Learning About Cosmetics

I just watched a video on cosmetics and learned that before I put on foundation, primer is used. Afterwards, I could use concealer to hide my dark circles and put on highlight to enhance my cheeks. Also dabbing contour along the lower jaw behind my chin is effective in making my face look smaller.

When I was thinking about how to put on makeup, I realized that I didn’t even know what those cosmetics were called in Chinese. Learning a language does expose a person to new information she wouldn’t know if she didn’t study.

Prudent, really well written. Thank you for sharing! I like primer too!

Who's summer vacation?

July and August are school summer vacation in Taiwan. One of my sons is going to be a 4 grade elementary school student. He stayed at his grandfather and grandmother's house everyday while we went to work during these past two months.

As a mother, I always worry kids spend too much time on watching TV, internet, and reading comic books. (it's quite normal for a mother, right?) So, I asked him to read some extra-curriculum books and to memorize 10 English vocabulary words everyday.

Yesterday, I tested him about the vocabulary he memorized. But he couldn't even remember five...I

gave him the vocabulary book and asked him to retrieve them again. After 10 minutes, he still couldn't remember them. He sat in front of the book and said nothing but looked angry.

Then, he started to cry and said, "Why do I have to do this, it's summer vacation!"

After that, I had a discussion with his father about his emotional response. We both thought we should insist on it. So, another 10 vocabulary words were prepared by me for him today. I don't know if he will have a stronger reaction than yesterday or accept it. Let's wait and see.

Very nice Claire! I enjoyed reading about your family. Thank you for sharing. I wish you well with your son!

Lisa

Cherries

I bought 2 kgs of cherries with my colleagues. All of my colleagues in my office ordered 63 kgs of cherries together. The cherries arrived to our office this Thursday. The quality is really good. They are fresh, juicy and sweet. My family enjoys them a lot.

Nice! I love cherries. I ate them tonight!

Interesting discussion. I am enjoying reading the responses and getting to know the italki community. As for me, I started on my language journey after the realization that this lockdown opens up the world via Zoom or Skype and that conversations and social connections with those outside my town and in other parts of the world would engage me and make me happy . . . if only I could speak and improve my high school Spanish and really learn the language this time. So here I am studying every day and getting better with an italki tutor and language partners. I’m very much enjoying the connections with new friends and very happy learning and engaging with people from around the world.

How wonderful!

Importance of fee

I have been learning English since January 2020. For awhile, I have been trying my best to improve it. Sometimes, I don’t have enough time to learn English because of my hectic work schedule. English is a global language, and its very useful at work, in addition, it gives us more confidence in general life. However, I am feeling that I am improving my English but still I need more feedback about my current English level. In order to get feedback about my English level I have talked to some English teachers at the italki. They appreciated my efforts and my passion towards this language. Recently, my work has started, that’s why I don’t have so much time like before. It’s a bit sad but work is also very important. I am lucky that I have this application where I can write English and get feedback regarding my English.

I know that I need to work hard on it in order to reach a decent level. Punctuation marks are the biggest challenge for me. I hope I will be a bit more better in next couple months. I will appreciate it if you leave your comment(s) down below and your suggestion(s) in order to improve my English. Thanks a lot

Nicely done! A few corrections but your english is very good!

Please correct me, thank you.

Hi there,

Today I'm going to talk about my dog. He's so cute and I think he’s an angel.

He has been with me since I was 12 years old and now I'm 26 years. I know! He's very old but right now he's needing more from me. Every day I have to carry my dog upstairs because he sleeps with me on the second floor.

Every year I travel to other citit’s in my car and spend around 24 hours on the road. My dog, that I consider brother, doesn't tolerate traveling. He usually vomits therefore I try to travel on plane.

I hope that he will accompany me for many more years.

By the way, he often sleeps or gets up with his tongue out. hahaha.

Nice story- thank you for sharing!

What is wrong with crying out?

Does it happen that sometimes you have too many emotions inside and you start crying for no reason?

I mean, a mosquito flies close to you, and you start to cry.

There is no good tacos at the restaurant, then I am crying.

Beautiful landscape makes me cry.

Usually that happens to me and for me I feel it is okay. I let my feelings flow as they are coming out, but for people around me it is hard for them to understand. Possibly, it seems wrong to them.

In my case, my dad is the most important person I have in my life and I always feel like I cannot be totally myself with him.

I remember as a child my dad yelling at me for crying. It was horrible, because I tried to contain my tears and my chest ached so much and then a worse feeling came over me: guilt in having these feelings.

From that childhood experience I learnt to supress how I was feeling, and I think that brought consequences to my teenage and adult life.

But now that I am older and conscious, although sometimes is difficult, I think I can express myself better.

Having feelings is right and we cannot control them. Showing them is good and right and removes feeling ashamed.

Thank God we are still humans and not yet robots.

Thanks for reading, please correct my text and If you have any comment, they are welcome.

Thanks Lizette. I enjoyed reading your work - nice job!

Electricity

Hello everyone, today I am writing about electricity. We use electricity everyday. Everything in the house uses electricity. From the lamps, the air conditioners, fans, telephone and television. Another thing about electricity is that it is very useful. It helps us in many ways. For example, it helps us study, fix things, builds things and much more. It very useful but sometimes it is very dangerous for children. If they are not careful in using electricity, it can hurt them and they can die. Electricity can come out of the energy of the sun, the energy of the water, the energy of the wind. And then it is goes to a power plant. Then it will go to a power outlet. And you can use it.

Thank you very much for reading my post and fixing it.

Thank you very much. Goodbye and good night everyone.

Thank you! I enjoyed reading about electricity!