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听写练习
I’ve been learning some dialogues, and although I’ve gotten reasonably good at learning characters and their meanings and how to read them, two of the things I’m still not very good at are remembering how to write them. And how to learn a dialogue. 你女儿毕业了吧？ 是啊，毕业差不多两年了。 现在在哪儿上班呢？ 在我们家附近的一个医院，当医生。 男的的女儿是做什么的？ Dictation in Word is really struggling,…
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Enough time
I enjoyed today. It felt like the day stretched, I got up a little after 5, I did a little bit of study, I did some preparation for the day and the week which will follow, and then it just felt like I had plenty of time to do other things as well. I booked…
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Slash
Pleased to report I managed to wake up at about 5:10 this morning feeling reasonably fresh and I got myself bundled up, brushed my teeth and then jumped in the car to drive over to see S. It’s slash and burn time! It was dark when I left and I found myself hoping it would…
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Coffee
A little while back I set up an 11.30 daily coffee call from my own company account. Over the years I have invited a few people I had worked with or otherwise knew from work. People I liked and didn’t want to lose contact with, and from those it’s self-selected to a small core group…
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Uncanny
It’s such a cliche to say that the year is flying by. I don’t know that I’m in the mood to write a story right now but I want to tell you instead about a story I’ve wanted to write for some time. I like the idea of a spy, so well embedded in the…
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Sunshine
The weather this year has been really unusual. By unusual, I simply mean it doesn’t match very well with my experiences over the course of my lifetime. I might sometimes feel old, but in the scheme of things my lifetime is a very short period of time. I sometimes smile when a news article, or…