Nov 19, 2012
Nov 12, 2012
Sorry, absent today
Morning!
I was out of office on Friday and meanwhile there has been made an appointment of a new meeting for today and some things to do ASAP.
I'm so sorry that I cann't participate in your mini-lectures today:(
kind regards,
Katrin
I was out of office on Friday and meanwhile there has been made an appointment of a new meeting for today and some things to do ASAP.
I'm so sorry that I cann't participate in your mini-lectures today:(
kind regards,
Katrin
Nov 7, 2012
Do you know Goldilocks effect or principle?
I didn't! It had something to do with making ghee at home and stopping heating in the right time. I tried to translate and got 'Kuldkiharake' and then wikipedia helped: “The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks effect.
The Goldilocks principle is derived from a children's story "The Three Bears" in which a little girl
named Goldilocks finds a house owned by three bears. Each bear has their own
preference of food, beds, etc. After testing each of the three items,
Goldilocks determines that one of them is always too much in one extreme (too
hot, too large, etc.), one is too much in the opposite extreme (too cold, too
small, etc.), and one is "just right".[1]
It is applied across many disciplines, particularly developmental psychology, biology,[2] economics and engineering.”
thanks - it sure is! (useful). One more useful thing - http://languagemethod.blogspot.com/ about learning (several) languages.
Nov 6, 2012
About presentations
I'm sorry I've missed two classes:(
But I really did some work:)
As many of you might know, we have some delegates from Asia here this week. As my friend David is the boss of this event, he kindly asked me to talk about some things. So I had two presentations today - one about the Bologna process and one about master studies in our university. And I survived.
To be honest - I had to translate some words into Russian, because not all of them understood me (it could be the reason I was so popular:))
Doing the presentations was really hard because - as always - my topics are quite boring. And I must say I knew only a little about the Bologna process (thank God for the internet). But my lack of knowledge was inversely proportional with their lack of English, so I survived.
But this isn't all - I can't come to the lecture next time either, because I'm going to Kaunas to do some e-learning work for Bova. If this helps me as a bad student anyhow, I must say I have to talk and WRITE in English there. The last part is awful of course. Happily we have some people who should write better than I (or should I write me in this sentence? I know if I say for example my brother and I then it's definitely I). - It's about formal and informal use. A story from Oleg Mutt, my beloved lecturer from the 80s: A little boy was standing in front of the mirror and saying: "It's me, it's me!" - like the kids do. His grandma felt she needed to pay attention to grammar, and corrected him: "It's I, Johnny!". The boy thought a little, looked at his reflection and replied: "It may be I, but it looks very much like me!" - U
here it's: people who write better than I do.
As I can see you worked with tongue twisters. I know the one which I never learn: Unique New York. And the hard one is of course A cheap ship (trip).
I found 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters (http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm). Estonian ones a great also:)
I wish all the best for you and I'm really sorry not to hear your lectures. I miss all the good words (like pelvis) and this is the worst of missing classes.
Lilian
But I really did some work:)
As many of you might know, we have some delegates from Asia here this week. As my friend David is the boss of this event, he kindly asked me to talk about some things. So I had two presentations today - one about the Bologna process and one about master studies in our university. And I survived.
To be honest - I had to translate some words into Russian, because not all of them understood me (it could be the reason I was so popular:))
Doing the presentations was really hard because - as always - my topics are quite boring. And I must say I knew only a little about the Bologna process (thank God for the internet). But my lack of knowledge was inversely proportional with their lack of English, so I survived.
But this isn't all - I can't come to the lecture next time either, because I'm going to Kaunas to do some e-learning work for Bova. If this helps me as a bad student anyhow, I must say I have to talk and WRITE in English there. The last part is awful of course. Happily we have some people who should write better than I (or should I write me in this sentence? I know if I say for example my brother and I then it's definitely I). - It's about formal and informal use. A story from Oleg Mutt, my beloved lecturer from the 80s: A little boy was standing in front of the mirror and saying: "It's me, it's me!" - like the kids do. His grandma felt she needed to pay attention to grammar, and corrected him: "It's I, Johnny!". The boy thought a little, looked at his reflection and replied: "It may be I, but it looks very much like me!" - U
here it's: people who write better than I do.
As I can see you worked with tongue twisters. I know the one which I never learn: Unique New York. And the hard one is of course A cheap ship (trip).
I found 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters (http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm). Estonian ones a great also:)
I wish all the best for you and I'm really sorry not to hear your lectures. I miss all the good words (like pelvis) and this is the worst of missing classes.
Lilian
Nov 4, 2012
Hi prof Ursula,
I am writing to let you know that on Monday starting at 08:00 - 12:00 I will have a seminar on Science Methodology. So in order to avoid overlapping of lectures of different subjects, I will not attend the course of academic English this time. However I will attend English for specific purposes which starts at 14:00.
Best
Agron Idrizaj
Thanks for letting us know, Agron! - U (no prof, though, unfortunately :) ).
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