what/which is the best place to stay in NY? For me it's more natural to say, I don't know where the place is to stay in NY. or I don't know what is the best place to stay in NY. or I don't know which is the best place to stay in NY. ( for an Australian this might become a question due to accent and intonation). Good question, got me thinking :)
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    November 26, 2018
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    Day 17 : A Football match

    Last night my parents, my niece and I watched a football match between Vietnam and Cambodia. This was the last match between of both two (both and two mean the same thing here.) teams before the knockout stage of the 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup. Before this match, there was no possibility for Cambodia to get into the knockout stage so they started the match confident and freely. They did not have to play to get any points or any targets so it was not easy for Vietnamese player to score in 30 first minutes.

        (New idea or topic = new paragraph) In general, all the teams who joined the AFF cup this year had played better than last time. Some teams was were  (were is plural) estimated   (not quite the right word here) predicted as a weak team (general rule of thumb, try to avoid using the same word more than once in a sentence)   before but then they played cool (cool is okay, how about amazing?) and surprised the audiences. The improvements of all the teams made every match more interesting.


    The results of the match satisfied Vietnamese supporters but it was not the most impressive thing to happen. of the match. After the first score of  to Vietnam, to celebrate the score, all the Vietnamese players stood together, held on a national T-shirt uniform in which numbered "9" and looked forward to a player sitting on substitute bench. The player number 9 had had an injury on his knee before the match started and maybe he could not attend the next matches of this game. In the previous match, he broke Myanmar's net but the score was not recognized because a lineman saw it offside. However it was onside when people saw that situation   the replay   in slow motion. Seeing the celebration of his companions, he was surprised and welled up (his eyes) could not help his tears falling. At the end of the match, all the audiences said out loud "Go on Van Toan", "Go on Vietnam" to show their love and to encourage Van Toan and all the team also.


    Good stuff! Like I mentioned earlier, try to avoid using the same word more than once in a sentence. Audience and Improvement are inferred plurals and do not need an added 's' in this context.

    On a side note, I was in Ha Noi during a soccer cup and I rememeber everyone out in the streets around Haon Kiem Lake, on their scooters, tooting horns, waving flags, singing all together! Was an amazing experience. The Vietnamese truly love their soccer.

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    November 26, 2018
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    This is a great question, gets me thinking. In English when we don't know the time exactly, we use terms indicating generally or roughly or approximately. Also English can be lazy or we don't really worry or care when Tim started work. So, the last two sentences, it means.Tim has been working for Disney for a long time but not every day, sometimes he works this week and sometimes he doesn't work other weeks. So on and off mean inconsistently but still works with Disney. And in this context it doesn't really matter when.he started. The second sentence means Tim's been making films for the last 20 years. But we don't really need to know when.he started either, it doesn't matter here, what matters is his general years if experience. Hope that helps,
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    November 26, 2018
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    No they are not. Compulsory means you have to do it, like a subject at university you must do to pass,this subject is compulsory. Compulsive means something you do as a habit and can't stop yourself, my sister always fixes her tea cups the right way which is compulsive. She doesn't think about it and it annoys everyone but she feels better to have them her way... Compulsive is also a strong feeling to do something but not like an addiction. Hope that helps.
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    November 26, 2018
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    1. This means moving your fingers along the keys, higher notes means going up. 2. I don't know yoga very well but I assume this means move into the next pose smoothly, implying you continue the moves without a stop. 3. Again, the ball is moving to that position, maybe it is rolling maybe it is not. 4. This is more slang, which means people turn up to the venue or place or something at 5pm. In Australia we also say rock up to mean the same thing, it's very informal use. 5. Here it means to finish something as in the tweetable, or event or speech. Best.
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    November 26, 2018
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    November 25, 2018
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