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I DON'T accept random friend requests, SO PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR INTEREST and RELATE it with something about YOURSELF so that I know you’re not spam. :) I will add ONLY if I feel we could be friends and seriously help each other. I write cinematic & world-influenced music. Google "Sp3ctre18" for music on ACIDplanet, YouTube, & others. Have learned intermediate French, Japanese since 2009, Mandarin since 2010, am slowly approaching an elementary level of Korean, & have just a few basics in Hindi, Vietnamese, Shanghaiese, & Taiwanese. I enjoy all kinds of music; Western or Indian classical, American or Celtic folk, VOCALOID, Chinese traditional, K-pop, movie soundtracks, etc. Don’t like simple / repetitive music (sadly, that means most rap & R&B). I love learning & understanding cultures but everyday social situations are not easy. Let me know IF you can be generous and tolerant to help; I’d be especially grateful. Interested in space, medicine, & civil tech, theoretical physics, & philosophy of society & morality. Working on science fiction novels. Favorites B.E.G., 이수영, 萨顶顶, KOKIA, 浜崎あゆみ, FictionJunction, Zakir Hussain, alan, & FLUXUS artists 풍산개, 네버엔딩 스토리, 落叶归根, 叶问, 3 Idiots, Rang de Basanti; Honey & Clover, Code Geass, 東のエデン, 日常
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  • Commented

    It's nothing special; just experience or lack of.

     

    People who don't have much experience seeing people of different Asian countries will think they all look alike.

    People who live in a place with both Chinese and Vietnamese will learn to tell them apart.

    I used to think all Asians looks alike. But now, I've been watching TV, moveis, and music videos from Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam (and also met more people from those countries), so I can now tell them apart relatively easily.

    I have most experience with Chinese, so I'm even beginning to see differences between Chinese from different places / different ethnicities.

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    August 9, 2013
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    Try the italki iPhone app! For me, and maybe many of you, messaging on italki is VERY buggy. You don't know if messages appear under "messages" or "conversations," and things may suddenly disappear from chat. Although I haven't used it much, it seems like ALL messages show up on my iPhone. Try it out! If you want to chat on italki, using the app may be best. 对我和也许很多的你们，在italki上发短信有很多的问题。你不知道是在“信息”还是“对话”能找到你们的信息，还有在聊天的功能一些信息可能要消失。 即使我还少用，看来在iPhone上所有的信息还出现。尝试吧！如果你想用italki聊天，可能最好是用那个app。
    May 26, 2013
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    The Plans for the coming vacation ("The plan," can be ok, but it would need to be a complete, single plan.)

    I am so busy these days, .and but now, I want to make a plans for my coming vacation. My classmates and I are going to have a great journey in Yunnan, China. The sights there is are beautiful, right? and We can eat more special some unique food there, hehe, and I want to climb the mountains to help keep good health~!! We may will / should have fun there... Oh, I can not wait! But for now, I have to get ready ("prepare" is better) for the final exams. ^_^ fighting！ Wish me luck!

     

    A few notes:

    "My classmates and I are going to have a great journey in Yunnan." Journey is a bit of a formal word. Saying "we will have a great journey" sounds like a fun way to express your excitement, such as "We will have an AMAZING JOURNEY!!! \(^o^)/" If so, you can leave it the way I wrote it. If you want to say it normally, say: "We will go on a trip to Yunnan."

     

    "The sights there are beautiful, right?" To me, "right?" is like "对吧？"; you a confirming something with the other person. You can't expect everyone to know about the sights in Yunnan, so this doesn't work. However, I don't know what you meant to say, so please try it again, or tell me in Chinese. :)

     

    "We can eat more special food there." I changed "more special food" to "some unique food," but I am only guessing. Please also try this one again, and/or write it in Chinese.

     

    "We may have fun there" = "We will maybe have fun there." You sounded excited, so if you are sure you will have fun, you should say "We will have fun." If you want to say that you feel you can expect to have fun, say "We should have fun."

     

    "But for now": Informally, it's ok, but it's not correct. In good writing, use "However" instead of "but." Maybe you already know this, but I'm just making sure. :)

     

    "Fighting!" Ok, obviously that's from Korean, so it's ok to keep it. There's no single equivalant in English. If you want to talk about what you will do, you can say "I'll study hard," but here is something interesting: when you are talking to someone, the other person will usually tell you "good luck!" or "study hard!" Therefore, if it is only you talking, you may ask the other person / people "Wish me luck!"

     

    Next time, please write your entries BOTH in Chinese and English. That way, it is easier for us to see what you wanted to say. :)

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    May 22, 2013
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    All are possible; it depends on the next part of the sentence. Let's say you're expecting a phone call today. They will call your home phone, but the problem is that you also need to go out and vacuum your car. :P Here are the possible situations, followed by a probable following sentence in parenthesis. If am in the car when they call, I won't hear it. (So please come out and let me know when they call.) If I was in the car when they called, of course I couldn't / didn't hear it. (I'm sorry! That's why I missed the call!) If I was in the car when they call, I wouldn't be able to hear it. (Hmm, so I'm not sure what to do yet.) If I were in the car when they call, I wouldn't be able to hear it. (So I won't go outside; I'll stay inside and wait for the call.) NOTE: Most people will NOT say these last two differently. Most people will not be this precise, so they will probably say either "were" or "was" for BOTH cases. If I had been in the car when they called, I wouldn't have heard it! (It's a good thing I stayed in the house and waited!) There could be other possible combinations / sample sentences, but I think I covered the main ones. :)
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    May 12, 2013
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  • Commented

    It could be 现在在中国是晚上，对不对?

     

    I'm at work, planning what to do today. :)

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    May 6, 2013
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    It is now evening in China.

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    May 6, 2013
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    Can you use the 기도 해요 construction in the same sentence as the first verb? Just want to confirm: In Talk To Me in Korean's Level 2 Lesson 14, they teach how to use 도 with verbs. Example: 나는 한국어를 공부해요. 그런데, 한국어를 가르치기도 해요 - I study Korean. However, I also teach Korean. (Is that correct?) My question is, can you say the following? 나는 한국어를 공부하고, 가르치기도 해요. - I study and also teach Korean. SECONDARY QUESTION: They said that "기" is used to "make the verb into a noun." Is that really true? It seems to be more like a verb construction, similar to using 고 or 저마세요. I normally think the way to make verbs into nouns is by using 는 것. Am I correct, or can something like 가르치기 stand alone or be used differently? Thanks. :)
    April 19, 2013
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    First notebook entry: Introducing myself

    I am learning English and Korean. because I am always interested in studying languages. And I am really happy to enjoy talking to different people (?) and making new friends.
    I grew up in China and my native language is Mandarin Chinese mandarin. I am looking forward to chatting with you and hopefully we can become your good friends. ^_^~

     

    I made two relatively big changes to show a more natural way of saying those things. However, it's rare to directly say that we hope to be friends. Maybe it's just already assumed, but it's especially strange if you're offering to be a good friend when you don't know the person. :P However, since we are probably using this website for the purpose of making friends, I guess it can stay - as long as we change the words a little bit.

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    April 1, 2013
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  • Answered
    直接问伙伴？不需要那么做。italki的问题是公共的。如果你在这儿有好友，就用chat或发信息直接问他们。
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    March 28, 2013
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    Perfeccionando el español

    Hola, nací en Corea y vivo en Mexico desde hace diez años. Se hablar español y como escribirlo, pero tengo faltas ortografías. Los acentos son un problema problemáticos para mi, y las palabras largas se me dificultan (hacer que?). Si alguien sabe español y le gustaría ayudarme a perfeccionar la correcta mi escritura y ampliar mi vocabulario, lo agradecería mucho bastante.* Tambien me sentire estaría* agradecida si me ayudarían corregir este texto. Gracias a todos.

     

    *I'm not sure if it HAS to be this tense or if you are able to use future tense. It's one of those things that colloquially don't matter much, and better-educated people would know. Since I didn't grow up in my parent's countries, I didn't get to study such specific grammatical details. :'(

    Ya le mandé un mensaje aquí por italki! Espero que lo vio and que me conteste pronto! ^o^

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    March 19, 2013
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