介系詞是英文裡最奧妙的一環，像是配件一樣能完全改變句子的樣貌。 Think something through 表示去徹底考慮、想透、想清楚。有時有悔意、怪罪的語氣。 🗣️ 例如 I didn't think it through when I bought the EV. （我買電動車時沒有想清楚。） Didn't you think it through before moving to the suburbs? （你搬家到郊區之前沒有想透徹嗎？） ✏️造句練習：用 think something through 造句，並且嘗試加入以下單字，選一即可。注意，造句時請注意詞性（動詞、名詞等）。 -completely -purchase -hold -ground 加油！ ⬇️

事實是這樣的，你知道的事情，別人可能不知道，沒有人「應該」知道任何事。你可能想：「也太麻煩😣」沒錯，這確實很令人沮喪，我特別理解這一點因為我嫁給一位「外國人」，很多價值觀我花了好多年自我釐清、探索後，才能夠解釋給他聽。現在的我們，不吵架，只會爭論 😉 We don’t fight. We argue. - 認識「高情境＆低情境文化」（High & low context culture） 這是美國人類學家 Edward T. Hall 提出的理論，意在解釋不同文化對於情境比重（context）的偏好，以其其偏好如何影響溝通模式。 高情境文化（high context）的人，通常有相似的喜好、經驗和期待，對事情的推論有一定的期望。在這模式之下溝通的人，常有弦外之音，不直接說明白，甚至細微的肢體語言就有重大的意義，簡單幾個字通常就能夠有效地跟圈內人溝通，因為大家的假設（assumption）都類似。 高情境社會有中國、日本、南韓等，以及美國原住民族群。 相對而言，低情境文化（low context）內的人，因為喜好、經驗大不同，對事情的期望和推論也不同，所以溝通之下，習慣事先說清楚講明白，規則常以白紙黑字作參考，文字的準卻度相當重要。 低情境社會有美國、德國、挪威等。 這個理論常被應用於商業的跨文化溝通（cross-cultural communication）。 - 讀到這裡，看得出來台灣偏向哪者嗎？這是為何我常說沒有人應該要知道任何一件事，尤其在多元文化的環境裡。別誤會我囉，我不宣傳 low context 文化的模式比較好，但為了要溝通，必須知己知彼，因為你的留白可能是對方的困惑，反之亦然。 - 話說回來，我希望以後做一系列課程是跨文化婚姻／感情溝通，名字和內容含沒敲定，大家有興趣嗎？

Congrats, Tiffany, Jane, Ruby and Jess on finishing our group class! In 80 minutes, we learned about - - reporting verbs and how to use them - watched a video and reported it to class - read news and did independent research We also played a game called Scattergories! 筆記供參考 - 下週團班 ⬇️ - 3/19 21:00-22:20 TW - 報名連結

Are you in your very Chinese time of your life? I'm going to share the news "Everyone is turning "Chinese" social media trend". My initial thought about this was the"ven" thing, which went viral couple months ago. But after watching the shorts, it's about teaching others how to be Chinese by adapting some habits of Asian people, such as drinking warm water and having congee in the morning, wearing slippers at home, and cooking boiled apple(?) and ginger(?) by themselves. I think this trend is interesting but also oversimplified and it could go wrong easily. For me, it's not 'classic Chinese/Asian' enough, because I think most people don't care about hot water until they get older, and I never heard anyone boiling apple & ginger to drink (I personally love brown sugar+ginger). At the same time I was surprised that they try to embrace some cultures of Chinese, because back in pandemic time, they were very harsh on Asian people. I think if they want to be a Chinese, they can watch "fresh off the boat" as a reference and have a second thought. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q2h87OLpJ90 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZLpvBasNc2E

「好奇心是愛的語言」...嗎？ 這篇文章呼應的我們三月的主題「想像力」，在人跟人之間的互動，想像力會被認為是「關心、在意」. Personally, I couldn't agree more. 程度中高級 ★★★☆☆ 部分精選單字看文末解釋 語氣自然不做作（雖然用了太多的『because』），相當適合開口朗讀！這個禮拜還沒開口說英文的你，跟我一起唸唸看吧！ 全篇文章 ⬇️ I was in a relationship for 6 years and he loved me in all the ways you could see. We went on dates, we bought each other gifts, we talked every single day. For a long time, I thought that was all you needed, but what was missing was the depth. He just wasn’t really curious about me. And it sounds silly but he as really into planes so I’d always ask him about them. Every time he picked up a new hobby, I’d ask him what drew him to it but I didn’t realize how much I needed that back until I made a bid for connection. A while ago, my dad and I went to Boston to see this artist I admire. When I came back, I was excited to tell mu boyfriend about it and he said, “oh cool, when you gonna be back?” That was it. It was always like that and I remember thinking “maybe this is something we can work on”. So I’d make more bids for connection, but he never changed. Then one day, around 6 months after we broke up, and I became friends with this girl and one day we were just hanging out. I casually mentioned that I liked this artist, and then she caught me off guard with “what is that you actually like about these paintings?” And I was surprised and said “Oh well it’s the strategy. Impressionism is harder than realism because realism is just copying.” She thought for a second and then she just said, “why do you think that?” And I just froze. It was such a simple question and we barely knew each other then. But I felt oddly seen and heard in that moment because it wasn’t just “oh she wanted to know more about art”. It was that this girl I barely knew was still curious to know more about who I really was and in that moment, I felt more sense than I felt in my past 6 years of relationship I was in. Because talking, dates, and gifts are all rituals of love but being curious was the actual intimacy and making someone feel seen requires a level of genuine interest in who they are. Because love is more than just rituals. It’s remembering that the person in front of you is deeper than the version you already know. And being curious enough to keep discovering because if I love you, I just want to know who you are.