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1) I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio. I've lived here my entire life. I am a digital prepress operator for a large-format printing company. I'm generally a nerd and interested primary in comics, games, and science/fantasy fiction. 2) I'm trying to learn Korean because my fiancée is half Korean. Her mother would like to take us on a trip to Seoul to visit her family sometime next year, and I would like to impress her family with a working knowledge of Korean. 3) I'm hoping to find a little assistance in my self education on italki. I'm a pretty good study on my own, having earlier picked up the basics of Japanese with no tutor. I would like to gain access to help with grammar and sentence structure, help with speaking with the proper accent and inflection, and vocabulary. I would like to become friends with native speakers of Korean who would help me work on my Korean while I help them with English. 나는 네이티브 한국어 스피커를 만나고 싶어요. 나는 당신에게 영어 를 가르치고 싶은. 나는 한국어를 배우고 싶어요.
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    A Criminal Finally Arrested.

    A terrible criminal was arrested this morning. He has been wanted nationwide for days on charges of murder. It was reported that he had kidnapped an innocent woman and killed her. Before he killed her, he was driving* her around in her car for hours. The most shocking part is that she was kidnapped in the parking lot of a superstore in daytime when she was just about to get in her car. The criminal was caught by two cops who received a police call that someone with a knife was getting* around the neighborhood. The cops had to risk their lives fighting him and getting him under control. The scene was recorded on the cctv, and aired on the news. I think that's preposterous. He had a knife. What if the cops were stabbed? It seems that the law in Korea is too lenient to those who commit crime.

     

    1) I see nothing wrong with using past progressive tense here. I disagree with the first correction.

    2) You should say 'on a charge...' or 'on charges' here.

    3) Was he driving around the neighborhood? Walking? It is ok to use 'getting' if you are describing the act of going somewhere, but in this case you should be more specific about <em>how</em>he was getting around the neighborhood, especially because you did not tell us where he got to. Examples of correct use would be, "I use my car to get around the neighborhood." or "When I got to the scene, the man was wielding a knife."


    It seems odd to me that the police in Korea wouldn't have something to use to make subduing this man safer. Are they armed with any weapon like a taser, baton, or handgun?

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    September 22, 2015
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    August 20, 2015
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    August 13, 2015
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    August 6, 2015
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    My Ultimate Goal

    My ultimate goal is having my own happy family, and living with them happily ever after. It will all be all futile without happiness in my family, even if I made a fortune or achieved a big fame. It's been years since my parents started falling apart. They still don't get along well now. I don't remember when the last time was we went on a family trip was, which is why I was surprised when my mom told me about going on a family trip several days ago. I just can't imagine that. Anyway, I'm glad that my girlfriend has the same values as me on that issue, but even she sometimes says that I'm too obsessed with having to have a happy family and raise my future children well.

     

    There's not too much to correct. A few errors in word placement, an unneccesary 'a', and tenses that didn't match.

    'live' -> 'living': this is so that the tense of living agress with the tense of 'having' in the first part of the sentence.

    'be all' -> 'all be' to sound more natural. I'm not sure this sentence contains the best choice of words, but have no great correction for it.

    'was' moved. The structure should be 'when something was'

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    August 6, 2015
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    A battle against wasps

    The toughest thing you face when you live in a rural area: insects. I dread wasps in particular. Yeah, that's right. Wasps. With their intimidating appearance, they even make bees look cute and not dangerous safe. Recently, I found that the number of wasps hovering around my front door was growing. It seems that a big wasp family has moved in. I can't stand that. That would damage my quality of life by scaring, me even if they don't sting me. So I bought a special spray designed to kill insects. I've already used it last summer. It did wonders. It is a surefire way to get rid of all kinds of insects. I sprayed it here and there around the door this evening. Hopefully, I'll see them all lying on the ground dead tomorrow morning.

    1) I disagree with the previous correction of your use of the colon. There is nothing wrong with it.

    2) 'not dangerous' is cumbersome. 'safe' has the same meaning while being more concise.

    3) Because you still cannot stand the wasps present, it should be present tense: can't.

    4) I've already used it last summer, may actually be correct, but cumbersome and unusual. If you add 'once' that would also work: "I've already used it once last summer."

    5) I also disagree with the previous correction in rewording your sentence to move dead. There is nothing wrong with where you had it at first.

    6) You should use 'tomorrow' to describe the morning, noon, night or any other period of time during the following day.

     

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    July 31, 2015
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    July 27, 2015
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    Introduction to a funny Korean phrase.

    Today, I'm going to explain a Korean phrase in English. The term is 답정너, which is the shortening for "답은 정해서 있어. 너는 대답만 해." We Koreans often shorten phrases this way. 답정너 describes a person or a situation where one person asks another a question, and it's obvious what answer the first person wants to hear. This is a bit cliché, but as an example a girl asks her boyfriend if she has gained some weight lately. He would know what she wants to hear from him: "No, you don't look any bigger. You are slim." That is a good example of the situation described by 답정너.

     

    I googled the phrase, and google asked me if I meant "답은 정해져 있어. 너는 대답만 해" I have no idea if this is a problem with google, or a typo on your part though. You know more about Korean than I do!

     

    To 'shorten' mean to make something shorter. This is a shorter more concise way to say this.

     

    Using A and B to describe the people seems a bit too specific. It is easy to keep distinguish between the two people in your example without applying labels.

     

    You can omit 'from person B' or 'from the other person'. It's easy to understand once you mention that the first person expects an answer from the other person.

     

    I shortened and combined two sentences to make your sentences flow more naturally. Telling someone 'get this' is very informal even for english, and usually reserved for something outlandish or hard to believe.

     

    I changed 'that way' to 'any bigger' just to make it sound more natural. It was correct before.

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    July 20, 2015
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    Did I do this right?

    안녕하세요 만너서 번겅워요

     

    Close, I understood what you were trying to write, though you misspelled it.

    안녕하세요. 만나서 반가워요

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    July 13, 2015
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    You might ask if he minds if you use his name. You could then attach 씨. Otherwise you could simply not refer to him directly and let the context speak for itself. It's pretty common to omit pronouns and such if it is clear that you are referring to them.
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    July 13, 2015
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