안녕하세요! Hello!

안녕! Did you know what I just said? It is mean “Hello!” in Korean, and you might think the beginning is very familiar because it is similar when I start my French challenge. Anyway, today is the first day of my second half 30-day challenge, so I’m just going to teach you some of the basic greetings that Korean people will use in their daily life.

The first sentence I am going to teach is “Hello!”, but remember that in Korean society they will need to add polite word if you are older than them. That is something really need to notice when you speak Korean to a Korean people, because if you accidentally didn't or use polite words in the wrong situation. Those Korean people might think you are very rude or very respectfulness to them, so it is important to know when you should use polite word or not. Let us back to our topic, to say “Hello!” in Korean is “안녕!”(An-Nyeong). If we add polite word in it, it will then be “안녕하세요”(An-Nyeong-Ha-Se-Yo). From the word we can tell that they have similar word structure, but for the polite one it add three more words in it. Hello is not a hard sentence so let us continued the lesson!

The next sentence is “고마워!”(Go-Ma-Wo), which mean “Thank you!” in English. If we add polite words in it, it will be “감사합니다”(Gam-Sa-Hab-Ni-Da). For “Thank you!” it is different than the “Hello!” one, it didn't only add the polite word on it. The sentences have totally change into a different form. Anyway, as we all know that Korean people are very polite to each other. This mean it is necessary for us to say “Thank you!” to them all the time, no matter where you are. From my experience, I think learn how to say “Thank you!” in other language is very important, because even though we didn't have a really good English or one specific language. As long you know how to say “Thank you!”, most of the people won’t be mad at you and they might even help you! If you didn't say “Thank you!” after one person help you, they might just think this person is so rude that even didn't say “Thank you!" to me. Then he/she will told their friends, and more people will know that people from your country are not respect to other people. I believe that is something you don’t want to face when you travel to one country, so remember to learn how to say “Thank you!” before you travel!

I think it is enough for today, we have learn two different useful sentences for our daily life, include the polite way of speaking. For the next one I think we will go over some asking sentences, but I didn't decide what kind of sentences I will teach. Perhaps I will pick those sentences that appear in the Korean TV show very often. I don’t know, it is all depends on you guys. Remember to put comment below the blog, so I would able to know what kind of sentences you want to learn. See you next time! 안녕!

Korean~~~

Today is the start of the second half of my 30-day challenge, as what I said before, I am going to learn a new language beside English, French, and Mandarin. It is my pleasure to tell you we are going to learn Korean! As we all know that Korean are the second large population we have of the international students in Cheshire Academy. However, people in the world seems like not having a big favor of learning Korean. For me, I always think that Korean is a really interesting language, because how the words they form are similar to Mandarin. Meanwhile, it have totally different root compare to Mandarin, that is why I am so interested about learning Korean for my 30-day challenge!

Before we start the lesson today, I need to briefly talk about the grammar rule in Korean. For the characters of Korean, it is base on different kind of roots. This mean if you know how to read each roots in Korean, probably 99% of the words in Korean you will able to pronounce it. For the grammar it is basically same as Mandarin and English did, which is a subject, verb, and agreement. We can understand Korean as another type of English but with different format of vocabulary and character.

However, there is one special grammar rule we should notice about before we start to learn Korean. In their society, there must verify each other into different level. Such as the people who are older than you and people who are younger than you. Facing different level groups of people will need to say in different kind of way. Obviously we need to speak in polite way when we are talking to our elder, and for those people who are younger than us we can just say in normal way. (Didn't required to add polite way). The way how they verify each other in level are also interesting, we will usually think older age people will be the elder and younger age will be the normal one. From the information I got from my Korean friend, he said that in this school we don’t verify each other in age but in grade. This mean even though I am younger than you, but as long I am junior and you are a 10th grade, you still need to add polite word when you talk to me, which is only happen in our school.

Due to the time we have I think we are not going to learn some useful Korean sentences today, but at least we got to know some interesting facts about the Korean society and how it is work. If you are not a big fan of Korean, I will suggest you to stop that kind of thought and try to make yourself love it. For those who would like to learn Korean, I believe we will have a really good time together, because I’m not only to teach you some useful sentences in the daily life, but also some sentences that you will heard very often when you watch Korean show!

A bientôt!

Did you still remember that few weeks ago there was a college fair held in the campus. It was very important for junior because next year we will need to apply some colleges that we will want to go. However, one of the important part for the application is interview. Those college counselors will verify one person by the process of interview. If you did really well on the interview part, than those counselors might have a really good impression so that it will help you to get into that college easier. Anyway, did you know some useful sentences in French that can use during the interview? That me show you some really good sentences that you must learn if you want to go to study or work at France.

The first sentence is “Je m’appelle XX” (XX represent your name), which mean “My name is XX”. Telling the person your name is the first but the most important step for an interview. If they think the process of interview is very successful but they forget your name, it will cause all the works you do become nothing. I believe that this is something people didn't want to happen on themselves. This mean make sure to let the person knows what is your name, or I will say your are just wasting your time on an impossible interview.

After you know how to say “My name is XX”, you should also know how to say “What is your name?” as a basic respect to he/she. To say “What is your name?” in French is “ Comment tu t’appelles?”. Think about it, if you didn't know the person’s name who interview you it will be really hard for you to continued the interview. Not because you did really bad on it, but they will think you even didn't take this interview serious so you didn't know the name who interview you. Two tips that will help you when you are doing an interview are always mention the person your name and remember their name. If you could remember these two points when you are doing an interview, I believe the person who interview you will memorize you.

So far we have learn “Je m’appelle XX” and “Comment tu t’appelles?” which are both useful during an interview. The last sentence I am going to teach is “A bientôt!” which is mean “See you soon!” in English. This sentence could not only use in an interview, but also our daily life. Such as when we say goodbye to our friends, some people will say see you soon instead of goodbye. People think see you soon is better because saying goodbye might represent that this will be the last meet with you. Just like the new theme song in “Fast and Furious 7”- “See You Again!”. They are the same theory of what I just said. However, I hope you guys love my challenge so far, because this will be the end of the French part. For the up coming challenge, it will be learning how to speak Korean. A bientôt!

Goal for the coming up challenge

I think for the second half of my challenge I should do other languages besides French, because the original challenge is to learn different languages for one sentence each day. This is why right now I am looking for one of my friend that can speak other language beside Mandarin and French. For example, Korean and Japaness are always make me interesting. Especially the grammar rule in Korean and Japaness are also very different than any languages I learn so far. However, in order to reach this goal. Finding a students from Korea to teach me Korean is easy, but for Japaness is not easy because of the number of Japaness students we have in the school. That could be another factor for me to think about before I start my second half 30-day challenge.

Excited & Inspired

I am excited about the new sets of V-drum that is coming up.

Friday is exciting for students.

I am inspired by the movie "The Wolves of Wall Street" that sometimes having too much money is not good.

This movie is very inspiring for people.

Quiz (Passed, Past, Past)

In the      few days, I learned how to play soccer.

People should learn mistakes from the         .

I need to       my math test in order to graduate.

I still remember the mistakes I made in the       .

He  just        through the campus few minutes ago.

I already got my driver lesson in the     few days.

French on Friday!

Today is the April 25th of 2015, do you know what day is today? It is the most important day in my life because it is-Friday. At first you might think today is someone’s birthday or some kind of important festival, don’t you? Anyway, since we talk about birthday, do you want to learn some useful sentences to compliment the person? I am very sure the answer is yes so let us start!

If you want to say “Happy Birthday!" in French you should say “Bon anniversaire!”. As everyone knows that Birthday is one of the most important day for one person. It is not because people can only celebrate once in a year, but that represent you are getting one year older. I think there is nothing more important than become older. As one person getting older people will have more expectation on you because they think you are already grown up. You should be more self control on your own behavior, but correspondent, there will be less constraint on you. Such as driving a car, drinking beer, or having a credit card...etc. It is good to celebrate one person birthday, especially they can get blessing by their family and friends. That is why “Bon anniversaire!” is the sentence that you will definitely use in your daily life.

While we get blessing from other people, answer with basic respect to them is necessary, which is “Thank You.”-”Merci beavcoup.” This is also another very useful sentence in our life, just like “Bon jour” (Hello in English). I believe no matter which language we are study, know how to say “Thank you.” are usually teach in the first or second class. Then we can know that “Thank you.” is very important in all the language, because it represent the basic respect to other people. You will use “Thank you” in any places, such as at school, in a shop, or even in your house. From my own experience, learn how to say “Thank you” is very important. Especially when you travel to that country, and if you didn't know how to say “Thank you” in their language, those local people will treat you badly and think you are not respectful at all. This might cause you to lose your job or missing the biggest chance for your whole life. Don't miss the luck because of your own disrespectful!

For today we have learn two new sentences: “Bon anniversaire!” and ”Merci beavcoup.”. These two sentences you can use it immediately if your friends birthday is on today or someone just help you. Anyway, these two sentences can be use very often and always surround in your life. Although that memorize lots of SAT words or using prefect grammar is very important as a high school students if they are study in U.S., but if you didn't have the basic respect. No matter how high the SAT score is, no matter how good is your paper is. Nobody will accept your skill and let you go into their group, and this is same in other language too!