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한국어 배우다가 한국 수원으로 출장 온 삼성전기 인도 직원들과 수원역에서 만났어요.
즐거운 시간~~~

한국어 배우는 나의 수제자 쿠샬의 생일파티도 했어요. ^^

We played balling all together today. It was so funny. 😄

영작문을 위한 유용한 웹사이트 모음. ^^

http://slownews.kr/21031

영작문을 위한 유용한 웹사이트 모음 영작문을 위한 웹사이트를 모아봤습니다. 평상시에 제가 여러 번 하는 말이지만 자료는 많습니다. 중요한 것은 자신이 원하는 게 무엇인지 먼저 파악하는 일입니다. 그리고 많은 웹사이트를 살펴보기보다는 관심 가는 사이트 두세 개를 중심으로 공부하는 게 좋다고 생각합니다. 예를 들어 '데일리 라이팅 팁스'(Daily Writing Tips) 같은 사이트는 그 자체로 하나의 종합선물세트 같은 느낌이 있어서, 링크를 따라가다 보면 아주…

발등에 불이 떨어졌네요.
이번 여름에 오기로 했던 한 교회 영어캠프팀이 인도가 아니라
'미쿡'으로 가기로 갑자기 변경했습니다.

열심히 여름방학 영어캠프 홍보해야 하는 상황이 벌어진 것이죠. ^^

인도 뱅갈로에서 4주간 문화탐방과 영어연수,
그리고 나와 너, 함께사는 우리 공동체를 배우는
솔트의 여름방학 인도캠프에 초중고생(6학년-고2)을 초대합니다.

관심있으신 분은 연락주세요.
그리고 널리 퍼뜨려 주세요오오오~~~~
자세한 소개서 보내드리겠습니다.

아자 아자!! 전화위복이라는 것이 있으니까요. ㅎㅎㅎ

Korean Language Class in LG Soft India in Bangalore. We are teaching English, Hindi and Korean. ^^

오랫만에 솔트어학원 페이지에 인사 올려요. 페이지 관리하던 매니저가 그만둬서 한동안 새 포스팅이 없었죠. 힘내서 다시 시작할 볼게요. ^^

Yesterday, we had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas in advance... PTL!

7 grammar rules you really should pay attention to:

1. The subjunctive
This one is pretty simple. When you're writing about a non-true situation — usually following the word if or the verb wish — the verb to be is rendered as were.

So:

* If I xwasx were a rich man.

* I wish I xwasx were an Oscar Mayer wiener.

* If Hillary Clinton xwasx were president, things would be a whole lot different.

If you are using if for other purposes (hypothetical situations, questions), you don't use the subjunctive.

* The reporter asked him if he xwerex was happy.

* If an intruder xwerex was here last night, he would have left footprints, so let's look at the ground outside.

2. Bad parallelism
This issue comes up most often in lists, for example: My friend made salsa, guacamole, and brought chips. If you start out by having made cover the first two items, it has to cover subsequent ones as well. To fix, you usually have to do just a little rewriting. Thus, My friend made salsa and guacamole and brought chips to go with them.

3. Verb problems
There are a few persistent troublemakers you should be aware of.

* I'm tired, so I need to go xlayx lie down.

* The fish xlaidx lay on the counter, fileted and ready to broil.

* Honey, I xshrunkx shrank the kids.

* In a fit of pique, he xsunkx sank the toy boat.

* He xseenx saw it coming.

(The last three are examples of verbs where people sometimes switch the past and participle forms. Thus, it would be correct to write: I have shrunk the kids; He had sunk the boat; and He had seen it coming.)

4. Pronoun problems
Let's take a look at three little words. Not "I love you," but me, myself and I. Grammatically, they can be called object, reflexive, and subject. As long as they're by themselves, object and subject don't give anyone problems. That is, no one who's an adult native English speaker would say Me walked to the bus stop or He gave the book to I. For some reason, though, things can get tricky when a pronoun is paired with a noun. We all know people who say things like Me and Fred had lunch together yesterday, instead of Fred and I... Heck, most of us have said it ourselves; for some reason, it comes trippingly off the tongue. We also (most of us) know not to use it in a piece of writing meant to be published. Word to the wise: Don't use it in a job interview, either.

There's a similar attraction to using the subject instead of object. Even Bill Clinton did this back in 1992 when he asked voters to give Al Gore and I [instead of me] a chance to bring America back. Or you might say, Thanks for inviting my wife and I, or between you and I… Some linguists and grammarians have mounted vigorous and interesting defenses of this usage. However, it's still generally considered wrong and should be avoided.

A word that's recently become quite popular is myself — maybe because it seems like a compromise between I and me. But sentences like Myself and my friends went to the mall or They gave special awards to Bill and myself don't wash. Change the first to My friends and I… and the second to Bill and me.

5. The 'dangling' conversation
In a class, I once assigned students to "review" a consumer product. One student chose a bra sold by Victoria's Secret. She wrote:

Sitting in a class or dancing at the bar, the bra performed well…. Though slightly pricey, your breasts will thank you.

The two sentences are both guilty of dangling modifiers because (excuse me if I'm stating the obvious), the bra did not sit in a class or dance at the bar, and "your breasts" are not slightly pricey.

Danglers are inexplicably attractive, and even good writers commit this error a lot... in their first drafts. Here's a strategy for smoking these bad boys out in revision. First, recognize sentences that have this structure: MODIFIER-COMMA-SUBJECT-VERB. Then change the order to: SUBJECT-COMMA-MODIFIER-COMMA-VERB. If the result makes sense, you're good to go. If not, you have a dangler. So in the first sentence above, the rejiggered sentence would be:

The bra, sitting in a class or dancing at a bar, performed well.

Nuh-uh. The solution here, as it often is, is just to add a couple of words: Whether you're sitting in a class or dancing at the bar, the bra performs well.

6. The semicolon
I sometimes say that when you feel like using a semicolon, xlayx lie down till the urge goes away. But if you just can't resist, remember that there are really only two proper uses for this piece of punctuation. One is to separate two complete clauses (a construction with a subject and verb that could stand on its own as a sentence). I knocked on the door; no one answered. The second is to separate list items that themselves contain punctuation. Thus, The band played Boise, Idaho; Schenectady, New York; and Columbus, Ohio.

Do not use a semicolon in place of a colon, for example, There is only one piece of punctuation that gives Yagoda nightmares; the semicolon.

7. Words
As I noted in my previous article, the meaning of words inevitably and perennially change. And you can get in trouble when you use a meaning that has not yet been widely accepted. Sometimes it's fairly easy to figure out where a word stands in this process. It's become more common to use nonplussed to mean not bothered, or unfazed, but that is more or less the opposite of the traditional meaning, and it's still too early to use it that way when you're writing for publication. (As is spelling unfazed as unphased.) On the other hand, no one thinks anymore that astonish means "turn to stone," and it would be ridiculous to object to anyone who does so. But there are a lot of words and expressions in the middle. Here's one man's list of a few meanings that aren't quite ready for prime time:

* Don't use begs the question. Instead use raises the question.

* Don't use phenomena or criteria as singular. Instead use phenomenon or criterion.

* Don't use cliché as an adjective. Instead use clichéd.

* Don't use comprised of. Instead use composed of/made up of.

* Don't use less for count nouns such people or miles. Instead use fewer.

* Don't use penultimate (unless you mean second to last). Instead use ultimate.

* Don't use lead as past tense of to lead. Instead use led.

I hesitate to state what should be obvious, but sometimes the obvious must be stated. So here goes: Do not use it's, you're or who's when you mean its, your or whose. Or vice versa!

By, Ben Yagoda

The institute is getting ready for a Hot Christmas :-) (Models - Younjeong & Juyoung) \^^/