I've started learning Mandarin. What's the best way to write online / word? On my phone I use pinyin. Would it be useful to get a keybaord? I have a MacBook and I've seen keyboard covers that have characters on them.

Here is a new grammar quiz!

Hi, and welcome back to Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates with Teacher Alyse! Today, we’re going on an adventure to learn words that start with the letter P. Are you ready? Listen carefully, repeat after me, and then try reading them on your own. Puddle, pig, penguin, platypus, peacock, pineapple, parrot, panther, piranha, porcupine, puffin Great job! Keep practicing, and if you’d like free flashcards to follow along, send me a message. You can also watch this Super Simple Songs Captain Seasalt video on YouTube to learn even more! See you next time—bye for now!

How do you build confidence speaking in your target language? Practise. Easy answer. But how? Have you noticed that there are topics you can talk about in your native language without even thinking? Your family, your job. You make the same joke every time and it always gets a laugh – or at least a smile! – and you didn’t use your brain once. In his book "How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately", Boris Shekhtman calls these *Language Islands*. Imagine that speaking your new language is like swimming across an ocean – you are constantly battling with the waves. The ocean is vast and, even with determination, you will get tired. You can’t swim forever. Build yourself an island to take a rest on! Identify small topics that you need to talk about frequently, learn the specific vocabulary you need and then practise this tiny piece of conversation with your teacher. A teacher can make any corrections and help your language to sound more natural. Then you practise this chunk of language until you can do it without thinking – you’re standing on dry land! After this island, you can build another until you have an archipelago of language! [An archipelago is a chain of islands.] Now crossing the ocean isn’t one enormous swim, it’s short laps from one island to the next and you can enjoy having time to breathe! Ideas for your first Language Islands: • your passions (it’s always good to start with something you’re enthusiastic about!) • your work • your travels • your friends • your goals

"The company plans to _____ its new product line next quarter." A) introduce B) succeed C) negotiate D) collaborate

Let's study a new idiom! "I'm watching this TV show, and the main character feels like there is a ________ hanging over him' Meaning: a situation or future event that makes you worry or feel unhappy

Hi there!! hope you're all doing great. Would you mind telling me if this short text had so many grammatical mistakes?? Enjoy the reading! THanks a lot ;-) In this day and age Technology is fairly present in all aspects of our daily lives; we all could not really do without it at all at this stage. However, it also true that there is an increasing widespread concern about the use that young people, especially children, make of electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Personally speaking, parents should not allow their children to have access to them at a very tender age due to an unlimited usage of those devices could cause a negative impact on their mental health. Firstly, what kids truly need is to have significant real experiences by manipulating objects and by interacting/engaging with their peers in their immediate environment. It is scientifically proven that a long-term exposure to digital screens and social media completely unsupervised would jeopardize their innate creativity and lead them to believe that the today’s digital world is in fact the real world. Additionally, fewer and fewer adolescents are capable of maintaining visual contact with the others and, what is even worse, of taking an interest in current appeling topics since they would rather spend most of their time glued to those devices. Futhermore,the most serious/biggest concern is that they are increasingly showing learning difficulties and completely unacceptable behaviours which impact unfavourably on their personality development. Taking all of this into consideration, parents should make severe rules about how much time their children devote themselves to that ever-changing virtual world and raise them awareness of spending some quality time closer to the natural world.

How to say... "It’s very humid" In 3 modes of English: 1.) Formal: It's stiflingly hot 2.) Standard: It’s very humid 3.) Slang: It’s a bit sticky Follow me for more, or book a trial class today! :)

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