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Valentine’s Day, or Love is in the Air

public displays of affection
forked out
hidden in the mists of time
martyred
imprisoned
solace
confinement
equivalent
customary
commiserate with
e-cards
all the rage
wary
malicious hackers
viruses
spyware
warrant

Mouth Expressions: The Experience Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth

Today’s article is about expressions with names. Native speakers like to use them but it is difficult for me to understand most of them.

cup of Joe
an average Joe
did not know Jack
John Q. Public
Jeez Louise
For Pete’s sake
a doubting Thomas
Joe Blow
a plain Jane
Sheila
No way, Jose
did not know either of these two people from Adam
Jack of all trades
Uncle Sam
John Hancock
Johnny One Note

China closes 1250 sites for healthier Web

This article is about pornography on the Internet. But what Chinese government really want to prohibit are the messages against the government. It is reasonable to prohibit pornography for children.

But we have to monitor what the government is hiding. Hiding opinions on the Internet should not be allowed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today’s topic was color.

Barack Obama’s supercar shown to the world

There are not so many difficult to understand words. But there are some difficult to pronounce words.

-limousine = limo
-chauffeur (∫o’ufэ(r)) from French
-secrecy
-debut

I did not know two words, limo and chauffeur.

limo is abbreviation of limousine.
chauffeur is a driver hired exclusively by someone

Diabetes in U.S. rising sharply

It is about diabetes in U.S.

The article itself was easy. BUT I made one mistake. I mispronounced “Diabetes”. I had believed that it has accent on the first syllable. But the accent is on the second syllable.

It is difficult to notice his kind of misunderstandings by ourselves.

It is good to take lessons from teachres who you are not familior with. Every teacher has his own major, hobby and so on. So new teacher can teach you something else.

But when you get a lesson from new teacher, you are likely to use most of 25-min lesson just introducing yourself. So to have new teachers too often is not good for me.

What do you do when… ?

It is difficult for me to make up stories. I am not talkative when it comes to talk about this kind of topics.