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forward; towards; deficiency

There are some routine phrases used in English schools in Japan.

Today, I would like to put up the phrase " See you" here, because I have a question for you about this term.

When students finish their lessons and are off the school, everybody in the school, the staff, the teachers and the students, say "See you~~~~." And the pronunciation is just like "see youuuuuuu~~~~~." The "U" sound is streched longer.

An American teacher, who first came to Japan and started working in a private English school, seemed to have felt really weird when he heard us say " see you" when we were leaving.

He said to me privately that he had never heard that long sound of "you" for the term " see you." According to him, it's supposed to be " see ya" in pronunciation, because the term is originally very casual.

But now, I have a question for you. Does this happen only in the US?
I would like to know how you pronounce it. Do you say " see YOUUU" or " see ya" in your country?

Since I heard his opinion, I have tried to say " see ya". However, it seems like I sound a bit strange, and some people who know English correct me to say it should be " see youuu."

I am confused.

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I like the moments when I am speaking English because my personality is a little changed from when I am speaking Japanese.

How about you?

At first, I wondered to myself why I was so assertive in English. My Japanese friends say that I am a good listener, though I seem to be a little too talkative when I speak English.

I feel sorry for my friends who communicate with me in English, because I actually enjoy the different me. I want to tweak my way of speaking. And I think it is better to change the way while I am using another language in order to understand and to be understood by each other. Each language includes its own culture.

I can be more open and relaxed in English. Somehow I am not afraid of conflict. It is kind of strange that I am positive that I can work it out afterward, even in my imperfect English~

Yes, I need to study and improve my English skills so that I do not irritate my foreign friends. ^v^/

On the right and on the left.

right and light.

Starting today most companies and schools will be on holiday this week.
It's called "The Golden Week" in Japan.
But I'm working this week.So I'm calling it "the week from hell."
But I'm used to working while everyone is taking a holiday because I work in the hospitality industry.
I'll probably be taking a holiday next month instead of this week.
I'm thinking traveling during my time off.

"Victory of the Daleks" is the third episode in the 2010 series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The TARDIS materialises in the Cabinet War Rooms during the Second World War, one month after Winston Churchill called for help at the end of "The Beast Below". The Doctor is greeted by the Prime Minister and recounts their past experiences. An arriving Luftwaffe squadron approaching London allows Churchill to show the Doctor his latest weapon, a high-precision energy weapon controlled by the "Ironsides", designed by Professor Edwin Bracewell, a Scottish scientist. At the Doctor's request, Churchill and Bracewell show the Doctor an Ironside, in reality a British-army-green-coloured Union Flag-wearing Dalek. Despite the Doctor's protests about the Daleks' omnicidal past, Bracewell insists that he invented them and they are docile and readily performing menial tasks such as serving tea. The Doctor tries to ask his companion Amy Pond to tell Churchill about their invasion of the Earth in "The Stolen Earth", and is visibly unnerved when Amy has no recollection of the incident.

Intent on proving the Daleks' evil, the Doctor interrogates Bracewell and learns that the Daleks were one of several futuristic inventions. In response, the Doctor repeatedly strikes a Dalek with a heavy spanner and recalls his battles with the genocidal race and finally exclaims "I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!". The Dalek finally acknowledges this sentence prompting him to transmit this "testimony" to a Dalek ship orbiting the Earth while all the other Daleks turn hostile. Bracewell protests claiming he created the Daleks causing the latter to proclaim "No. We created you." and destroy his hand, exposing him as an android.

The Doctor runs to the TARDIS, telling Amy to stay behind as it is too dangerous. He then materialises in the Dalek ship. The Doctor pretends to be brandishing a TARDIS self-destruct control (a Jammie Dodger biscuit), so that the Daleks do not exterminate him. The Daleks reveal that one ship survived the destruction of the Dalek race in "Journey's End," and that it went after the last remaining Progenator Device, a capsule containing pure Dalek DNA, from which the Dalek race could be rebuilt. The Doctor figures out that they built Professor Bracewell because the Progenator Device did not recognise them as Dalek, since these Daleks were grown from Davros's DNA. If the Daleks became part of the army, Winston Churchill would lure the Doctor in, and the Doctor would confirm them as Daleks. The Progenator accepted this as proof, because the Doctor is the Daleks' greatest enemy.

The Daleks then tell the Doctor to leave, or they will destroy London. The Doctor says they do not have that power. The Daleks then fire a ray turning all of London's lights on, making them an easy target to the incoming Luftwaffe bombers, and rendering London's blackout efforts ineffective. Then the Progenator completes its process, and creates a "new paradigm" consisting of 5 "pure" Daleks (identified as "Scientist, Strategist, Drone, Eternal and the Supreme"), larger, more imposing, and presumably more powerful than their antecedent, which disintegrate the original Daleks, who willingly offer themselves for extermination. In the Cabinet War Rooms, Amy and Churchill realise they can use Professor Bracewell to fight back against the Daleks. Stopping him from committing suicide, they convince him to help them send some modified Spitfires to the Dalek ship, equipped with Dalek laser cannons and anti-gravity technology. The Daleks discover the Doctor has not really got a self-destruct device, just as the Spitfires begin their attack. The Spitfires destroy the Dalek transmitter, assisted by the Doctor. The Daleks then tell the Doctor to stop the attack on their ship or they will destroy the Earth using an "oblivion continuum" bomb concealed inside Professor Bracewell.

The Doctor hurries back to Earth, in order to stop the detonation but leaving the Daleks to escape. He reveals the bomb inside Bracewell, realising that the only way to stop it exploding is to convince Bracewell that he is a human, not a bomb. He tries to remind the Professor of all his memories and how they hurt, but he cannot seem to stop the countdown. As the Oblivion Continuum approaches detonation, Amy steps in and asks him if he has "ever fancied someone [he] shouldn't". While dwelling on this, the countdown retreats to zero, cancelling the detonation. The Doctor immediately dashes to stop the Daleks, but he is told by the Professor that they have escaped. For a few moments, he feels that he has lost, but Amy reminds him that he saved the Earth.

After bidding farewell to Churchill and his staff, the Doctor remains puzzled that Amy did not remember the Daleks from the events portrayed in "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End". As the TARDIS dematerialises, a crack with a light shining through is seen behind the spot where it stood, as in the previous episodes of this series.

Your English friend, Harry, has sent you an email asking you to inform him about your university. Read Harry’s email and then reply to his letter.

Hi Jarda,
hopefully you are doing fine. Last week I was in the pub with some friends of mine and we were chatting about you a bit. We’ve all known you for some time but none of us knows which university you are studying at. Did you always plan to go to university or were you just influenced by someone like I was? Do you have to pay fees for your studies just like us in Britain? It is not really cheap if you want to study here. It is a matter of money, I had to get a loan from the bank. I’ve heard that in your country everybody can study for free. Is it true? And what about the posibility of getting a scholarship from your university? On the one hand, we have to pay fees for our studies, but on the other hand, if we get good results, we get a „bloody“ good scholarship. Sorry, you might have told me, but anyway, which year are you in at university?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
Harry

Hi Harry,
I am doing fine, thanks. How dare you forget what I´ve already told you? It seems to me that you did not listen to me at all. Sorry, I am just pulling your leg...you know me. I can assure you that I forget a lot nowadays since I am not young anymore and time flies.
Anyway, my plan had always been to become educated enough to get a good job, therefore I went to university. I dare say, I had been influenced by my parents since they are not educated and wanted me to study for a better future, for my own good.
By the way, I graduated from the Technical University of Liberec in 2008 with a master’s degree. Now, I am in my second year at the same university doing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. I’ve actually been in England since September 2009 as an exchange Erasmus student.
Fortunately, in the Czech Republic there are not any fees, it is great, isn’t it? A lot of foreigners go to the Czech Republic in order to study. It is also possible to get a scholarship as long as you do pretty well. Unfortunately I didn’t get a scholarship, my results were not good enough to get one. I enjoyed being a student, but I believe that if I had made a bigger effort I would obviously have had good results and a good scholarship as well, but I didn’t mind since I realised that life is too short to be stressed all the time.
By the way, say Hello to your friends
Take care.
Jarda

People who break the law go to prison. While they are in prison, they watch television, read books, play some sports and usually do some boring jobs. Many of them stay there for a long time.

It's expensive because it costs almost $40,000 a year to keep each prisoner. To cut these costs, prisons in Australia have started teaching prisoners new skills: how to make model animals which tourists want to buy. Each prisoner can make ten models a day. They sell the models for around forty dollars each.

It's a great idea! The prisoners enjoy making these things. People like buying things made by prisoners. The prisons make a lot of money from the sale of the models. Everyone wins!

Some of the prisoners have decided to start their own business when they get out of prison. Other countries are thinking of doing the same thing as Australia too.

Nostradamus was born in France in 1503. He studied medicine and was a very clever student. When he became a doctor he helped many sick people, even those that other doctors couldn't save.

He read many books about magic and started writing books himself. In one book he wrote about things that would happen the next year. Many of these things did happen and people came to see him because they wanted him to tell them about their own future.

He wrote many books about things which he could see in the future. He wrote about Napoleon and the kings of Europe. He also talked about a man called "Hister" who killed millions of people in the twentieth century.

Nostradamus also saw and wrote about his own death in 1566. He wrote that the end of the world would come in the year 7000.