총,귤,쇠

Music makes me happy. When I feel good or bad, I am with a lot of music.

Some songs remind my beautiful memories. I introduce you these two songs which make my mind peaceful.

The first song is Lost stars(Adam Levine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL4uhaQ58Rk

When I went to Australia in 2014, I spent hard time. My health was not good and I didn't have much money. I used to have bread and some ketchup as a dinner. For my healthy, I bought bread with some grains. However, the hard time and new environment made me more think a lot. During the time, this song touched my heart like whispering that I know your mind.

The second song is The shower(푸르던) sung by IU.

I went to Australia as a Working Holiday worker. I wanted to get a service job like a coffee barista. But I couldn't accept the low payment.

To stay longer in Australia, I had to get second visa. For the reason, I went to a farm above Melbourne. There, I met my best friend Wilson and ex-girlfriend.

When I'm done with my daily work, I spent time with enjoying my life such as swimming, reading books, and hanging around with my friends. Everything was happy.

At night in the farm, I could see a lot of stars well.

I often listened to this song with the stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTquokWSCw

I sometimes think about this time. I can't go back to the time and meet my friends. Thanks to music, I think and imagine my precious memories.

This picture is also taken in the farm which I use in my every Sunday blog writing.

When I saw this picture, I thought the cow was saying hi(왔니?) which I want to say to my subscribers.

I hope my friends and people who I met before are happy and healthy.

While I go to travel abroad, I will also miss my family and friends.

I don't want to regret.

Let's make each day count.

Have you ever played Yut?

During this vacation, my family enjoyed playing Yut.

Yut is a traditional game of Korea.

We usually play this game when we get together.

Below picture is the board of Yut which we played on.

You can put something as a player's horse.

This time, we used above each clips as horses.

The rule of the game is easy.

Just go and come back along the way.

You will start at the starting line and your horses will stay on the dots.

You can move your horses by throwing those bars when it is your turn.

Depending on the up and down direction of the rod, you can move your horses from 1 to 5 dots even -1.

If you put your horse on the other player's horse, the player who lost his horse has to start again from the start line.

I recommend that anyone who visits Korea try it once.

It's different from a chess game.

You can enjoy it with other people as a team.

Actually, It was awkward playing games with my family before my brother-in-law came.

The reason is that there was only my mom who was a woman in my family.

Thanks to my brother-in-law, we had a fun time with Yut.

What about playing a traditional game when you meet your family instead of playing mobile game alone?

You can make good memories through your small choices.

Yut game could be a fresh experience for your family.

I hope we could have an opportunity to play the game together in the future.

Have a nice day, my foreign friends.

I was trying to translate this song but it's not easy to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPTfXwPf_HM

There are some reasons why I can't translate it.

Firstly, this song and singer's speaking are very fast to write down.

Secondly, I'm not familiar with the pronunciation which is spoken from native speaker, not an announcer.

Finally, my English listening ability is poor.

It's ok. I'm not a native speaker but I felt that I need to practice more.

I wondered whether I can easily listen to Korean lylics or not.

I tried testing my Korean listening ability with the new song of BTS, Black Swan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGbuUFRdYqU

Following blue words are BTS's lylics and black words are mine.

The proper lylics are underlined.

(English)

심장이 뛰지 않는대

심장은 뛰지 않는데

더는 음악을 들을 때

너는 음악을 들을 때

(English)

시간이 멈춘 듯해

시간이 멈춘 듯해

(English)

이게 나를 더 못 울린다면 내 가슴을 더 떨리게 못 한다면

이건나르도 못두는 다면 내 가슴은 더 떨리게 못 한다면

어쩜 이렇게 한 번 죽겠지 아마

어쩜 이렇게 한 번 죽겠지 야멈

About 70% were right. I'm even poor at Korean, too.

Actually, listening a song's lylics exactly is not easy even for native speakers.

So let's not get stresses with English listening, just get used to it.

I'd better enjoy listening to music as a music.

My mind should be like a baby's which is for learning English for survive.

Let's practice and wait the future I picture.

Change doesn't happen suddenly.

I need to know the way I cook Korean food.

While traveling around the world, I am going to use Couch surfing, which connects people to exchange each other's culture.

I want to let my foreign people know K-culture. One of them is Korean food.

Unfortunately, I'm not good at cooking, so I looked for my old materials that I studied some recipes of Korean food in English.

This is what I used as parts of a report when I was a student.

At that time, I just did it for my score.

However, I had to try to do much better for my future!

I need to explain to my friends what I am making.

Since today, I will often write about Korean culture for me and my foreign friends.

By this way, my English and cooking skills will be improved.

Then, my friends' joy is more likely to go up.

I can do it! It will make everyone happy! Cheer up!

Anyway, I highly recommend you guys to come to Korea, my friends.

See you later.

- Jin(Mr. Gru) -

I believe that the best way to improve my English ability is following my interesting. Many people want to learn and speak English well. There are many effective kinds of method to study English. Any kinds of Learning English is better than never. It could be slow to get improve but it would be helpful. If you, however, are interested in something, you will be into it easily. Just follow your interesting. In my case, I watch 'The Ellen Show' for my listening practice. I chose this way instead of the famous american drama 'Friends.' I tried to study English by watching 'Friends' but it made me feel stress. I don't like just memorizing. I want to know nowadays cultures, and communicate with foreigners about them. Although it may not be easy in the beginning, you will realize that you are laughing and enjoying learning English.

I hope people who want to improve English ability like me watch this video. Even though you are not interested in it, I recommend you to watch it. I'm sure you will laugh for fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXT_rtMk-so

Actually, you will feel comfortable if you get down your English ability standards.

But if you want to do it well, let's try and keep going no matter what people say.

The most imporant thing in my life is my interesting.

+ Bonus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2zgMytpws&t=14s