Language Imitation

1- He was a typical of Texan people,tall and wearing cowboy hat from cow town(Fort worth). he was talking too quickly such that my translator compiler could not catch him and I was usually behind him some sentences.sometimes he said something and laughed and I started laughing with him pretending I underestand him.He looked 45 years old,I asked him"how old are you?"
"55"
"You look younger than your age!"
"My dad is 85 years old and he wanna start working. "
"Are you married?"
"No,I am single but I tried 3 times but it was not successful."
In my veiw most of people are younger than their ages and look happy,althogh the divorce rate is high and if you ask 2 people one of them would say I got divorced,bu still they are happier than people in my hometown country.sometimes when I am thinking about this fact it bothers me deeply.

2- A 10-12 years old Mexican guy came and told me"if you need any help my dad would help you.""No,thank you"I told.I started talking to his dad and he was a translotor.It was interesting that dad could not speak English but son could.

"How long have you been here."I told to dad

"3 years"

"what do you do?"

"I work on roof construction."

"which grade are you?"I told to his son.

"third"

"Was it hard to learn English?"

"No,after six months I learned."

This is true that learning any language is inveresly proportinal to age,in other word if we get older learning a foreign language becomes harder like this case for Mexican dad, and it is easy for son because he is much younger.In our age even if we learn English completely we still have an accent,but one of ways for eliminating accent is imitating native people,and everybody who is better in imitation he is more successful in this amtter.

City of God

1-I saw my Rumanian friend who was very desperate on Friday evening,I asked him what is going on?

"I was waiting for a Laser equipment for One year,now it has come but the camera does not work,during this time I could not do so much and I can tell I wasted my time,I wanna graduate as soon as possible but I cannot,all my friends graduated except me,when I came here there was nothing here and I construct my lab step by step I came here I just thought this is America and I did not think about my research area,and now I am screwed up."

He advised me to tell anyone who is willing for graduate studies to pay attention to research area as well as research team.

2-I saw the Brazilian movie"city of God" some times ago,there is an area called "city of God" in Brazil capital which is famous for poverty and crime,this movie is a story of a gang leader who started murdering when he was 10_12 years old which was unbelievable to me,finally after a long fighting with other gangs he killed in his 20's.I thought this a fake movie and can not be true but it was made according a true story in Brazil have some area in Iran similar to some areas in movie but it is not comparable.

I saw my Brazilian college some days after watching movie and we talked about it.

"It is true,they are still exist and are very powerful and some times police cooperating with these gangs",Christian said.

"Brazil and United states founded nearly at the same time,what happened to you guys ,why here became America but you have a lot of problems?" I asked him.

"First Portuguese discovered Brazil and they usually exiled criminal people and uneducated people to Brazil which it is not the case for US,most people who immigrated to US were educated and you can see the difference."