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Hi Madam (In accordance to culture, Indian students never call / address their teachers by name. They call their teacher either Sir / Madam. Treat & respect them like their parents) Thanks for word Echolalia & Headless Chickens. Once, one of Indian diplomats, in course of his interview, while critizing some of Indian parliamentarians, termed them as "headless chickens" hence invited the wrath of these members. The use of this phrase proved very costly to him. I seems English vocabulary is like a sea. Your watching dictionary really encourged me also. Archaric words are really very difficult to understand. Infact, it is true to every language. English being not their mother language, Enlgish speaking / writing is a known by educated peoples only. One joke regarding language of time when I was 10th class student - English Teachers to students, "In UK everyone speaks English being their mother language" Student, "Sir, even illeterate peoples speaks English too" One recently happened event - I asked my tiny daughter to read out English Alphabet. "Which one Capital letters or Small letters" replied child. Please keep providing useful tips on English Vocabulary and fine points of Grammer.

Echolalia usually refers to autism.

Dear Trudy, I had posted my comments last week. But was disappointed to see that you had not addressed me along with others. Any how it is very interesting to read and share the experiences of people from different countries.I shall keep reading all what is posted here.

Hello Trudi. In Spain, when democracy came in and stayed with us, the Country split into seventeen Autonomous Regions. Each of them had a referendum. The referendum of Andalucía's Autonomous Region took place in 28 February 1980, and each year since then on February the 28th we celebrate Andalucia's Day which is a holiday . Andalucía has eight provinces: Sevilla, Almería, Granada, Jaén, Málaga, Córdoba, Cádiz and Huelva. I was born in Granada but I live in Almería. See you soon.

Hi, Trudi! I would like to help you with a present for your grandmother. My mom is over 80 and she is very happy to receive such presents as a pyjama and warm socks. There are also available goods for healthy such as a mat or a palliasse (I cannot find suitable word in English for that) with magnets, slippers, etc. in Internet shops. You can use Google with words “goods for healthy” or similar ones.

Hi Trudi, Your descriptions of Russian food and Soup tempted me to taste Russian food. But there is no Russian restaurant in my place. There are Plenty of Chinese restaurant and Chinese food item available. We usually add more pepper in soups. The best medicine for cold is to take chicken soup with pepper. I got severe cold few months back. I went to a restaurant which is famous for Crab soup. It is rare to get. You can’t find this soup in other restaurant. I enjoyed eating the grab soup. It was very tasty and spicy. One of my friends advised me to take the soup continuously for four or five days. But I couldn’t. When you go UK next time, go to the restaurant where you had 32oz of steak. Try to take 40 oz of steak this time. I think 32oz is not enough for you. I will pet you; you will polish it off and also the free desert. Since you are a body builder, you will a victorious person in the restaurant and Olympics.

Dear Trudi, How are you? I was running like a head less chicken for two weeks, because One:My older daughter had come from university for three days break, second:my second daughter is going to perform a vocal carnatic music for Saint Theyagaraj day. When my older daughter was with us I made her favourite snack (vaddai and corriander chuttney) and main meal Thosai and Sammbar, Rice and chicken curry, so everyone enjoyed the meals and put some weight. Now I have to work out to reduce that extra weight. I am a health frick. My second daughter is going to wear half saree for this concert,so I made a skirt and a matching blouse for her, but I haven't make anything for me yet. I think this is enough for talking about my self. Thank you for your hilarious picture of you and other pictures of sky scrpers.You and anstasia both sound funny. It has been fun to read your blog and Anastasi's. my kind regards

Dear Trudi! You have sounded a bit mysteriously with such an uncomon backround to me at the beginning. But step by step as I read your every new blog entry I might learn the brilliancy of your character. Inconspicuous manner of your guidance and nice talk to Anastasia I fancy a lot. You have made a perfect decision to became psychologist. Has your lovely Teah started to do first drawings at her age? Please, post some of them. I was really impressed how you´ve described Bejing and your attitude towards changes which are going on there. On my walks in our nearby woods I thought roughly about the same. We are filling them with plastic civilization litter, go there on bigger and bigger cars instead on our own feet and to escape the concrete jungle of towns we will find sad and bad looking nature one day everywhere. Ten years, what a young lady you are and what an old country you live in. Sincerely and greetings

Hello Trudi: I think it is a good idea that learners English when come across a word that they don't know or have never even seen before they should look it up in a dictionary. I'll take the word echolalia as my word of the day too. Echolalia means the tendency to repeat mechanically words just spoken by another person. Can occur in cases of brain damage, mental retardation, and schizophrenia.

Dear Trudi, “Concrete Jungle” I came to know this phrase when I had visited Banglore city, one of the Metros in our country last May. My brother used this word when he had spoken about the growth of the city to one of our friend. It is true that after the boom of soft ware, the cities are growing beyond our imaginations. Large business houses, huge commercial centres, giant shopping malls and wonderful living apartments are trying to touch the sky. We can’t neglect the other side of the city life. We can see the over crowded population every where in the cities. It will be very difficult to reach one destination if you are caught in the middle of the traffic jam in the peak hours. It will be a nightmare to get a pure fresh air even if you walk in the early hours of the day. Trudi, tell me which life would you prefer to live. Enjoying life in the cities or peaceful life in the country side. Regarding concrete Jungle, when I was a young, I imagined the jungle with lots of bushes, hedges and many creatures living inside the jungle. It will be very difficult to go into the jungle. But in today’s world, I imagine the life inside the concrete jungle. What is saddening is we try to remove the nature jungle in order to put an artificial jungle. Am I boring you?

Hi Trudi! I'm exciting when i read yours blog about Beijing. it is seem to sound my country, Vietnam, in this phase, is called concrete jungle too. I have concern about the change, especially in traditional culture. This is the my first comment in your blog, and so, i am looking forward to hearing from you. These will encourage me later. Sincerely

Hi Trudi, Feb,21(Thursday) is the CHinese Lantern Festival( Yuanxiao Festival), it celebrates on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the Chinese calendar, it's your Nan’s 85th birthday as well. Happy birthday to Nan. In Taiwan, we call the same way as our friend to their seniority. And what would a 85-year-old person like? A hug is everything, and, a bear hug from her grandkid is never ever better. Best Regards, James

Hi Trudi, Again here to win your appraisal. Before moving ahead i would like to share that i got a very good job in oil company and now a days quite busy in learning new things and polishing differnt skills. My writing you regularly is very helpful in composing day to day business letters. your little push gave me confidence to put down everything freely on the page as it has contributed to muster up my courage. you know in the middle of congested information it is very hard to scrutinize the productive ones when one is not at all having such practice but I without any hesitation try to do it. If you please help me in the same manner i could be able to fashion my English more accurately.thanks

Hi Trudi! Beijing seems to be an expensive city to live in now, doens´t it? Here in São Paulo Starbucks stores are becoming famous. Therefore, they are packed of people. Differently from these people I prefer to have my coffee in a calm, small and charming store that I know. Although the coffee quality is the same in both stores, the price in this small Brazilian store is cheaper than Starbucks. Anyway, I hope you find a nice present for your Nan. Best wishes, Ana Paula.

G’day every one, I was not able follow the blogs closely and I am writing after two long weeks. So far its has been exciting. Keep up the good work. Well, you did hit the nail on the head when u talked about the cities losing its charm. Cheers Praveen Raj

Dear Trudi, Thank you for your comments about how to select english story books for my level. I was so pleased when I read that I am above than beginner level. Trudi, I read a book " A lesson before dying"by Earnest J. Gaines which was written in simple english, so I thoroughly understand everything. This richly compassionate novel tells the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit,and a teacher who tries to impart him his learning and pride before execution. I realy enjoyed the novel, which motivate me to read more. thank you My kind regards,

Hi Trudi!I couldn´t bear listening to all day talk rubbish at office so I took a day off. I spent it reading back all your post and it has been a really relaxing day. Now, I wonder how you could sound strangely to me, you have explained very clearly everything from the beginning in an achieved style. As I was reading with colour pencils in a hand I discovered soon that you are an absolute master teacher in using - commas. To put this punctation mark in to a sentence is the most unclear and dreaded point in my autodidactic learning. Until now, no one teacher had used them as often as you do. I think that I hardly may achieve the high level as Anastasia in my age, yet but to learn with you is really a pleasure. And, Paulray´s writing, for example, has made a giant progres for the time I might have observed. I ashame for myself not to work enough constantly.