A Training Course! I just took part in a training course which I hadn't registered to participate in advanced. To be honest, I didn't want to attend the course because I thought this course would be similar to the ones I had attended recently. However, my supervisor asked me to attend to support my colleagues because he thought I already familiar with the course and its would be helpful for them. Ironically, even the name of the course was the same with the one I had taken recently but the content was totally different and so knowledgeable. Therefore, I decided to inform my supervisor that the course was new to me and I would like to attend informally. Luckily, he accepted my request to attend but I couldn't obtain a certificate by the end of the course. In fact, I didn't care about the certificate but I cared about the knowledge I could gain from the course. Please correct me! Thank you.

English Accents! Have you already made up your mind to follow a specific English accent? As for me, I just chose American English to follow a few months ago. To be honest, my English accents is mixing among Vietnamese, British and American. So it is very difficult for foreigners to understand my speech. This is the reason why I decided to pursue American accent to learn. However, American accent is not as easy as I thought at first. One of the most difficult things is R-controlled sounds and I still have been struggling with this stuff since I decided to follow the American accent. My friend who has been living in USA for ten years, told me that it would take for years in order to get the right american accent. Even himself, his American English is still far from an American native speaker. This information makes me feel somewhat worried about my target, but I am trying my best to get the right accent. Please correct me! Thank you.

My Next Trip! This is the first time I haven't gathered with my family during a new year holiday. Actually, it made me feel a little bit sad when I was informed that I had been nominated for the trip. However, I feel that it is good for me to explore a new place, local dishes, cultures,...etc. and others stuff. Besides that, it is also a good chance for me to experience how different between gathering with family and being alone during a new year holiday. Please correct my text!

Kids And Getting Up For Schools! When I was a child, it was really hard for me to get up for school in the early morning. So now, I have been struggling with this habit of my daughter when I always pick her up to a kindergarten. During winter time, it seems this task is somewhat harder than usual. Fortunately, I just found out a way how to get her up quickly by offering her a cartoon video clip to watch while she's lying on bed. Actually, I don't know whether is good or not, but I still have to use this way to get her out of the bed. As usual, I call her many times, but it seems it doesn't matter to her. Her eyes are still closing and doesn't response my calling over and over. However, when I tell her a series of video clips such as Tom and Jerry, Mr. Bean, Muzzy...then ask her which one would you like to watch now. Normally, She chooses one of these and wake up to watch for a while before stepping out of her bed. I don't know how do you deal with this habit of your kids? I suppose you may be feel a little angry sometimes, but it is also a wonderful time with our kids. Because just following a few years, they can manage their time and be more independent. These are some thoughts I would like to share with you today. Please correct me!

Mobile Phone and Driving! Texting or Talking while driving is banned in my country. However, it is easy to see quite a range number of people who are using cellphones while they're driving on the streets. According to statistics, a thousand of accidents were happened as a consequence of using cellphones while they're driving. All of the major were published and I suppose almost all these drivers can assess the news, but It seems these bad news do not help them to realize how dangerous of their actions are. In this morning, I saw a man who were driving carelessly and I guessed he had to be using his cellphone. Unfortunately, my guessing was true when I saw he was driving by one hand while the other was holding his phone. I don't know why the police don't stop and fine them. Please correct me!

Children and Smartphones! The issue of whether children are allowed to use smartphones or not is controversial. Today, I would like to talk about this topic due to the fact my daughter is allowed to use smartphone under my supervision. Having said that, she can learn a variety of things by playing games in the smartphone. For instance, although she is just about four, she already knew how to count from one to thirty both in English and her mother tongue. Besides that, she can do some math exercises such as plus or subtract with a number up to 20. On the top of that, she knows a wide range of animal names and she can call the names quite exactly. Needless to say, her recognition and vivid imaginations has been enrich by interacting with various educational apps in the smartphone. In other words, children can develop their knowledge and intelligence by exploring educational apps in smartphones.

How Children Learn! After wandering several notebook entries, I realized that some people complained about their speaking abilities, even though they said that they have spent more than ten years learning languages. Due to the fact that I have been learning English, I would like to share my experience in learning English. However, you can apply this method to learn any other languages. My method is simply applying the way how a child learn to speak a language. No matter what difficult your mother tongue is, your children will speak it perfectly. The fact have shown that if you are Japanese, your children can speak Japanese as good as you. You may think that children can speak their languages because they were born and raised in their language environments. However, As we all know, children can only speak their first words such as mommy or daddy after listening to these words hundreds of times. On the top of that, in order to children can these words, they usually spend about six months on listening our daily conversation or sometimes talk directly to them. In other words, children learn languages naturally without any pressure, but it is still following step by step. I mean, you can not speak an English word if you don't know how to pronounce a single syllable. Let me five you an example, when you hit the roads, you can see so many skyscrapers, and you might think the foundation of these buildings must be extremely strong. Thus, the sound of single syllabus or phonetics in a language is the foundation to develop your language communications. Here are some thoughts I would like to share with you. Please correct me!

Learning English at Kindergarten School! In recent years, a thousand of kindergarten schools have been established in my city. Some of those are international kindergarten schools while the others are bilingual kindergarten schools. Today, I would like to talk about the bilingual kindergarten schools due to my daughter is currently learning at one of those. I was informed that she has started to learn English since last August. As usual, when I pick her up from the school, I always ask what did you learn today? Yesterday, she told me that she learned English and then sang a short English song for me. Interestingly, I couldn't understand even a single word, so I asked her to pronounce word by word to guess what word would be. Fortunately, she also used her body language while she was pronouncing the words. Thus, I could easily realize those words. However, all of those words were pronounced incorrectly. For instance, the word "knees" she pronounced as "lee", and "nose" as "know". I know it will be really time-consuming to correct her pronunciation as I underwent this trouble. Moreover, she believes her teachers are always right. Those are some thoughts I would like to share with you. Please correct me!

Learning English Via Listening Radios English is one of the most difficult subjects for Asian students. When I was a student at high school, I knew that most of my classmates didn't know how to pronounce even easy words such as five, fine, or fight. All of those words were pronounced without ending sounds. Some people might claim that Vietnamese students are mainly focusing on studying grammar, so they should be good at writing. However, the facts have shown that Vietnamese students are not good at English structures as well. It can obviously see when you correct for Vietnamese posts in Italki. As for me, although my English is still very limited, I have some experience in learning English through listening to the radio. When I started to use this method to study English, I spent about six months to learn about English phonetics and pronunciation. After this period, I realized that my speaking and listening skills improved a lot, but it didn't mean I was able to listen English radio and understand it comprehensively. I had to choose some channels such as VOA news to listen or download their podcast into my Ipod to listen to whenever I had spare time. Having said that, after a year, I could converse easily with other people in English and they didn't have much trouble to understand my speech. Needless to say, my writing skills also made a good progress. In other words, each person may have their own way to learn languages, so this is the way I have been using to study English. Please correct me!