The house of Babel

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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I am dreaming about what to put in the house of Babel.  First I thought I can put the following in it.

. Natural Languages

. Program languages

. Sign Languages, such as dactylology,

Under natural languages, I want to put some items that are mainly useful foreign languages learners, such as dictionary, translation, grammar, composition, Answering room for explaining the new words. I have some idea that the person who answered the question will be given score, and the score will help them to get paid. And learn and teach room. and Research room.

You know, currently, not so many languages sites are really useful for users.

Some days ago, I read some news about that somebody used GPS tracking devices to draw his own picture on the earth. It was a very funny topic.
GPS is very useful. When we go out, we always bring that. You know that GPS normally is used for tracking people, vehicles, goods, crowd control, children, and health care. I think it can be used for many purposes. I have some advices for GPS tracking devices.
Now people are bringing up rare and valuable animals and then send them back to the nature. After they were sent back, it is difficult to track their life. So we heard about that in China after people sent the pandas to the forest, some months later, some were found dead. If we can put GPS tracking devices with the panda, so we can track where it is going. When we want to help it, we can get there soon.
Another thing is about the relief helicopter in the earthquake. Normally when something bad happened, the environment and weather is much worse than the sunny days. It is always good to put GPS tracking devices on every helicopter. So when the helicopter is suffering bad weather, we can track that and go to help quickly.

I am living in New York. I think everybody knows that it is a state of the northeast United States. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1788. First explored by Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson, the region was claimed by the Dutch in 1624 but fell to the English in 1664-1667. The building of the Erie Canal and railroad lines in the 1820’s and 1830’s led to development of the western part of the state and great economic prosperity, establishing New York City as the financial center of the nation. Albany is the capital and New York City the largest metropolis.
Also everybody knows that there is a York city in England. And then you can find a lot of place were named after the place names in England. There are New York, New Jersey, New Orleans, New Hampshire and so on.
I was thinking about the intellectual property issues. For example Japanese always yelled at Chinese about that Chinese copy some of the Japanese names. Did anybody ever think about the Kanji characters, which were most from China. I hope they quit using all the Kanji characters that came from China.

Many people dream to travel in Europe. I got to know Europe when I was in high school from the history text book. There were two books about world history. I was impressed a lot by the Renaissance. In our Chinese text book, The Merchant of Venice, written by William Shakespeare was translated to Chinese. I was attracted by story. I like history very much. So from that time I dreamed about going to Europe. At that time, going to other country was really a daydream for me.
There are many way traveling in Europe. You can travel by boat because everybody knows Venice is a watery city, which is a city of northeast Italy on islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice, a wide inlet of the northern Adriatic Sea.
Venice was founded in the 5th century a.d. by refugees fleeing the Lombard invaders who had gained control of the mainland. It became a major maritime power by the 13th century and spread its influence over northern Italy by the 15th century.
Such history attracted me a lot. You know, that a watery city does not mean that you can not drive your car. You can get Car Hire Italy and enjoy your travel too. It is cheap. You can book online. They also offer you a practical and budget-friendly way to travel in Italy at a pace that suits you.