Cul De Sac
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!
Happy new year, honey. I’m so proud of you doing this blog continuously with the same passion when you had for the first time. I did learn a lot from here. Thanks.
Happy New Year, Terry!
Btw. “cul de sac” is also Catalan and it means exactly the same as in French (which makes me think maybe the French copied it from us, lol). I was so surprised to see a Catalan expression be used in English when I first read it many, many years ago!
* ‘cul’ literally means butt (rear end), and
* ‘sac’ is sack in English (a large bag of strong coarse material for holding objects in bulk).
Keep up the good work!
And congratulations to you and Jessica on the 10th anniversary!!! Wow, not a bad anniversary gift!
Interesting thing to know. How about pronunciation? Are they same too?
Cannot believe it is already 10th. Hope Jessy does not forget it this time! 🙂
Happy New year Terry and congrats on your 10th anniversary.
Keep going with the blog and good luck with house hunting!
Hey Laxmi,
How are you? Happy new year! Thanks! House hunting is kind of tiring but hope we can find a good one.
Hi Terry,
It’s time once again to ring in a new year. I wish you and your family a very happy new year.
To be honest, I didn’t make up any new resolutions in my mind for this year yet but you inspired me by giving a hint, ok I will be a regular reader of your blog and leave some comments that I feel and want to share.^^
I really envy you looking for a new house there, I can’t afford buy a house here due to a stunning high house price in this area.
I think you must be very excited about buying a house if it is the your first own house.
Do you know the web-site, http://www.zillow.com which is very helpful to the person who is seeking a house for buying or lent, please try it if you didn’t yet.
Also you have to consider a school district which is one of major factors deciding house price and popularity, at least here it is here in California.
Please don’t be rush in buying it, I was told that at least 6 month researching is required to buy a house. Good Luck.
Happy new year, Byung!
Glad to hear that you will visit the blog regularly. Looking forward to hearing from you often!
I know.. I heard that the price over there is ridiculously high. In Pittsburgh, it is not bad. I mean, there are houses way expensive here in PGH but those are out of my league.
I have been using Zillow for a month. It helped me a lot. Nice site! I would love to keep looking but also getting tired now. I might make a decision soon but not sure yet. Keep you updated!
Hi, Terry ! I live in Korea and just swing by your blog by accident.
I think I am so lucky cuz I could find your blog. ! 🙂
Everything you posted on this blog is very helpful. I could learn lots of useful expressions through your blog even though I have’nt been U.K. or the States. and I will keep going this through whole the year.! Thank you very much 🙂
Hope everything is going well with you and happy new year !
P.S even though my english is not really good, plz. understand 🙂
Hi Sumin,
I am so glad to meet you. Thank you so much! Your comment makes me work even harder to keep this blog updated as often as possible. I got totally motivated now.
Hey… don’t worry about your English. We all make mistakes and learning a new language is one of the hardest things in the world. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to hearing from you again!