lundi 13 octobre 2014

                                    Idioms

                    Hello everyone,
Today we are going to talk more about some idioms and their meaning.

"Grean behind the ears" : being new to something

"When in Rome, do unto romans":  you should adapt to the customs of society when you are there.

"It take two to tangle" : this happen without more than one person

"Gravy on turkey" : more

"No use trying to drink spilt milk" : something that you say which means you should not get upset about something bad that has happened that you cannot change

"It is half of one two dozen of another" : used to compare two things that are the same

"Four score and once upon a time ago" : it is a part of Linciln's Gettysburg address

"Neccesity is the daughter of invention" : when people really need to do something, they will figure out a way to do it

"My ship would pass me by night" : you would miss out on a good opportunity

mardi 7 octobre 2014

                                  My Story

Early in the morning, my place on the dinning table was empty, but everybody knew that I was taking care of my adorable dog, Kenny, which was very sick since two weeks ago. I was trying to give him some food, water and the medications that the vet had prescribed, but my dog just wanted to be alone and lie down on a cool little space in the house. It was very strange because he never left me alone like this, he was always attentive to me. I left him go looking for his cool place.
At this moment my father came, kissed me and said good bye to me because he was going to his office. He got into his car, turned it on and tried to go out of the garage. He just moved the car when I heard a heartbreaking cry that rang in my ears.........My father stoped quickly the car and went out to see what just happened. Kenny was under the right wheel of my father's car, and had been crushed by the car. Nobody except me knew that Kenny was under the car.
Thereby, it was like the, world, my world was collapsing, everythings became dark for me. There are these moments in life, where you are asking to yourselfs some questions like, why are you existing? Why is it impossible to go back to the past and changed your life? I was feeling like this. Kenny was my best friend, we grew up together, we had the same sizes and he had a place in my heart. I was five years old and I saw the life left the body of my dog.
I started crying, I was inconsolable. My brother came to me and said that" Tears can't revive a dead", this irritated me again. Then, my sister came also to me and said"Kenny was destined to die today even if it was not by dad, it could be by another person and this would be the worst.You have to take everything positively".
I saw since this day and with time that good things are ephemerals. Sometimes someone come in our lives when we need,to start something, help, support, belief in ourselves and when the equilibrium is established and we think that he is our mentors,he disappears and leaves us stand up on our own two feet.

lundi 6 octobre 2014

                     How Languages Evolve

Hey everybody, I am back.
       Today's post will be on a video about the evolution of language.
This video, according to me, is very helpful to understand the languages, its creation, evolution and the way that it is used. It eplains a lot of things that we do(or don't) know all of this in a very short time, so it is very easy to understand and learn.I was delighted to know the evolution of the language,the way that it had been separated and divided in many others dialects. I was also surprised by the numbers of languages and that many words are "similar" in many others languages such as numbers. But this last part was confusing to me because I'm sure that it will be difficult to find some words in like Chinese wich are similar in French or English. I think that in generally the video is very good, helpful and provides many informations such as culture varies depending on languages, dialects ans geographics positions.

mercredi 1 octobre 2014

                         What's Current Creates Currency

 2)Entertaining, popular music portray the most of time younger people. They just want something news, popular for their parties. And also shows that they are cool and fun with some popular music.

3)Popular music doesn't really dictate what we belief but it is our belief that influences our way to perceive the music. A popular music reflects our beliefs and cultural values because it shows that we have all different beliefs and cultural values and shows that they are not obviously the best one as we think and there are some others which could be appreciated.

4) Music becomes popular when everyone listen to it, when it's broadcasted all the time at radio, television, and when everybody sings it. It doesn't have to be interresting or necessarily have to pass a message it just has to be everywhere at every time and has an effect on the audience. A real music is based on our ideas an opinions. Our judgement on real music depends on the meaning that we have for it. If we said that a combination of just a singer and some instruments is a real music, we can agree that pop music is a real music. Or if we consider that all kinds of music are real we can agree also  that pop music is a real one.

6)A song carries a message. The lyric of a music depends of the writter's sentiments because it's based on his life, his everyday's life, his emotions and also what he thinks about many things in life, his culture and what he can't say with something else which is not music. It's also based on the message that he wants to pass. Then people who will hear the song could feel like they are identifying with the song and feel like the song is only about them and their situation. With it, they can mind that they are not alone and there is someone who ever fells it and would like to share the message.

7) Music reflects cultural values by the culture and the ways of thinking of the author. The author can use this sound insteed of another or specifically something because it depends on who he is and his personnality is the result of his culture.A singer is a product of his culture an then he broadcasts his culture through his music.