Language notes (W1)

<Learning Partner From China>

(1)
學伴：buddy 
I joined the buddy program in our school and met lots of new friends from abroad.

(2)
Someone told me that there was a survey which showed the majority of Chinese exchange student are not recommended their friends or family to study in Taiwan, because they feel Taiwanese students are not competitive. 
-> Someone told me that there was a survey which showed that most Chinese exchange students were not recommending their friends or family members to study in Taiwan. The reason was that they felt Taiwanese students were not competitive.
a. the majority of students are : 代表一群學生中的多數，故為複數後接are；若為the majority party雖然概念上是由多個人組成，但其實是一個整體，故為單數後接is。
b. 推薦別人，故用Ving接在be-verb後。
c. 原句because是指"Someone told me that there was a survey"(因為which後面是指survey的內容)？似乎不是，故可修訂為上述。

(3)
In the future, we all need to compare with teenagers not only in our country but also China even the whole world.
-> In the future, we all need to face the challenge from others. 
a. 和同儕比較，同儕和你一樣會長大！所以不一定限於teenagers。
b. 可考慮修正為上述，更為精簡。當然，若要強調來自特定地方的挑戰，也可再敘明。

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<New restaurants>

(1)
Though almost everybody says that NCCU is a good food desert; however, I think there are still some nice and not-very-expensive places to eat at here.
-> Although nearly everyone says that there's no great food around NCCU, there are some nice and not-very-expensive places to eat here.
a. 「雖然...但是」的用法，英文不同於中文，通常僅用一邊。
b. food desert很貼切，若要說政大附近是food desert，可說...it is a food desert here in NCCU, ...

(2)
滇味廚房, where I first went to last Wednesday surprises me very much. 滇味廚房 is a Yunnan-style restaurant which mainly provides rice-made noodle: 米線 and 粑吧絲 in different flavor. I enjoyed their pork 粑粑絲 (NT 65) a lot. Instead of being as soft as rice, 粑粑絲 has a springy texture. The soup is also special. The red appearance makes it seems to be spicy, but actually it is made with tomatoes, so it sours in a perfect way and has nothing to do with spicy.
a. springy texture 用的很好。
b. 動詞要不要加s，還是是要用過去式，寫作上還是要注意一下。例如
c. 用番茄做的，it is made from tomatoes.