China Jon's Syncretic Journal

Do you want to read words online with definitions that help you build your English vocabulary?

Here are two sites. I hope this is a help to you!
http://www.soundkeepers.com/SAT/
http://www.freevocabulary.com/

If you want to guess the missing words in a song, try this:
http://www.4english.cn/learningandfun/music/songs/songs/88.html

Do you like to study English?

ESL Links

Good luck!



This page has me reading an article about 'Good Health.'
The sound file is 1.4 megs. Enjoy!

This is a lesson about failure.


Is failure a bad thing? Failure often happens. It is everywhere in our life.
Students may fail their exams, scientists may fail in their experiments, and athletes may fail in competitions.

Although failure happens to everyone, attitudes towards failure vary.

Some people don’t think of their failures as very important at all.
They pay no attention to them. As a result, they will have the same failure again.

Some people think of themselves as fools and lose heart in everything after they meet failure.
Consequently, they spend their time and energy on useless things and they may be the fools that they thought themselves to be.

Other people are quite different from the two kinds of people mentioned earlier.
Instead of being distressed and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.
After hard work, they will be successful in the end.

It is said that failure is the mother of success.
Success will be gained after times of failure so long as we are good at drawing lessons from our failures.

In my opinion, failure is not a bad thing.
The really bad thing is taking failure as nothing but a failure or even to lose heart after failure.



What do you think? If you want to listen to my recording of this essay, click the Title:

Is Failure Bad?