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骑自行车的好处和坏处
我的演讲题目是 "骑自行车的好处和坏处"。人们越来越关注自己的健康。所以有多人决定使用自行车代替汽车或摩托车。骑自行车不但可以减肥，而且还可使身体健康。它的好处是不限时间不限地点，随时随地都可以运动健身。有一些观点认为骑车很慢并且不方便。 实际上，骑自行车使你不必担心堵车，也可以省等待车的时间。骑车时，你既可以呼吸新鲜的空气又可以锻炼呼吸功能。骑自行车还可以使精神愉悦和心情开朗。但是，骑自行车不要骑得太久，否则脚会容易疼痛 。这几年的空气质量是越来越差了，其中很重要的原因就是汽车，卡车。如果我们增加骑自行车，我们将对环保的重大贡献。总之骑自行车的好处太多了。我的演讲 到此 结束。谢谢大家
Nov. 22, 2020
Nov. 22, 2020
Nov. 22, 2020
Journal 11/21/20
What is the most difficult part for you to learn a foreign language? In my opinion, they are speaking, listening, writing and reading, and the degree of difficulty is commensurate with the ranking, and the first one is the hardest. The majority of people who learn a foreign language can read and understand easily, and even better, they can write well, but if a person can speak a foreign language well, I think he can be considered to master a foreign language. I want to tell you the proportion that I assumed people in language learning. More than 90 percent can read, more than 30 to 40 percent can read and write, more than 20 percent can listen and only 10 percent can speak. Furthermore, just 5 percent can speak well. Of course, this is just my assumption, and it is not necessarily correct. By the way, what is your opinion on the difficulties of language learning?
Nov. 22, 2020
¡Mi hermana ha vuelto!
Esta tarde mi hermana pequeña volvió de la universidad para pasar los vacaciones del Día de Acción de Gracias en casa. Estoy muy contenta. La he echado de menos mucho estos últimos meses.
Esta noche estaba cansada debido a su vuelo y a todos los exámenes de la semana así que solo vimos unos TikToks, pero estoy pensando en lo que podemos hacer juntas. Ha traído la Wii para seguir jugando LEGO Señor de los Anillos. También quiero llevarla a una panadería cuya dueño es francés (ella estudia francés en la universidad y quiero ofrecerle una oportunidad para practicar... y además los baguettes son muy ricos). El tiempo estará muy buena la semana que viene así que también podemos ir al parque o a la playa.
Nov. 22, 2020
Språket jag vill lära mig i framtiden
Hej allihopa, idag tänkte jag prata om ett språk jag tycker är intressant och särskilt användbart för mig i framtiden - malayalam. Det är nog troligt att många av er inte har hört talas om språket förut, men det här är ett språk som talas i den södra indiska delstaten av Kerala. Min flickvän och hennes familj kommer från Kerala, och därför har jag alltid velat kunna Malayalam. Om jag kunde överraska dem med några malayalam meningar vet jag att det skulle vara jättekul och oväntad! Jag har också hört att språket är ganska svårt, särskild om man inte kan något annat indisk språk, så det ska bli kul att se om jag kan! Men än så länge ska jag fortsätta att lära mig svenska, åtminstone tills jag känner mig mer självsäkert med språket.
Nov. 22, 2020
Journal 11/21/20
This picture was shot in the front yard of my mother’s home. The plant in the picture in Chinese is called 朝天椒. In English, it may be called pod pepper. We hire a nanny to look after my mom, and in her free time, she likes planting some vegetables in the yard. As far as I can remember, she has planted tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, green onions, Chinese cabbage and so on. Because they were planted for ourselves eating, not for sale, they have never been fertilized, and also never been sprayed with pesticides. Those vegetables just grow naturally. The majority of the vegetables we eat are all planted in the yard, we never need to worry about food safety, and we are very joyful while we eat the vegetables that are planted by ourselves.
Nov. 22, 2020
Glaubst du an Zauberei?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZn31gd_Jc
Wie kann man Magic auf Deutsch sagen? Zauberei? Zauberkunst? Zauber?
Das wird vom Zusammenhang abhängen.
Es gibt Ereignisse in unserem Leben, die kaum zu glauben sind. Umstände, in denen die Möglichkeit, etwas Gutes zu passieren, sehr niedrig waren und trotzdem hat alles gut geklappt. Was ist das? Ein Wunder? Eine Hilfe vom Gott? Und was würden Menschen denken, die nicht an Gott glauben? Glück? Zufall? Zauber?
Niemand soll die richtige Antwort kennen. Niemand soll sagen, dass sie die wahre Antwort kennen. Es gibt aber tausend Menschen, die behaupten, dass sie es tun.
Ich weiß nicht, wer oder was uns hilft oder nicht hilft, wenn wir in Gefahr sind oder wenn wir etwas brauchen.
Und warum sind einige Menschen gerettet und andere nicht? Wenn jemand vom Schlimmsten verschont bleibt, sagen einige Menschen, dass Gott es getan hat. Ich mag diese Erklärung nicht. Jeden Tag sterben viele Menschen aus verschiedenen Gründen. Das hat auch Gott getan? Wenn etwas Gutes passiert, dann passiert es dank Gott, sagen einige Menschen. Und wenn etwas Schlechtes passiert? Passiert es auch, weil Gott es will? Wenn nicht, dann die Erklärung nicht logisch ist.
Nov. 22, 2020
My examination
Today I got up early even though I had no online class, the reason being that today was the day of my examination.
This examination is occurring because of a great opportunity that is currently being offered to students of my school who are enrolled in English XI. If we meet the standarts required on the two tests, four of us will be the chosen representatives of my school in an international event that will take place next year.
The test consisted of writing an essay between 140-190 words, with a 50-minute time limit; the topic was presented to us on the same day and we had to write about how English has become an international language, as well as the benefits of studying abroad. The next test will be an oral one.
Even though there is not a lot of competitors in it, it was still nerve-wracking. And I'm not sure if I passed the first test, as I'm waiting for the results which will be announced on Wednesday.
Nov. 22, 2020
Welche Sports sind in Deutschland beliebt?
Ja, Fußball, natürlich, aber außerdem, welche Sports sind in Deutschland am liebsten getrieben/geschaut?
Hier in Kuba sind Fußball und Baseball die meist-gesehen/getrieben Sports. Basketball ist auch von vielen beliebt.
In Kanada sind Eishockey (der Nationalsport) und Basketball am meisten getrieben. Fußball (Soccer) ist auch sehr bekannt und wird besonders von jüngeren Leuten gespielt. Amerikanischer Fußball, Baseball und Tennis sind auch relativ populär.
Nov. 22, 2020
The Difference between Happiness and Satisfaction
Happiness is a mood that comes early and goes early as well. Satisfaction is a state that comes late and goes late too. Happiness is occurred to you, that is to say, it is a passive emotion but satisfaction ought to be obtained, meaning an active existence. Happy humans are not necessarily satisfied with themselves and their lives. They laugh but deep down their laughs have the bitter taste of boredom and depression. Happiness removes sadness but neither boredom nor depression. At times, satisfaction has a little color of sadness. Satisfied humans are not always happy but they are neither bored nor depressed. Happiness is our emotional reaction to the presence of pleasure. However, satisfaction is the way we are in the presence of meaning. The pleasures of life bring happiness, the meaning of life satisfaction. It is from the weak points of our times that most of us are content with happiness instead of satisfaction.
Nov. 22, 2020
Exercise
Yesterday was the first time I exercised in a long time. I'm always saying that I want to work out at least three days a week but I never actually do it. I'm quite sedentary, as I sit around all day and almost never work out. The health app in my phone shows that I walk around five hundred steps a day. This is not at all healthy, so I've decided to take exercise more often.
However, I don't like working out because I get very tired really soon and I find it quite boring. Unfortunately, listening to music doesn't help much. I have a treadmill at home so I was thinking about using it while watching YouTube or Netflix. I'm also considering going on a walk every day or jumping rope at home, which seems more fun.
Tomorrow I'm going to set some goals regarding this and make a plan so as to achieve them.
Should I say "jump rope" or "skip rope"? I was taught to use "skip", but I saw "jump rope" more often on YouTube. I also don't know whether to use "phone", "smartphone", "cellphone" or "mobile phone". I would really appreciate it if you could help me with that.
Nov. 21, 2020
Journal 11/21/20
The dish I ate a couple of days ago, and also was very forgetful was braised meat. It was not cooked in a big, decent restaurant, but on a small street by a box lunch store. Its two characteristics are 香和烂. I know 香in English is fragrant, but I don’t know how to say 烂in English. I don't know if it's right to say this: it is fragrant and rotten, but some foreigners said that I was using the wrong word "rotten", because "rotten" means that some stuff, especially the food, is bad or damaged. But what I really mean by using 烂 is to describe that the meat is easy to chew or it makes a melting feeling when it comes into your mouth. That is all for this passage. Can anyone give me the correct translation of the Chinese saying 肉又香又烂?
Nov. 21, 2020
Las galletas (1)
Me gustan las galletas. Hay tal una variedad que puedes hacer. Mientras las galletas con chispas de chocolate son muy populares, hay literalmente cientos de alternativos. ¡Me siente que cada día descubro una tipa nueva! Especialmente durante las fiestas, las galletas se vuelven muy elaboradas. No sé lo que hacen en otros países, pero en los estados unidos las dos galletas más populares durante esta época son ellas de azúcar y de jengibre.
Nov. 21, 2020
パッションって何？
最近は将来に何をしたいのか悩んでいて、やっぱり何かパッションとか情熱がある仕事をしたいなと思いました。自分にとって嫌な仕事ばかりしたら、人生で意味がないんだ。何か後悔しないように大学の勉強を決めなければいけない気持ちが頭に溢れていました。でも何に強いパッションがあるのか考えたら分からなくなりました。
自分はいろんな趣味がある人なんです。音楽が好きですし、日本語を勉強するのが好きですし、絵を描くも好きです。音楽の中でいろんな楽器を弾くけど、一つの楽器もマスターしたって言うことと言えません。大学に行くと、今よりのやる気と頑張れる気持ちがもっと必要だと思います。数字にすると、一週間に三回を練習することじゃなくて、毎日数えられないぐらい時間を練習します。自分の中で、数えられない時間ぐらい練習するパッションがあるのか悩んでいた。
そしてパッションって何と聞かれると、自分にはパッションがあることで、やる気がなくても上手くなくても必ず楽しくすることだと思います。今はそんなことをまだ見つけてないけど、いつかパッションがあることを見つけるといいなと思います。
Nov. 21, 2020
Full-Time Job
Yesterday I talked to one of my language exchange partners who wants to take an MCAT Exam next year. It seems to me that he has lost interest in readying for the MCAT Exam lately. When I talked with him, I was surprised to hear that he got a full-time job in a lab, He's just graduated from University. Actually, he skipped a year to graduate. When he's a third year student, he just graduated from University this year, and began to study for the MCAT together with his classmates through an internet. I wish his long-cherished dream comes true. However......
It's so hard to believe that he'll begin to work full-time. According to him, he'll begin to work in a lab which is affiliated with the Harvard University. Next week, he is moving to a flat or a shared room in Cambridge. When he said that he's skipped a year successfully at the University and he'll study at home preparing for the MCAT Exam, then, I was afraid that he'll maybe fall by wayside's possibility based on my experience.
Self-study is much harder than you might think. I suppose that he'll may end up giving up to take the MCAT Exam. It seems to me that he's being swept away by the flow or avoiding to face reality. Basically, he is no more than a geek, fortunately, he is not a nerd. After he'll move and work full-time, he said he will study for the MCAT Exam at the same time. It seems to me that he is trying to shorten his time of study. Anyway, I hope that his long-cherished dream comes true.
Nov. 21, 2020
Journal 11/21/20
This weekend I was kind of busy. On Thursday I learned my older brother’s family returned to my village to attend the funeral of my older brother’s mom in law. According to our local tradition, I should attend the funeral and bring some money to show my sympathy as relevant, so I returned to the village on Friday. According to my older brother’s trip plan, I went to my hometown to pick them up to Fuyang to see my mom. After lunch at my mother’s house, I took them to my hometown again. When I returned to Fuyang, it was already dark. Today is Sunday, so far there are no planned things to do, but I need to go to my office once because I have an official business trip to Hefei tomorrow, and some stuff that the trip needed was left in the office.
Nov. 21, 2020
Nov. 21, 2020
Письмо преподавателю
Мне нужно написать письмо преподавателю русского языка. Вы можете мне помочь? Большое спасибо!
Здравствуйте, [имя],
Надеюсь, что у вас всё в порядке. Я хотела вам рассказать о моим изучении русского языка в последние месяцы и задать вопрос о следующей четверти. Я говорю с моим другом из России 4-5 раз в неделю и мне кажется, что я добилась некоторого прогресса в разговорной речи. Мы с Колей разговариваем полчаса на английском и полчаса на русском. Кроме того, я пишу короткие тесты на русском каждый день и стараюсь учиться на ошибках. Я собираюсь вернуться в университет в январь и записаться на два курсы. Вам кажется, что я смогу учиться на четвёртом курсе?
Я также увидела другой курс в каталоге предметов, который мне очень интересует. Это называется [название кусра]. Преподаватель – [имя]. Вы знаете, смогу ли я записаться на этот курс? Надо пройти вступительный тест?
Спасибо за помощь!
Авива
Nov. 21, 2020
Nov. 21, 2020
How would your life be if mobile phones didn't exist?
If mobile phones didn’t exist our lives would change drastically and our lifestyle would be completely different as it is now. Everyone has a phone, and especially young people use it on a daily basis. There are even some people who cannot live without it!
If someday phones disappeared our daily lives would be similar as they were a decade ago. Personally, it would save me a lot of time. I would wake up without checking and scrolling through Instagram and other apps. You don’t really notice it, but you can easily spend up to an hour just looking at your phone, wasting time. I would also enjoy doing activities outside or spending more time on my hobbies, which I often abandon since I can’t find time for them. My attention span would also improve notoriously, given the fact that my phone distracts me from whatever task I’m doing.
Even though mobile phones bring us amazing opportunities and makes our lives easier, we’ve become too dependent on them. We should find balance and learn to use them wisely in order to make phones something useful and positive for us.
Nov. 21, 2020
Meine Katze
Als ich ein Junge war, hatte ich beide Hunde und Katzen. Heute habe ich nur eine Katze, weil ich in einer kleinen Wohnung wohne. Sie ist eine schwarz-weiße Katze. Ihr Rucken ist schwarz und hatte auch einen schwarzen Fleck auf den Kopf. Sie heißt Cosima und ist etwa vierzehn Jahre alt. Leider ist sie nicht so verspielt as früher. Im moment, schläft sie auf dem nahe gelegenen Sofa. Bald ist es Zeit, Cosima zu futtern.
Nov. 21, 2020
Deux vaccins contre la COVID-19
Dans les semaines dernières, deux entreprises pharmaceutiques ont annoncé les résultats préliminaires de leurs essais cliniques. Selon ces résultats, les vaccins de Pfizer et de Moderna sont efficaces à plus de 90%, une efficacité au-delà des attentes des experts, qui disaient qu'un vaccin efficace à 50% pourrait être utile dans la lutte contre le virus.
Une fois que ces vaccins reçoivent l'appui des agences gouvernementales, on peut commencer la distribution des vaccins. Tout le monde espère que les vaccins seront disponibles bientôt, mais il reste quelques défis importants. Il y a beaucoup de gens qui disent qu'ils n'ont pas envie de se faire vacciner, ce qui pourrait empêcher les pays d'atteindre le seuil de l'immunité collective. Par ailleurs, les pays pauvres n'auront pas le même accès aux vaccins que les pays riches.
Nov. 21, 2020
What are the key things to get right when designing services
Customer satisfaction & Performance management
When designing services in order to delight customers in service organizations, one of the key external metrics is customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is the difference between the customer’s expected and perceived performance of the service. (DCU, 2019) Through questionnaires and surveys, or mystery shoppers to measure customer satisfaction is the used way to be assessed. If we know more information about customers' expectations, the more we would know what the firm might need to do to improve their services. Moreover, through those exact data and comments, it provides evidence to help managers to make action plans.
From inside of service organizations, the key operational performance objective is to achieve consistency of outcome for customers. (Robert et al., 2016) Customers couldn’t directly know how your organizations worked, but they can feel about what you say and what you do. Therefore, effective performance management is the key factor related to measuring customer satisfaction, cost-effective and maximising profit. Lord Kelvin (1885) stated:” when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it”. Especially if you can manage your service performance through numeric metrics.
If we further refine how to control performance, we can break it down to the strategic level and operational level, even societal level. Day to day operations include quality, speed, dependability, flexibility and cost. Organization’s strategies include risk and resilience, capital utilization, service and revenue, efficiency and cost and capability for innovation. (DCU, 2019) In general, we use a balanced scorecard as a framework to develop metrics and cover every aspect of operations. And then we also can through benchmarking as an approach to continuously measuring products, quality and services, we can adapt our operational approach to achieve high-quality performance, to align with advanced market standards, to maintain the market leadership.
Service operations improvement
Services need to be a continued improvement to delight customers. Never changed services couldn’t follow the change of the era and aren’t able to satisfy customers. Then how to improve the service? Based on real situations organizations can choose different improvement strategies: continuous improvement or radical improvement. The mature approaches include total quality management, six sigma and business process re-engineering.
In order to provide faster and more efficient services, we need to continually improve service system design. For example, through cross-training of employees to request employees to do additional things when they are waiting for the customers, it can reduce setup times, and also create more values for the company. Based on service blueprinting, it’s easy to see which parts will directly serve to customers, which parts are the internal process. The goal is to provide good services to customers and focus on internal process efficiency.
Lean thinking is original from services, mainly focusing on process improvement. Through the lean concept, we can synchronize and balance information and workflow, increase total visibility of all components and processes, eliminate waste, increase flexibility in the use of resources.
Nov. 21, 2020
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