Oracle Tutoring: Fall 2021
Considering fall tutoring? The tutor mentions some details…. Fall 2021, Oracle Tutoring will continue with the online format. Price: $50/hr, one-on-one Subjects: math, sciences, English Students of all ages welcome.
Business: world’s top exporters
Self-tutoring about the world’s top exporters: the tutor mentions the top three. The world’s top exporters seem to be China, then the US, then Germany. More or less, the US exports around 80% as much as China does, then Germany …
Retrospect: young guts
Self-tutoring about ways of the past: the tutor mentions a reminder. When I was a kid, I would often run across four lanes of traffic (when no cars were coming) in order to take a shortcut rather than walking to …
Economics, lifestyle: gas prices
Self-tutoring about the price of gas: the tutor mentions some thoughts. I filled up my wife’s car this morning. I think I recall seeing a price something like 214.9: I was surprised, even having heard it was rising. Whatever it …
French: -re verb derivatives: -nd to -nte
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of détente. I heard about “détente” when I was a kid: it was an easing of relations between the US and the Soviets, and extended to 1979. Its main players were Nixon …
French: masc and fem: personne, part1
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the noun personne. In an earlier post I mention how personne, in French, can be used to say “nobody” or “not anybody.” That’s not its only use. Personne also means person in English. “Je …
Vocabulary: exoteric
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions exoteric. Exoteric (adj) describes information that’s meant for public consumption. What an organization tells the rest of the world about itself is exoteric. Source: dictionary.cambridge.org
Vocabulary: esoteric
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions esoteric. Esoteric (adj) means not meant for public consumption, and refers to knowledge. Usually something esoteric is secret because even if untrained people do encounter it, they can’t understand it. However, …
French: an isolated pitfall?
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the French word isolation. In French, isolation means, in English, insulation. The French word for the English isolation is isolement. Source: collinsdictionary.com
Nature: thatch ants and woodpeckers
Self-tutoring about nature observations: the tutor mentions a connection. There’s a thatch (or thatching) ant hill in the backyard. It developed back in the summer of 2017, a complete surprise. Just plain lawn had been there, then I was gone …
French: a possible deception
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a possible confusion with déception. Often, the English word is very similar to the French one. The words emotion (English) and émotion (French) are examples of this; there are many others. Yet, in some …