How to protect the environment

Everyone can do something to protect our environment. Because more and more people follow(1) the environment. I think we should protect the environment, too. As <s style="background-color: rgb(235, 214, 255);">our </s>students, we should ride bikes and take buses to go to school. Walking to(2) school is best because it can keep our bodies healthy(3). We can try(4) our best to advise our parents to drive less. Next, we should use both sides of paper. Don't use <s style="background-color: rgb(235, 214, 255);">the </s>paper cups and disposable chopsticks because these actions(5) protect the(6) environment. Finally, we should plant more trees and flowers to keep the air clean and fresh. Don't cut down more trees. If we protect the(6) environment, the earth will become beautiful.

Yes! We can all do our part to care for the earth we share.

(1) I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean, "More and more people are paying attention to the environment" or, "More and more people support environmental causes"?

(2) We walk to school (note preposition). A walking school would be a place that people go to learn how to walk.

(3) Native speakers would usually say, "keep our bodies healthy" (adjective at the end). "Keep our healthy bodies" connotes that you might lose your healthy body in the same way that you lose your keys (钥匙不见了，我找不到). It does not mean that your health will deteriorate.

(4) You need a subject / verb construction in this sentence, so I gave you "We (subj) can try (verb)"

(5) "actions" clarifies that you are not referring to paper cups and disposable chopsticks. Those "things" do not protect the environment.

(6) Remember the article.

My new start

Dear friends,

Firstly l will introduce myself. My name is Xiangkun, and I'm from China. I'm 37 years old. I want to learn English now. I don't know how to improve my English, so I have come here for help. I want to become friends with you. If you want to learn Chinese (中文), I think we can help each other. I'm very happy to meet you here. Let's help each other and get better and better at English and Chinese. Best wishes to all of you.

Agile development

Nowadays agile development is good for complex projects. Agile development is actually iterative development and incremental development. Iterative development means there is a repeated(1) development cycle. Incremental development means developing something new in every development cycle.

Agile software development has four values: 1. Programmers are more important than flows and tools. 2. A working piece of software is better than a detailed document. 3. Communicating well with customers is better than contracts and negotiation. 4. Adapting to changes is better than following the plan.

(1) "repetitive" has the connotation that it could become boring.

Thanks for some good reminders about when agile development is most helpful!

Dear Peter

Dear Peter,

I'm very glad to talk about (1) Chinese with you. As you know, more and more people are learning Chinese all over (2)the world. So you are interested in Chinese. I have some suggestions for you. First, you should practice Chinese every day just like you practice English every day(3). And you should write notes in(4) Chinese; that is(5) very important. Next, you should watch more Chinese movies and listen to Chinese songs. You can try to learn them(6). Finally, you should make some Chinese friends. If you chat with(7) them in Chinese, it can improve your Chinese.

I'm looking forward to your coming to China.

Yours, Li Hua

All of this is good advice for me too! I'm really enjoying your series of notes this week.

Some of these changes are simply to clarify your meaning and help your writing sound more fluid.

(1) 'talk about Chinese' means you are discussing the topic of Chinese. Alternately, 'speak Chinese,' would mean you are using the language of Chinese to communicate.

(2) What you had was correct. This change just sounds more fluid to my native ears.

(3) 'practice Chinese like English' could be confusing, so I added an explanation.

(4) Note the preposition. We write in a language, whereas a book is written by an author.

(5) Use the singular. The act of writing is important, not the notes themselves.

(6) Use the plural to refer to movies and songs.

(7) We chat with someone, whereas we can message someone (no preposition).