Cul-de-sac (source: http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/)

Happy new year, my friends! It is 2011. A new decade is ahead of us. I have a feeling that this year will be amazing for you and me. 2010 was also awesome for me. There were so many great things happened to me. One of them is of course this blog. In 2010, I started to write this blog in March and had written 172 posts. Thank you for your help and support, my friends and readers! Please feel free to write any comment, ask and answer questions! I am looking forward to continuously learning and hearing from you in 2011.

Hey, what are your new year’s resolutions? I am sure that one of them is Learning English or getting better in English if you are not non-native English speakers. Am I right? That is also one of mine. If not, you better rethink yours again to have a plan to be better in English. Without specific goals, you cannot achieve a single thing in the world. How about read my blog and add comment every time there is a new post? 🙂 I am sure it will help you. Don’t be shy! You can do it!

This year is the 10th year of my marriage. To celebrate, I have decided to buy a house. For the last 2 weeks, I have been searching for houses on the Internet and hired my real estate agent to see a few houses. Oh, here is one thing I learned related with buying a house in the U.S. To be able to see houses that are in the market, you need a real estate agent. Without them, you cannot see houses. Also, you need to be pre-approved by a mortgage-broker. Well, it is kind of complicated and I am still learning those things. But, I will get back to you about buying a house once I finalized buying one.

Looking for houses on the Internet, I found a new expression, Cul-De-Sac. A few houses put this word in descriptions.

It is located on convenient location and quiet Cul-De-Sac.

Cul-De-Sac literally means “bottom of bag” in French. Now, if you think the shape of a bag and imagine that is a road. What can you imagine? Yes, there is no through road at the end of the road. Instead, there is a round shape of dead end and there are a few houses around the round shape area. As you may imagine, it is good because there are no cars passing by and thus it is very quiet.

You would definitely want to have those kinds of houses or anything not located close to any major roads. Do you know why? I would say it is because of ambulances. They make really really loud sounds as they pass by. You would have hard time sleeping. 🙂

Now, can you pronounce Cul-De-Sac properly? Here is today’s task for you! Why don’t you find out how to pronounce this correctly by searching or asking your friends? I would recommend to ask your friends. Good luck!

Once again, happy new year!

PS: I don’t know why. But I have a bad feeling that cul-de-sac could mean something else, something bad. Am I right, my friends? Hope not!