Monday, March 31, 2014

[EEnglist] Beforehand - Afterwards


1. Afterwards
/ˈɑːftəwədz/
At a later or future time: 

Eg: the offender was arrested shortly afterwards  

Tips: I might use afterwards where I could also use after that or then.
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1528220

Tương tự với beforehand và before:

2. Beforehand

/bɪˈfɔːhand/
Before an action or event; in advance:
Eg: 
- rooms must be booked beforehand
- If you’re using SQLite, you don’t need to create anything beforehand - the database file will be created automatically when it is needed.

Sunday, March 9, 2014

[EEnglish] Failure

failure /ˈfeɪljə/ 

(đọc là "phây-li-ờ")

Bài nghe BBC "The value of Failure"


series 5 X 15 minutes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xl7ff/episodes/guide 

Bài phát biểu của JK Rowling tại lễ trao bằng (http://tratu.soha.vn/dict/en_vn/Commencement)  @ Harvard

Bấm luôn vào đây nghe JK Rowling phát âm (tại 3phút 15s) :D

http://youtu.be/qmyKidgR--8?t=3m15s