Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Welcome to Boston!
This is a view of Boston from the Prudential Observatory, and one from a boat in the harbor. Boston is one of the oldest places in the U.S.- it was founded in 1630 by British Puritans, a strict kind of Christians. Boston is a center for education and research, and has 40 colleges in the area. It has a wonderful mix of old and new buildings, historical architecture and glass skyscrapers. The reflective building in the middle of the first picture is the Hancock Tower.
Every September the population of the city gets bigger, as thousands of college students come back to school. The streets are crowded with kids carrying boxes and mattresses. It is a great place to be a college student, because of the resources of libraries, music, parks, theatres, and social life.
The Charles River is the border between Boston and Cambridge, but from a satellite photo it looks like one city. Harvard and MIT are in Cambridge, and Boston University and Northeastern are in Boston, but they are a 10-minute bus ride away from each other.
If you visit Boston, it is easy to see all these schools.
Do You Want To Improve Your English?
If you want to speak better English, so that Americans can understand you, and to be able to understand what Americans are saying to you, the most important thing is to practice speaking with a native speaker of English. Unfortunately, when you speak English with people from your own country, or even sometimes when you have an English teacher who is not a native speaker, you can learn bad pronunciation. Some mistakes are so common for people from a certain country, that they actually don't know it is wrong. And continuing to practice it in the wrong way makes it harder for you to change your bad habit!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
New York City
Have you ever visited New York City? It is a great place for museums, theatre, sight-seeing, and shopping. It is just 4 hours by car from Boston, so I recommend that everybody try to go to New York at least once while they are living in Boston.
New York City has 8 million people, and it is the biggest city in the U.S. Most people think of Manhattan as New York City, but actually it has five areas called boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
As in most American cities, there are certain areas where a particular immigrant population is concentrated, for example Chinatown, Little Italy, Koreatown, etcetera.
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