Today I read the article written by Steven at the Linguist Digest website. He expresses his thoughts in the article for three questions at the Learning Circuits Blog. These three question are
1. What will you remember most about 2006 ?
2. What are the biggest challenges for you as you head into 2007 ?
3. What are your predictions for 2007 ?
Here is my answer.
‧ what will I remember ?
I will remember that in late 2006 I became a formal member at the Linguist website and know different nice friends from other countries. I was able to have with other countries friends to exchange our thoughts in an online discussion. It is also my first time using Skype to have a voice talking via internet. It is really extraordinary experience for me.
My biggest regret was that I should have signed up early for a formal member in the Linguist. If that, I think my English must much better than now.
In 2006 I was turn over 30 years old, I felt so SAD.
In 2006 I left previous company and was hired by a company in a whole different area. In 2006 I traveled to Korea for 1 week.
In 2006 I took the TOEIC examination.
In 2006 I have been with my boyfriend for 3 years more.
In 2006 People frequently asked me when I get married.
In 2006 I attended the wedding party of some of my friends.
In 2006 I met three closely friends in my life.
In 2006 I leave a friend who is used to closely to me.
I have to frequently contact with German by emails in my job because my company is a agent of German company , which manufactures the wire rope hoist, chain hoist and drive motor. I found that German is more serious than Taiwanese on job. I feel very sad when they refused my request to offer their Msn messenger to me. I think if we have our msn messenger each other, we can easily communicate and that will be more efficient. They said msn messenger is not allowed while at working. However , I think they do not want to handle with us directly. They do not want to reply to my request immediately on msn. If they give me their msn messenger , they will more busy. They can pick up the email from my side to reply via email. I am sorry to say they work is not efficent. I think the best way to do business with other people is to be more familiar with each other. So I recommend they offer msn messenger to me. Mostly we use this way to do bussiness in Taiwan. Maybe It is not popular in Germany. I have to change my mind.
Suddenly I have an idea today that I can write the letters to them with few German words. Maybe they will treat me like a friend. Whatever, if not , at least I can learn a bit German via email on my job. So tonight I try to looking for any information in learning German. I find it is not easy to achieve useful information I would like to have.
(Deutsch Learning Webiste )
German Alphabet pronunciaton : http://www.languageguide.org/im/alpha/de/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/
http://www.languageguide.org/deutsch/
http://realner.ner.gov.tw/default.php
老子説 :『 絶聖棄知，民利百倍 』
拒絶聖人，拋棄智慧，人就會獲利百倍。連聖人與智慧都會棄絶，何況常人！只有捨得放棄，才有收穫。朋友可以絶文，不可以欺騙。絶交是人的一大美德。善絶交就善進步。絶交一些人才能交往另一些人。不絶交無法找到真正志同道合的人。
Frankly , I hardly write down my thoughts with Chinese words after leaving school. Today I bought a chinese book name Governs by no-interference the speech life , writer is Father who is the ancient and very famous in China and Taiwan history.
I have been working at this company for 1 month more. I am getting used to this job, but I have yet to be familiar with durities. Mostly I can’t deal with the sudden events and therefore I have to ask Pony, my new co-worker, for a assistance. Most of time she kindly reply my questions, but sometimes she answer my questions in a bad manner. I think maybe she is busying with other duties. I think she is a good people, only the way she speaks is very directly. When she speaks to me in a very direct way and a loud sound, I have to tell myself that is just the way she speaks. Frankly, I feel a little bit uncomfortable when she speaks to me loud out. But the only way to make me feel better is to adjust myself thoughts while she speaks out loud.
The most difficult part of my new job is that I have to understand the machinery (refer to my company website :http://www.raychi.com.tw/) rather than understanding the procedures regarding International Trade. I remember I have no idea about those vocabularies Hoist , crane , stator and etc at first time. Even though I realize the meanings after picking up the dictionary, I am still fighting my way to understand their functions. What is more, the planet is very far away from my office, I can’t come across those machinery. My supervisor said the best way for me to completely understand the products of the company is to go to the planet. He will ask the engineer to pick me up to the planet to look at the machinery in the future. The most advantage for me working at my new company is that I can spend a great deal of time on my English studies. My boss allows me to do as long as I finish working. Moreover, I can also chat with friends on msn. The boss gives me much more flexbiliy to do other things in private in my working time. Unlikely my previous job in Sinopac futures company, there always have many unreasonable rules to restrict me to do. Maybe the more bigger company you work for, the more restricts you will get.
I wathced the movies THE PRINCESS DIARIES Tonight. I think this movies is a sweet and charming Cinderella story. I recommed that people go to watch this movies if you want to take a relax.
She is a dancer in the movies Honey. Sexy.
Full Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Age: 24
Date of Birth: April 28, 1981
Birth Place: Pomona, California
Residence: Southern California
Height: 5'7 Bust: 34" Waist: 25" Hips: 34" Size: 4 Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown Shoe: 8
Website:
http://www.jessica-alba.com/news.php
Recently I get an error message when testing my words and phrases. After kindly explanation from tutor Jill, I know the cause of error message. Jill said that the error message is because sometimes I didn’t save the complete word. I have saved words that do not have sentences attached to them. For example, when I look at my ‘words I am learning ‘ list , I see that word ‘ academi’ with no sentence attached to it. The whole word is ‘academic’, therefore , when I try to test this word it causes a break in the system and I receive an error message. To avoid making this mistake I have to save the entire word.
Also, Jill mentioned that if I save phrases with strange characters, such as apostrophes, quotation marks etc., the test might not work properly. I should also avoid saving phrases that contain punctuation marks. If I save phrases with punctuation marks, the test might not work properly, either.
He advise me go to ‘words I am learning’ and ‘phrases I am learning’ and move all the words that do not have a sentence attached to them to ‘know’ . I follow her instructions and then test my words and phrases for few times. No error message appears again.
Yesterday I had a pleasant discussion with tutor Julie, Marianne, Doris and Michael. I totally agree that Julie said there is no perfect job, every job will have some problems, every job will have it good parts. Nevertheless, we still need to look for a one that is closely to perfect. Actually I got a new job in the International Trade Company recently. I think I will improve English a lot through this new job. Good lucky to me ^_^
While Michael was talking about he usually picks up his daughter by a motorcycle to school in Taiwan. Then tutor Julie is surprised at that. However, I never know a foreigner like Julie will be shocked by that. Because It is very normal situation in Taiwan. Maybe it became a part of our culture. While Julie was talking about that much of and American work at home via internet. I also was surprise by that. Maybe it is also a part of culture for them and I really hope I can work in that way one day
Today I read the post in the Linguist Blog that talk about Switch words and hedges words in English. Steven and Jill discuss how to correctly use those switch words. They seem easy but it is very important to how to use correctly. If you use it in a proper way, your writing in English will be better.
I want to use those switch words what I learn today from the Linguist Blog to write down a simple paragraph below in order to be more familiar with them.
I have been thinking of changing present job for a long time. The reason to quit present job is not that my current salary is low. By contrast, the paid at the present job is good enough compared to others people who are same age as me in . Nevertheless, I still really want to quit this job. In my view what is a good job is that you can get good salary. What is more, I can see a foreseeable future in a job. However, a foreseeable future doesn’t appear to be my present position. Therefore, I decide to leave my present job recently. Moreover, I also got a new job. Although the salary of my new job is much less than previous one, I won’t regret to do so. Because I think I will achieve a lot at my new job. Furthermore, if I work very hard, my new boss will get me a raise soon.
I have beening studying in The linguist system for 14 days and I became a formal member yesterday. I have being spending much time staying in the linguist and my favorite blogs of member in order to being familar with linguist. However, I don't seem to relize how the KNOW WORDS work in the review section. I want to test the vacabulary from the content I am reading at present instead of old one. However , the system can't allow me to do so , It appear all vacabulary I used to read. It seems like I have to test correctly in 7 times then the word will move up to KNOW WORDS. Mostly I would like to I test the words out of the content I read at present. Today I see the explains from tutor Mark on the Linguist so I understand clearly.
Mark explain HOW SAVED WORDS ARE MOVED TO KNOWN WORDS.
When you save a word our system assigns that word a status of New or 1. A known word has a status of Known or 7. There are two ways by which you can move a word from New to Known. You can test the word in the Review section and each time you test it correctly it will move up one level in the seven step progression to Known. Therefore, if you test it correctly seven times in a row it will become Known. Every time you test it incorrectly it will move back one level. The only other way to affect the seven step progression is if you meet the saved word in a new content item. If, while reading the new item, you do not save the word again, our system will move the word three steps in the progression to known. This is because you have encountered the word again and have understood it.
Finally, if you find you would just like to move a word to known for whatever reason, you can do so by selecting it in the Words I am Learning section and clicking the “Move to Known” button. The important thing to realize is that whether you move words to known slowly or quickly it doesn’t matter. If you move words to known and then you encounter the word again, you can always resave it and it will come out of your Known Words. You are probably not going to learn and remember all your new words but you will remember more and more of them and you will always be increasing your vocabulary.
