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I moved from Toronto to Namyangju (Donong-dong) in September 2013 to teach English. I graduated from University of Toronto with a B.A. in Psycholinguistics and I'm interested in computer science, physics, and mathematics as well. I'm learning Korean because, after 6 months, I've noticed that my experience in Korea hasn't been very immersive. I've spent most of my time with other expats and want to branch out. I'd like to be able to talk to the owners of the restaurant that have cooked 2 meals for me every day. I'd like to find someone who'd like to have 5 minute to 2 hour chats on weekday mornings. (10am-12am, UTC+9) If you live in the eastern Seoul area, I'd love to meet you! Cheers! :D
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Jinhee
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Apr 10, 2014
Your are awesome student ^^ Great energy for learning..Great time to check my Korean level Ha Ha !! Have a great day ^^ 좋은 하루 보내세요 ^^
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    (0) A Note for Exercise #10 : One Year Anniversary

    One year has passed since I started using italki. I finally decided to use italki because of (1) its simplicity after trying several websites for language learning. There are many websites which are made elaborately, (2) but and most of all are after all quite complicated. The website italki has everything I need. I had been a little lazy until last autumn, but I made up my mind to write something here as often as possible so that I am going to get proud of (3) will become confident in expressing (4) myself in (5) a foreign language.

    Also, I can be inspired by other language learners here. I have been trying to keep my position on the ranking of notebook entry (6) notebook entry rankings. I have forced myself to be within top 10 among German language learners in terms of the number of entry (7) entries.

     

    0. In titles, capitalize every word except prepositions, articles 'a' and 'an', and conjunctions 'and', 'but', 'or'. (and capitalize the first word)

    1. The simplicity of what?

    2. Changed 'but' to 'and' because elaborate and complicated both seem like negative points to me.  Use of 'most of all' / 'after all' are a bit strange here, but I can't quite explain why. -__-

    3. Use 'I will' instead of 'I am going to' after 'so that'.  'Proud' tends to be used for being proud of <em>someone</em>, so I replaced it with 'confident'.

    4. I feel like 'expressing' is transitive, and needs an object.  i.e. 'Expressing my opinion', 'Expressing myself.'

    5. Remember articles. :P  a/the/some/many/-s/etc.

    6. Place 'ranking' at the end.  I feel that 'rankings' is better than 'ranking', but you could use either.

    7. Use plural form after 'number of'.


    Good luck on your studies, this looks very good!  I may have gone overboard, but I felt like giving feedback everywhere today.  You seem to be advanced enough a learner to want this feedback.  Feel free to ask questions if you'd like! :D

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    March 22, 2014
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    Illness

    Yesterday my daughter went to bed early. I did not pay attention to this. Today she did not study because there is an examination at our school and she could sleep as long as she wanted but she woke early. As a rule, my daughter is the best sleeper. I was surprised. When I saw her eyes, they were red; I guessed what happened: my girl felt ill. She had a high temperature. All the day she stayed in bed because of the weakness. I gave her some pills to fight the fever and fed her her favorite dishes. She drank much tea with lemon and honey. I hope she will be healthy soon.

     

    I hope your daughter gets well soon.  I'd consider connecting some of your short sentences with semi-colons (;) and commas (,) where possible. :D

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    March 21, 2014
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    TEACHING

    Teaching involves EVERYTHING! and It really does. It involves PASSION, PATIENCE, LOVE, CARE, CONCERN, UNDERSTANDING, FLEXIBILITY, ENDURANCE, CREATIVITY, STRATEGY... as in A LOT. 
    Each student requires a different set of strategies, different lessons to follow, different approaches to teaching, different attitudes to manifest, and the most important thing: a teacher MUST understands that each student is an INDIVIDUAL.  A good teacher won't desire the student to be stagnant nor relaxed, but will be somehow aware if she/he puts pressure on his/her student. 

    Strategy is important. Endurance is only one factor; keeping your class interesting will be easy if you keep yourself full of LOVE, CARE, PATIENCE and FLEXIBILITY.
    Creativity is followed by strategy. Concern and understanding should work together while passion will keep you growing.
    A passionate teacher always enjoys what she/he is doing. A broad-minded teacher always discovers new things to learn. An adventurous teacher sees each days as a valuable experience to treasure.

    Teaching is an OPPORTUNITY to shape each individual mind to UNDERSTAND the new world called "LEARNING." As a teacher guides a student in this world a teacher must be confident that their student will see it as an exciting world to discover. =)

     

    This was a nice read, thank you!  I'd consider not capitalizing important words; maybe use italics instead, or don't stress them at all.  I'm also not sure about the use of he/she and his/her, and prefer to use they/their/them, as I corrected in the last paragraph.  What I've highlighted in pink just sounds strange to me, but is grammatically correct.  :D  Ask questions if you'd like! :)

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    March 21, 2014
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    Mine are always connected to things I enjoyed during childhood.  Watching people win on a game show can almost make me cry out of shared happiness.

     

    (Open this topic in the discussion board, instead.  It'll probably get more responses.)

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    March 20, 2014
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    Perfect. :D

    There are no rules to poetry, but if there were you wouldn't be breaking any.

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    March 20, 2014
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    "a cubic puzzle of some kind" means "one kind of cubic puzzle out of many kinds" Everyone has tried to solve a cubic puzzle. + There are many kinds of cubic puzzles.
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    March 20, 2014
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    Today I have become aware of a summer scholarship. It is a three week scholarship for learning German. As a requirement I need to get an score of 2.5 out of 10 in a German language examen with questions from A1 to B1 level. Even though it is not much, it is going to be very difficult for me because I only studied German for a month in December 2013; that is why I still haven't made my decision.


    On one hand, I would like the opportunity to improve my language skills. In addition, it would be nice to travell to Germany because I have never been there. On the other hand, if I fail, I will have wasted valuable time when I should have been focused on my studies.

     

    Study hard for the German test, stick around on italki, and you won't fail. :D  Get travelling!

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    March 20, 2014
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    A job interview.

    I am a recent graduate so I have some interviews during this month. One of the hilarious questions that I came across and the answer that I gave them is this:
    Interviewer: Can you keep a secret?
    Me: Yes, I can.
    Interviewer: What secrets have you been keeping?
    Me: Sorry, I cannot tell you. It is a secret.

     

    I find that sentence odd.  I understand it completely, but I'm being picky.

    "[One of the hilarious questions that I came across and the answer that I gave them] is this:"

    The bracketed phrase is a conjunction of two singular nouns, but is then treated as a singular.  I'd try to avoid conjoining them and say something like this:

    "Here's one of the hilarious questions that I came across and the answer that I gave them:"

     

    Otherwise, perfect. :)  I disagree with the previous poster saying that "It is a secret" is an error.  By saying "It is a secret" you mean that you're keeping only one secret, so it's acceptable.

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    March 20, 2014
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