The house of Babel

June 22, 2008

black comedy English Lesson

Filed under: English, Japanese — admin @ 7:43 pm

It is really a scary video. But we can see something from there. That is culture background. when I began to study Japanese, we got to know that Japanese ladies were famous for serving here husband. For example they always warm up the water and wait for the husbands coming back and take a bath. But in the other hand, they are a little bit scary. We always heard about that the wives did suicide because the husbands were flirting with other ladies. Or some time the lovers force the man to do suicide together. “I want to kill you” was said so many times in this video. It is really scary.

North Carolina

Filed under: Business & Economy — admin @ 7:40 pm

Before I came to the United States of America, one of my friends went to North Carolina. She went there because her husband went there. USA life was totally new for me, so I soon went to check the information in the minute when she put her travel essay in the internet. Once she went to the beach. It was a very impressive essay for me, because in my life I did not go to beach so much. They rent a beach house and spent a fantastic weekend there. So from that time, we tried to do more investigation on hunting house. We checked New Bern NC real estate, they really have high quality houses there. You know, having our own house is our dream.

June 20, 2008

One Point English Lesson 1

Filed under: English, Japanese — admin @ 5:46 pm

I was shocked by this video in Youtube. Normally people thought the easy way to learn a foreign language is going to that country and study in that real environment. If you could not go there, the easy way is practicing and practicing a lot, such as listening to radio, listening to foreign music, watching foreign movies and so on. I was graduated from some Beijing language and culture University, in which there are many foreign people you can catch to practice as you want. So there were many simple girls fell into love with some foreign people so easily, of course there were some couples who really got married.

Let’s cut to the chase, I never thought people could come up with such way to study foreign languages as the above video.

June 17, 2008

clean your bitter experience

Filed under: Computers & Internet — admin @ 10:25 am

I have two blogs, one is the blog of “row row row your boat”, the other is “the house of Babel”. I had the blog of “row row row your boat” for more than one year. The page ranking of that in google stays in 2, it did not go up recently. One month ago I made “the house of Babel”. For a whole month, the ranking in goole stays at 0. I tried hard to improve my page ranking in google.
I tried hard to submit my addresses to every free directory. That is really a hard thing to do because I had to go to every site to submit it and wait for getting approved. It takes time and patience. And still my ranking did not get improved so much. Here ezadsuite was introduced to me. I did not know what it is. Now I got to know it is Craigslist Automatic Posting Software.
For me or some other person who are dealing with small business, maybe Craygo is a better choice for us.
When we are trying to make a new mail account, the process takes more and more time to do now and you were hesitating about what kind of username to use. If you were annoyed by creating new mail accounts, here Craygo is the best partner for you. It allows you to rotate and randomize an unlimited amount of email addresses. By using Craygo, the whole process becomes much more efficient than you ever thought possible with the ability to create an unlimited amount of new gmail or yahoo accounts at lightning speeds. It saved our time, really! You know Craygo has more features than any other craigslist posting application out there”.
I had some very bitter experience with entering verification image code. Really every time it is really hard to tell what it is. After I entered one, it says wrong. Many people got frustrated with entering verification image codes for each ad. If you thought posting on Craigslist couldn’t get any better, you were wrong. Craygo is going to clean all of your bitter experience now. Craygo has more features than Easy Ad Poster (EzAdSuite), AdsOnCraigs, AdBomber and AdMaster. Craygo has the capability of reading and entering these codes FOR us. The application can read the captcha image codes on craigslist AND backpage (elite version only). How wonderful it is!

June 15, 2008

onomatopoeia

Filed under: Chinese, English, Japanese, general thoughts — admin @ 8:38 pm

You know there are many onomatopoeia in Chinese and Japanese.

When I heard the sound from the outside of the car, I can say that is 叭哒叭哒 in Chinese, or バタバタ in Japanese. I did not know what kind of word to use in English. Honey answered click.

From the pronunciation, I could not imagine that connected the same sound.

Normally, we can get the close sound or noise from the pronunciation of onomatopoeia. But for English word click, I had to look at the meaning of it. It is a brief, sharp, nonresonant sound:

一 (yī)

Filed under: Chinese — admin @ 8:24 pm

Normally everybody knows that 一 (yī) means the number one.

For foreign students, they will get shocked by the other uses of 一 (yī).

1, (adj.) same

我们是一个班的。(we are from the same class.)

2, (adj.) whole ; all ; throughout

一路上都是雪。(The whole road was full of snow.)

3,  a little

笑一笑,十年少。(A smile prolongs life.)

4,(conjunction) used before a verb or a verbal measure to indicate an action to be followed by a result

她一看到妈妈就哭了。(Once he saw his mom, he cried.)

5, (conjunction) if

一不小心,就回出错。(if you do not pay attention to it, you will get wrong)

一 also has multiple pronunciations.

when you use that alone, or it was used in the end of the word or the sentence, the pronunciation is yī.

十一(shíyī) 五一(wǔyī) 六一(liùyī)

when it comes to the front of other words that has the fourth pronunciation, it is yí.

一半(yíbàn) 一共(yígòng) 一世(yíshì)

when it comes to the front of other words that has the first, second and third pronunciations, it is yì.

一点(yìdiǎn) 一天(yìtiān) 一年(yìnián)

It seems that the character 一 reflects the abundance of Chinese in phonology, grammar and semantics.

Learning a new language is a long trip. we have to practise little by little and day by day.

June 13, 2008

GRE

Filed under: English — admin @ 11:57 am

GRE is the name of Graduate Record Examination, I took out the GRE book I brought from China. I tried to enlarge my vocabulary.
I asked if honey knew the word bete noire. He sad no. He told me that even American do not know some of the words in the book. And some of the words are not used in life so much.
So I asked why they put such words in that.
He said, it is to make you unable to pass the test and make you become dumb dumb.
Shock!! and unbelievable.

June 11, 2008

digital kitchen scale

Filed under: Blatant Advertising — admin @ 8:39 pm

Having nice stuff in the kitchen is the dream for every housewife. When I do cooking, I had no scale. I always just randomly put some in the food, such as water, oil, salt, red pepper and other spice. As a result, the food tastes a little bit salty or over spicy. Some time my husband came to kitchen to make food too. Absolutely he is a digital person. He always scales the water, the milk, the butter and so on. Recently I found that it always has good taste when he scales. So I decide to get digital kitchen scale to make delicious food now. I think he will love me more.

stammer

Filed under: general thoughts — admin @ 8:25 pm

You know stammer is a way of speaking characterized by involuntary pauses or repetitions. Do you think stammer is one kind of disease? Do you think there is some good way to redress such shortcoming? If you know anything, please tell me.

I do not have stammer. I am not so good at having official talk, specifically when I try to talk about reason, I always become emotive. so I am still very jealous about the people who have the gift of the gab. Also I dream about doing speech like politicians without feeling I am going to cry before I start the speech.

cheap car insurance

Filed under: Autos, Business & Economy, Fashion/Style/Trends, Society & Culture — admin @ 8:09 pm

If you have no car, it is difficult to live in the USA. When you have a car, it is definitely necessary to get car insurance. Who knows what will happen in the next second? When you are wondering what kind of insurance to get, I think you could put cheap car insurance sacramento into your option.
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