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Walking around

After Google (31%) and Facebook (6%), the top spot in the ranking of sites I visit every day goes to the translator context.reverso.net (5.5%).

This is the most useful tool I’ve seen for written communication in English. A contextual translator is not merely a dictionary, but a database of bilingual texts with a search function. When you need to say something in English, you search for a fragment, find a host of examples, choose the one that fits the context, and borrow words/phrases. Usually, this is followed by using Google to double-check the assumptions.

I also rarely use multitran, but generally, it is almost unnecessary when reverso is available. I have not seen other good contextual translators (there is Abbyy, but it has a smaller database).

http://context.reverso.net/перевод/

At the office.

Not far from the house, workers quickly assembled and raised a crane. In the photo – the assembly process, the last photo shows 1/4 of its height, as it is currently waiting for work and the telescopic part is not extended. In the coming days, I can throw the full size into the comments when I see it in operation

Very soon, an interesting view of the sunbathers will open up from the small balcony. I wonder, are there any outlets for a laptop there?

Liza’s school canceled the 3 km intramural run with the main prize being a Mini iPad and a $75 gift card, due to a lack of participants.

Ambushed. The daily, hours-long call with the client looks like this.

These are our ways

At Liza’s school, they organized an event called Heritage Night. They even made a website for the occasion. Since half of the people are from various countries, some families organized thematic booths – each about their own country. There were no booths for Russia or Ukraine because there are very few Russian speakers at the school. Most of the foreigners were Asians (Koreans and Chinese).

You could represent your country in four ways:

– participate in a fashion show,

– bring a dish of national cuisine,

– perform national dances

– set up a booth for your country and organize workshops (origami, henna tattoos, patchwork, etc.).

Masha represented Russia in the dance category, and photos from the school exhibition in the hall can be found via the link on my blog.

https://beinginamerica.com/2016/04/14/heritagenight/.

https://beinginamerica.com/2016/04/14/heritagenight/