Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?   
   on Thursday, 10 of December, I read your messsage to alexander koryagin   
   about "New trends2"   
      
    ak>> Gerard Depardieu has thought up how to explain to his  little  son   
    ak>> what are taxes in France.  He shows him a portion of ice cream and   
    ak>> then eats 75% of it.   
      
      
    AH> Old English proverb: many a true word is spoken in jest.  Canadians   
    AH> celebrate "tax-free day" in July. That makes sense to grownups. But   
    AH> how does one explain it to a young child?   
      
      I imagine this great film actor speaking a  long  explaining  tirade,   
   his big mouth and as much big eyes of the boy. ;-)   
      
    AH> Hmm. I suppose a real-life "pie graph" is another alternative which   
    AH> might make the concept a bit easier to  understand.  As  a  devoted   
    AH> parent Gerard supports his child's educational needs (and saves him   
    AH> from  those  nasty  refined  carbohydrates  &/or  saturated   fats,   
    AH> depending on one's POV).  The latter is  one  of  those  sacrifices   
    AH> human beings make in order to nurture the next generation.   
      
      The boy just got the trauma in another way.  His  psychoanalyst  will   
   have a hard job in the future.   
      
    AH> Old schoolteachers never die. They just lose their class... [grin].   
      
      Simply old pupils may realize that if they  haven't  learned  English   
   during their first 50 years it is hardly worthy to learn it during  last   
   decades of their lives. But anyway, I like learning this language.   
      
      I even invented a way to  make  Russians  understand  English  speech   
   better.  The main problem for Russians is that the Russian  language  is   
   1.5 or 2 times slower than English. A grown-up person is so used to this   
   tempo that he cannot listen to and understand English speech well.  Even   
   if he knows English well in the other aspects.   
      
      A Russian man should buy a special digital TV-player that can  replay   
   Russian movies with increasing speed but preventing their sound  quality   
   at the same time.   
      
      At first you should increase the speed up 1.5 times than to 2.0. This   
   way of watching will train your capability in  listening  quick  English   
   speech.  I literaly feel that it helps  and  I  started  understand  the   
   speech better.   
      
   [...The Flood was when God lost his patience and spat]   
   Bye Ardith!   
   Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2015   
      
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