For Correction In the technical aspect, IT is a perfect complement to language learning. We can see benefits from almost everywhere due to the information technology, e.g., electronic dictionaries, contacting tools, mass accessible materials online, etc. The reason behind this is that I think IT in its very original purpose is developed to focus on treating these problems, as they are related to communication, to text, etc. But in regard of learning or effective learning, or rather the methodology of learning, IT has nothing to do with all of them. It's quite another issue. It pertains to other human activities and should really be approached with different cares. I think there's still a lot of room for both technical and intellectual innovations, and the further better apps should be somehow based on a combination of the enhancement of both these two sorts of cares.

Please Kindly Correct It Very detailed explanation. It's like deep reading. So I think the two gender are same in their inner character, that is human spirit. The 'ego' in two genders are not two but one. The difference is only valid in performance, that is, related to custom, but is not valid in regard of inner character or 'spiritual character'. So I think, in a deeper judgment, one should only set apart differences among different spiritual character types, but not in either genders. It's much like languages, we share the same thoughts, but we convey them in different languages. There's a theory called Transformational Grammar, meaning we transform our universally common inner 'logical grammar' to the very different outer grammars. I think it's quite true considering the spirit-gender factor. For example, the same spiritual virtue(or vice) can 'transform' itself in to different appearance in two genders, lilke, 'bravery' can show itself as 'fearless' in man, and as 'loyalty' in woman.

Please kindly correct my compositions, thanks. My duty here would be, 1, to answere any questions about the usuage of Chinese language (as well as I can), I can give you extra examples on the point you're asking by composing sentences in real time, or I can try to explain it theoreticcally according to the more-than-none grammar I've known about English. 2, to correct your compositions according to the way I use Chinese. 3, any other activities that are adaptable in this platform. I think language exchange is efficient in general, and it's very profitable if you have native speakers to correct you. So in this platform, answering questions and correcting writings are both very convenient. But what I've thought about is that these activities being based on a regular basis would be better. By this way some randomness(which can somehow cause confusion) could be reduced. So I'd be glad if you appreciate my corrections and ask for more. If so, we can add friends to each other so that next time you had a new writing I could see it and correct it in priority. In return, I would kindly ask you to do the same favour for me, if I happened to have the language studied in your nativity. So, let's do it !

Please kindly revice my writing Dear Anki Team, I'd like to thank you very much for developing such a handful tool for all of us. It contributed much to my language study, and to my life in general. I think the greatest advantage of this program is due to the flexibility and customizable features. I've used it to apply my own study routin, inputing algorithm etc. Just want to send you some replies and two little suggestions. They are the ones that I encounterd with during my usuages. The first one which I think is of great invention and necessity is that I think if we could break the dogma and make a '3-d-version flashcard' in electronic devices such as Anki. This issue emerged when several times I tried to make flashcards adapted to my usuage, eg, to show the original text on side1, the translation on side2, and the explaination on side3, or, to show word on side1, examples on side2, and word origin on side3.(I use flashcard not only to just review or recite but also to re-study it along side of each repetittion.) So I think this is necessary for Anki, for it consist with the designing phylosophy and adds more flexibility and customizations. The second one is a minor request, that I think if we can add a second pigment palette and also a shortcut(eg F8) to it, since I edit the text heavily, giving them different formats to enhance memory, thus finding it much more convinient to have an another palette shorcut on my keyboard. So that's all of it, thank you once more and best wishes! (* If my English is broken, I apologize for that, I'm still learning it, thank you.)

欧阳修的主要成绩是散文 欧阳修的主要成绩是散文。他作为唐宋八大家之一，既韩、柳之后主持文坛，去粗取精，继往开来，开辟了文风的新统。从而他对诗、词的风格也同样有所革新，主要在于加入了更多内容，通俗化扩大了表达力等。与晏殊、柳永等形成对照。但要说是欧阳修开辟了宋代写词的风气之先，似乎有失妥当。同时也没有‘文赋’这一说法。苏轼同样是唐宋八大家之一，与欧阳修并称。‘唐宋八大家’的成就，主要就是指散文方面。因为在韩愈、柳宗元开展古文运动之前极长的时间里，文坛是不见散文的。所谓’文赋‘是早已有之文体，其中汉代的汉赋是其特色。六朝以来，继承了汉赋的骈丽化倾向，发展以至于到了泛滥的地步。到了唐朝中期以后，一批有识之士已经开始大规模地批判这种骈风，认为它们是文以害质。到了韩愈、柳宗元提出古文运动的口后，则一呼百应，蔚然成风。到了晚唐古文运动衰落，又出现了雕章琢句的逆流。北宋时期，欧阳修等人拨乱反正，极力推崇韩、柳，又能有所创新，成为了宋代古文运动的中兴力量。这种文坛风气的变化，同时也是与社会风气、政治进程是分不开的。

'Silent Period' Strategy Explained I agree with you and Krashen. Your general strategy are definitely right, that is, when encountered with a new language, the only thing we should do is to acquire the language. That means, to learn from comprehendible input. I think there's no doubt in it. The actual 'output point' should be very late in the procedure, usually. And we should let it happen in a very natural way, it's going to be a sort of 'reward' rather than a pursuit of the long period of learning, which will bring us much joy. The only thing that can be altered someway is the methodology, not the strategy. For example, when I'm in a beginner or intermediate level, when I have built an essential sense of the language and understand some basic grammar and vocabularies, I tend to look for people to 'talk' in addition to reading and listening. This will bring me more fun, making the language learning process more interesting and more 'live'. But note that at this stage, what you do is not in the sense of 'real' talk. Instead, the 'talks' should be actually a 'teaching conversation'. The focus through these talks should be still on input and acquiring. And in an advanced stage, I will again start a 'silent period' and just do the mass comprehendible input, learning the new words, in order to reach the level of having natural conversations with natives. The reason to do this, is when you are at this stage, there will be a huge amount of new things to absorb and internalize, and otherwise you won't be able to blend into the real language environment. So 'talking' at this stage is not efficient or even not helpful. When you have accumulated enough patterns of the language, (they will be huge so the period should be relatively long) and feel comfortable, you will start talking again. And this time, the real one.

The Disadvantage and Advantage of Chinese Language I'm a native speaker, and find it a little bit strange when I really tend to think it to be true that English as an oral language is a little more fluid than Chinese! But what I am also aware of is that Chinese is actually invented as a written language which connected people in different tones. The characters are not necessarily to be pronounced in a particular tone or even not necessarily to be pronounced. And it is facilitated to be readable in a lightning fast speed, due to the sheer link between visual and brain. The visual needn't to be translated into sounds. Chinese has the very popular idiom 一目十行 which describes a person who can read 10 lines of text just in a single glimpse to it. And I started to realize it to be true. In fact, I can imagine if I'm born and raised in a very equal environment that put me to be a native both in English and Chinese, it is definitely in Chinese that I can read faster, maybe several times faster than English!

Tips for a Guest Hi Rashad, it's a big question, maybe I can give you a little bit suggestions. China has as many natural sceneries as cultural heritages. Geographically, China vary a lot from south to north, and differs in east and west. So you can search for all kinds of geographic landscape in China, only to take more or less care about the weather. The cultural heritages can include: 1.Buddism statue. They scattered all over China, usually carved on the mountain sides. They shared a beginning of early 600s, and can last to late 1500s. They are magnificent, considering their scale, both in space and time. 2. Chinese traditional architecture. They are very characterized, and representing the Chinese traditional art form, which is also spread and adopted by Korea and Japan. There are many more of them, you can also visit the museums.

Chinese language learning 'paradox' explained Thank you for such detailed corrections and suggestions, I can understand them, and I learned a lot. Especially, inefficent/profitless,pay/spend. In regard to the 'paradox', I actually mean Chinese especially it's writing system is perhaps the most difficult language to learn, but Chinese itself does have something in reward. The characters is exactly invented to make the spread possible, no matter in geography or in history.(which is because the connection necessity or even desire in the acient times, when people speak very differnt languages colloquially. ) And it's quite the truth. As for geography, we know Japan(and Korea) adopt Kanji in writing and is still using them today, so Chinese people can comprehend/guess some Japanese essays even when they don't know how to pronounce them. As for history, they can comprehend their accient text written more than 2,000 years before, with only little effort to get used to the specific gramma, and maybe a dictionary for help. This is very different in the case of those oral-based language systems. But despite the fact, today only few Chinese people take the advantage of this, which make the time-consuming learning of their language seems quite profitless. And in addition to that, it's English not Chinese to be the commuting language world wide, so it will be another time exhausting task for them to cover through!