My neighborhood
Good evening everyone!
First of all, dear Amy, thank you so much for your comments on my homework. It was very interesting to read your comments explaining why you use indifinite words. I have never thought them in that way - you think there are lots of nice days so you use indifinite word. I got the point where I made a mistake. Usually I think something is special / specified so I should use definite word.
For example, in the sentence *1, I thought it was the only one nice working day off celebrating India's 60th independence day. 'India's 60th independece day' is the factor which specifed the day, so I used 'the'. Now I think I'd better learn from the case and memorize the way of use. Thank you!
Here are the homework for today. Please kindly have a look.
I was very impressed **by** him.
It looked very familiar **to** me.
I am quite familiar **with** his work.
It varies **from** country to country.
It varies **between** countries.
I think you should speak **to** him about it.
I found 'familiar' difficult because both of them from the quiz had the same meanings.It depends on the subjects, doesn't it?
Amy, could you do me a favor again? Our customers from the States will come to visit us tommorrow and we will have dinner on Friday. It's a shame but I am better in speaking Enliglish than anyone else from my team. So I am again organizing the dinner with 3 customers and 4 of us. So would you please teach me the formal expressions or those which I can use in that situation?
Today, I made a (*1) reservation for the restaurant on the 42nd floor, which I hope we can enjoy the view at night!. I hope they like it. However I am a bit nervous again! It is so difficult to entertain guests(*2)!
Talking about my neighborhood, I live in Saitama, not Tokyo. It is the residential area and there are many houses instead of apartment ones. My house is facing the railroad, so it is a bit loud. When I first lived here 12 years ago, I was very surprised that it was so loud, and sometimes the land shook like earthqueake(!) because many trains were passing by. Thanks god, 12 years here made me get used to it.
There is the river near from our place, I seriously forgot the name though. It is not really clean becasue of the many houses around, but it's stll nice to see the river and some small flowers along it.
Compared to Tokyo, I could say more young kids live here and it is very typical in a residential area. No wonder, usually dads go for work and childrean stay here and go to the school.
Well,,,, obviously your area sounds much nicer! It's nice to hear Deligh is much clearer than I thought.
That's the end of my blog today. I almost sleep in front of my laptop, trying to keep my fingers typing! Now I decide its time to sleep! Have a good night & sweet dreams everyone.
Ciiiiiiiiao x
Yumi
Comments
This is the first time I'm here. I'm glad to find this webpage to learn English with friends all over the world. that's very good. have a nice time sumi and all the friends.
Hi Yumy! It´s really interesting to know about your neighbourhood. I have a friend (me and my friends again :-) ) who used to live near the railroad too. So I know what you mean when you said the land shook like in an earthquake. One of our favourite plays when we were children( which was not a long ago) was cross the street and wave goodbye as trains passed by. Oh children! :-) By the way, good luck in your meeting tomorrow. And don´t be nervous! Everything will go fine. You´re a great girl. PS- If you could please, tell us how was your meeting. Best wishes, Ana Paula.
hi, your writing is so good that I am jealous of you, which is really a stimulation for me to practise writing. its is very interesting, and easy to understand. Now, i'm sad, but after reading your biog, i feel so much better. Good luck
Hello Yumiko, It's nice talking to you. I used to live in a very noisy neighborhood too. But, unlike you, I could never get used to it. It was a very busy street and even late at night cars and buses seemed to be going inside my bedroom. Fortunately, now I live in a place where you can even hear birds singing. I miss some things of the big city, but not the noise. Nice talking to you. Good luck with your dinner party. I hope everything goes well. Bye.
Howdy Yumiko, my residental area locate at Northeast of Thailand. I live in the countryside not far from urban like Khonkaen. My house is small , peaceful area and green. And I am glade to hear from you where your house is. In addition,obviously it is no problem. Due to the Internet ,it is making our world easy to interact with each other,isn't it ? So I will talking with you next time. See you around.
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