When making a phone call, we will mostly tell the person on the other side of the phone who we are and who would like to speak to this part focus on the opening phrases and expressions used in making and receiving phone calls. Listen to the telephone conversations and fill in the blanks...
Who in the world knows the most languages? Ziad Fazah, born in Liberia, brought up in Beirut and now living in Brazil, claims to be the world's greatest living polyglot, speaking a total of 59 world languages. He has been 'tested' on Spanish television, where it was not clear just ho...
A young man called Jack has visited many countries. He knows few foreign languages, but he can always find someone who knows enough English to understand what he says. Last summer he went to China. He enjoyed himself in China and liked Chinese food very much. ...
The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly s...
Lily is an incredibly talented website designer. She has a great eye for design and understands the technical aspects of website creation. She is skilled in various programming languages and can design websites from scratch. And explain Why you think this person is so good at doing this: ...
Polly Barton’s translation must be applauded here for producing this effect in the narrative – as a monolingual person, with no aptitude for languages I find literary translation extraordinarily impressive and fascinating. “. . . it’s as she’s rinsing off the soap under the tap that ...
He who loves me most blessed me to write one word at a time of poetic life events that depict various phases and stages of life. The words of life are not all perfect, but imperfect daily striving for perfection. Life consists of multiple uses of words in many languages and their associa...
For me the reason to remove unused code is that only the person who know the code is unused knows about it, someone else in the team will come across that code and try to figure out what it does and how it fits in the whole application and will feel disappointed after so mu...
The saying remains popular in several languages, as in the English, "A cobbler should stick to his last", the Spanish, "Zapatero a tus zapatos", the Dutch, "Schoenmaker, blijf bij je leest", and the German, "Schuster, bleib bei deinem/deinen Leisten" (the last ...
Jack is an Englishman. He likes travelling around the world. He has visited many countries. He knows few foreign languages, but he can always find someone who knows enough English to understand what he says. Last summer he went to China. He enjoyed himse