Leaning Spanish. Combination of Oxford Picture dictionary and Quizlet. Quizlet lets you make your sets of flashcards. You can print those out if you want, but the site is simply organized to flip through flashcards, so I don't see any need for printing them out. It's really efficient and I really like it so far. Coming up with "how to get better" strategies is the part of fun of leaning something new.
Justo compre una coneja pequeña. Se llama Mascara. La llamo Mascara, porque hay lineas negras a lo largo de su ojos. Daniella y Yo fuimos a Santee Alley. Hubo muchos ropas, zapatos, y accessorios, pero nosotras enamoramos enamorada de dos conejas. Daniella compro una coneja marron. Se llama Pixle. Es amiga de Mascara. Mascara es mucha activa. Brinca por todas partes en mi habitacion. Se gusta sentar cerca de mi computadora, porque es templada.
Esta perro, Max de mi amiga. Es shiba-inu, que la raza comun en Japon. Estoy lo teniendo cuidado por la noche. Nunca tenia los animal. No tengo una idea como los tener cuidado. Entonces decidi lo guardar en la cocina. Pero ladro cuando lo sali alli solo. Al final, dormio en mi habitacion cerca de mi cama. En la mañana lo lleve afuera para paseo. Estava diversion mucho jugar con Max.
Tengo el reloj precioso. Mi madre me lo compro cuando fui aceptado a la secundaria. Desde que ese momento, tenia un reloj solo. Lo piedi hace casa de un año, pero lo encontre hoy. Me quede tan sorprendido. El reloj estuvo en el bolsillo de mi pantalon corto que llevo no con frecuencia. Su pila estuvo apagado, entonces lo lleve a la tienda joyas vecinas. Fui a comprar un reloj nuevo. Pero estoy alegrarse que no compre. Lo tendre cuidado mejor ahora.
先日母と長電話。思うところがありまして翌日 Little Tokyo の紀伊国屋に走り、TOEIC 過去問なるものを購入致しました。さて何点くらい取れるものなのでしょうか???ふむ、Listening100問、Reading100問マークシートというえらく単純な構成です。CDから始めるのも億劫だったので Reading から取りかかりました。せっかくですからキッチリ時間はかっていきましょう。
Q: Who's working on revising the report? A: a) Not before the holidays for sure. b) I don't know if it's been assigned. c) Yes, he's a good reporter.
と流れ、c) を聞くなり Who is HE? って余裕でツッコミ (だって日本では今夜M-1...) してましたが、そのような単発問題も呑んでかかると意外と辛かった。後半の長文リスニングだと一文落としても埋め合わせできますが、
What Why When Where Who How (5W 1H) をするっと聞き落とすとその問題はアウトです。Is ...? Are ...? Do ...? Does ...? も落としてしまうと選択肢が結構嫌らしくてカンでは修復不可能。電車の出発駅 通過駅 到着駅ばっちり抑えて... さて何線の電車だったでしょ~うか! Σ(゜д゜)嘘ン?! Readingではわからない問題があっても、うん、これはわからん。しょうがない。捨て問だ。いいな?と自分を説得してから次へいけますが、Listeningでそうやって哀愁にひたっているとドミノ式に次の3問が狂います。シッカリ開き直って、Question ### to ###, refer to the following speech... と出題者が言っている3秒の間に、落としたら負けの 5W 1H Questions があるかだけを確認してしまえば残りのジェネラルな設問には焦らず答えられます。
Sky was invited to his friends' wedding and I ended up going as a translator. The groom's parents gave me their comments beforehand, but I had to translate bride's parents' comments into English at the last minutes. Whatever the case was, translator better act confident.
Doing last minutes work translating Japanese comments to English.
Finally my Christmas! Ryan's family is very relaxed and welcoming. Sitting in front of fire place or lying on the carpet, all I did was reading Ryan's Japanese books.
The third picture is the installation by Cornelia Parker I found at Phoenix museum. Since my studio did hanging beer installation, I have become more interested in installations/sculptures. Though I really liked the exhibition, what made me disappointed was the black rope running in front of the art piece. I know it has to keep people out, but it could have been the tape indication on the floor. An art piece needs a physical context to be experienced by audience. The fact that it cannot communicate just through an artist's idea makes art much more interesting.
We couldn't see meteor shower, but saw shooting stars here and there. Amboy Crater is a desirable place to see stars. The view from the bottom of crater is framed in circle and the ridge blocks out far city lights. Thanks to Barry and Daniella for nice pictures.
I came back in LA once and left for Chile right away. My backpacking plan for this end of the summer was to practice my survival Spanish. In Santiago, I was alone most of the time, but in a bus to visit small villages, tourists were obvious to each other. I met a couple of Europeans. Conversations between them shifts smoothly from German to French, Italian to Spanish. Once I joined them, we talked in English. My Spanish was horrible. I was asking simple questions, knowing that I wouldn't comprehend the anser anyway.
Small towns seems to be relying on tourists for the majority of its income. But I was surprised they were not aggressive at all. In San Pedro de Atacama, price of tours to visit certain location are exactly same in any office. Since they don't have to compete for some reason, the atmosphere was pretty relaxing.
Visiting other countries is more fun if it is to see somebody I know. I visited Sky in Shanghai for a week. He was doing internship there. We walked around Shanghai half a day and the rest of the day, we sat down in a nice cafe to read and study. In Japan, people will pressure you to leave when customers are hanging out, but in Shanghai they didn't seem to care.