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- A tunnel It feels like I always gotta do something. Something productive. Something that's for the future. Something that leaves something. After getting out of the army, I've never felt comfortable or like being myself. Oh, was I in a war, killing people? No, all i did during my service was fixing computers and messing with satellites. As my supervisor once told me, I did the easiest job in the most easy going unit. But still, even though it's been 4 months since the last day of service, I haven't come back to who I was. When I was in college before the service, I was full of confidence. But I am not. Before the service, I didn't feel guilty just because I had hang out with my friends all day. But I do now. I mean, I feel like i wasted all time in which I was doing my service. You know, what i did had nothing to do with my major or what I wanna do. It's unfair. It is. Why couldn't i have choice? Imagine this. You are living your life. And you just started the journey where you will find what you like in the end (at least, you believe so) And all of sudden, some random guys come up to you and say sth like ' You gotta walk in a dark tunnel for 2 years' and pick you up. When you open your eyes, all you see is darkness. No, it's not. There is something ahead of you. It's a white dot. Oh now it makes sense. You are in a dark tunnel and what you see is the exit of the tunnel. You walk. You just keep walking. Because you wanna get out of here and come back to your normal life. You walk to the white dot. It's so small. It must mean that the exit is far far far away. But you keep walking. Days passed, weeks passed, months passed. But the white dot haven't got any bigger. Now you tell yourself, 'it's not right. There is sth wrong with this tunnel. It's not right' But nothing changes. So you keep walking. Now that's what you do. Just keep walking. Now it has been two years. You finally see that the white dot IS an exit. It gets bigger on every step you take. Now you finally get out. You've come back to your normal life. But nothing is the same. Everything that you got used to has changed. You tell people around you ' I walked in a tunnel for two years. And that was terrible'. And some people say bollocks like 'Oh Well, the tunnel I went through, it was uphill. UPHILL! So you gotta show more gratitude, cause your tunnel was not UPHILL.' You wanna say back that 'Well that's not the point. Whether it's uphill or not..' But nobody listens to you. That's itMarch 13, 201700
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최근에 한국 정치에 대해서 얘기하다가 한국의 정당들을 조금 배웠어요. 그리고 미국 정치 제도랑 차이점이 몇 개 있어서 재미있다고 생각했어요. 한국 뉴스에서 새누리당을 몇 번 들어 본 적이 있었는데 보수적인 당인지 원래 몰랐어요. 새누리당 밖에는 국민의당, 민주당, 그리고 정의당도 있어요. 친구가 우파쪽부터 좌파쪽으로 이렇게 설명해 줬어요. 정의당은 제일 진보적이에요. 미국은 비교적 양당재라고 생각할 수 있는데 한국은 정당이 (THE ONLY GRAMMAR ERROR I CAN FIND IN THIS WHOLE NOTEBOOK!)더 다양하다는 (it sounds more natural in this way. I don't know why though.)인상이 들었어요. 여러분이 이 간단한 설명을 어떻게 생각하세요?There is nothing to be fixed in your notebook... It's truly amazing. I hope I can speak English like you speak Korean.
Well your friend's explanation pretty sums up how the politics in Korea goes. But it kind of acts like two-party system practically, especially when it comes to presidential election. In every elections so far, there has been one dominant political party in each so-called 'conservative' and 'liberal'. Fun fact: political parties in Korea seems like they love to change its own names. 새누리당 used to be 한나라당 about a few years ago, and it looks like it's gonna divides itself two parties. 더불어민주당 used to be 새정치민주연합, 민주당, 민주통합당 before. Kind of weird, I would say.
0 votedJanuary 3, 20171Help me...I was doubtful with these two questions, I'm learning TOPIK
1. "엄마, 잘다녀왔습니다". 참반가운한마디!
우리아 이학교다니는길을지켜주세요
Is it form of 교통안전?Yeap! Second sentence means
Please keep our children's way on school safe.
우리 아이: Our children
학교 다니는 길: way on school
지켜주세요: please protect
Yeap so it's about road safety.
A. 교통안전
B. 전기절약
C. 예절교육
D. 환경보호
2. 세계로! 미래로 !
대한자동차와함께성장해 나갈 여러분을 기다립니다대한 자동차: Daehan Automobile, (I think it's a company name.
함께: together
성장해 나갈: it means 'to grow' if you translate it literally, but it means to be successful, especially in terms of career
여러분을 기다립니다. : We are waiting for you. 여러분 is kind of a formal way to say 'you guys'
so the sentence above means sth like
TO THE WORLD! TO THE FUTURE!(I know it sounds awkward, but Korean people like to use this phrase. I don't know why though)
Daehan Automobile is waiting for you who want to build career together. (this is my best to rephrase it, still retaining its exact meaning.)
So the answer is A.
사원모집: Recruitment
사원: staff, usually someone who works for a big corporation.
모집: recruitment
A. 사원모집
B. 여행소개
C. 제품설명
D. 관매안내0 votedJanuary 1, 20172- Struggle is real... I want to talk about English education in South Korea. Oh yeah.. i want this to be a super-academic notebook. I've learned how to write 'academically' for one month, so I feel like it's okay to just give a shot. And I've had some beer too! HOORAY!! Among the Korean people, it is widely known that South Korea's English education is not well-functioning, particularly in terms of its efficiency; even though English education market in Korea is about a billion dollar scale, barely can any Korean people speak English fluently. There are even words like 'Enlgishphobia' and 'Foreignerphobia', which Korean people experience when they happen to speak in English or bump into foreigners, to whom they think they have to speak English. One might point out that this kind of not-that-fluent-in-English phenomenon is kind of common in East Asia countries, whose language structures are disparate from that of English. However, as a Korean who have never stayed in English speaking country more than 5 days but still relish talking with foreigner friends in English, I hold the view that this seemingly inexplicable and irrational epidemic improficiency in English is due to the Korean people's unwillingness to 'be ready to wrong'. Trial-and-Error is the most efficient way to improve one's language skill. If I did not write out 'be ready to wrong', I would have not had the opportunity to know that it is grammatically wrong sentence(is it?). Furthermore, I might have lost the ones to challenge myself to write it in a more fancy way: embrace chances to be wrong with alacrity. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh.. I gotta go sleep. It took me a way more time than I expected. It's really awkward to write 'did not' or 'cannot'... I hope I can get rid of this English test I'm preparing now ASAP. I don't know. I wanna find a teacher. I want a really strict garmmar-martinet one, who's gonna be super-picky on my every mistakes. Do you know why? Because, no one wants Edward Scissor hand at party unless he's Johny Depp or he's got super-cool scissor hands. Oh then he's not Scissorhand anymore... What am I talking about. I better go off and sleep. Have a good night guysDecember 25, 201631
For Korean and Japanese, working on a grammar first could be an option.(not sure about Chinese)
As a Korean, and who learned English and has worked with US soldiers, I think the reason that you, like my colleagues, picked Korean and Japanese as one of the hardest language is grammar structure.
The order of subjective, objective, verb and so on is kind of 'reversed' in Korean and Japanese compared to English. So when it comes to speak and write those languages, Korean or Japanese words you've learned would not help you a lot, unless you have a complete understanding of how those words should be arranged.
So, it leads to a conclusion that you have to pledge so much time on grammar first, when you barely know any words in Korean or Japanese.
It'd be boring, and you won't feel like making a progress during the time you working on grammar. So most of people'd be like 'oh this is so hard...' and give it up.
But once you get grammar of those language, it'd be much easier. You will be able to make use of any new words you just learned, make jokes, and so on. You'll find some fun and those languages would not be that hard for you.
That's how i studied English, cause, you th, from my point of view, reversed is not Korean but English. It was painful but i think it worth it. Hope that my comment can give you some help.
0 votedJune 28, 20160- Looking for help to improve my English!! Plz recommend me useful websites you know! Hey guys, I want you to recommend me any kind of sites that i can hear conversations between native English speakers. I've been working with US soldiers since last year, and learned English for a fair amount of time.. Not wanna sound pretentious, but i barely have problems in communicating with my friends from the States. But, it takes me so long time to understand what strangers say. I mean, i need too long time to get used to someone's accent. I can get 100% of what my friend is saying; only because he's been working with me since last October. I barely get what my senior NCO says during Sergeant time, cause that 'Sergeant time' is the only time i hear him saying something. My friend says it seems like i have a huge problem to understand words from people whose accent is not familiar with me. Second problem is, i use so many awkward expressions. Maybe you've noticed already, reading my notebook now. Examples will be like.. 'Today morning' or 'seeking for help' or 'take a chill(not chill out or take a chill pill, like old people would say)' so on and so on. My colleagues have helped me out a lot, about these awkward expressions or word choice, but we're usually working on a mission, not being native English teachers and a student. And, they are not so picky on my English anymore.. maybe it's because they don't wanna sound rude or... they just gave up due to sooooo many 'awkwardness' in my English(hope it's not) ANYWAY, to get rid of those problems i have, i need websites where i can hear conversations between people, with various accents. I've tried watching movies and using sites like voice of america.. and subscribing some funny youtube channels, but all of them are either time consuming or educational, which means it's not colorful with accents. SO, please... recommend any websites you have.. that you think can help me out For people like me, maybe voice of america, nigahiga(youtube channel, kind of fun and the guy in that channel really talks fast but enunciates at the same time), HISHE(another youtube channel), Techquickie(youtube channel, again), Gordon Ramsay's kitchen nightmare series, GOT, singularity 101(youtube) would help you out.June 26, 201600
