ESL-LAB

Exchange student - Step one ( Get the approval from school)

     It's always my dream to study abroad, and I am  really glad that our university provide us the chance to apply for the Exchange Student Program.

     Korea  happened to be the place that I wish to go the most. Although I am also majoring in German, however, I find Germany too far away from Taiwan. I think I don't have the courage to leave my parents for such a long time.  

     SooChow University has various famous university of Korea. Since I am really fond of learning Korean, i decided to apply all 3 selections of exchange University to Universities in Korea.

1. Busan University

2. Sogang University

3. Hanyang University

I chose Busan as my first option because I really enjoy the atmosphere in Busan 

and I hope to meet Hun in Busan. Learning Korean is my first purpose, meeting him is my second main purpose. kkkk

I know I will be nominated because I think few people wants to go to Busan, since most people prefer Universities in Seoul. I'm not an adrenaline seeker, i hate to take risk. Therefore, I'm actually pretty sure that I'll pass the application. 

After a month, the result came out. I was actually pretty nervous during the examination time. However, I am pretty sure that my GPA, and my autobiography is good enough to be nominated kkk so I told myself just to wait for it. 

on 11/3! It came out~ Finally 

And now, I am being nominated by our university to apply for the exchange student of Pusan National University!! 

However, it is just the first step of the exchange student, everything is a X before i got the admission of Pusan National University. 

11/14 recording self introduction

record

Hello, I'm Kelly from Taiwan!
I am currently an junior English major student in SooChow University.
I am really interested in language learning, therefore I am also double majoring in German.
I enjoy watching Korean drama, and the Korean culture, so I started to learn Korean last winter.
It is my dream to travel around the world, and I know it's a dream of many people but hard to achieve. However, i wish to acquire a lot of different languages so that it will be a really useful tool of me to pursue my dream.

Being an interpreter is one of my goal as a student in the English department, i wish to be come a English-Chines-Korean Interpreter in the future. It takes a lot of effort to make this come true, and I will strive for it. Even if I failed, I know I will still learn much from it.

I enjoy travelling, therefore the other dream of mine is to become a tour guide. In this way, I can travel to different places and know people coming from different places.

Learning language is definitely a Must-do for me to achieve these dream. And the other reason that wish to learn language is to introduce Taiwan to the world. So...I will work hard on it!

11/7 ESL LAB

ESL LAB- BARBECUE PARTY RECORDING

11/7 Comments on the learning websites

When i was in senior high school, our English teacher subscribed Class-studio magazine for us to read, and I know that there are website which provides us more information from the magazine.

I haven't used the website for LiveABC before, but today i browsed the website for a while, i think I'm still not that interested in it, because most of them needs money, and i believe that there are still several ways to learn english for free.

And then i tried FUNDAY  , which i found pretty interesting and useful.
There are some articles depending on various kinds of categories. For instance: Travelling, Global, Economy, science, etc.

I found it useful because there are Chinese translation along with the English articles too. Therefore, if the article is too hard to understand, i can click on the Chinese-English version.

In this way, i can improve my ability of translation, and check if my way of translating is appropriate for formal articles like these.


What's more, after reading , you can also try some quizzes. For example:　

I like this website a lot, because it is not that difficult as the BBC NEWS or CNN NEWS
however i can still learn SOMETHING about the globe in this website.
If I have a tutor student, i think i'll print out some articles for them, because it's practical and meaningful

=) like it


There's also other websites such like " issuu" and "VOA"

10/31 Trying A.L.I.C.E

I feel like im talking to siri haha 
it is kinda fun and i think it is good for kids who has autism to practice English and communication

http://alice.pandorabots.com/

judge: are you male or female 
ALICE: I am female. 
judge: ah ~ 
ALICE: Alright then. 
judge: you know my roommate is not good at using computer 
ALICE: No I do not know that kind of personal information. But I could find out. 
judge: i just feel sad for her 
ALICE: What's the connection between " for her " and sadness? 
judge: she makes me sad 
ALICE: How specifically does she cause you sad? 
judge: because i am disappointed at her 
ALICE: Interesting explanation.. I am sorry to hear that. Perhaps next time I can do better. 
judge: what did you eat for lunch? 
ALICE: ALICE eats electricity. 
judge: so do i 
ALICE: To you judge? 
judge: i am not judge 
ALICE: Who tells you that you are judge? 
judge: you keep calling me judge 
ALICE: You think I am calling you judge. 
judge: yup 
ALICE: That's alright. 
judge: no not okay 
ALICE: Wow!. If not that, what?

10/31 trying others' JMIX

This is the test from http://yenfang841019.blogspot.tw/


I find it difficult to do the Jmix because the way of my writing might be different from the original writer. Therefore, when i am arranging the sentence, the logic are different. I find it frustrated to having so different answer as the CORRECT ONE

SAD
=(