| Last month | Last 3 months | All time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed lessons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Attendance rate | 100% | 100% | 100% |
- Wow, it's been close to ten years since I last posted on here, or even logged in. Was honestly surprised my profile was still active. Anyway, when I posted regularly ten years ago, I lived in Texas. Last June (2021), I moved to San Francisco. Unfortunately, in the ten years since I last used this site, I'd faded away from learning languages. But now that I am in San Francisco, I have started learning Japanese and Chinese again. 281 days ago, I started learning Japanese on Duolingo (according to my daily streak). I have 86 crowns. Last week, on Lunar New Year 2022, I started learning Chinese. I have 6 crowns. While Duo makes it much easier to learn languages than ever before, and I feel I am further along in Japanese than I ever was ten years ago (I am actually able to kind of use the Google Japanese keyboard), it can only take you so far. Which is why I flocked back to this site. I am hoping to find a language teacher to help me with both languages. This time, I plan to stick with it. When I lived in Texas, I didn't have any practical use for Japanese or Chinese, I just wanted to learn them. But now that I live in a city that actively uses both languages, I have a legitimate reason and motivation to learn them.February 7, 202213
First kiss!
This story tells about the feelings of the strange girl with the strange emotions that she experienced. Did you kiss anybody in the first time that you meet her? And how was your feelings? Will you remember that kiss or will you soon you will forget it? And the how about the feelings of the girl with the kiss?
Before talking about the emotions of the girl in this story, I think I should introduce the her characteristics of her and the situation in order for the kiss to happen the kiss. The girl, who is not so beautiful, and not so stylish, she is as normal a girl as the other girls. She is a romantic person who usually watches the Korean films, and she always feels shy when she sees the kissing senquences. She is curious about how the feeling of the kiss until she has an opportunity to kiss someone in real life. So, with the curiousity, she asked the man who dated with her in the first time that, “Can she try to kiss him? She really wants to know what the feeling of the kiss”. Of course, in that situation, is there any man who disagrees with her doing that? Absolutely, no one, right? And the awkward kiss happened. Maybe, with the man who kisses the girl will not have so much feeling, but with the girl, that is a first kiss in of her life, and that kiss will follow her for her whole life. The kiss brings for her a lot of emotion of the pure love, of the first feeling of love.[These edits are based on what I thought you were trying to say, so I could have misinterpreted what you were getting at]
0 votedAugust 24, 20132- Learning a new language I joined this site on 26 January 2011 for the sole purpose of learning Japanese. Now, I have added a new language. My girlfriend's first language is Spanish, and it often causes problems due to the language barrier. So I have decided to take up Spanish for her, and while I will still be learning Japanese, Spanish will now be my primary language to learn.August 24, 201300
First notebook entry: Introducing myself
Hello everyone. First of all, I want to introduce myself. I'm a girl named zhangjingping from China and I major in English and I really want to learn it very well because I like it so much. Actually, it was really magical for me to fall in love with English, I remembered it was when I was 16 and one of my friends told me about a song named "Yesterday Once More" and I felt it was such a beautiful song. From then on, I told myself that I'd try my best to learn English and understand more wonderful English songs. Now as you see I'm here to learn it and to pursue my dream. That's me; a girl who is loving English!
(I understand that this was written three years ago and that you're English is likely to have improved by then, but I can see by reading this that back in 2010 your biggest problem was capitolizing words. Not sure how far along you are now, but if you want, I'd be glad to help you improve, no matter what level you're at.)
0 votedJuly 5, 20132- Return to teaching I took two years off teaching because it was going nowhere. But now I think I want to try it again. I'll do things a little different this time. I'm only going to accept certain students. It really just depends on the the student, and their profile, so I can't really list the things I will take into consideration. There could be two identical students requesting a lesson and I might only accept one of them. I will say that if I look at their profile and see they've only done trial sessions then I won't even waste my time with them. These kind of student just goes from teacher to teacher and does the cheap/free trial sessions, which is wasteful. If we do a lesson and you either refuse to confirm it happened or report me and claim I didn't turn up when I did, I will report you (or dispute the claim).July 5, 201300
Do I Deserve to be Treated as a Cheap Labour Only Because I Know a Little English?
You are wasting my time!
It's not my fault to be nice, or maybe it is, I just should have been Miss Nice.
So I deserve it because I'm just able to speak in English, huh?
So you all can just throw a pile of English assignment to me and say, "Hey, Leah, translate it for me, I know you're nice."
And I said "Oh I'm sorry I really have no time for that. I have papers to write and it's tough, about damn prostitution."
"OH COME ON, are you kidding me? Isn't translation a piece of cake for you? Please, I'll die if I can't finish it, last time, I promise!"
Oh man, another LAST TIME!
Why am I good at it?
When I was preacticing it crazily, what were you doing?
When I was listening in class, where did your minds go?
Where the hell were you when I worked with oversea students team the whole summer?
Sleeping? Chasing girls? Hanging out in the street? Playing DOTA?
I'm a nice friend that doesn't mean I'm a cheap labour who's 24-hour available for you and your silly emergency!
You want a translator? Turn to Google! I don''t care whether you will just end the friendship or not, because I have no reason to keep it! I'm fed up with it!0 votedMay 1, 20122Dad's Singing
Recently, my dad signed up to perform singing in a coming night party which is held by his company for celebrating the coming spring festival. He is a very earnest guy; whenever he does something he engages himself in it completely.
And that was where my nightmare began. Everyday, wherever he goes he sings, his bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, and even at dinners when he’s not chewing. Not to mention that he is not a very good singer, although he’s not totally off key, but as I remember he used to sing pretty well. I don’t know, is it that I get my memory wrong or it’s just like when people are little, fathers are heros with shining glory. As time pass by, we turn out to find that they are just normal person, so we become disappointed that they can’t live up to our expectations.
Anyway, he practices a lot, when music is no longer pleasant for audience it become kind of a torture. The worse thing is that he’s quite confident in himself, or should I say blindly confident. He thinks he could be a second Luciano Pavarotti. I must say that I am impressed by his enthusiasm that he practises very early in the morning. But everyday when I am wake up in his singing at about six, I wanna knock myself out to go back to my dream. I don’t understand how can the neighbours not be complaining or they have planned on revenging secretly?
There are still one week and a half until his performance. Hope I could survive by then.0 votedFebruary 3, 20120
