Chinese Cultural Communication

Art & Culture:
Chinese Cultural Communication (PEKING UNIVERSITY)
The reason that I choose this course is that I want to know how to tell the foreigners the summary of Chinese address. Address is very important in Chinese. To people with different identifies, different objects, in different time, even for different purposes, the address is different. The content of this course is easy to me, but I can learn the teaching ways, standing by the side of foreigners.

Pepper & Carrot: The Unity Tree

Episode 24: The Unity Tree

Pepper & Carrot is an interesting website to learn English. Learning English is not a boring process. Through pictures and comic characters, we can be more easier to remember the words. And we can also imitate the language usage of the local people. So it is a really useful website to learn English.

BookBox: Bunty and Bubbly

germ:  A very small organism that causes disease.
Eg：The patient has little natural resistance to germs.

scrub: To rub something hard in order to clean it, especially using a stiff brush, soap, and water.
Eg: Kids, give your hands a good scrub and come and get your dinner!

scream: To cry or say something loudly and usually on a high note, especially because of strong emotions such as fear, excitement, or anger.
Eg: A spider landed on her pillow and she screamed.

A girl named Bunty is very outgoing. She loves to play with butterflies, and with birds. She likes to play with paper boats. And she also likes to make sand castles. But she really doesn't like to clean up. One day, she had a dream that the soap king saved her from the germs. Then she loves to use soap to scrub herself.

I Will Always Love You

I Will Always Love You    
Whitney Houston (The United States)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU

If I should stay, I'll only be in your way

So I'll go, but I know I'll

Think of you every step of the way

And I will always love you

I will always love you

You, my darling you, hmmm,

Bittersweet memories

That is all I'm taking with me

So, goodbye

Please, don't cry

We both know I'm not what you, you need

And I will always love you

I will always love you

I hope life treats you kind

And I hope you have all you've dreamed of

And I wish to you, joy and happiness

But above all this, I wish you love

And I will always love you

I will always love you

I will always love you

I will always love you

I will always love you

I, I will always love you

You, darling, I love you

Oh, I'll always, I'll always love you

bittersweet: The ending is bittersweet, with both sides suffering losses.

treat: It is especially worth noting that in the market, the price of organic food is at least twice that of food treated with chemicals.

above all: Above all, the issue of bedwetting led the hygiene sub-committee to confront the question of poor housing.

Reason:

I was attracted by her voice, when I firstly heard this song. Her voice was full of emotion and stories. It is a sorrowful song that tells us the wishes from those who love. Her voice let me look back on this period of very touching. It left a deep impression on me.

Photos From a Storm Chaser

Photos From a Storm Chaser
Camille Seaman
4 mins
https://www.ted.com/talks/camille_seaman_photos_from_a_storm_chaser#t-74546

interconnected: with different parts or things connected or related to each other.

Eg: Our society is too complex and interconnected to defend against all possible threats.

perspire: to pass liquid through the skin.

Eg: The journalists and camera crews began to perspire in the heat as they stood waiting for the president to appear.

illustrate: to draw pictures for a book, magazines, etc.

Eg: The lecturer illustrated his point with a diagram on the blackboard.

Thoughts:

Everything is interconnected. In this talk Camille Seaman shows stunning, surreal photos of the heavens in tumult. There is no doubt that it is a dangerous and hard job. But the experience is wonderful. I have known the magic in the nature from these photos. Falling love with his job and being devoted to his interests are the luckiest thing. Sometimes an inspiring word from your families ,friends and colleagues may give you a lot of confidence. 

Vocabulary

Gadget:
 A small device or machine with a particular purpose.
Eg: Have you seen this handy little gadget - it's for separating egg yolks from whites.

Ultrasonic:
Too high for people to hear.

Eg: There were several results about amplitude of ultrasonic signal in air.

Embed:

To fix something firmly into a substance.

Eg: The only representations that exist, in this view, are those that are embedded in the momentary phenomenal experience.

Augment:

To increase the size or value of something by adding something to it.

Eg: We also show how to use the triadic odometer augmented with plus and minus signs to track octagons.

Iterative:

Doing something again and again, usually to improve it.

Eg: This will greatly facilitate the treatment of deformable surfaces using iterative methods.

#1 Hello!

Hi，everyone! I'm Yvonne. I am 20 years old, born in Zhejiang province, southeast of China. And I am currently a senior student at National Taipei University of Business. My major is international business. I feel that my strongest asset is my ability to stick to things to get them done. I feel a real sense of accomplishment when I finish a thing and it turns out just as I'd planned. Sometimes I am not an outgoing person to communicate well to the strangers. But I'm actually glad to make friends with others. Hope that you can chat with me positively if you want.