VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Why I want to study English

When I was a student in my hometown, there was only one English class for a day, except that, I didn’t used English. Foreigners were rarely seen in small city, so I don’t think English is important. But, now I’am a software engineer and I need reading a number of documents with English everyday. In my office, there are some foreigners and I need to communicate with them. So, English becomes a trouble which greatly bothers me in my life.

Therefore, I must improve my broken English right now. I hope I can reading document easily and talk to my foreigners work parterner with nice spoken language.

Why I want to study English

When I was a student in my hometown [ when I was a primary school and high school student / before university ] , there was only one English class a day, and except that, I didn’t use English. Foreigners were rarely seen in small cities, so I didn’t think English is important. But, now I’m a software engineer and I need to read a number of documents in English everyday. In my office, there are some foreigners and I need to communicate with them. So, English has become a trouble / problem which greatly bothers me in my life.

Therefore, I must improve my broken English right now. I hope I can read documents easily and talk to my foreign work partners in nice spoken language.

Vocabulary

used to it – xi guan
eg. I am used to China / studying every day
used to do it = before / not now
eg. I used to live in Japan

cinema / movie theater / to the movies 
eg. I went to see a movie / I went to the movies last night
i watched a movie

there’s a french guy at my company

what time? – hours + minutes
when? – all time / days / months / years / hours + minutes

main / most important / biggest part

engaged / engagement – to stay focused on the app
eg. we want to increase user engagement

what is the specific goal for this feature? / what are you specifically trying to achieve?

specific < > general 

public transport – gong gong jiao tong

I study English every day / once a day 

hometown / where I’m from / back home

it is a problem / causes me problems
it brings me trouble / causes me trouble

last days – in the last few days / recently

Grammar

I can’t understand what he said

nouns – which one / how many?
verbs – what time?

I need to understand his means – I need to understand what he means 

he tell me what we production designed – our production has a lot of pictures to describe it and he will explain to me which point I should implement 

there are a lot of features