You are right Ji Hee, the correct usage in the context of the song is "if I were you", because it is in the subjunctive mood. So there is a mistake in the song lyrics :) However in general the phrase "If I was..." (that is in the indicative mood) can be correct if used in the right context. For example the phrase "If I was wrong, I apologize" is correct and is in the indicative mood, and the phrase "If I were wrong, I would apologize" is also correct but it is in the subjunctive mood. The meaning of the two phrases is quite different because a different mood is used. A lot of people make this mistake and maybe in the future "If I were" will be completely replaced by "If I was" in the modern process of simplification of the English language... :)

Just because

There is a Korean Idiom that says "Raindrops make a hole". I always take the idiom as my motto of life.
It means that even though it something seems like a very big challenge at the first time, but we consistently put our own's effort doing something, then we finally make the impossible possible.

I hadn't had a comfortable teenager life, my parents always fought each other, they didn't take care about what I was thinking at that time.
I spent the whole adolescent time by myself and I struggled with lonely feeling and my insecure my presence. I just felt I was a looser.
I had always compared with other teenagers, and blamed on myself , my family, everything that surrounded me.
and after graduated graduation from high school, I could have a lot of chance to live taking apart from my family. Living in China with my classmate for 2 semesters was the most important moment for me to make everything of mine stable.

I had confidence about myself, I have started to think about myself as separate from my family.
Maybe the reason why I keep making chances to go abroad is that I hate my family very much.
I still feel sad why  because I have this kind of family in my life. But I want to believe it has to be. I have a lot of potential to overcome this feelings. I have power to straight to see this.

I really hope I can make a real happy family. For that, I have to be a good mother, good wife. So, I am trying to read news articles about how to raise a child, and I am trying to think positively, see a bright side of the world. because I want to be happier than now. My challenge is not ended yet.

This fact is that only few close friends have known this fact about me. Maybe I will delete this poster in the future.

Hi Ji Hee, your English is quite good, just keep practicing :) I wish you all the best and happiness!

Hello hana kim!! :)

I deserve to be loved

A married life without love isn't necessarily bad
There are couples out there who claim that they can't live without each other

Should I just to do it because everyone else is doing it?
Should I marry him cuz because i I am at an age when I have got nothing to do but to get married.
Is this what it feels like toe be dragged away to prison ?


I thought maybe I was rushing it because I was getting old

I thought to myself (I asked myself)
'if I was 20, would I still marry him'?

I just wasn't sure if I'd love him enough for the rest of my life

I only wanted to improve myself a little bit
It turns out that I wouldn't
I still love myself the way ... I am

I'm going to Iceland!

I'm going to Iceland for the first time (in my life).
Have you ever been to Iceland??

So have a nice trip!! :)

I live in Europe but I've never been there!

Please help me ! :)

I am managing a shared house in Korea.

There have are some rules of  in the shared house.

1. Please feel free to share languages and culture.

2. You can bring your friends for a visit (Not too early in the morning and nor late in the night time)

3. Do not get into a fight.

4. You can not get a refund of balance(deposit) if you fought with other ahare mates.

5. Please let me know your departure time 1month before you leave.

6. Other details are decision decided from in share house mates meetings and follow the house rules.

7. If you request contract cancellation then you have to pay for bust up a termination fees.


8. Please take care of others and don't be selfish.


I would like to make a sentence for clean up after yourself.
Ex) -washing dishes after your meal.
-If you make a mess then you have to clean.

So for example:

- please wash your dishes after every meal

- please keep the rooms clean

Hi HyunJu, I hope that helped a little bit ;)

Practice 1

Hello! This is Doyeon from Seoul, Korea.
Well, I'll tell something about me :)
I love films, music, drawing and fashion.
I'm a student but now I'm taking a year off from school.
And so I''m planning to study jewelery design.
Not really seriously, I've just wanted to know is if it really fits me.
Oh actually I lived in England for less than a year. I was there untill last year.
At the begining I was so a very shy girl so I didn't talk much. And English accent was quite unfamiliar. But what/how about a month later? I fell in love with England. I loved everything of the whole city I lived. Oh but except for the weather haha.
Now I miss every single person I met, the roads, the cafe I used to go to, the beach. Well even the weather. Ah please bring me back there right quick  right now/quickly! :)

Although I went to England, my English skill is not that good.
Well, writing is much better than speaking.
Especially speaking is really a problem/is a real problem, I think. As i told you I am shy and it's the only reason but hard the only but hard reason to change myself :)
I don't want to lose my English skills any longer, also i want  and I also want to improve it.
That's why I'm looking for the people who exchange language with me :)

Cheers

Hi Doyeon! Your written English is quite good :)

Remember that the pronoun "I" must be capitalized all the time (so it is always written "I" and never "i"), and that also the names of languages must be capitalized (for example "English" and not "english")

have a nice day!! :)

"Adesso" and "ora" are synonyms and you can you them interchangeably. However, note that "ora" has two meanings: if considered as an adverb it means "now", but if considered as a noun it means "hour" (singular: l'ora; plural: le ore). In some regions of central Italy you can also hear the word "mo", that also means "now", but it is only used in informal and dialectal speech, and is never used in standard Italian (even if the famous poet Dante uses it in its Divina Commedia). It probabily comes as an abbreviation of the Latin word "modo", that also means "now".