Starting next week, Garrett will host "Special event" nights in the lounge. This can be writing, emails, interview skills, etc. We will take students requests, and Garrett and Eric will be choosing the topics in advance. Tell us what kind of activities do you like? :-D

Can you remeber those friends that are in our English books? They all grown up. See how are they now.
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/yfvNlOkQ4Zs/

Dictionary.com is one of the web sites I use most often.  Now they have a great new study aid, complete with games, puzzles and flashcards -- newly launched in its beta version -- dynamo.dictionary.com

Check it out!  And don't be afraid to start at elementary school level... remember the levels are for native speakers.

Video Review by SerptentZA:

HD Version (YouTube)  found here

Xi Bei is a place I am unfamiliar with, however this restaurant I have frequented often. Situated just behind the Shenzhen Sports Stadium, it’s quite a distance to travel to. Recently however more Metro stops have opened up making it more accessible. On the corner of a quiet street, from the outside the restaurant does not look like…

What is the difference between “inquire” and “enquire?”

These are two spellings of the same word, which means to seek information about something or to conduct a formal investigation (usually when followed by “into”). The corresponding noun is enquiry or inquiry.

Either spelling can…

Today I accomplished a lot. I got married and became a werewolf. Then I got a phone called which forced me to stop playing video games. My friends had gone to a restaurant which had run out of tables and where invited by the owner to join him in his private office (which looked like a 财会 office) to eat and wanted me to come and meet him.

In life you sometimes come across fascinating…

There is a huge social division amongs the population in Shenzhen. It’s possible to see a wealthy business man in his new Porsche and a man in tattered rags selling sweet potatoes heated over a metal drum without moving your head.

But what do the social  classes have in common? Happiness. Even the lowest of wage earners are still able to come home after a hard days work and have a few beers with friends and play cards and be happy.

So when passing a guy under a bridge selling…

Steven童鞋，你的手气太好了，直接可以去买彩票了，你让我们的淡定帝情何以堪？直接变忐忑帝啦。吼吼~~

看下面的照片如果你可以找到她， 给你50JHD！！

All train stations will look like this for the next week. This is a picture from Guangzhou last year. Expect even more this year!…

午饭过后，Moon忽然来了句我要疯啦，我问，请问你是怎么疯的？她答：我是被风吹疯了的。囧。。。

I got a special christmas gift from central police station on 25 Dec 2011. I can't express how was my feeling in that moment.( I was get a same experience in Dec last year;(((((((() the gift sent by...?????? It was an very unforgettable experience.               

I love taking these photos. It is a great way to see how we have grown over the years.

Here is our first picture from when we first opened: 3 managers and only 8 staff members. At this time we only had 5 classrooms and only half the space we have now.

Here we are last year. 26 of…

have fun:

dīng dīng dāng dīng dīng dāng líng ér xiǎng dīng dāng

  叮   叮      当     叮    叮     当    铃  儿   响      叮    当

wǒ men huá xuě duō kuài lè wǒ men zuò zài xuě qiāo shàng

 我  们    滑   雪    多    快  乐 我  们    坐   在  雪    橇      上

dīng dīng dāng dīng dīng dāng…

今天中午，奥地利学生甄行给我发来了一个链接！

点开一看，呀！原来这小子上深圳新闻了呀！看把他得意的！

甄行，真行！

http://tv.video.sina.com.cn/play/210525.html