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The pros of the method: 1.You study language naturally. 2.You don't need a teacher. 3.You can do it anywhere. The cons of the method: 1.You have to listen to the same dialog during 3 hours at least 7 days. 2.Matrix method is only for the initial stage of learning English. After the initial stage you...

Here are the main ideas of the method. At the beginning of the training you create a matrix of 9 dialogues, lasting 1–1.5 minutes. Dialogues are "live", taken from everyday speech. It's a "grid" of dialogs with dimension 3x3. A student has to listen to a dialogue, then declaim it...

"why you cannot be taught a foreign language?"
This is the name of the book of Nikolay Zamyatkin.
Why you cannot be taught a foreign language

I have no money left.

a wolf in sheep's clothing
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A wolf in sheep's clothing means someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.

cash cow
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Cash cow, in business jargon, is a venture that generates a steady return of profits that far exceed the outlay of cash required to acquire or start it.

where the rubber meets road
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Where the important facts or realities lie;
Where theory is put into practice.

two sides of the same coin
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Every coin has two sides–heads and tails. “Two sides of the same coin” means to see two people or things with opposing views. While they are closely related, they still seem very different.

hand over heart
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A sign of respect.

put in my two cents
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A phrase used to preface an opinion on an issue. The longer phrase “put my 2 cents in” is taken from the English idiom “to put in my two-penny worth.”

too many cooks spoil the broth
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If too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well.

all roads lead to Rome
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All paths or activities lead to the center of things.

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We look like a lot of colored persons.

We have not received any soap since we came here.

we have to wait our turn for the axe, there being only three on the Island.

I forgot to mention that we are divided into squads of twenty, and one man goes outside prison lines with the guard and brings in three sticks cord wood for the twenty men, and after that is divided up,

Some of the new prisoners have plenty of money and keep up a general trading with the guards, buying butter, eggs and wheat bread.

I must keep the tea and coffee for ourselves in case of sickness.

Walter Webb, my comrade, was very sick this morning; made him a little tea.

There were about four hundred letters for the boys.

It was dated Bristol, Nov. 15111, 1863.

3d. Received a Ietter from my mother this morning.

Lucky fellows! as they will have to sleep in the open air and on frosty ground.

They have their overcoats and blankets.

They were captured at the Rapidan.

Two hundred more prisoners came in here this morning.

Hardly any of the prisoners have anything to get their soup in, and it would make your heart bleed to see how poor fellows trying to get their soup in their caps and anything that will hold it.

2d. Rations three-fourths of a pound of corn dodger and a pint of bean soup for the next twenty-four hours.

Rations very small and the good things that I got from home are almost gone.

About one-half of the prisoners that were captured at the time I was, are sick.

Day 32 January 1, 1864. Ten or twelve died last night, one out of my regiment.

January 1, 1864. Ten or twelve died last night, one out of my regiment.

Later in the history of this war, the people will become acquainted with the treatment of Union soldiers in the various Southern prisons.

They bear their misfortunes bravely and patriotically, blaming only the conduct of our merciless enemies.

it is the inhuman and inexcusable treatment they receive as prisoners.

We know that the misfortunes and chances of war are privations, exposures and suffering, which is the inevitable lot of those who engage in the service, but we seldom hear our willing soldiers complain of these;

There are some of these things which have to be taken as the natural consequences of war, but some of them are not.

but who will say they are more dreadful than the slow burnings which eat out the vitals, leaving the tenement of clay a mere wreck before the spirit quits its frail abode, more to be feared than the lightening which prevents the play of life, more sure than the anaconda's grasp or the tiger's embrace.

Those terrible pages telling us how the flames rose from a bundle of sticks, and curled above the martyrs as they were tied to the stake, have a power to stir our souls within us to their utmost depth,

The tortures of the inquisition were horrible and we shrink with horror as we peruse the history of that period.

It were scarcely possible to conceive of more persistent wholesale misery, deliberately heaped upon men, than agents of Southern malice have poured upon their Northern kindred.

but also deprived of every personal comfort and convenience and compelled to lie down exposed to the frowning elements of nature, and the still more pitiless abuse of mankind.

These poor defenseless soldiers not only to be deprived of their arms which were so much their pride to bear and their glory to wield,

It is a sad thing to have established on the pages of history.

It is not strange that life under these circumstances should become weary.

It is dreadfully cold on the Island this morning,

31st. Four hundred more crossed from Barrett's prison for here this morning.

Resorted to box and got a cup of tea, some cake and ham.

They say Uncle Sam's rations are all gone.

A number of Pemberton men died last night.

Prisoners dying very fast here.

30th. Rations for the next twenty four hours about three fourths pound of corn dodger and two spoonfuls of molasses to each man.

Very cold last night.

Pemberton we thought was bad, but nothing compared to Bell Isle.

This is a horrible place.

Those poor fellows, how they enjoyed it.

Webb and I went to work and made a large can of coffee for all hands.

There are ten of us in this tent, if I may call it that, and I promised to pony up with them.

The reason we got in this tent was on account of what we had in our haversack out of the boxes.

29th. I was lucky in getting into one of the tents, so did Webb and Culberson.

and the other half are lying on the ground between the tents to keep the cold wind from them as much as possible.

The part occupied by us is a low, sandy, barren waste, without the shadow of a single tree, and exposed to the chilly damp winds, with only a few tents with which about half of our number are protected from the severe cold

There are about five thousand prisoners here.

The space to be occupied by the prisoners is about six acres, enclosed by an earthwork three or four feet high, and with a ditch about five feet deep and six wide, to prevent any of the prisoners coming near to the grounds.

28th. About five hundred of us marched from Pemberton prison across the bridge to the other side of the James river, opposite Richmond, and then crossed a small bridge which brought us to Bell Isle.

Some of the boys did shed tears notwithstanding their hardened hearts.

This is part of the horrors of war.

They tried hard not to be parted, but they were not allowed to stay together.

Two brothers from a New York regiment, one of them almost dead and the other was taking care of him and now they must part.

What agony when comrades must part in this way, knowing full well that we will never see each other again.

I really believe that one half of them cannot get up.

I did not think so many of our number were disabled.

One of the boys spoke up and said we would leave them with him for a New Year's present.

All hands move as soon as they get their rations, so the quartermaster said, "and get over to Bell Isle; Tote all your dirty rags with you, as we won't have them here."

There are a great many of the prisoners here who cannot walk, and of course must be left behind.

27th. Orders given for us to be ready to go to Bell Isle at two o'clock this afternoon, and pass the balance of the winter there.

To take us out of this building and put us on Bell Island would wind up our career, as two-thirds of us have barely enough clothing to cover our nakedness, not speaking of keeping us from freezing.

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