Week 7_Tongue Twister

A tongue twister is a difficult phrase, sentence or rhyme to speak and have similar sounds. You have to repeat it several times to get a nippy tongue. ‘Practice makes you perfect’.

Tongue twister helps us to avoid mispronouncing when you speak something, especially when you speak in front of a lot of people. For examples, when you present something, give a speech, broadcasting something in radio or in television.

I have some tongue twister’s examples:

A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad But a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win The three-toed she-toad's heart, For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground That the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower With her three-toed power The she-toad vetoed him.

http://www.twisterking.com/a.php

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/funny_tongue_twisters.html

Other sources: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm

http://thinks.com/words/tonguetwisters.htm

Week 6_Social Grace

Social Grace is a skill which we needed to interact in social life. It includes manner, attitude, etiquette and ethics. Etiquette is referred from French; “Etiquette” means attitude guidelines.  It was known since King Louise XVI era. He and his wife, Marie Antoinette liked make parties. Therefore, to make the parties work smoothly, they needed rules which now we know as Etiquette. Ethic is referred from Latin, “Ectica” means moral philosophy that also include culture and religion. You have to always try to please somebody. Why do we need to please somebody? It’s because, we need good reactions from people who make contact with us which called, action reaction. How can we get that habit? You can get it from reading books, experiences, ask the expert or somebody that more competent in that problem than you. Over more, it can be better if you can practice it in your life. Try from the simplest thing such as, try to be friendly, say thank you when somebody helped you, say sorry when you hurt somebody, help others who need help.

If you can do that, you’ll be a great person and everybody will respect you. 

Week 5_Corruption

I think corruption is quite common nowadays, but do you understand what corruption is. Generally, people think that corruption is taking others money for individual pleasure, while the real meaning is taking anything illegally for individual pleasure; so it can be anything such time corruption.  

Money corruptions, I believe that every country has percentages of corruptions. Moreover, now the economy is harder and harder than before. There are many factors that can support people to do money corruptions from inside and outside; for inside there is the moral and for outside: numbers of family responsibilities, the effect from family, friends or environment, insistency, etc.   

Unconsciously, we often do time corruption which known as “ngaret” in Indonesia. It usually happens in Multi-active culture countries such as Indonesian. For example, a meeting start at 07.00 but on the expected time, there is only a few people who came on time while the others still on their own business; so the meeting can be delay until 08.00 or maybe 08.30. Look, how pity it is! Time was spent useless. “Time is Money”.

We as young generations has always to try not to do corruption even a little because when we do a little corruption and we ignore it, it can inveterate and grow become one of our habit or in big scale, our culture. If that habit has already become one of our cultures, it is hard to correct.