Help for a host speech Can anyone help correct the draft down here？It's a host speech for an English salon： Respected officials, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon. Thank you for coming to the first XXX English Salon. It’s our great pleasure to meet you here this afternoon. Let me begin by expressing sincere thanks to all attendees, especially the leaders taking time out of their busy schedule. They’re…（Q：Is it natural to introduce officials and leaders here？）   Today we are gathering here in order to enhance our English communication skills in accordance with the increasing external exchange and the increasing demand for English in our daily work. We hope through the English Salon，young people can better contribute in building a prosperous society.   Long story short, let’s move forward to the warm up performance part. Our participants have already teamed up into four groups. Each team will have 3 minutes to show their talents. Now leaders, please bring your team onto the stage to start your self-demonstration. ———————— It would also be great if anyone can recommend me some videos or speech paper as reference Great thanks！！！

【рысь Муэрц】What is it ？ народный рассказ рысь I heard that there is a folktale about lynx in Russia. Is there anyone can tell me about it？ 在俄罗斯，猞猁木耳兹是个什么故事？很好奇

Do you know what「small yellow men」is？ You may have already got the answer when you clicked in and saw this picture. Yes, the「small yellow men」refers to the minions. (ฅ>ω<*ฅ) Chinese translated 'minions' into '小黄人', which means small yellow men in English. The Chinese name is a vivid description to the appearance of the minions. '小黄人' should be a good translation to satisfy the target readers because it does impress Chinese people. However, it's not a good translation to establish the communication between different cultures as foreigners may fail to match small yellow men with minions without hints. I have something that I personally experienced to share with. Last year, I went to the Universal Studios Japan and was attracted by the King Bob popcorn bucket there. . The popcorn bucket designed as King Bob was so lovely that I immediately decided to buy it at the first sight. ‘I want a… a small yellow man.' I faltered when standing in front of the stall, until when I realized that I didn't know how to say '小黄人' in English. 'Small yellow man？' , the staff repeated with confusion. Apparently, she couldn't understand me. Another staff laughed and said 'It's minion. Chinese all say like that.' (How embarrassed I was.ಥ_ಥ) Chinese characters are a form of ideogram. So it's a common occurrence that the foreign words lose their original pronunciations and change both their forms and meanings in the process of entering China. It's an interesting contrast that Japanese, though also belonging to the eastern Asian language, contains a large amount of loanwords that keep the original pronunciations. It's really ファンタスティック(fantastic). ：) ——我——是——1——条——快——乐——的——分——割——线—— This is my second composition on italki. Please kindly help me polish it. Welcome for any corrections and comments. (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

MY FIRST DAY ON ITALKI 20190416 #20190416# THANK U FOR CLICKING INTO THIS TITLE TO READ IT (ฅ>ω<*ฅ) Owing to the recommendation of my friend, I decide to use italki from now on. I'm very interested in language learning, so I believe italki will be a wonderful platform for me. I hope that I can know some new friends here and get my English level improved. I started learning English at the age of 7. The book we use at school is called Oxford English, but what is ironic is that till now I still can't distinguish the difference between British English and American English. (ಥ_ಥ) I always try hard to avoid grammatical mistakes and find it really difficult to make my expressions native. I wonder if anyone notice that I wrote the title and the first sentence in this page all in capital letters. I want to try this because I once read from somewhere that writing all words in capital letters seems to be shouting as Trump(･ิϖ･ิ)っ. IS THAT REAL？ Welcome for any comments. I truly demand a native speaker to teach me how to use English more natively.