Dating sites What do you think about dating sites? Have you used it? Is it normal in your country to meet GF or BF on dating sites? 

Both men and women feel the same emotions, but do they express their emotions differently? Why?

In memory of the crew of the tanker SANCHI Based on the true story. It was in East China Sea. Two vessels collided with each other. One was a big oil tanker fully loaded with highly flammable sort of crude oil, another was a grain freighter. The oil tanker sustained major damage. Her hull was holed and cargo started spilling in sea. The freighter passed back. Friction of metals created a spark and the tanker caught fire. The freighter was lucky to be able to escape fire. After that was an explosion. Search and rescue center on shore received distress alert. Rescue operations were started. There were attempts to find survivors from the tanker. But because of risk of explosions those attempts were abandoned. Few dead bodies of crewmembers were found. Other crewmembers were claimed missed. A slick that was created by the tanker claimed the biggest disaster in past decades.

An English listening test

Who can say what are they talking about?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAYHccV75A

My first job interview with a foreigner.(part 2) Do you like chocolate? Do you eat cookies? Fruits? Applies? Ok. You in board of the vessel in Caribbean sea, you are walking on the deck and eat an apple? Will you throw over the board that you left after ate an apple? (Answered no) Why no? In accordance with what regulations? Did you use open hatch sampling in your last company? This is actually questions for Chief Officer but you can try to answer if you want. After that he said that I am obviously a good officer and I am welcome in that company. They call me if they will have open vacancy for me. Honestly to say I didn’t expect such simple questions. And I was very happy to be passed the interview successfully.

My first job interview with a foreigner (part 1). I had job interview on last Friday. I had appointment on 6.15 pm. I was nervous and in order to relieve stress I started to do some physical excesses. Around 3 pm I was called by receptionist from wanted company and was asked to come early, as soon as possible. I decided to take a taxi (currently my car is under repair). I was at their office in one hour. There were few interviews how were waited, I joined them. Some of them work for that company and needed to pass interview because they were promoted for higher rank. Some were newcomers as I am. I guy who was before me work as AB seaman. He got promotion for third officer position. Same position that I applied. It’s quite interested, that he hadn’t high education; he studied only for three years to work at sea, and company allowed him to apply for position of officer. I asked him for his opinion about company. He said that generally he like it. But there is a “but”. He disliked that company has contracts for 6 months (then 6 months vacation), so he always had to go to sea in same period of year. People who work in office were Russians; they work there every day, their job to take application from candidates. But company owners are Greeks. Every three months Greek representatives come to interview candidates. I had interview around 6 pm, so there was no needs to come early. I was asked a few questions such as: Why do you want to change company? How did you know about our company? What were your responsibilities in your last company? Did you have forth officer on board in your last company? What will you do if you got call during you watch on the bridge from another crewmember who found fire in galley and asked you to come and help? What will you do if in the middle of Atlantic Ocean and have situation like this? (The interviewer pictured two vessels and described situation). What is a safety contour? Have you worked with ECDIS? Which brand? Did you use paper charts in your last company? Do you know what a near-miss is? Can you give an example of near-miss? Have you had watches in CCR? What will you do if a rate of loading decreased? Who much oxygen should be in cargo tanks maintained usually, for instance during discharging? What is a name of instrument that you use to measure oxygen level in cargo tanks, when they are inert?

My weekend It's ok. I did not suppose that you liked such sort of music. Actually all people are different and they like different sort of music, food and so on. I like that sounds good for me, and I do not have any specific type of music. And I can change my opinion about a certain song that I have listened to. How was your weekend? What did you do? I spent that weekend with my girlfriend and her daughter. We went to the beach on Saturday. We swam there, and have good time. That beach is located out of my city. It is very beautiful beach; there is a stone cliff band. The water in the sea is very clear, and you can seafloor. That beach is surrounded by forest and mounts. And road to that beach is not perfect. So I had to leave my car in distance of one kilometer. And rest of our way to that beach we had to make on foot. And Sunday we went out for a picnic. It was small picnic. Basically we found a place in the forest not far from road, then lit a fire, and then waited until fire smothered. And finally we made barbecue from chicken by heat from charcoal. It’s very good to live in small city, because you do not need to waste time on driving in order to get to such places, where you can spend a good on fresh air, with out noise of city life.

What I think about fluency. Plese read, correct and comment. Remember I asked you about fluency? How do you understand? You should’ve said that question back, I would be failed to answer. So I was thinking about it. And I can say that in present my definition for fluency is: Fluency it is ability to speak without thinking about your speech aspects. By speech aspects, I mean pronunciation, grammar and translation of your speeches in your mother tongue. Also Fluency includes certain speed and smoothness, by smoothness, I mean speaking without any sudden changes, interruption or difficulty. Actually I steal have not found an official and complete definition of that words, in connecting with language of course, I don’t touch other meaning of that word.

check please (translation of a great russian proverb) The harder you feel yourself in learning, the easier you feel yourself in fighting.