What Are You Doing Right Now? (168 Viewers)

[X Æ A-12]

So I don't know why LinkedIn is now recommending a lot of Chinese women as connections. And by the looks of some of them, I half wonder if someone must have grabbed my phone and sent invites to Chinese hookers. I mean, look at some of this:

Eileen Fu
Bangai adult products co. LTD - Sales manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-fu-426a05185/

Talk about plastic surgery...

Or...

张雪
总经理
https://www.linkedin.com/in/雪-张-043474137/

What kind of Mongolian General Manager takes business profile photos of herself wearing a bra?

Lin Lina (nana)
Florist-boss
https://www.linkedin.com/in/丽娜-林-975707178/

As if Lin Lana Nana is her real name. "Florist-boss"? Oh, that's what they call it over there.

And this one just gets extra credit for her mis-Anglicized job title:

zhou Olivia
Head haunter
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhou-olivia-02898139/

I frequently meet with a group of reps from a Chinese vendor. Its two guys and two very good looking young ladies.

The two guys wear cheap proletariat looking clothes and don't even comb their hair. They do all the talking.

The two women are very well dressed (business but sexy) made up, hair done. They never speak, just greet us then sit there and smile.

 

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[Martin]

Sup to everyone I haven't greeted in 2020

 

[Hust]

@Post Ironic - greenhouse is done finally.

 

[Dostoevsky]

@Post Ironic - greenhouse is done finally.

Pics or it didnt happen.

 

[Hust]

 

[Dostoevsky]

Banworthy. I said pics, not a pic!

 

[Hust]

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Banworthy. I said pics, not a pic!

lol working on it

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the night pic had a smaller table in it, but now it has a 6 person dinner table in it with the little waterfall

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[Dostoevsky]

Looks great. What are you future plans for it?

 

[Hust]

Looks great. What are you future plans for it?

Place to have dinner when its cool enough and grow my vegetables and some citrus plants as well. Going to try to grow in Winter, I have power outlets in there so I will try to install a small space heater to keep the temp cool at night.

 

[swag]

I frequently meet with a group of reps from a Chinese vendor. Its two guys and two very good looking young ladies.

The two guys wear cheap proletariat looking clothes and don't even comb their hair. They do all the talking.

The two women are very well dressed (business but sexy) made up, hair done. They never speak, just greet us then sit there and smile.

They probably wear matching lipstick and synchronize their demure giggles at all of those slobs' jokes too.

Awww, you've made your own migrant detention camp. So cool.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Place to have dinner when its cool enough and grow my vegetables and some citrus plants as well. Going to try to grow in Winter, I have power outlets in there so I will try to install a small space heater to keep the temp cool at night.

Yeah "plants", early retirement for the hust.

 

[DAiDEViL]

That tablecloth though.

Just received a call from heaven, my granny would like to have it back.

 

[Hust]

That tablecloth though.

Just received a call from heaven, my granny would like to have it back.

Be nice my kids picked it out

 

[swag]

As long as it has a hole in the middle to poke your head through....

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Fucking JavaScript, man.

 

[lgorTudor]

@DAiDEViL

All tickets in the Hautnahbereich of the City Biathlon Wiesbaden are sold out since the numbers on sale have been significantly reduced
https://www.city-biathlon.com/tickets

Also there will be no seated tickets due to COVID

Welp, thanks to Chinese I won't be contributing to photography bread on the 28.9

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

At what point do you consider yourself able to say that you know a language? When you could have a casual conversation on the street? After a certain word count?

 

[Wings]

At what point do you consider yourself able to say that you know a language? When you could have a casual conversation on the street? After a certain word count?

If you can read and understand an article in the newspaper, understand the news on TV, get through a doctor's visit, do some shopping at the supermarket and can chat up a girl then you are good to go.

 

[Gep]

Just ordered this bad boy

 

[JuveJay]

At what point do you consider yourself able to say that you know a language? When you could have a casual conversation on the street? After a certain word count?

There are framework proficiency levels across different organisations. I always find the CEFR markers as fairly decent.

The Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of References (CEFR) for Languages groups language learners into concrete proficiency levels, where fluency and accuracy are just two of many examined criteria. The CEFR – available in 40 languages – divides proficiency into six “can do” levels – A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2. A corresponds to “Basic” levels, B to “Independent”, and C to “Proficient.” Observable skills include:

A1: Capabilities range include basic introductions and answering questions about personal details provided the listener speaks slowly and is willing to cooperate.

A2: Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her past, environment and matters related to his/her immediate needs and perform routine tasks requiring basic exchanges of information.

B1: Can deal with most daily life situations in the country where the language is spoken. Can describe experiences, dreams and ambitions and give brief reasons for opinions and goals.

B2: Can understand the themes of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics and will have achieved a degree of fluency and spontaneity, which makes interaction with native speakers possible without significant strain for either party.

C1: Can understand a wide range of longer texts and recognise subtleties and implicit meaning; producing clear, well-structured and detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

C2: Can understand virtually everything heard or read, expressing themselves spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, while differentiating finer shades of meaning even in highly complex situations.

In my opinion I would class B2 as being fluent enough to claim that you can speak a language "fluently". That is an accurate claim. C2 is essentially language mastery, native speaker level but perhaps with a discernible accent. The only language I definitely speak at that level is my native English.