Learning English

It is a little hard for me to learn English these days.
I try some ways which many people have said that they are really good ways to study English. For example, some ways there are watching American drama, reading books in English and listening to pop music and so on.

Although I have studied English everyday, I felt like my English skill wasn't better than I thought. Sometimes it makes me discouraged and feel like giving it up.

I really want to speak English fluently and want to watch see a TV program without subtitles. I know I make every effort to be good at English.

Do you have a special way of studying English? If you have one, can you let me know about it? It will be really helpful for me. (:

Sorry I can't help you specifically with English because it is my native language.  But learning a language is a lot of memorization.  Keeping learning vocabulary and gramatical structures is all I can say.  Good luck!!

I want to have fun in the UK!

November is essay month at in my uni. All my friends are in the library and struggling to write for their essays.
Actually, I came here to have fun, not to be an expert about history!
I have got two history essays. Most of days I stay in my room to finish them it..
Can anybody recommend me ways to have fun in here? I want to go out and travel around UK. 
Even though I've been here for 2 months, and sheffield and liverpool are is the only all places I have been to. I don't want to spend whole year working on for this essay.
Please help me! what is a good solution?

If you have extra time after the semester ends why don't you travel then?  When my friends visited Europe, they worked very hard during the weekdays so they could travel during the weekends.  You should also try to travel to other places in Europe.  I heard Barcelona is an amazing, fun, and beautiful city :)

English is getting harder with English., I am waiting your help!!(5)

Hi, My questions about the new job doesn't aren't finished yet.. It might keep going long  They might continue for a long time......
This time, I want to ask about payment conversation~~!
and Please correct the below journals below to a more natural conversation. Thank you:)

15. When I have some problem with the POS machine.

(1) case1 : when customer's card is declined 

Insert your card please. Oh, Your card is declined. /It has been declined. Your payment is was not successful. /Your payment doesn’t didn't go through well. Can you try one more time?/ Please try again.  All of these are good ways to say it!

This card doesn’t work. Do you have another card or method of payment?

(2) case2
Hold on one second please. There’s a some problem with the computer.
Our Pos machine just suddenly has frozen right now.(or stopped/ black out/ broke down) I think the best way to say it is the POS machine is frozen or the POS machine stopped working
I am trying to turn on again. (restart… How can I say that..properly?) I am trying to restart it now.  

(3)case3
Oh, the receipt paper(?) is no more ran out. Can you wait a moment while I replace it?
I’ll change this paper as soon as possible, I’ll help you, soon.
Thanks.

(4) case4
What would you like to pay? What do you want to pay? What is your card?
Which card do you like to make payment?

These are sort of hard to understand? Are you asking if they want to pay by card or cash?  In that case you should ask, "How would you like to pay?"  Are you asking what type of card they are using (Debit or Credit)?  You can say "Are you paying with debit or credit?"  or even more simply "Debit or credit?"  Are you asking about the card vendor (Visa, Mastercard, American Express...)?  In that case you can say, "What credit card company are you using?"

Good luck Ji Hee!  For number 4 if you want any clarification or have other questions please ask :)
 

Flowers

I didn't like to buy flowers for a long time. I thought buying flowers was a to waste of money.

Surprisingly, as I get older I start to love flowers more. I usually go to HEB once a week to buy lovely flowers. I feel better whenever I see flowers in my room, even when I get angry something.

Getting old makes me change many things. Actually I have been afraid about getting old and getting wrinkles on my face. I was somtimes sad and scared scary like that what if I were would be the old and I would I be ugly?

But from now on I will happily accept happily getting old and not be afraid about of it anymore. Because some changes are good for me, like I become to know many flowers.

Today, people only do a few things well.

Nowadays, people say that we have to learn as many things as much as we can and we have to be good at these things, even though we don't actually need to know how to do these things that perfectly. In my opinion, we don't need to doing many things well in order to live or survive. We don't need to spend a lot of time have to learning or studying something just to be good at it by spending a lot of time. We only need to do well in be good at our work area or our hobby.

Alternatively: 'We only need to be good at our work or our hobby.'

First of all, many people spend a lot of much time trying to be good at many things that they dont actually need to excel in. They want to be a best person in that field of that they are trying to be good at. They sometimes get stressed when they are doing that and it makes people stop doing that quit easliy. They sometimes don't sometimes learn something step by step to be best on every thing eventhough people don't expect that they would be good at specific things. (I am not sure what you are trying to say here.)  So, don't try many things above outside of your ability to save your time.

Secondly, We are humen beings and always want to be better than other people in everything anythings. Whatever people they do, they want to be a the best one. I think it is a very good attitude and positive thought to have. But However, if we try to be best at every single work or things that we do, it will be irritating to us, because people will keep asking us to help them with something that we do well. At the beginging of that time, we will feel happy about helping others. Eventually, we will feel tired if we keep doing that. Therefore, we should be good at only few things that we are working towards or that we are really like doing. All we have to do is just being good at a few things that you are supposed to be good at, such as your major or hobby.
In conclusion, we dont need to be doing many things well. We have limited time. The more things we do are doing well, the more we get stressed. It will be enough to live doing a few things well, such as your work.

TOEFL integrated practice 1

The reading passage introduces the graded school system in the US, which is divided into three parts: primary, intermediate and secondary schools. Each part of the system is carried out according to a certain age of students. Meanwhile, the professor in the lecture thinks that there are several issues existing in current school system.

First of all, the lecturer points out that the current school system is not good enough to respect the different characteristics of individual students. As students grow up, they will experience various changes in them such as social, mental and physical changes. In particular, girls and boys will be able to distinguish the physical differences between them when they enter secondary school and even before that. And the professor said that the current school system does not effectively handle this issue.

Also, in terms of evaluating a student's behavior, the current school system uses a method that requires students to repeat a year if the student's score is not desirable. The professor in the lecture argues that the students who repeats his or her year may not perform their studies well and easily get bored of classes. As a result, there is an increasing number of drop-outs among these students. Moreover, it is true that students get their education together in school as a group and the professor stresses that this makes it hard to evaluate every single student's performance carefully.

Thus, the professor in the lecture highlighted the problems of the current school system, which needs to be improved in order to allow students to receive a high-quality education.

Good job

The contributions of scientists and engineers are more important than that of artists and writers

There have always been many people making big contributions to develop the society we live in. They are professionals in many fields such as science, engineering, art and literature. It may be hard to say who has the largest impact in terms of influencing our society. However, I would say that the works created by artists and writers are more important for the following reasons.

(Most influential status is correct, but I changed it to largest impact because you don't want to use the same word twice in a sentence.)

Firstly. It is true scientists and engineers have created numerous inventions that we use everyday in this society and they have improved our lives in more effective, faster and convenient ways. But the sources of all the inventions come from the ideas and theories established by many early philosophers who were also writers. For example, the ancient philosophers in Greece were the founders of the scientific theories such as what materials our natural world mainly consists of. They used the scientific method based on their observations, experience and analysis to find answers. Some found out that the materials are water, light and air; others thought that they are gold, silver and metal. Later in history, scientists and engineers embarked on the further development of those theories which lead to the emergence of significant inventions.

Additionally, we all know that the most precious things in our lives are usually invisible such as love, hope, friendship, self-confidence, bravery, beliefs and so on. Artists and writers are the people who keep reminding us of these things in our monotonous and routine lives. Not only do they always urge us not to seek material things which can make us blind and damage our happy lives but they also teach us how to appreciate the beauty and joy brought by life through their paintings, statues, novels and sometimes through their real voices. I learned the true meaning of our lives from a book called "A Little Prince". The prince in the book tells us do not forget the most important things in your life and cherish them well before they leave and disappear. Maybe that is why the book has been a bestseller until now even though it just gives a simple lesson.

For the reasons I mentioned above, without the theories, ideas, thoughts and lessons from many artists and writers, the true developments and improvements in this society would never had happened. Therefore, I strongly believe that the contributions of artists and writers are far more influential and significant than that of scientists and engineers.

Very well done! 

winter is coming

It's getting cold.
My hands are so cold, even though my little puppy is sleeping by me in the hot bed. I'm preparing for a test to work at the airport. The more I study, the more I feel nervous.  (Another way to say it could be "... a test so I can work at the airport", or "...a test for working at the airport".  Also "The more I study, the more nervous I feel" is a better way to say it.)
Anyway, today is a very special day in South Korea.
A lot of students are taking a test for university.
I hope all the students get the best score. (This sounds somewhat awkward.  A better way to say this would be something like: "I hope all the students get a good score." or "I hope all the students do their best.")
Time to show what you've studied for
It's so hard to write something in english :(

Good job :)