My personal beef is the traffic and the attendant air pollution.
My main beef about the job is that I have to work on Saturdays.
I have been in Taiwan for almost six months, and I have to say that my experience has been nothing but pleasurable. You'll read things like you won't get your rent deposit back, your employer will screw you over, the work is drying up, and that Taiwan generally sucks.
To retort to all of those comments. Technically you won't get your rent deposit back, you will get your last two months free, and try to through a realtor because it is safer.
Next, if you don't want your boss to screw you, then don't piss him off. I am one of six foreign teachers in my school and the others can always find reasons to complain. Consequentlythey'retheir positions are no longer guaranteed. You have torealizrealize there are going to be things about the school you don't like, but you are not there to change policy, you are there to a job, work hard and so you shall reap the benefits. Coming to Taiwan is not a free ride, people think it's easy money and when things don't go the way they planned then they finds things to blame ontheir employer or the country.
In terms of the work drying up, just make sure you've secured a job before you come down here.
And does Taiwan suck, like any place it is what you make it, you decide whether or not you want to be miserable, don't dwell on all the negative aspects and you'll be happy. Of course there are bad employers out there, just do your hokmework before you sign a contract.
Things are different here and if you are not willing (to)exeptaccept thosediffernecesdifferences and adapt to them, then don't come, but when things don't go your way then don't be quick to blame everyone else but yourself.
If you want to make sure that your experience will be as great as mine contact me and I can help you, but don'tvelievebelieve all the crap about about Taiwan being a huge mistake, that person was obviously only in it for the money, you need to really be interested in teaching, otherwise naturally you won't be happy.
By the way my boss is great, he loaned me the money to get on my feet and to go to Hong Kong when I accidentally overstayed my Visa.
Another thing, a lot of these attacks on schools could be rival schools, the business is very competitive.
But just do your job and you won't be a bitter teacher like all the rest you read about.
來唱歌囉--Old MacDonald Had a Farm
An action, depends on race. See example
In a war, if the commander yells "Get down!"
The White Soldiers: Will fall to the ground.
The Black Soldiers: Will begin dancing.
get down這個意思要看種族而定義的一個動作，請看例子：
在一場戰爭中，如果一個指揮官大喊『Get down!』，
白人阿兵哥會趴在地上，
黑人阿兵哥會開始跳舞。
School is almost over.
Ana is short for anorexia, and — to the alarm of experts — many who suffer from the potentially fatal eating disorder are part of an underground movement that promotes self-starvation and, in some cases, has an almost cult-like appeal.
Followers include young women and teens who wear red Ana bracelets and offer one another encouraging words of "thinspiration" on Web pages and blogs.
They share tips for shedding pounds and faithfully report their "cw" and "gw" — current weight and goal weight, which often falls into the double digits. They also post pictures of celebrity role models, including teen stars Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate Olsen, who last year set aside the acting career and merchandising empire she shares with her twin sister to seek help for her own eating disorder.
"Put on your Ana bracelet and raise your skinny fist in solidarity!" one "pro-Ana" blogger wrote shortly after Olsen entered treatment.
They look like any bracelet you might buy at the mall. You probably wouldn't even notice if your child started wearing one, but these are not just any bracelet.
They are a sign of membership in a disturbing world of underground Web sites, which connect people who share a dangerous passion.
"They are encouraging people to be ill and it's like a secret cult, a secret society. Word spreads around and people have a lingo now," said Lynne Grege of the National Eating Disorders Association.
Eye on Taiwan
這是Living English裡第廿集的會話內容：
Why learn English?
How can you avoid making mistakes?
4. Pronunciation 發音－－學著去發英文的音，了解標音和音標
Why should you study English pronunciation?
What is input and why do you need it?
The intelligent dog
extraordinary (extra + ordinary)
approach
enormous
assure
film
I want to improve my listening English.我想改善我聽英語的能力
I want to improve my spoken English.我想改善我說英語的能力
I want to improve my reading English.我想改善我讀英文的能力
I want to improve my written English. 我想改善我寫英文的能力
Living English
This is a matter more of style than grammar. Words like "fightened" etc. are verb forms (participles) that are used as adjectives. Usually it is only participles, not ordinary adjectives, that are used all by themselves in the manner you describe. However, it is possible to use an adjective like "happy" in that way, especially if you add a few more words to the phrase:
1. Happy again for the first time in a year, he wrote a long letter to his mother.
2. Happy at last, he wrote a letter to his mother.
3. Happy, we wrote his mother.The third sentence is unusual stylistically, but it is not ungrammatical.
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The following sentences are all correct:
1. As a rock star, he makes a lot of money.
2. Being a rock star, he makes a lot of money.
3. A rock star, he makes a lot of money.
The third sentence is a bit more literary in style than the other two.
(This use of a phrase without any verbs in it to modify a subsequent noun or pronoun is called an "absolute" construction. It came into English writing because of the influence of the Classical Latin authors, I believe. It is used much more often in writing than in conversation.)
Sentences 1 and 2 suggest a causal connection between the first phrase and the second. That is, they both suggest that X makes a lot of money BECAUSE he is a rock star.
In contrast, in Sentence 3 the causal connection is much more muted. Sentence 3 is more nearly equivalent to "He is a rock star AND he makes a lot of money. Whether there is a causal connection is left to you to decide.
ELLLO
Work likes you don't need the money.
Love likes you've never been hurt.
Dance likes nobody's watching.
