Open F2F Class Notes April 8th (Ben)

Vocabulary

When I found out the time was wrong, I decided to keep it (this way).

= I decided not to change it. 我决定不去改变它。

The development speed of the Chinese internet will be faster than the one of other countries.

The Chinese internet will develop faster than (in) other countries.

指南 a guidebook

指南针 a compass

浏览 browse

forbid / forbade / forbidden 禁止 from

ban / -ed / -ed

The government forbade people from browsing foreign websites such as Twitter, Youtube, etc.

Original

I have had a question in my mind for many years and that is :how can I speed up learning ? When I was a student in university I thought if I can speed up learning I can spend less time at school. I meant that I could have extra time to do some other thing. And if I learn really fast, I probably wouldn’t have to go to school at all. However, this way of reap without working is unrealistic. Unless I have Doraemon’s pocket.

Edited version

I have had a question in my mind for many years and that is : how can I speed up my learning ? When I was a student in university I thought if I could speed up my learning I could spend less time at school. I meant that I could have extra time to do some other things. And if I learned really fast, I probably wouldn’t have to go to school at all.

However, this way of reaping rewards without working is unrealistic. Unless I have Doraemon’s pocket.

1. Try to keep the same tense. You need a good reason to change tenses.
2. if it’s possible to say “my”, or “yours”, … say it