tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93720012009-10-02T10:21:51.831+08:00Life will never end.Changnoreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-74703060647110830972009-10-02T10:17:00.002+08:002009-10-02T10:21:51.843+08:00

People in Taiwan are highly addicted to Happy Farm now. Media hype should take the blame for it. As for me, I think it is such a good idea using Facebook to find friends that you haven't been in touch with. However, I don't think I will draw attention to that "Happy Farm" thing. Maybe I am just too old for it.be addicted to 沉溺於media hype 媒體的渲染take the blame for... 為...負責in touch with... 與...連絡

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-43098748327544572802009-08-02T15:22:00.003+08:002009-08-02T15:32:39.257+08:00

The hardest decision I've ever made is about whether I should come back to Taiwan in 2001. Back then I was working for a marketing company in Fremont, California. Just as other companies in Silicon Valley were suffering a big downturn mostly due to the bubble economy in the US, my company started to lay people off in order to stay in business.Back then 那時候suffering 受苦於downturn 低迷due to 由於bubble

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Since years ago it has been a craze in Taiwan that many people are riding bikes. They are doing this for various reasons. However, for the most part, they ride bikes either for keeping themselves in shape, for saving gasoline expenses on their vehicles, or the like.craze 一時流行various 各種不同的for the most part 主要地keep in shape 保持健康身材gasoline expenses 汽油花費vehicle 車輛the like 等等 Speaking of myself, with

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My half-baked idea of popularizing LingQ has finally shaped up. To get started, I will make my first LingQ presentation at the place where I live. I just sent an email to the chief of the apartment office. In my email, I stated clearly that I was planning on giving a presentation followed by a workshop about language learning, which would be based on some views as follows.hit the road 開始，上路

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Don't take me as a teacher, please. I am just a trainer. I train you to learn English independently. This is my goal, and I have always wanted you to spend the least money on language learning but get the most effect. Here I found LingQ. I can't guarantee you that your language skills will be improved all of a sudden because it's between you and the language in the end. You are the one that

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-28900293730053636362009-03-11T20:50:00.005+08:002009-03-12T23:12:40.789+08:00

Here is another letter I wrote to Mr. Steve Kaufmann on using his language learning tool, LingQ, to teach my students as I will apply for more teaching jobs to the local schools in my city.====================================================================Hi SteveI read your new post earlier today. Thanks.earlier 早先I would like to tell you that meanwhile I am working on the proposal which I will

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-88654116787734482092009-02-25T23:30:00.008+08:002009-03-12T23:16:06.611+08:00

I was in a substitute class at GVO, a.k.a. Global Village, today. This cram school has many education facilities islandwide. I used to teach there very often in the past. But now I go there only when they call on me for urgent substitute class.substitute class 代課a.k.a. 又叫做cram school 補習班education facilities 教育設施(分校)islandwide 全島used to 過去一向call on 請求urgent 緊急的I had prepared my own handout I was

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Mr. Steve Kaufmann is a linguist, who can speak more than ten languages, Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, and just to name a few. Amazingly, he is a Caucasian Canadian, and his age is 60 something now. His success in using languages seems to have broken the myth from us that only kids can learn English better, older people are not

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-29554168579597803702009-01-18T23:19:00.005+08:002009-02-22T23:39:59.177+08:00

I found a beagle on the sidewalk the other night as I was on my way to the bus station. In the first place, I thought it must have gotten lost, so all I did was just stand there to keep her company. I thought her owner would come back for her, but I was absolutely wrong. No one seemed to come pick her up. Then I started to realize that she might be a stray dog dumped by her heartless owner.

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I have told some friends of mine that starting this year I will try to contribute more writings to my blog. The problem is how I am going to squeeze words and phrases out out my brain, especially when English isn't my mother tongue. After thinking for a while, I came up with an easy solution- I will probably just avoid writing something too long. Usually I write within the range of 1000 words,

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-35061194238611700072008-12-30T21:28:00.009+08:002009-01-19T08:18:36.786+08:00

Wow, it's about the end of the year. I think no matter how busy I have been in the whole year or what good excuses I have got for not writing more stuff here, I should at least commit a little my time now to a year-end review of myself. Here it goes.no matter how 不論如何的...excuse 藉口, 理由at least 至少commit 承諾,撥出year-end review 年終回顧To look back the year, I think I am a lucky guy. I know some of you may

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Since I have soaked up many different ideas on how to learn a language in a more cost-effective way, I recently found a good idea doing it on my own. My son, without question, has become the guinea pig in this experiment of mine. Here is what I do.soaked up 吸收cost-effective 省成本的recently 最近地without question 無疑問地guinea pig 實驗鼠experiment 實驗First I write down something on a piece of scratch paper

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-30009086683560909892008-07-12T00:42:00.012+08:002008-07-21T23:44:39.896+08:00

I met this student again, not in the class but on the street.I was crossing the street when she came across me on her motorcycle. She was on her way home from some sort of party with her co-workers, and I was about to go home from work that night. Frankly I don't know her well. She is actually no one but a student of mine. The only one time when I talked to her went back to one evening in class.

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-64489097779774342022008-04-14T08:22:00.003+08:002008-04-14T14:47:09.481+08:00

I am excited now about buying a new home after having rented apartments for many years.excited 感到興奮的rent 租apartment 公寓The whole process of buying it is not completely settled yet because I am still negotiating the price with the dealer with the construction firm. This guy told me since the price he offered to me couldn't be accepted by both of us, he needed to ask his manager to get it lowered a

Changnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-38826652454169733862008-02-02T01:07:00.000+08:002008-02-02T02:02:47.611+08:00

The count-down clock shown above is to indicate the remaining days of presidency for the Taiwan current president- Chen Shui Bian. The clock shows how many days are left before hesteps down.count-down 倒數indicate 指出remaining 剩下的presidency 總統職位step down 下台According to the opinion polls in Taiwan, more than 80 % of the population agree that Chen is the lousiest president in Taiwan's history. Over

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by WeijenIntroductionPronunciation is crucial to other language skills: word memorizing, listening, grammar, writing, reading…its importance cannot be over-emphasized. There are only 26 letters and 40 something phonemes, so why don’t so many people just take some time to master those few sounds?Thus comes the pronunciation course.The course does not pretend to change your life, but that doesn’t

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It just struck me that I hadn't been posting anything yet on my blog in such a long time. So, I would like to apologize to those who come visit my blog more often than not. It just struck me that ... 我突然想到post 刊登apologize 抱歉more often than not 常常The original idea of my building this blog was that I wanted to post my writing somewhere on the Web, so my friends and my students would get to know

Changnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-39367514277092675562007-10-16T23:01:00.000+08:002007-10-17T09:56:34.501+08:00

Well, there is actually not a lot on my mind. It is just that my son really pisses me off sometimes. First, I think he is neither like my wife nor like me. We always keep ourselves active in things we are working on. Instead, he lacks ambition to care about stuff around him, which nevertheless can be good for him. Moreover, it appears that only things like watching TV and playing on-line games

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I haven't written anything here yet since June. For those who want to know how I have been doing recently, here is what I am going to tell you.First of all, I am still alive 活著. Though sometimes I feel like busy as hell 忙得跟狗一樣, I never stop to complain about 抱怨 anything. Instead 反而, I think I am getting more energy 能量 out of my job. To let more people know that I am a hard-working guy, I have

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-54633555708880712792007-06-26T10:16:00.000+08:002007-06-27T16:29:28.404+08:00

A reliable source of information indicates that the marriage rate has been going down down on a annual basis, which has been accompanied by a low birth rate as well. The increasing population of the elderly is causing an aging society.reliable 可靠的indicate 指出on a annual basis 每年地accompany 伴隨increasing 增加的population 人口the elderly 老人aging 老化的The more developed the society is, the higher standard has

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An improved life has little to do with materials but more with spiritimproved 被提昇的，改進的material 物質的spirit 心靈的For the average people like you and me, the foremost concerns for how to live better lives in this material world seem to involve buying more luxurious houses, posher set of wheels and outfits, higher position at work, more relations in sex, and just to name a few. Therefore, making more

Changnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372001.post-12512612282129508182007-06-01T16:51:00.000+08:002007-06-03T01:17:21.248+08:00

I got a chance to be a subsitute teacher for a writing class last night. The topic of the night was "Writing Descriptions". During the class, I asked each of the students to work on a translation practice. They all seemed to pretty enjoy themselves while working on that. Here is the original text in Chinese following an English translated sample:昨天下午3點30分左右，市中心第一聯邦銀行發生一宗搶案。兩名搶匪闖入偷走了300萬元台幣。

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Few days ago I bumped into a guy who used to be in my class before. I caught his eye while entering the lobby of the building where I usually had class at. I run into people I know here more often than not because this gate seems to be the only access to the building for all workers of the company for the sake of security.personal endeavor 個人努力bump into 碰到used to 曾經catch one's eye 四目交接enter 進入

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I would like to tell you a true story about myself. It just happened last night and the moral of it is how important cooling down yourself can be.unexpected compensation 不預期的賠償moral 寓意cool down 冷靜I pulled my car into the nearest gas station of my home on Tuesday night, as usual. On Tuesdays this station provides its customers with much cheaper gas price than others-- normally around 1.5 NT per

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Dear teacher,Thank you so much for the Business English course. I am now reading English grammar by myself.The textbook is "Tunghua Contemporary English Grammar". This book is intended for those Chinese learners of English who range in their background from the first year of senior high to the freshman level of college, said by the author.It is difficult for me to read, because this book is

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