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Hello. I live in on the coast of Lake Michigan in the United States, with my beautiful wife and four children. I love them very much. I am interested in languages and how they work. I've studied Spanish, Greek, and Hebrew in a formal classroom setting and I've begun studying Norwegian independently. My other interests include running, reading, and bird watching.
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S.H/Seung-Hyean Lee
Korean
Sep 10, 2019
I really enjoyed our lesson! (수업 좋아요) Your eyes full with a passion to learn Korean, which encourages me to help your Korean with my best. You have a great ability to catch what you learned and to apply it to the other words. When you say in Korean, 발음 아주 좋아요!! As I said, I like you to study with informal-polite-tense form at first.(한국어를 배워요) It feels like we are talking in Korean. (한국어로 말해요) I wish there was a little more time (시간이 있어요) to help you memorize the Korean words that you have studied.
S.H/Seung-Hyean Lee
Korean
Aug 31, 2019
좋은 피드백 고마워요! Thanks a lot for your time and patience to learn Korean. I got a lot of fun teaching Korean with you. Because of your astounding ability to learn new languages, it was easy for me to teach you Korean. Hope you can feel more comfortable to study Korean after our classes. At the last class, I gave you Hangeul chart which needs lots of effort to practice. But you worked so hard with it and you made it through very very well. I prepared this class about Korean verbs but we didn't have enough time to get some good outline to study Korean verbs. I felt bad about it. If we can have another class, let's practice with many examples. Thanks again and hope to see you again.
S.H/Seung-Hyean Lee
Korean
Aug 28, 2019
Such a pleasure with Matt who has a young spirit with lots of curiosity and willingness to learn new things. He has been studied a lot even though he just started studying Korean a few days ago. With his study, he was very clear to know about what he wants to learn, so we spend the well-full time with learning consonants and vowels correctly. I bet he would make you proud of yourself as a teacher if you have him as one of your students. Thanks! 즐거운 수업이었어요. 자음이랑 모음 너무 잘 따라해줘서 고마워요. 매튜! 화이팅!
Kaja
Norwegian
Nov 8, 2018
Every time I meet with Matt I think “yeah, ok, this time we’re going to have a normal, casual conversation” but then halfway through the conversion something happens, the universe implodes, and I realize wet knee-deep in this pool of absurdity. It’s awesome. It went better this time, I could see that Matt was feeling more confident in his Norwegian skills and he had less problems with understanding me. And we’re forming a band. Isn’t it cool?
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cIqRzum528. I'm old enough to remember "how you doin'?" becoming popular and mainstreamed after this commercial began airing. The phrase used to be associated (in the American imagination) with seedy Italian mafia-types. Now it's a natural way to ask "how are you?" or say "hello."
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    August 31, 2019
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    tacit understanding; implied agreement
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    August 31, 2019
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    It comes from "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole and the line "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" is the only familiarity Americans have with roasting chestnuts.  Cole tries to remind the listener of beloved Christmas traditions, but eating roasted nuts to celebratw Christmas is rare today.
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    April 21, 2019
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    It means to take away, deny, discard, or dispose of something or someone.
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    June 23, 2018
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    Yes.
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    June 12, 2018
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    That is a really good question and I didn't know what the English word was. I did some on-line research and I would call it either a "safety latch" or a "security latch." It doesn't seem as if it has a standard, universally accepted name in English.
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    May 8, 2018
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    Oh, those annoying prepositions! "They play IN the church's band" is correct. Good question and keep up the good work. English will come to you eventually.
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    May 6, 2018
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    Either way works and is perfectly understandable.
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    May 6, 2018
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    "Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer" by W. C. Scully contains the sentence, "Then I once more humped my swag and started on my long journey through the cool night, under the inscrutable stars. " In that context, Scully means that he piled all his possessions in one large bag, which he then wore on his back like a hump. I hope that is helpful.
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    May 4, 2018
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    "What's his beef?" is the equivalent of "what's his complaint?" or "what is making him angry?" According to my quick internet search, this expression dates to the early 1900s, but the details of its origin are lost to history.
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    May 4, 2018
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