TEST : writing about the youth unemployment I used to think IELTS very challenging.Now I have completed the test and I actually feel all excited to get a reasonable score except the writing... The task was " what does youth unemployment cause in terms of the individual and the society" and " what measures can be taken to solve the problem". I wrote about education but I don't think my point of view was persuasive enough... What's your opinion?

How do you like the Olympics opening ceremony??

Is "the responsibility...... Is "the responsibility for educating children falls both on parents and on teachers"better than "both teachers and parents are responsible for educating children"?

mandarin,cantonese and other dialect Mandarin,also called Putonghua, is the official language of China.The nothern east part of China,Beijing,Tianjin and place nearby,speak Mandarin only,but only Beijing accent is regarded as the nomal accent. As for other part of China,there are people understand little Mandarin,people speak Mandarin with such a strong accent that I may never get it(Deng Xiaoping had a strong Sichuan accent.Have you ever heard his record?),and people speak both Mandarin and local acent or dialect. Cantonese is one of the successful dialects in China.It' spoken in Hongkong,Guangzhou,western Guangdong Province with strong accents,and most importantly,in some Chinatowns all over the globe.It may be more convenient for a Cantonese speaker to work or live with HK people because many of them speak English and Cantonese fluently. In other parts of China,numerous dialects are used. In fact,they may come from other language families,such as TIbetan and other languages spoken by other ethic minorities,Chaoshan dialect(came from Mingnan language family,the same as Taiwanese),Wu dialect one of which is very famous,Shanghai dialect. In all,you may understand Mandarin all right,but it's possible that you couldn't manage to comunicate with local people.Me too.

silly day I went to update my identity card with my mother who wished to get herself a passport and endorsements of us. We got the document centre before the afternoon working period began.Even so,we found the queuing machines for passport business had stopped working beacause there had been too many people waiting.So i waited for 40 minutes to get my identity card updated while my mother asked for any chance to get her passport today.Everything up to then was fine except i dropped my photo CD in the crowd. Mother then realized she forgot to bring her previous passport,so we went back home for it and then return once more time.But when she finally finished her procedure,I realized that her previous passport hadn't been used. We wasted time because of our reckless decision but if we didn't came back to the document office just before the business hour ended,we might never get a chance to get things done.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself I have just graduated from high school and I am looking forwards to study Achitecture in the future. I live in Guangzhou, the host city of 2010 Asian Games.In Guangzhou,CANTONESE is widely used, just like in Hongkong and some Chinatowns.If you are interested in learning CHAOSHAN dialect which my family uses in daily life, I can also help you if you are a native English speaker because we need to communicate in English.Of course, if you are eager to learn MANDERIN only,I assure you that I don't have an obvious accent. I learn English because it's compulsory, but now I find it useful.I should be humbler but I am saying I'm good at using different languages and imitating. Hope to have you as a partner！