Today, it is too hot. The sunlight is like it is stabbing me. But it is not real summer yet. I want winter to come early. Yesterday, I came home on the last train, so I went to bed late. I am very sleepy now. I have a test today. I will do my best.

Today I missed the arriving time at the station. I forgot that the class was gone. I arrived at the station an hour and 30 minutes early, so I finished some assignments.This month has a lot of assignments and tests. Also, I have a part-time job because I need to get money for my summer vacation.I’m planning to visit overseas with my friends. It makes me excited. I can’t wait for have no school.😹

Good morning. I overslept this morning. I woke up at 8 o'clock even though I had to go to school at 9 o'clock. I was very impatient because I didn't prepare. However, I made it to school in time. That's why I don't feel good in the morning. I hope I can go to bed earlier tonight and wake up on time tomorrow.

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Question for English language learners. If you could speak to someone from the United States what would you want to talk about? What's something that you'd love to learn about the US? What topics do you love to talk about with your friends?

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# Why Spanish flips its question marks: ¿like this? Spanish is the only major language that opens a question with an upside-down mark: ¿ and ¡. It looks decorative. It’s actually clever engineering. The Real Academia Española introduced the inverted marks in its *Orthography* of 1754, and made them obligatory in 1870. The reason is beautifully practical: in Spanish, a statement and a question can share the exact same words in the exact same order — only the intonation changes. Compare *Tienes hambre* (“You’re hungry”) and *¿Tienes hambre?* (“Are you hungry?”). Without an opening mark, a reader wouldn’t know to lift their voice until they hit the “?” at the very end. English rarely needs this trick because we usually reorder the words — “You are…” becomes “Are you…?” The little ¿ is simply a courteous heads-up to your voice: a question is coming, get ready. Far from clutter, it’s one of the most reader-friendly features of written Spanish. The rule is more precise — and more elegant — than most textbooks admit. The opening mark doesn’t have to start the sentence; it opens exactly where the question actually begins: *Si no llueve, ¿vamos a la playa?* Spanish pins the question down to the syllable. And the same logic powers the upside-down exclamation mark: *¡No me digas!* Spanish isn’t the only language that worried about this, by the way. Greek marks a question with what looks like our semicolon (;), and Armenian draws its question mark as a little curl sitting *on top of the stressed vowel*. Every writing system eventually asks the same thing: how do we warn the reader’s voice in time? Spanish just gave the neatest answer. **Teacher’s note:** The marks were slow to catch on — you’ll find 19th-century books printed without them. Today they’re standard, but in casual texting many people drop the opening ¿. In careful writing, keep it. *Try this:* Read these aloud and feel the difference: *Ya terminaste.* / *¿Ya terminaste?* Same words, opposite meaning! Thanks!

Today, I had a Spanish test at school, and I was very nervous before it started. I studied hard, but I was still worried that I might forget some answers. After the test was over, I felt relieved, but I was also very tired because I had been so nervous all day. I hope I get a good score.

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