An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left. Of course , when that happened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles.
‘My money has finished and my friends have gone,’ said the young man. ‘What will happen to me now?’
‘Don’t worry, young man,‘ answered Nasreddin. ’Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier.‘
The young man was very glad. ’Am I going to get rich again then?‘ he asked Nasreddin.
’No, I didn‘t mean that,’ said the old man. ‘I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and to having no friends.’
Tue, 24/06/2008 - 6:37pm — balaclavakid
Thanks for joining in the forum, visitor from China. I am an English teacher and would be glad to help you if I can. Your comment is clear and easy to understand, but I suggest you could improve by using capital letters (big letters like ABCDE . . .).
In English writing we always use capital letters at the start of every new sentence and paragraph; for names and titles (Mr Jones; Confucius; Thursday; Buckingham Palace) and whenever we use the pronoun I (I've got to go or I will be late).
Good fortune with your learning of English !
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Fri, 13/06/2008 - 6:50pm — English Online Visitor
quiet a meaningful story !if we depend us too much on our parents ,not willing to get our own forturn and do not know how to make living without the parents ,we one day will be poor like the man mentioned in this article.
i am a chinese student ,hoping to get some suggestion about the comment if istakes were made ,thank you .
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Fri, 13/06/2008 - 5:04pm — wnicole
getting used to being rich is much easier than to being poor
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Wed, 11/06/2008 - 4:06pm — bobyang
Tom, can you tell me how to revise my profile? I plan to upload a picture as my profile,but try several times, all failed. Please tell me how to revise my profile, send email to bob.yang@games-workshop.com.cn or MSN bobyang2008@hotmail.com. Thanks!
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Sat, 07/06/2008 - 4:41pm — cx1027
haha.get used to being poor......
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