F2F Class Notes (Jacob) [S,R]

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/16-english-words-that-are-hard-for-non-natives-to-say

Vocabulary

Privatize – to make something privately owned
eg. When China opened its economy, many companies were privatized.

Tariffs – a tax put on a specific good
eg. Trump wants to put tariffs (tax) on Chinese goods.

reciprocate – doing similar actions to each other
eg. My sister gave me a gift, so I wanted to reciprocate the nice deed.

Impose – to forcefully put a law or rule against someone/a good
eg. The government decided to impose a tax on foreigners to make more money from tourism.

Adverse – bad, unfavorable
eg. I made a bad decision, so it had an adverse affect.

Implement – (similar to execute) to put something in place or carry out something
eg. My job is to implement ideas from our managers/My job is to make sure ideas are properly implemented.

Intellect – a persons smarts/how smart a person

Intellectual – a smart person/brilliant

Dispute – argument over something specific

Filter – something that cleans/prevents something from going through
eg. A water filters helps to clean the water
eg. President trump doesn’t have any filter for what he says.

An eye for an eye – a threat that if you do something to me, I’ll do something back to you. – The whole world will be blind.

Original

Character is the most important thing to make our relationship to be more close. Because I don’t like to be close with strangers especially those people who are very active. Another reason is because I’m not extroverted people, so I don’t like to chat with those people who are very extroverted. I will feel they are very loud.

Edited

Character is the most important thing to make bring our relationship to be more close. Because I don’t like to be close with strangers especially those people who are very active. Another reason is because I’m not an extroverted people person, so I don’t like to chat with those people who are very extroverted. I will feel they are very loud.

Grammar

0.001% – each number is a percentage point

5% – five percent

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