Online Class Notes (Luca)

I was living in Sydney for almost eight years. I studied over there, after my graduation I worked in Sydney as an accountant. I been to the Phillip Island. Melbourne was is really different from Sydney. Cos in Melbourne your pretty much feel like you are in Europe, you have trams in the city and European style buildings. I can felt you got more I felt Melbourne had more heritage buildings than in Sydney. I prefer Sydney because all of  my time was Sydney because so I got used to the city. Melbourne I have been to Melbourne there twice. I heard people said, say Sydney-siders and Melbournians don’t like each other. Yes half of the times I missed Chinese food. Its slightly different from Chinese food in china, its cooked in flavor of western style/its cooked in a way that is more palatable for Australians. ‘Cos I’m in china now, I hope I could one day move back to Australia for living. Its quite different in Beijing, you have life in a big city you live in a big city everything is very fast, you cant feel the at piece. Every time I travel from Beijing to Australia, as soon as I arrive in Australia, its pretty much like coming from a bustling noisy street moving into a car. Once the car door its shut I felt feel my whole world is quiet. this kind of feeling give me piece of mind/makes me feel peaceful.

Grammar

I go went/would go to the beach all the time, basically every weekend in the summer.

we have comparable smaller room for living compared to Australia, you queue up for buying food, you start from rushing morning to evening.

Due to the density of the population here in China, we live in comparatively smaller spaces than Australia. You have queue for everything, taxis, buying food etc. 

Pronunciation

Sydney (sid-knee)

tour (tooer)

street (ee sound) careful not to sound too much like straight.

slight (slite)

Vocabulary

finnicky (casual word means fussy or picky)

Cos ( this is totally fine to use in everyday casual conversation, however if you are delivering a presentation in a professional setting use Because)

palate (the taste buds on our tongue)

more palatable (the flavor is easier to accept)