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sidney

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  1. The older I get the more insensitive I become, even my dad calls me stupid and I am not affected anymore. But I guess if you are a sensitive person then you might be affected no matter how many times you have heard it.

    I agree that calling someone stupid is not cool at all, and if it affected you then call him stupid right back and see how he will react. If he gets offended, then you can say that you just gave him a dose of his own medicine. If he's unaffected, well, no wonder he casually says stuff like that to other people.

  2. That is so true, I also live in the same country, and I know that curriculum that you are talking about. I'm actually quite grateful that English is a mandatory subject here in the Philippines, because we Filipinos can now just easily speak and understand the English language as compared to other nationalities. Also, tourists can approach anyone and chances are they will be understood because most Filipinos speak English. So I hope that the schools from other countries also implement English into their curriculum.

  3. I think being able to access our notes without the PC is important, so I would prefer to have my notes handwritten. If it's handwritten then we can just carry around the notebook with us and study it, as compared to still needing a gadget and electricity to be able to access it. At least with handwritten notes, then for sure you won't lose them when the PC won't boot or something.

  4. I choose to study German, because when I first listened to the song "Du Haust" from Rammstein, I instantly liked it, and since I tend to sing along to it, I figured it would be nice to learn the language too. So far, I have already learned a few German words just by listening to Rammstein, since I tend to look up their meanings online.

  5. The medical idioms that I mostly encounter are:

    "alive and kicking" - it means that you are well and healthy

    "clean bill of health" - it means that a report or certificate of a person or animal is healthy

    "in the pink of health" - it means that you are in good mental and physical condition

  6. I haven't tried to listen to podcasts yet, but since you reminded me of them, I have been wanting to listen to Mo Twister's podcasts for the longest time now, and I heard that they can be very controversial. So I will download them. Come to think of it, my listening skills need improving when I am not interested in a subject, since I really just tend to make it appear that I'm listening but in fact I'm not, lol.

  7. Your grammar seems fine to me. And since you are from the Philippines, we are from the same country. You can find a lot of people here who are fluent in English in no time. Don't you have friends who excel in English in school or in your office? If you are still studying, then of course the students who have high grades in English are the ones you should ask help from.

  8. I used to have a Chinese acquaintance that arrived here in the Philippines at the age of 8. I met her when she was 20 years old, and she was already fluent with our language although she doesn't understand some words that aren't normally used in everyday informal conversations. I guess when you are surrounded with people that speak Tagalog or any other language then it's much easier to absorb it. That's why I think that immersion is the best way for learning a new language aside form hiring a teacher.

  9. I'm not surprised by this discovery, because monkeys are very intelligent animals. I think their language is also like our language and it's quite varied because they use many words as compared to dogs and cats that are only limited to a simple "arf" and "meow". If we humans can understand what every word meant through diligent research then it would be great.

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