Past Simple or Past Perfect? How could I translate the following from Russian: Когда он услышал, что его сын плачет, он встал и пошел в детскую комнату When he heard his son crying he raised and went to the nursery. or When he had heard his son crying he raised and went to the nursery. I'm always confused with simultaneous actions. On one hand these two actions (hear and raise) could be at the same time. "I heard the cry and went to see". But on the other hand here could be a sequence like "After I had heard I went to see" What is correct?

Enjoy myself What does percisely phrase "Enjoy myself" means? Does it mean that I'm proud of myself? Or does it mean that I feel good and enjoy the situation around?

Programming and importance of refactoring - how to convience the others? Hi to everybody! A'm a programmer (.net) and right now I do a great refacoting in my project. It means that I rearrange my code in the way which it should be more readable and understandable for other team members. But the subject of the discussion is following: how can you manage to convince your team or your boss to let you start the refactoring process? Because refactoring doesn't produce new features. But it hurts every time when you have to deal with some parts of code that were written previously and don't fit to current situation. What are your stories?

Cooking! What can be used as ingredients in a omelet? Sometimes your soul wish to be expressed in cooking. For me the most appropriate way coming to my head is cooking omelet or fried eggs. A lot of components could be added. As a rule it could be ham, herbs, mushrooms and almost whatever.  And I wounder if there is some cultural differences in cooking omelet. What is your favourite ingredient or method of cooking?

And about pokemon Go - again )) I was interested some days ago what is the reason because of which all blogs are full of mentions of that game - Pokemon Go. So I found some video on Youtoube which described the situation. There was one guy, the narrator, who was explaining this game during being enrolled in it. He was so excited and often exclaimed "Oh, this is sick! I'm sick!" and another expressions in this manner. I wondered what does it mean - "to be sick" in this context and soon I found out that there is a special meaning of this phrase like "This is cool! This is crazy!" - in positive way. So I've got new expression in my vocab.

Lord Of The Rings - retelling of chapter 1 This is my retelling of a part of the chapter from Lord Of The Rings. The first chapter is called "A long-expected party" and describes the celebration of Bilbo Baggins 111 years old. The first part center of preparations, errands and invitation letters. And the next part is dedicated to the celebration itself. There was a large tent built in the middle of the field. It was so enormous that it was over a tree and covered it. Lots of flags were unfurled. When the party had began Gandalf started to make fireworks. There were plenty of them and all of a different kind: scintillating, loud, sparkling. They all were superb. And finally there was a rocket which represented the dragon that had been defeated by Bilbo in his previous adventure. After the show the time passed to make a speech. Bilbo got on the stage and started with greetings of his relatives and other guests. Everyone expected a short introduction but it lasted too long and some phrases were too difficult to understand (because hobbits were quite simple and straightforward people and at that precise moment they were slightly drunk ))) ) Eventually he made an accent (or an announcement) that it was "the end". He stepped down and put on the magic ring which he held in his pocket all this time and disappeared. Everyone was shook and kept silence for a while. And than all began to talk at once discussing this miracle. When invisible Bilbo got home and took off his ring he become visible again and was met by Gandalf. They held a talk, said good-bye to each other and Bilbo set off to his last journey to the town of elves where he wanted to finish writing his book.

Another day I returned to italki.com I've been studying English with teacher for a half of a year. I think I've greatly improved since. Another day I returned to italki.com to find some partners for speacking, I met Fabio. He is from Italy and we converse in English and than in Russian. Speaking English I feel comfortable and confident. I try to use new words that I've picked up from narrows and novels but in many times I became so involved in a sence of a discussion that I forget about vocabulary part of the aim of talking and merely enjoy speaking.

Test post I joined this site from a facebook commercial link )) Oh, all this golbal internet technologies! They know almost all about our interests that we mention on web (in google search requests for instance or in email). I even know one funny trick that can be used to confuse your friend in some case ))) So, hi there!!