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
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