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Crying
I saw a topic about "crying".
When we grow up we don't cry anymore. This is because it's kind of* a sign of weakness and also we've been taught not to cry when we were a child.
However, But why do parents teach children not to cry, but they don't teach them how to deal with it when they feel sad ...It's an interesting issue.*'like' might be a slightly better word choice than 'kind of'
0 votedApril 12, 2019016/100 Shooting attacks in the world!
In the last week we have seen a series of sad news about shooting attacks. First in a school in São Paulo, later in New Zealand a terrible attack against a mosque in New Zealand, and today an attack in the Netherlands.
In São Paulo, those responsible were a 25 year old man and a 17 year old teenager. They killed one man before start the attack inside the school, in which and more seven more people were killed inside the school. Lastly, as he had planned, the teenager killed his partner and killed himself.
Because of this I've been reading about shooters' attacks and I found a psychologist's article who tried to draw the profile of the school shooting attackers. The first thing believed was that they are all psychopaths, but from analyzing 150 shooters' profiles it is not true. According to the article, 49% were psychotic with schizophrenia and listening voices, 32% were psychopaths and 19% were traumatized with the history of family abuse and bullying in the school.
So, it was very sad and it's an important subject to deal with in society. I leave my condolences to the affected families.
I have set a challenge for myself, to write one entry per day for one hundred days. Please, help me to correct my notebook entries.0 votedMarch 19, 20191Diary #9 How difficult conversations in foreign language is.
I have been studying English for about nine years. I studied English for entrance exams for high school and the college for the first seven years combined, especially in the first six years, and I started to practice speaking English two years ago. Now I'm taking four classes in English with American students at a college. I can understand most of the things that the professor mentions. However, once it comes to conversation, I face many difficulties; I cannot catch on to what native speakers are talking about, and I cannot express my thoughts. The reasons why I can understand classes is that the professors speak clearly and use clean grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciations.
In contrast, the reasons why I cannot communicate with American people is that they use slang and idioms while we, English learners, never learn them in classrooms. Also, they speak fast. I feel that I have to spend another decade to learn English to be a better English speaker.0 votedMarch 19, 20190Keeping a diary
Today is good. I had training for my student circulation assistant job in a library this afternoon, which took me three hours. The training isn't over. I have to spend another 3 hours tomorrow morning. It's kind of tiring, but it's interesting too. I have become more familiar with this library, and I now know what does the label on the books mean. One of my major tasks is to reshelve the books that students and staff return, and it requires me to be very careful because if I reshelve an item wrongly/incorrectly, that item will technically be lost. Much effort will be needed to find that book.
Another thing I feel good about myself is that I could follow almost 95 percent of what the trainer said. I remembered when I just came to America, it was so hard for me to understand what others said if they spoke very fast. Sometimes, I just smiled and nodded, pretending I understood every single word they said. But who knew at that time I had no idea what they were talking about. It took me 8 months to feel comfortable listening to native speakers without worrying about what I should do if I missed something important. However, there were still some sentences I couldn't quite get, such as a joke or slang or something like that. That's maybe the hardest part left for me to fix because that's kind of a cultural issue. Well, I won't give up, just keep going, one day I believe I will make it.0 votedMarch 19, 20192permissive parenting style
permissive
Another benefit along with permissive parenting style is about family relationship. It is well-known that overbearing parents often make children want to rebel. The conflicts between parents and children get fierce when children are entering adolescence, where they are seeking more freedom and independence. They are more willing to share with happiness and sorrow with their parents and resort to parents them for advice if they are treated equally. This is the reason why children often keep a strong relationship with democratic parents.
On the other side, children may feel neglected and fall into emotional stress if parents give too much freedom and show little affection. Some parents are too overwhelmed by their own business and fail to take care of their children. Children from those families may suffer from emotional stress and tend to have a harder time forming attachments to people later in life because their parents failed to show them some basic skills related to interpersonal relationships.0 votedMarch 17, 20192the graduating article
Comparative study of the luxury purchasing motivation between Chinese and Japanese university students- focusing on university students in Guangzhou and Kyoto-
Gist
According to a report by a consulting firm, China and Japan are the major luxury consuming countries in the world. In both China and Japan, the consumption of luxury goods has become a social trend, and young people will now play a leading role in the growth of the luxury market. The purpose of this article is to find out the motivations for the purchasing of luxury goods by Chinese and Japanese university students, and to compare the characteristics of them. A survey was conducted at the same time with university students in Guangzhou and Kyoto. And As a result, it is able to understand the characteristics of the luxury consumption psychology and* motivation of university students in both countries, and predicting the future market for university students were able to be understood. In this way, it can be a hint to think about the effective marketing strategy of Chinese luxury companies and the content worth referencing to the development of Chinese luxury consumption culture.
Keywords: consuming motivation, luxury, university students, comparative study between Chinese and Japanese
*This sentence is a bit difficult to understand, because of the long subjects between the two "and"'. I would try adjusting the sentence so that there is only one 'and'. Perhaps replacing the starred 'and' with a comma or 'including', and any other adjustments to get the idea across clearly...
0 votedMarch 17, 20190Hello
These days, I am learning to speak English speaking in a company. English speaking is so difficult to me. I think my speaking fluency is a tiny bit* better when I talk about some topics I like, but in the opposite case**, I am just going to say "um.. uh.." over and over again.
And My teacher said told me to use fewer sentences that starts with "I," which is too difficult.*Could also use "a little better" or "a little bit better"
**A good expression to use instead of "in the opposite case" is "on the other hand"
0 votedMarch 17, 20191Today's lunch
I ate pasta and pizza at lunch in Okayama.It was very nice !!
'It's' is the conjunction for 'it is', but not for 'it was'.
You want to keep the tense the same for both sentences in this situation. So if you want to use 'it's', the first sentence should be like, "I am eating pasta and pizza for lunch in Okayama. It's very nice."
0 votedMarch 17, 20190A good restaurant (107 words)
My friend, Oskar, emailed me. He asked me about a nice restaurant that I know. He wants to take his family out for a nice meal.
I suggested him to take his family out to an ABC Japanese restaurant near the station.
The ABC restaurant serves excellent seafood, especially since they have fresh raw fish, “Sashimi.” They can enjoy not only various types of seafood but also “Yakitori,” Japanese style BBQ.
When I visited there last week, I had to wait for about an hour. Many people will go there on weekends. If he wants to go there, he’d better make a reservation in advance as soon as possible.0 votedMarch 14, 20191India vs Australia Cricket Juego
India played its last official ODI before the World Cup, which is going to be held in England. The series loss to Australia has come as a reality check for the mighty famed Indian ODI team. As the glitzy IPL commences from April, players and management have their task cut out to keep the players in form and shape ready for the 50 over world cup ahead.
Coming to the decider of the series between India and and Australia, initially it was the classical approach of the consistent Usman Khawaja, rightfully the player of the series, who gave the Aussies the platform of a good start, scoring his second century of the series. Good partnerships for the second and third wickets gave them the hope of posting a score in excess of 300. Subsequently, India struck twice with Ravindra Jadeja picking up wickets in the middle overs, and was nicely assisted by the leg spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who was expensive on a low and slow turning track. As a result, Australia lost 5 wickets in a matter of 45 runs. But their lower order ensured they got more than par total on the tricky Ferozshah Kotla pitch helped by the unnecessary aggression by the Indian bowlers and careless fielding towards the end.
In the second innings, the Indian openers failed to put up a strong start as their opponents did. Moreover, the mainstay of the Indian chase, Virat Kohli got out early, leading to an inferior run rate. As Indian batters tried to build up their innings, their consolidated effort was dented by the Australian spinners - Lyon and Zampa. Together both the spinners choked the flow of runs bowling in tandem. Eventually, India lost wickets trying to release the pressure of increasing their run rate by going for risky shots. Though, the Indian lower middle order tried to consolidate and tried to take the game deep, with no batting credibility of India's lower order meant that it was just delaying the inevitable. In the end, India lost by 35 runs and the series by 2-3 to Australia.
Overall, it was a nice game of cricket and a good experience for the young players on both the sides. While India tried to experiment and figure out the their squad for the world cup, Australia got back to winning and discovered their form after losing several series on trot.
It was my first attempt on Italki to describe a cricket match, a sport, i am really passionate about.
Cheers and gracias!I really enjoyed reading this as it brought some nostalgic memories about cricket from my childhood. A sentence or two in the second paragraph might be a little long, which could be improved by dividing them into shorter separate sentences. Otherwise, really good!
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