1. Write about your past formal or informal language learning experiences. Would you consider them effective or ineffective? Learning foreign languages is a real challenge to everyone and a lot of people have their own successful and unsuccessful experiences. As for me‚ I’d like to tell about a negative one because‚ unfortunately‚ I had it more than positive. I’ve been learning English since I was 10 years old. At first‚ it was at school. Those lessons left much to be desired. We had a middle-aged
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Stephen Reinoso ENC1101 7/25/13 Movies During the 1920’s Movies theaters became extremely popular in the United States. Little by little every year‚ more and more movie theaters would pop up around the country. In March of 1998‚ Toshiba released its first DVD player to the American market. Everyone who was anyone went and purchased a dvd player. Now in 2013‚ almost every household has a DVD or blue ray player in their house. Even though the DVD player invention decreased the revenue for movie
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The Western Experience Xxxxx xxxxx HIS/110 June xx‚ xxxx Xxxxxx xxxx The Western Experience Dear Diary‚ We are about to embark on a journey that will forever change our lives. Brian believes that heading West on the Oregon Trail will be an adventure and once we reach our destination we can build a better life for our children. Today we packed the wagon with as much food as possible. We also pack the essentials such as pots and pans and clothes. Also we let the children choose a few of their favorite
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An example from my communication experiences of communication is a process: I was talking with a friend about something and we ended our conversation. The next day‚ my fiancé sparked up the same conversation with both my friend and me. We explained to him how we ended our conversation the previous day and then we talked some more. It amazed us to see how a conversation we thought was ended started all over again. An example from my communication experience of communication is irreversible: I
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An Experience to Remember “Judging a book by its cover is a pervasive consequence of our initial reactions to other people-reactions that encourage often inaccurate stereotypes about races and ethnic groups other than our own” (Walker‚ 2010). That’s how I felt when I initially walked into The Passage to India restaurant. As I walked in‚ my first thought was the strong smell‚ the fancy and calm setting‚ and the many peacocks scattered throughout the restaurant. I am a person that doesn’t really step
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The DUI experience speaker really had an impact on me. I have had many fellow class mates in high school die in alcohol-related car crashes. I honestly had no clue that the average age a person consume alcohol is fourteen years old. When I was fourteen I never even thought of drinking. The average age to start abusing drugs is sixteen years old; I personally know that is about correct. I grew up in a town where it is very common to be on drugs at a very young age. So I grew up around all the drugs
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Andy Teng 1302.95 25 September 2014 Culture and Experience Enrichment by Visiting Europe If students have never experienced with another culture‚ their knowledge become bounded. They would only see and interpret lives through their very own ways. European cares about saving energy than Americans because they value energy as precious. In America‚ people have a big refrigerator in their homes. However‚ each home has a smaller cooler because of high energy cost. Also‚ Americans go to the supermarket
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Personal Experience High school just wasn’t for me. High school just isn’t for a lot of people‚ but adult society has its grasp on today’s youth‚ trying to manipulate them to conform to whatever they think is an acceptable teenager. They need to let it go. Although today’s teenagers are not as experienced in the ways of life‚ they among the smartest people in the world. Teenagers should be educated on what rights they have and how they can use them to their advantage. In my personal experience‚ I found
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Here’s a story that I have made up a couple of years ago for a history class. "Hey Penny‚ how’d you get here‚ all of us are telling our experiences of how we ended up here.” Baby B asked me‚ “you haven’t said a peep‚ you usually talk in every conversation we have.” Baby B’s real name was Bailey; we called her Baby B because she had that baby face. She also got those big brown eyes just like her mother. “It’s a long story; I might not even finish telling you the story today.” Baby B gave me that
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On Monday the seventh of February this year I started my work experience. I did my first week in a clothes shop called Bershka in Mahon Point. I started work at ten o clock and finnished at half three. On Wednesday I had a half day so I finnished at half twelve. There were three other girls in my year doing their work experience in Bershka too. We got a twenty minute break at eleven and we got a hour lunch at one o clock. It was very busy in the shop because its popular and very fashionable. I had
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