First notebook entry

Hello!

I have been learning english for many years; however, my skills are not the best, so I would like to learn English using discussion with people who speak English.
I live in the southwest of France. I'd enjoy sending you some information about France, French language, culture, etc...
I'm studying psychology and I really like to travel all around the world.

1) "Prune" is reducing the size of a flower bush or shrubbery by cutting. In a non-gardening sense, it's means to "cut back" or "reduce". 2) "Cultivate" is to grow something. 3) "Snip" is to cut, and generally it means to make a small cut. 4) "Clip" is similar to snip, but slightly larger. Also, this is sometimes a synonym for a haircut. 5) "Crop" is also to make smaller, and carries the connotation of making it straight or even. 6) "Trim" is to make small cuts to make uneven things more even. 7) "Lop" is a big cut, and carries the sense that it's done non-precisely. To lop something or "lop off", is to take a big chunk out without regards to the size of it.