[Day 03] Dear Diary.

I'm gonna write a short diary every day :)
It's my first challenge myself. So please help me with it.
If there are any mistakes, feel free to correct :)

1. It is my first challenge to myself.

Finally! I had an English interview. It really challenged myself but I did it!
I'm proud of myself eventhough I did not that good.

2. typo - even though; . . . I did not do that well.

This is a script for my self introduction.

Before we start, I am honored to be here for this interview today. I graduated from Sogang University with a degree in Business Administration. I have strong background in marketing both educationally and professionally. My major was really project-oriented, so I spent an enormous amount of time looking at marketing cases, talking about them, and criticizing them. Also, I have worked in the advertising and PR industry about an year.
So, I was able to gain a better understanding of all the areas in it. That’s why I can say I’m really fit for a marketing position.
a year
OMG I hope this script is enough for self introduction. I think I need to add something more.

This reads very smoothly.  I think it is very, very well done.  I like it.  It would make an employer want to meet you.

[Day 03] Dear Diary.

I'm gonna write a short diary every day :)
It's my first challenge myself. So please help me with it.
If there are any mistakes, feel free to correct :)

1.

Finally! I had an English interview. It really challenged myself but I did it!
I'm proud of myself eventhough I did not that good.

2.

This is a script for my self introduction.

Before we start, I am honored to be here for this interview today. I graduated from Sogang University with a degree in Business Administration. I have strong background in marketing both educationally and professionally. My major was really project-oriented, so I spent an enormous amount of time looking at marketing cases, talking about them, and criticizing them. Also, I have worked in the advertising and PR industry about an year.
So, I was able to gain a better understanding of all the areas in it. That’s why I can say I’m really fit for a marketing position.

OMG I hope this script is enough for self introduction. I think I need to add something more.

I think that there is no other logical choice than is as an answer in this instance. Why? As stated, the sentence uses the singular form of the noun source, not the plural -- sources. I have never come across this idea of cutting down a compound subject that would govern the plural verb as complement. It intuitively would read like this: Ample knowledge and a rich accumulation of life experience __are___ the major sources of a sense of humor. In fact, a strict analysis should discount ignoring the nature of the subject 'knowledge and accumulation' as truly a compound subject and matching it to a singular noun 'source.' A compound subject not only governs the plural in predicate, it also is generally not ignored for its compound nature. There are exceptions to this simplistic analysis just cited. For instance, if the conjunction connecting the two nouns were "or" instead of "and," then the singular "is" would be definitely correct. I suppose the reasoning for choosing "is" would have to be that "A" rich accumulation of life experience is singular in its aspect and can therefore be matched by the singular of the verb to be -- "is." However, I would never use this construction myself unless someone could show me a reference. I was so puzzled that I found such a reference, and here it is for you, but I give you fair warning -- it won't give clear sanction either. It is: http://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/compound-subjects-and-verb-number I do think you will receive good instruction from it. This question caught my eye.

I listen to Fred Film Radio in Mandarin sometimes, and one thing I keep hearing puzzled me. It is similar to "nage" -- it is "zhege." The speakers are talking in an interview situation, so they are speaking what comes to mind and not reading from a script. Finally, I looked zhege up in the dictionary to see why so many speakers would pause, saying with a kind of indefinite mind, "zhege ..." before moving on to whatever else comes to mind. In the case of zhege, it is used to exactly show an indefinite ideation about something -- it is repeated twice to show uncertainty about something. Now although I can understand at this point in my learning of Mandarin very little of what is going on (it is radio talk show about films and filmmakers, so actors, actresses and directors talk), I am at the other end of the receptivity-of-ear spectrum as compared to you. When I hear the speakers say "zhege," first, I know what it means, and secondly, I can take the time to try to figure out some of the previous words or phrases in the time allotment as they stammer. I think it is like saying "um" in English, but it is more definite. I also hear "nage" a little now that I think about it. However, I believe your friend will let go of this space-time filler once he is more practiced. Just don't tell him about "zhege!" In fact,one last point: the speakers on Fred Film Radio do not seem to use zhege necessarily as precisely as Pleco Dictionary defines it. Zai jian.

wie sagt Man ...

wie sagt Man auf Deutsch "I don't care what do you think of me?"
Es ist mir egal, worüber du mich denkst.

Danke

Try this: Es ist mir egal, worüber du an mich denkst.

Actually, I see a problem here with a double use of prepositions.  It can be: denken an or denken über.  In this construction since both prepositions take the accusative, it would seem that one would choose one or the other of the prepositions, thereby disqualifying my so-called correction above.  However, technically, an can also govern the dative.  Why not say: Es is mir egal, worüber du an mir denkst.  This would place the preposition an in a secondary roll in its relationship with denken.  Really, I am only guessing.  I have not been with German at all for years.  I can look further into it, but a native speaker could know perhaps with some ease.  That is the awesome leverage that italki gives.  Thanks for being so polite, but there is no need to stand on courtesy.  Sorry for this confusion.  However, may I please say I think there is no strong case for an mir since denken is so strongly associated with denken an plus accusative.  Your sentence is probably very good.  How about:  Es ist mir egal, worüber du über mich denkst.  That must be correct also,  and just saying mich without  a second preposition does not come across as ambivalent.  I should have put my take on this under comment, not correction!!  However, it was too interesting to turn down.