Boston

Is there anyone here who lives in Boston and who could tells me about the city?

I will go there in August to learn at a university. I am a little bit anxious about my first trip to America and my first life there.

Boston gets cold... but as long as you're active and get out more, there's many things to do. Sorry - I don't live in Boston. Haha. That's all I know about it.

上课Having class

College classes are quite different from high school,teacher won’t keep an eye on you,therefore, study largely based on self-consciousness.But i often can’t help playing my mobile phone in the class due to my bad self-control. Seats aren’t fixed neither,the front row position is usually occupied by others ahead of time,when i sit in the back row,the pressure to listen to lectures will reduce, It is a vicious cycle. I know i have to make some changes,so i decided to mark red on the day I failed to restraint myself and mark green on the day when I succeed.Hope there will be more and more green!
大学的课堂和高中很不一样，老师不会看（kān）着你，所以听课很大程度靠自觉。我的自制力很差，总是忍不住玩手机。座位也不固定，前排的位置通常会被别人提前占领，坐在后排时，由于远离老师，心理上的认真听课的压力又减小了，恶性循环。我知道必须有所改变，所以当我没能克制自己时就把当天的日历涂红，成功就涂绿色。希望绿色越来越多吧！

그리고 1번 6번이 헷갈리죠? 한국에 올 때 비행기에서 한국 영화를 봤어요. When I was coming to Korea, I watched a Korean movie in the airplane. 비가 올 때 학교에 왔어요. I came to school when it was raining. 여기서는 "왔을 때"를 사용할 수 없어요. 왜냐하면 "한국에 왔을 때"는 이미 동사의 행위가 끝났기 때문이죠. When I came to Korea(You're now IN KOREA, the verb is done) 이 동사들은 아직도 진행하고 있기 때문에(these verbs still are acting continuously), BASIC FORM을 사용해야해요.

안녕하세요. 먼저 Question 2에대해서 말을 할게요. ㄴ데 vs 서. "서"는 무조건 CAUSE and EFFECT가 있어야 해요. 예로들자면 "배가 아파서, 병원에 갔어요." (My stomach hurt, and (SOOO) I went to the hospital). 하지만 1. 시험을 봤어요. + 너무 어려웠어요. 여기는 CAUSE and EFFECT 관계가 아니죠. 그러니까 "시험을 봤는데 너무 어려웠어요"가 맞아요.

Wow. I didn't even know "funnily enough" could be such a word until I looked it up and found out it is actually in the dictionary. But the fact that a usage is acceptable doesn’t mean you have to use it. I would definitely prefer "funny enough."

Employment system

-Which is a bigger priority, work or family?

In my case, my biggest priority is family. I have two young brothers. We are very close. Because my mother often told us, "Siblings are nice to each other and work together." We grew up following those words. My mother passed away about 10 years ago. We had went through sad and hard experiences but overcame hardship in life with each other.


-What are the advantages and disadvantages of the lifetime employment system?

I think the advantage is its secure security and the disadvantage is boring in the life the fact that it's boring.
There is climate of the lifetime employment system in Japan but fraduatelly change the enployment system these days.

よく書けました！

100% correct! I personally don't find "biggest dream" to be a problem. My personal view though.

1. 댁 can never be used for one's own house. Naver's dictionary definition states 남(other)의 집이나 가정을 높여 이르는 말. It would be VERY unnatural to say 댁 for your own grandmother's. 댁 is not too common from my experience and you would use it only for referring to a house of someone superior. 2. YES "우리 같이 가시지요" is, like you said, more suggestive. And they are commonly encountered in speech! :) 계속 열공하세요.