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hey Yumiko i am happy to write to you, and admire all your work on BBC learning english, which is a very good way to improve english. I want to live in a foreign coutry , and want to share my dream, speaking about it, tell me if u are intested to contact me. Best regards

Dear Yumi, I'm trying to get myself involved in your "class", therefore I hope this post will find its way to get to you.. I will briefly give you the answer on an interesting question you asked in your last post, regarding to a proper age for getting married. Since I'm coming from Serbia, and you all know that Serbia isn't quite a developed country (specially in a terms of percentage of highly educated people, urban and rural areas, etc), so the situation is pretty different depending on place of living. Usually, the main difference would be weather you are studying or not (I mean on the University). In big cities, girl at the age of 28 is not old, having in mind that she probably finished her college, found job and wants to live for a while. To have a clear picture why do I say it this way, let me give you a background: economic situation in Serbia is pretty bad, standard is low and people normally do not have money to travel. While studying, many of our students do not have an opportunity to see another country. So, when they are about to earn their own money after finishing the college, they usually want to feel a little bit of real life - to travel, rent an apartment , and similar. To point myself out, in urban areas it's quite normal to get married later. On the other hand, in rural areas, they find you as old, unlucky girl if not married by the age of 23 :) Many regards, Jasmina

Hi Yumi! I´m just leaving a quick message to say hello and also say your photo is really lovely :-). Well my friends and I are plaining a surprise for a dear friend who is a bit down in the damps. Hmm... I think she´ll love it and soon she´ll feel much better! See you tomorrow, Ana Paula.

Dear Yumi, Last few days, I was unable to communicate with you. I work in night shift in office. During weekend, Most of the time I remain busy. So I can read your blog and write comment on it. When I start to think what I should write, I get disturb every 5 minutes. In my last comment I wrote about actual situation of South Asian people who study in general public school. Even when I was studying in master degree some of teachers who have taught several years in English medium can not make proper pronunciation but they are teaching in English and even sometimes solving numerical problem they could not interpret the proper meaning of questions. As you asked me about what sorts of book I am reading to improve my English, since being student of management I used to read management books. So, my suggestion is try to read your job related books in English so that you can improve your English as well as your job skill too. Regarding marriage age, it is gradually increasing in developing countries because most of the girls in urban area are more conscious about their personal carrier and try to achieve it. Mostly in our country, in urban area they get married above 20 but still in rural area they get married after 16. Even in some caste and creed, they get married before they know the meaning of marriage. Can you imagine it is 5-7 years?

i really enjoy with your blooging and i read it completly now i thing i know you even briefly i like japanese culture and ever like live in japan for some years to learn their way of live .thanks may be you want to come here iran in the end i bless your life with best wish tanks.tanks.tanks

Hi, That photo look so nice!!! I hope to go there if I would have a million pound.Ha..Ha.. I think so that someday I can travell whereever I want to go. Cheers.