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I'm studying Japanese at Oxford Brookes and learning Korean in my free time. Unfortunately, I really don't have much free time because I work 7 days a week, but hopefully I'll get enough time to study and pass my first TOPIK test within the next year because I came back from visiting 서울, 부산 and 대구 in January and realised that I really need to do some serious Korean study to be able to communicate properly in Korean. After I've finished my degree, I will move to 苏州 to teach English, and hopefully set up a business later. I'm looking for an occasional bit of help with my Japanese, Korean and Chinese, but mostly I prefer to chat and help people with their English, so if you need some help just let me know! On to the Japanese section, humongous thanks to an unnamed lady who knows who she is. オックスフォードブールクス大学で日本語を勉強しています。日本の文化で好きな物は擬声語とかドラマとか音楽です。擬声語でころころとかどきどきは興味深いと思います。俺には好きなドラマがたくさんあります。何のドラマかが知りたかったら、ぜひ喋りましょう。いろいろな歌手が好きで、ジェイポップだったら一番好きな歌手はYUIさんだけど、菅原紗由理さんも好きです。ジェイロックではバンプ・オブ・チキンが大好きです。藤原基央さんはすごく多才な作曲家ですから。歌はあまり上手くないけど、友達とカラオケに行くのはすごく楽しいから好きです。問題か質問があったら、教えて下さい。英語を勉強する気があるなら、俺はあなたを手伝いしましょう!よろしくお願いします。マット あぁ、もし間違いがあったら、直してください。 有難う!
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    Still a couple of corrections to be made to add to Felix's contribution.

    Today's diary : I want to speak better!

    It's a bit embarrasing embarrassing but I have attached my a voice recorded recording to talk* about my pronounciation. Please tell me what you think. Any advice or tips are very welcome.

    green = more natural

    red = spelling/vocabulary problem

    * There is no need to remove 'to talk' as it can be seen as a shortened version of 'in order to..(talk about)'.
    Also on a semantic note (this is being a little picky :P) in Felix's version there is the phrase 'a voice recording about pronunciation.' Grammatically it's perfectly fine, but that phrase would make me think of a voice recording that was teaching about pronunciation rather than one which talks about your pronunciation and then asks for an assessment of it, so keeping 'to talk about' and changing the position of my, I think, makes the content of the recording clearer.

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    November 24, 2012
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    Today's Diary : Dangerous!

    Though I am taking a year off from college now, lately I am going to school nearly every day to help (actually to chat with) my friends with preparing prepare for their graduation exhibition, and today I heard about a scary incident which happened to one of my minor students a few days ago.
    We often stay a the whole night at school or leave for home very late atnight when we have too many assignments. A freshman girl was walking towards a subway station near the school to go home at midnight, and suddenly a black van stopped near her. According to what she said, there were three guys in the van and one of them got out and started following her and tried talking to her. She got frightened and started running with all her strength, and heard them yelling, "Catch that girl!!" behind of her. We assume they were committing a kidnapping trying to kidnap her. Fortunately she could find found a nearby police station to ask for a help, but wow, that's dang scary!
    I hope you don't misunderstand. I've been actually believing I actually believe Seoul is a very safe city in general, but the district where my university is located in is one of the least developed parts with a bad reputation (or ' parts which has a bad reputation'). I think if my school has at least one thing in common with Hogwarts, that it must be having all the dangers outside of the school fence. I've been thinking of about getting a flat near the school in the next year because it's tiring to use the subway for 1 hour to go to school everyday, but now I think maybe I should consider it some more.*

    * For this sentence, it depends on nuance. If you mean that you will still probably do it (get a flat near the school), but have to think about it some more than as it is above is fine.
    If you mean you've been thinking about it but now are close to changing your mind and not getting a flat near the school then you can use.
    'but now I think maybe I should reconsider'

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    November 24, 2012
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    November 22, 2012
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    Today's Diary : A little anxiety

    I have been going to school lately, after a long time away, to help my friends.
    Most of my friends who were in the same class with as me for the past few years are going to graduate this winter. They are supposed to hold an exhibition so as to graduate and that requires a lot of work.
    Seeing their work in progress and nearly done, first of all I was impressed for by the great quality and but I soon realized that they my friends are really leaving soon. When I look back upon the time they and I we spent together, I think it was always fun. Even though often we were tired of too many tasks, those moments like camping on the roof of the university building or wandering in the campus wearing pajamas will never be forgotten.
    Because I took 2 years off in total in order to travel and study this and that, now I, personally, have one more year to study. It would have been great if I could spend my last year and graduate together with my friends, but I do not regret what I have done since I've learned a lot from those experiences. Just I am growing a little bit uneasy about spending the new semester with new students. I consider myself an affable person but it I will need to put in more effort to get along well with minor students, as sometimes minor students feel uncomfortable with senior students.

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    Green = more natural

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    November 22, 2012
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    It depends on personal preference, but in a slightly formal situation you would say something like I got you a present, here you are. and then if they said something like 'no, I can't accept it, it's too much' you would then say, 'Please take it.' 'Here you are' is to draw attention to the fact you are giving them something. 'Please take it' is asking them to accept your gift. Another common way of giving someone something is just to say 'This is for you' and then give it to them or if it's between friends 'I got you something' or 'here you go' are fine aswell. They'll all be understood.
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    November 15, 2012
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    1. Yes, it is. It just mean that the squares such as free parking, mayfair etc have been changed to the names given. 2. I'm not too sure about this, but Richard Halliburton was a famous adventurer, so I assume it's saying William O. Douglas acts similarly to him in some way. The bench I believe is a group of people within the court mentioned. So William is the person that acts most like Richard Halliburton within that group of people. She is 'baiting' him in this because she is leading him towards an answer she wants to hear. She is fairly certain she knows what he will answer so she ask so she can talk about that instead. In this case it seems to be the Tropic of Cancer. 3. A point of order is a legal term which very basically just means a topic, to raise in this context is basically just to say, and to deliberate is the same as discuss in depth. So it's saying that she, The First lady, chose a topic and then they talked about it in detail.
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    November 15, 2012
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    This use means to harass someone or give them a hard time. So in this text the person doesn't want to 'yank the other around' so doesn't want to give them a hard time. Yank means to pull, usually aggressively and quickly, so gives the impression that a person is being treated badly and/or forced to do something they don't want to. Pulling or yanking them away from what they are comfortable with.
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    November 15, 2012
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    *looks like would be more common than seems like
    (no 'a')

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    November 15, 2012
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