The story behind my head portrait Hi guys, 大家好 I’m not quit learning English these days, although I didn’t write anything on italki. I’m learning some idioms and situation dialogues by downloaded some PC applications, instead of answering questions here. 尽管我这段时间没写什么文章，我并没有放弃学习英语，只是很少回答italki的朋友们提的问题。我下载了电脑应用程序，来学习一些英文惯用语和情景对话。 Today I would like to share the story behind my current head portrait, in which I smiled in a naughty way. I already told one of my friends before, but since it was rather interesting for me, I wish to share with you again. 我想和大家分享我的头像照片背后的故事，照片里我笑的很顽皮。虽然我已经将这个故事告诉了我的一个朋友，但是它太有趣了，我还是想和大家分享一下。 Actually there are three pictures in a time sequence, the current head portrait is the middle one. I was in a naughty laugh, because the situation, which was very funny. My parents and I went to the south of China two years ago, and we were having a supper with some friends of my dad. The main food of this meal was sesame cake, then I could see everybody had some sesame around their mouth except me. What’s more, neither of them noticed this, since they all got drunk! So with this kind of funny looks, they were still talking with drunk behaviors …So you could see my reaction on this: laughing to death! 其实按时间顺序总共有三张照片，头像照片是其中的第二张。我笑的特别顽皮的原因是当时的情境实在是太逗了！我两年前和父母去南方玩，照片中我们正和爸爸的一些好朋友吃晚饭。这顿饭的主食是芝麻烧饼，很快我就发现除了我之外所有人的嘴巴周围都有好多芝麻！更重要的是，因为他们都喝醉了，所以他们每个人都没有发现这个问题。于是，他们继续醉酒后的聊天（喝多了，说着胡话，东倒西歪的，嘴上还有一堆芝麻! …） 于是你就能知道我当时的这个反应，是多么的正常了吧? I have attached my final reaction picture to this article. Enjoy yourselves! :) 我把我最后一张快笑死时的照片也上传上来，让大家也娱乐一下!~

Songs for helping you to learn Chinese I have known that some Chinese mandarin learners are improving their Chinese by listening to some Chinese songs, I would love to recommend some for help. 我知道有些人用听中文歌曲的方法来学习普通话，我乐意推荐一些来帮助大家。 On the other hand, I’m curious about the reason why there’s few English learners asking about the song questions. 另一方面，我很好奇为什么很少有学英语的同学，问关于英文歌曲的问题。 Probably there are not so much differences among English songs, and they are quite different from Chinese songs in this aspect, which are in different accents, since every district has its own accent in China. 也许是因为英文歌曲之间没有大的差异，这点与中文歌曲不太一样，中文歌曲是用不同的口音演唱的，因为几乎每个地区都有自己的方言。 However I still believe that there are some differences exsit in accents among English songs. 然而，我仍旧认为英文歌曲之间会存在着一些口音方面的差异。 Could you pls recommend some English songs as well? Or, tell me more about your favorite songs. 大家能否也推荐一些英文歌曲？或者，和我说说你最喜欢的歌曲。 I have noticed that someone prefer to listen to songs from Jay Chou, actually I don’t suggest his songs to you as your purpose is to learn a language. 我注意到一些人喜欢听周杰伦的歌曲，事实上考虑到大家的目的是学习一门语言，因此我并不推荐他的歌曲。 Although the melodies of his songs are very beautiful and special, both of his pronunciation and his lyrics are not good enough to help you learning the language. 尽管他歌曲的旋律很好听很特别，但他的发音和歌词都对你们学习语言没有太好的帮助。 When we were in high school, we sung his songs and competed each time in KTV, for his lyrics of his rap parts were too long and completed to sing. Haha… 当我们上高中的时候，我们每次去KTV的时候都会比赛着唱他的歌曲，因为他说唱部分的歌词实在是太长太复杂啦..哈哈 I will firstly recommend some songs to you , and these will be easier to learn… 我将先推荐一些歌曲给大家，这些歌学起来可能会容易一些.. Songs I would like to recommend: singer纵贯线<song纵贯线兄弟姐妹>, 金莎<被风吹过的夏天><空气>，方大同<红豆>,阿桑<叶子>,曲婉婷<我的歌声里>，张悬<喜欢><宝贝>，梁静茹<可惜不是你> Singers you’d better try later: 苏打绿soda green, 范玮琪，周杰伦

Plants v.s. Zombies 植物大战僵尸 I was playing the popular Game "Plants v.s. Zombies" almost on this whole weekend.我几乎整个周末都在玩流行的游戏“植物大战僵尸”. The game is really exciting and full of tactical.这个游戏真的非常有趣并且充满策略. Actually I started to play it about two years ago,when I just came to work.事实上我两年前就开始玩这个游戏了，那时我刚刚上班. I had already finished all of the adventure last time, however not make the unlimited part successfully,especially in foggy and night mode. 我上次已经完成了所有的冒险关卡，但是没有成功地完成无限的关卡，尤其是在雾天和夜晚. The ture feeling of mine was that I became more and more anxious while watching crowd of zombies coming towards my house.当看到成群的僵尸靠近我的房子的时候，我真的感觉越来越紧张. Am I too pavid to play this game?我是否太胆小了? Probably my psychological quality is lower than other players.也许我的心理素质比其他玩家要差吧.But I seriously love this game!但我真的非常喜爱这个游戏! Have you ever played "Plants v.s. Zombies" before? 大家以前玩过"植物大战僵尸"这个游戏吗？ What's your feeling or opinion about this game?你对于这个游戏的感觉和想法是什么? Below is the English introduction of this game, for your reference.以下是这个游戏的英文介绍，供大家参考. Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense video game developed and published by PopCap Games for Windows, Mac OS X and iPhone OS. A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door. Each zombie has its own special skills, so you’ll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all. But be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds… as you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool add to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies!

Some suggestions about learning Chinese 关于学习汉语的一些建议 I have read some articles through website pages these days, I would like to give you guys some advises with the combination of my learning experience. 我最近看了一些网上的文章，结合我自己学习的经验，我愿意给大家提一些建议。 Firstly of all, you'd better start learning from Chinese PIN YIN & four tone, it will be very helpful for your pronunciation. With this,you could speak words in a correct way. 首先，大家最好先开始学习汉语拼音和四个声调，这将会对你的发音很有帮助。学会了这个，你就能用正确的方式来读单词了。 Secondly,make yourself get intersted in learning Chinese, probably you should have a goal on this. There are many ways of inspiring intersts,like listening to Chinese songs,watch some Chinese TV programms,etc. 其次，让你自己对学习中文产生兴趣，你当然可以建立一个目标啦。有很多种方式可以激发（学习中文的）兴趣，比如听中文歌曲，看一些中文电视节目等。 If you prefer to listen to the music, you just need to repeat at the very beginning,then you could try to understand the lyrics later.Songs could expand your Chinese words,but the grammars of most lyrics are wrong,so pls don't speak like singing when you're having a conversation with someone else. 如果你选择听音乐（的方式），最开始你只需要去重复（你所听到的），然后你可以尝试理解歌词。中文歌曲可以拓宽你的中文词汇量，但是大多数的歌词中的语法都是错误的，所以当你和某人交谈时，请不要像唱歌（说歌词）一样说话。 Finally, also is the most important way: Practicing.Keep trying hard,and don't be afraid to make mistakes. Sure you have to take notes after learning new items, and review the notes regularly. 最后，也是最重要的方式：练习。持续努力地练习，并且不要害怕犯错。当然你应当在学习到一些新知识之后做一些笔记，并且定期复习这些笔记。 Anyway, wish you all having fun on learning Chinese, I would like to help you all as much as I can. 无论如何，希望大家都能在学习中文（的过程中）享受乐趣，我当然愿意尽可能多的帮助到大家。

Rainy day today It began to rain in the noon today, then the weather became pretty cold now. Friends in Beijing pls look after yourselves, for the autumn in Beijing is usually very short and the winter is coming soon. So you’d better get prepared for the coming winter~ 今天中午开始下雨了，然后天气现在开始变得很冷。（一场秋雨一场寒）。在北京的朋友们请照顾好自己（的身体），因为北京的秋天通常比较短暂，（而）冬天很快就要来了。所以你们最好开始为即将到来的冬天做好准备。 It’s the first time for me to use Skype last night,it was convenient for having a clearly conversation. There are so many aspects I need to improve my English, especially on speaking. I couldn’t help being nerves during the conversation, but I was sure to be better next time. The harder I practice, the more fluent my speaking will be. Let’s fight together!! 昨晚我第一次使用Skype，它方便于（在网络上）进行清晰的交谈。我还需要在很多方面提高自己的英语水平，尤其是在对话方面。在（这次）对话中我还是很紧张，但是我相信以后自己能变得更好。我会努力的练习，（那么）我的表达会变得更流畅。让我们大家一起加油！

what's the difference between"leave sth for sb" & "leave sth to sb". ? I saw a grammar point today: “leave sth. to sb. & leave sth. for sb.” have separately different meanings. Here’s two examples below: They left me no food. = They left no food for me. 他们没给我留一点食物。 My uncle left me a large fortune. = My uncle left a large fortune to me. 我叔叔死后留下一大笔财产给我。 But I still don’t understand what the difference is. Is there anyone here could answer this question? Thanks a lot!

The National Day of China is coming.国庆来了 The National Day of China is coming on Oct.1st 2012,everyone here expect to take a good rest during this 8-days holiday. Some of my colleagues will go to south China with their family, Sanya三亚 in Hainan province is a case in point.As for me, I won’t go to anywhere, for it will be rather crowded at every feature spot. I just want to stay in Beijing, 宅着~ I'm just wondering to know that if you guys are in China,what’s your plan on the National Day? Below are the Chinese version: 2012年的10月1日就是中国的国庆日，每个人都期待能在8天国庆假期中好好放松一下。某些我的同事将和他们的家人一起去南方（过国庆），比如海南的三亚。对我来说，我哪也不去，因为在这个假期中每个景点都会非常拥挤（拥挤=人很多），我只想呆在北京，宅着~ 我想知道如果你们在中国生活的话，你的十一国庆假期会如果安排？

Drove karts yesterday, had a great time there!! My colleagues and I went to drive karts after work yesterday,although yesterday was just the beginning of this working week. We had a great time there!! This was the first time for me to drive karts, So I felt it was rather dangerous at the very beginning. Then I realized that karts were hard to turn over, for it has a very low barycentre. We all have 6 minutes for drving,and we started one by one besides I’m the last one. I tried my best, but I could not catch up with the other guys who were in front of me, some of the reason was that I was usually a qualified and careful driver during the daily life.I had seen the instruction on the website before, and it said that the average laps was between 6 to 16 laps. Unfortunately, two other girls and I just drove 5 laps when the time was up.So I have been laughed at all day long...I will be better next time, I hope.

舌尖上的中国 A Bite of China Here,I would like to strongly recommend a televised documentary,called "A Bite of China（舌尖上的中国,she2 jian1 shang4 de4 zhong1 guo2）". It has seven episodes,and each of them has a separate subject. All of the subjects are about the different aspects of Chinese food. In my opinion, "A Bite of China" use many living examples to tell us the elements of making delicious food,which includes time, cooking skills, and other aspects. I think it will be difficult to understand the explanation in Chinese for most of the foreigners, but it will be very helpful to know the Chinese culture. Most of the cuisine I never ate or knew before, however I was so curious about the taste and willing to try them during my future holidays. Here's the link of "A Bite of China" instruction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bite_of_China