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  2. 【Recommend】Reddit

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    I just thought, if noone knows about this yet, of recommending Reddit to anyone who wants to improve English.

    Well, fine. I don't know how much this will help but unlike other online communities that usually involves idiots throwing insults at eachother and making stupid comments with a lack of grammar and correct spelling, Reddit is the exact opposite.

    The community here, posts and/or asks and engage in interesting and thought-provoking discussions. They certainly don't hurl insults at eachother - not usually anyways. A typical Reddit comment is usually a 250 word essay. You don't have to participate in the discussions of course. Reading the comments should be interesting enough.

    Anyways, here's the link: http://www.reddit.com

  3. 【問題】台灣學生

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    澳洲是不是有教類似「太平洋史」或是「太平洋地理」的課 thats might help students understand the situation whatever geographically or politically, then it might reveal some information about TW to general students.

    Well...no...

    We did have "Asian Studies" in year 8 and 9 but that was elective so you didn't have to do it. I certainly didn't.

    I think maybe because Australia view Asian relations as top priority? Considering we are neighbours. My other theory is that besides the boring, mainstream channels like channel 7, 9 and 10, we have programs that focus on Asia-Pacific news for example, ABC's "Asia Pacific Focus" program where it focuses on news happening in Asia. It features Taiwan many times there. However, as far as I know, the only people who watches these programs are either older people or people with a bit of brains (no offence but if your only interest is reality TV shows, then I do question your....LACK of taste).

    Possibly, also, our evening news do feature news from overseas, particularly SBS's World News Channel, so one way or another, whoever bothers to watch news would had come across Taiwanese news. (Though not always good ones. Of course we were featured during the earthquake, the recent typhoon and one or few times, unfortunately, when we riot or when our politicians threw a few fists at eachother. = =|||)

    Thank god we don't have Fox News! (though funnily enough, Murdoch's Aussie - NOT that I'm happy about that).

    Another theory is possibly because Australia's extremely multicultural, and as a result, we've been exposed to different people so many of the people I've met would had at some point in their life, met someone who was Taiwanese or knew something about Taiwan and was informed in that way.

    Then, of course, there's the fact I'm in Sydney which is the city with the most immigrants in Australia. If I were in Queensland, that might be a different story (Queensland is like...equivalent to the south in the States where people are not as tolerant, not as informed and ... put it quite frankly, especially if they live in the country, rednecks).

    Aaaand...of course, the final reason is, maybe it is just America. Afterall, the last President confused Australia with Austria.(and we were helping out with the war! How rude!) :p:p (Yes, I'm trolling. Sorry. Aussies love to make fun of Americans. Of course, I'm sure the reverse is the same. XD)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XRumTCCoJw

    *runs very fast*

    P.S. Yes, I know not all Americans are like that (many of my friends are Americans and they laugh at the clip, saying "That's why I left"). It's just funny (and possibly scary) that they actually could find enough people to compile that clip.

  5. 【問題】台灣學生

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    唉，看看我的吧～我正在北加州當交換學生。

    A:Where are you from?

    Me:I am from Taiwan, do yor know where is Taiwan?

    A:No, but I know Tailand.

    = =　台灣的知名度真的比泰國落後嗎？

    B:What is ''Taiwan''?

    Me:Taiwan is a country.....

    用what...把台灣當做什麼東西阿?

    C:Hey, you looks like from Korea, are you from Korea?

    Me:No, I am a Taiwanese.

    C:Oh, I see, you are from Tailand!!

    Me:.......

    搞什麼阿?Tai 開頭的就一定是泰國喔!?

    D:Are you a Chinese?

    Me:No, I am a Taiwanese!

    D:Ha Ha...!!

    你是在笑什麼阿??

    唉，我問了幾十個人只有一兩個知道台灣而已，而且還不甚了解...

    台灣應該要努力提升知名度阿!!

    This is like....what? The 5th time someone had described this type of experience? Is this an American thing or what? 'cause I've NEVER had that problem here in Australia. Most people would had heard it but at the very worst, have a VERY obscured idea about it (and funnily enough, it's the ABC's who have the obscured idea while Caucasians have a better understanding. In fact, the only person who ever picked out I was Taiwanese the moment she saw me was Caucasian. Actually, make that two. The second person was even part Aboriginal.)

  13. 【問題】雪梨有甚麼好玩的?!

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    Buy or borrow this:

    http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/Primary/Region/AUSTRALIA_and_the_PACIFIC/Australia/PRD_PRD_1531/Sydney+Encounter+Guide.jsp

    Small book with a map of sydney and shows you all the good food, places to visit, places to hang out at night etc. in each region of Syndey. Beginning of the book also shows you a possible 3 day, 5 day then 7 day tour.

    Or, check this:

    http://www.australia.com/destinations/cities/sydney.aspx?ta_intcmp=desthub:cities:sydney:en

  18. 【Question】Is accent important?

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    you should really concern about that.

    you should really BE concerned about that.

    Yeah...I guess so. I'm wondering. See, there's different English accents. There's American, Irish, Scottish, Australian, Kiwi, English and even WITHIN these major accents, there have other accents as well. For example, there's at least 3 different types of Australian accent. We have the sort of, formal Australian accent that you hear on Australian news which sounds almost English sometimes (not really - almost), then we have the average Australian accent and then we have the typical, broad, Australian accent that you hear Steve Irwin use *cringe*. Australian women with bogan accents sound so freakishly annoying and horrible I have to say. >_>

    Anyways, putting that aside, what I'm getting at is even amongst native speakers, certain people can't understand certain accents due to lack of exposure. For example, Americans sometimes say they can't understand Aussie or Canadian accent (lol). I remember watching Billy Elliot and I had to have the subtitles on 'cause I couldn't really understand the strong Scottish accent. Took me a while to get adjusted to it. Jamaican accent is mind boggling. I always think, "Is that even ENGLISH?" when I hear them speak. However, once you get used to it, you get used to it. Like, another thing I've experienced is most Australians can't really understand some of the quirks or mispronunciations many Chinese speakers make when speaking English. On the other hand, I have absolutely no problem because I'm so used to listening to Chinese accents.

    Hmmm....tricky tricky. Though I have to say, Swedish accent is perfectly easy to understand. Maybe the solution is, try and rectify as much until most people don't have trouble understanding and you should be fine. As for completely eliminating it, might not be possible. Even now, my friends find it extremely weird when I ponounce things in "fobbish" ways (as they call it) admist my normal Australian accent. Like, for example, I still say "Ultimo" as "OOtimo" as oppose to "ULtimo" due to my mum saying it the first way ever since I can remember. *shrug*

    Going off topic. I'll stop here.

    pronounceation

    proNUNcIAtion

    natinal Speaker.

    native speaker

  20. 【Question】How do you guys speak English fluently?

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    So my question is: How do you guys improve your speaking to be fluent and well-organized? THX very much

    Talk..A LOT with native speakers.

    Although I major in English literature and got many chance to practice English,

    I still cannot speak it very well or fluently in English. Whenever I want to describe something or explain something or just express my feelings, I did pause a lot and cannot recall the vocabulary I learned...

    Some corrections:

    Though I major in English literature and have many chances to practice my English, I still cannot speak very well or fluently in English. Whenever I want to describe something, explain something or express my feelings, I do pause a lot and cannot recall the vocabulary I'd learned.

    Comments:

    Ok. You do English literature. Awesome. Your written skills (judging from this post) is almost there. Just a few grammatical errors. No biggie. My question would be, whilst doing English literature, do you practice more WRITING skills or speaking skills? 'cause that may be the reason. The degree probably doesn't give you a lot of chance in practicing SPEAKING, only writing. (Just a guess anyways).

    In terms of expressing your thoughts, yeah, you get that. You're not used to it yet of course, which is why I suggest you just keep practicing. Secondly, when you are trying to express your feelings, don't even BOTHER remembering the vocabulary you've learned. If you can remember them, use them by all means. If you can't remember them, DESCRIBE it and your listener may be able to understand what you mean and recall for you. Not only do you practice expressing your feelings in English, no matter how primitive or advanced your choice of words may be, you're at least praciting. At the same time, you'll learn from your mistakes. Your brain remembers better by repeating, rather than constant recalling. It'll catch on soon. Afterall, you express your opinions better in Chinese simply because you constantly express yourself in Chinese so the reverse would be the same.

    Practice makes perfect. Have fun and good luck. :D

  24. 【Question】It is hard to read original book

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    I had gone to placement program of calculus for weeks, and I think there are obstacles to read original book, like the terminologies(which I cannot find any explainment from general dictionary), the fear of facing English text, etc. I want to ask some methods to solve these problems, thanks.

    I find it interesting that they make you read original books (I assume it's in English) while never teaching you the terminologies in English before. I find that kind of slack on the education system's part. :(

    Try Wikipedia. That's where I find definitions for any technical terms even if the definition is slightly more verbose. Or google around.