Wise words

Read and understand the following wise words!

Admit your own mistakes openly, maybe even joyful. Encourage your associates to do likewise by commiserating with them. Never castigate. Babies learn to walk by falling down. If you beat a baby every time he falls down, he’ll never care much for walking.

Robert Townsend

The art of living successfully consists of being able to hold two opposite ideas in tension at the same time: first, first to make long-term plans as if we were going to live forever, and second, to conduct ourselves daily as if we were going to die tomorrow.

Sydney J. Harris

As long as I live, if I can choose where I live, I’ll be in a place that has a window looking out a river. What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt-it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle

Death is that final separation from all we have worked for, all that we have built up, all that is near and dear to use. It is too bad that dying the last thing we do. Because it could teach us so much about living.

Robert M. Harold

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next for better.

E.W. Howe

 

 Experience proves that most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

Paul J. Meyer

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

John Fowles

If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose I hold had no scent, we should know that he was wrong. The defect is in him, not in the flower. It is the same with a man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern his presence.

Sir Ralph Richardson

my perspective learning English

Some learners might say that English is really a confusing subject but some might say English is not a matter at all. For me, it depends on the learners themselves how they think of English. The experience in learning English can be complicated and can be easy. But why it cannot be easy?

How to get English

We realize that English that we are learning is not our first language. Therefore, we sometimes get trouble in understanding it. English has four skills; speaking, writing, reading and listening, which are always connected with three elements; grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. And the most important thing that the English learners should have is sights and experiences. Those are required by all of the English learners. Many English learners are difficult to master all of those things.

My experience in learning English

English was not my favorite subject when the first time I was introduced by my English teacher. I was not interested in learning English at all. I seldom studied. I never did the assignment from my teacher instead of my friend did. When my teacher suggested me learning English, I just nodded my head then skipped it. I thought that English was not important to learn because I had already had language. It was so hard for me to understand. There were so many roles in learning it. It was really complicated. But now I am really interested in learning it. Almost all my time I spend learning English. When I was at junior high school, my English was really poor. I did not know a single word instead of ‘rain’. It was because my English teacher’s favorite word. When he did not attend the class, he always said ‘Sorry, I could not attend the class last week because it was raining cat and dog’. Besides the teacher seldom came, the English subject was really confusing as well. I realized that I should not always rely on my teacher’s explanation but I was an English beginner. Of course I needed much guidance from my teacher. The teacher also needed to pay much attention to his students moreover the stupid student like me.

Learning English

English is a second language for Indonesian learners. It is not easy to get English. It does need afford hard to get it because we have been affected by our first language. It is called our mother language. When we are communicating with English, we have to translate our mother language into English. It is not easy, is it?

What is learning?

We often hear the word of learning. Moreover when we are studying, the word of learning is always mentioned. Here I wish to tell you what learning is.