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If someone asks me, the question "What's your hobby?", then I wouldn't I don't hesitate to say, "My hobby is watching American dramas, especially these days!" Cuz 'Cause(1) I am so much into them... lol
I have tried watching different types of American dramas, which are such as Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Gossip Girl, Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, House of Cards, Whitney... and the most enjoyable ones of recent days as of late were are "Under the Dome" and "Pretty Little Liars." I got to start watching the dramas by chance, but I just fell in love twitch with them...lol In case of "Under the Dome," it basically belongs to the science-fiction or mystery genre. The synopsis is like this: One small town named Chester's Mill got isolated and blocked from the world by a massive, transparent, but hardly destructible mostly indestructible dome. And it shows how people behave and think, the their basic responses for the sake of their own benefits. Even if the with its unique setting, the dome is far from the reality and of the slightest chance to actually happen, it allowed me to imagine how I would behave and cope with the such a worst situation case scenario like that. Anyway, I don't wanna be a spoiler to spoil anything for anyone... and I am still waiting for the another season which is coming up...
Let me move onto PLL (Pretty Little Liars). It's like a dessert which you cannot stop eating, and want more and more. Some ppl people(2) might think it can be too girlish or coarse(3), but I have a different opinion don't think so. I believe it deserves getting popularity by popular with guys as well as by girls... haha (no offense... just personal opinion lol) In my case, the reason why I wanna watch and I have to watch is that the story is mainly for teenage girls. And I am gonna spend time with students in their ages around their age in the near future. I admit that the American girls and Korean ones have lived in a different environment and culture from each other, and their lifestyle and way of thinking would not be the same, but there is something are things in common. And I'd love to get some tips to be on being a better teacher or listener(4) while observing and listing listening to the characters. Nobody knows how it will work for me, but I just believe it'll be helpful someday... haha.
Anyway, I wanna keep in my journal on PLL with my practical purpose in my journal.
Enjoy your favorite dramas, which can be big pleasures in your routine. Thanks:)(Editor's Notes:
Normally you wouldn't say "American dramas," but instead just "American shows." It's more colloquial, I guess?
(1) & (2) "Cuz" and "ppl" are indeed used in colloquial English, but it usually only used in texting. This happened because people had a limited amount of letters they could write per text, so shortened words. But these words are not good to use outside of texting or talking to friends.
(3) I do not know what you mean by "coarse."
(4) What do you mean by being a teacher while watching the show?
Also, things bolded with purple mean that what you said was technically correct, but my corrections are more fluent.)
0 votedMay 25, 20150English is the most widely spoken language in the world. As far as I am concerned, there are many benefits of to learning English. Since the world has become more integrated, learning English helps travelling and interacting with people from different countries to become much easier and more enjoyable. That, therefore, will help us to get acquainted with various cultures and broaden our knowledge. Inevitably, the overwhelming advantages of learning English is that your career prosperous prosperity can enormously increase. Besides, the proficiency and confidence in speaking and understanding English will put you at a distinct advantage when you fund find a job. Moreover, English is the language of academics in the world. A large amount of reasearch are is conducted and written in English. Thus, people can easily access to a wonderful source of knowledge of human beings. All together, I can say that learning English has countless benefits.
0 votedMay 25, 20150It was very cold outside this morning. I got all dressed and ready for today's lesson. I put my heater by me to keep myself warm and waited for my teacher's call.
We were going to discuss some questions that my teacher had sent me last lesson. I had my own ideas and answers about them because I went through them before the lesson. The questions were about communication.
At the beginning, he asked me to read every single question from top to bottom and I did. After that, we started to have a discussion. One of the questions that I still remember is about if you overhear people having a row in public (it's pronounced 'raw' in here), you should intervene (it means 'interfere') and my answer was I never interfere in something that is not my own business. This is because even though if I try to help them with good intentions, they might be upset because during the argument while arguing, they feel more emotional, so they're they can getting angrier easily. Also, they might say, this is none of your business, just go away.
For example, in my case, I'll sometimes have a small argument or fight with my husband on the street during a date. But in this situation, if somebody passing by tells us, "Stop doing that, this is it's not good," then, I just want to say, that ''Just keep walking, we can handle this, we don't need your advice." This sounds mean, but in this kind of situation, I just want people to ignore us or just stay out of our problem because I feel a little bit ashamed, and this is it's too personal. I don't want to let some strangers know about our couple relationship things, and I am sure others also think like me would agree.
My teacher backed me up and said that it was wise. However, of course I will help if it looks very serious, or it seems like they might hurt each other. I'm going to I'll call a cop or ambulance if I need to.
Another question that I didn't answer clearly was, about "elderly people have a reason to grumble about the youth of today." To be honest, I don't agree with it that but I still don't have sensible reasons for my opinion.
Perhaps, older generations worked harder and lived in the a more difficult environment. For instance, in my country, Korea, my grandparents' and parents' generations went through the Korean war, which destroyed everything for in their life. They were very poor and so many people starved. They probably had to do anything they could to protect their family and get by. So, they may think the younger generation has nothing difficult to live deal with these days and young people are not hard working enough. They might be true.(Editor's Notes:
Your English is AMAZING! Most of my corrections are just what I would personally add to make it sound more fluent and native. Those are corrected with the colour blue.)
0 votedMay 25, 20151Now I am in Florence, Italy.
A few days ago, the weather was enormously(1) incredibly hot and humid. I wore short pants. However, it is has been raining for three days... It is also getting colder. I took off my thick jacket from the closet on yesterday. I hope that it will be warm soon.
(1) "Enormously" is used to describe physical size.
0 votedMay 23, 20151There are six people in my family: My parents, my three older sisters, and I. My dad is 65 years old and my mom is 5 years younger. I am the youngest daughter in my family. I am 17 years old. My father is an officer at local bureau while my mother is a housekeeper. Currently, all of my sisters have already been at worked employed at lived and have moved away from home. My parents usually wake up at 5:00 am and work till 5 pm. Despite being such so busy, my parents try to spend much lots of time for with the family. My mother is a very conscientious and thoughtful woman. She is always the first person to wake up in the morning and prepare breakfast for everyone. My father is always happy to give a helping hand with the household. As I am now in my final year at of high school preparing for my examination exams, my parents let me have much a lot time to study. However, I try to help my mother whenever I have free time. We are a very close-knit family and I love my family so much.
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