Talking with my English teacher

Role-play

Hi, have a seat. Thanks for coming by.

I’m glad I can visit you for improving my English and uh I would like to speak with you about the problems of my listening, of my understanding.I would even want … Lies weiter

War in Ukraine

Good morning. I’m ready to discuss the regional analysis.

Good morning. It’s fine having you. I would like to have a lot of questions and first of one, what is the real strengths of the Ukraine military operation? Not speaking … Lies weiter

Hip-TEP

It’s a long time ago that I have talked about my hip replacement, about the TEP. Even today, it’s a very bad day talking about it, because the stroll two hours ago was ugly. The last week wasn’t so bad, … Lies weiter

Talking about teaching

Hello! It’s good to finally meet.

I see you have difficulties to understand me. Let me repeat it the third time. Uh, what kind of methods you are using in your classroom with taking into account the different types of … Lies weiter

Talk with painter 2

Another role-playing game

Ah, hello. It’s quite a turnout, isn’t it?

Really a turnout. And the greatest turnout is to meet you here. Have you time to introduce me in one of your paintings? A lot of them are hanging … Lies weiter

Talk about a plugin

That’s a talk with Google translate’s English exercising program in a self-defined scenario. I corrected only words which were wrongly transcribed  and wouldn’t create misunderstandings.

GT: Hey, how’s it going?

I: Things are going very well. I have finished the … Lies weiter

Multisite and English

Alright, Dietrich — I’ve got you. Here’s a clean, corrected diary-style version in natural English, keeping your meaning and tone, just smoother and clearer:  (unfortunately, there are a few more corrections I would want it,  but now I’m to Lies weiter

An angry letter

Hello Henri,

Let me start with the language problem. As you see, I’m writing in English and especially using this time to improve myself, to exercise, and not only to waste time for this angry discussion. I promise that I … Lies weiter

A letter exchange

Dear Keith,

Thank you for your good wishes for the New Year. At the current time I like to connect my wishes not only for your personal welfare and healthiness, but especially for having again peace, at least in Europe, … Lies weiter

Speaking speed

I want to speak about the speed of my talking with you. There are two reasons for my speed, for my high speed. The one reason is you taught me that I have to speak under pressure to avoid the … Lies weiter

The answer

I think it’s a extraordinary intelligent answer, more exactly a technique, ChatGPT/Mueller gave me.y

I understand you very well. What you describe is one of the most common fluency traps, especially for German speakers. You are not doing anything “wrong.” … Lies weiter

Only Trump?

After the Russians began their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, German and other Western politicians insisted on calling it Putin’s war. This slogan was obviously created to prevent Russians as a whole from being held responsible and to avoid a new … Lies weiter

Website migration

I would like to talk about my very elaborate work migrating 20 websites—20 so-called subdomains—to one main domain in order to have unified management for all of them. If I stayed in the old situation with 20 separate sites, I … Lies weiter

A casserole recipe

I’m testing a new casserole today. It’s not very different from another one I usually make. It has aubergine, mozzarella, and tomatoes. But this time it’s a version without aubergine. Instead, I’m using olives. There’s also a special mixture—something they … Lies weiter

English activities

It looks like having forgotten to nurse my diary and perhaps having forgotten doing English exercises at all. That’s not the case, of course. I’m writing, reading, listening and speaking English every day and that’s the reason that I  haven’t … Lies weiter

Culture in war

Every war is not only a struggle over areas, territories, over resources, against humans, or against the equipment, the infrastructure of the enemy. It is essentially, and sometimes overwhelmingly, a struggle against the culture of the opposing country. And this … Lies weiter

Kurkov’s Diary

My last detection has been the Ukrainian writer Andrej Kurko. He was born in Russia 1961. His grandmother was Ukrainian, his father Russian. He – saying about himself – would be a Russian speaking Ukrainian. His mother tongue is Russian, … Lies weiter

No complaining

After complaining yesterday about my condition I made today the surprising experience I could be walking 2.5 kilometres mostly without sticks, that means more than 2 kilometres. This makes me especially happy since it was finished without more pain than … Lies weiter

Complaining

I try to keep from myself the truth of my decreasing physical condition. The difficulties with my walking are getting worse daily. It’s not only the  pain in my hip, it’s equally my left foot getting stiffer, it’s a feeling … Lies weiter

Accident in the kitchen

While preparing our dinner, cutting an onion, suddenly I roared like a bull. Why? I didn’t cut the onion, I had cut into my little finger. I’m really sore about my clumsiness, those misshapes have happend too often lately. I’ve … Lies weiter

Exhibition

Haven’t been complained since a long time about my physical condition, and I don’t intend now to start it again but I can assure you it hasn’t gotten better. So lemme speak about more exciting matters.

The most exciting matter … Lies weiter

Putin’s Ukraine

If Putin says there isn’t any difference between the Russian and the Ukrainian people; they have rights, they the same people. And if there are any difference in mentality and looking for democracy, for freedom then it’s a behaviour developed … Lies weiter

My first program with KI

My experience with ChatGPT for developing a WordPress website was really ugly, so I have lost any ambitions making similar programming tests. Nevertheless, I’ve started another one:  programming a slideshow with features I didn’t find in any other slideshow program … Lies weiter

Goodbye from French

My trial learning French simultaneous with English – without commanding English sufficiently – was ridiculous and I convinced myself to give it up immediately to avoid wasting time furthermore. At the beginning when I was recognizing this silly mistake I … Lies weiter

Sweet potatoes with herrings

We like sweet potatoes, but only as fried potatoes with lots of onions—cut into half rings—and a few cloves of garlic. Everything has to be fried gently, because there is an unusually high risk of them becoming too brown, or … Lies weiter

ANKI mentioned

Really, I’m a bit slow in up-take. Now I’m using ANKI for pushing forward my English competence because I noticed that my vocabulary is rather weak. Only if I’m in a flow I’m able to grasp for words never have … Lies weiter

What a silence

It was a quite day. I decided not to take part at our big family meeting in Spandau. My body was full of pain when I went out of my bed, gymnastics was possible but didn’t help as much as … Lies weiter

Self-confidence

A gap of some days between my last entry and today, no reason for this gap – besides having pain in my leg and especially in the whole hip area, has been pressing my self-confidence in speaking and listening English.  … Lies weiter

The translation game

Do you want to learn my new game? It’s translation. You can learn a lot if you play this game. What variants  are there? The first one is: translate it by yourself, then put it away. Second, look for a … Lies weiter

What about my English

Sometimes I’m afraid I’m losing my English because I don’t have time to practise every day.

I neglect pronunciation, I neglect listening, I neglect writing, I neglect struggling with different books, different sentences, and phrases.

All these things happen because … Lies weiter