Posts tagged w/ false friends

Actually & Eventually

Posted by Anna Ikeda

Interesting things can happen when your car breaks down. For one, you have to ride the bus, which in itself is not that interesting, I admit. But staring at people and listening to their conversations is always fun. And sometimes, when you are sandwiched between two individuals talking loudly on their cell phones, you don’t have that much choice and are forced to listen to their conversations, whether you like it or not. Then all you can do is hope that at least they’re going to talk about something interesting. And that is exactly what happened this morning.

I was sitting next to a lady who was talking to someone (sounded like her significant other) on her mobile phone. In English. And thanks to her now I have something interesting to blog about today. The lady, quite frustrated, was telling the person on the phone that she was “doing it actually” though I’m not sure what she was referring to. This is what followed:

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Lazy Male?

Posted by Anna Ikeda

After all the grammar stuff last week, I don’t know about you, but I think we‘re long overdue for something more entertaining. Yes, I know that grammar is essential when learning a new language properly, though personally, I’ve never been the kind of student who sits down and dutifully memorizes different verb endings. In whatever language. And besides, isn’t it odd that the first words we tend to master in a foreign language are normally of the not-so-nice variety?

But no, don’t worry, we won’t be discussing anything vulgar today.

One of our readers went to Poland and, by all accounts, had a great time there. He also took lots of pictures. And one of them I will share with you today.

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