Looking for a language exchange partner in Seoul!! :D

Hi, my name is Cathy :)

I'm currently living in Korea and want to make a new friend in Seoul. I can speak Korean & Chinese fluently (I'm originally a Korean but lived in China for almost 8 years) and as you can tell, English too. If your native language is English (or Chinese) and are willing to learn either Korean or Chinese, please let me know. It will be great if we can meet in Seoul once or twice a week together to get to know each other and exchange different cultures and laguages! 

 

Oh, and I'm also interested in learning Spanish too! Hopefully I can find a right person in here!! Just feel free and msg me! Thanks :)

 

the difference between "presence" and "existence" what is the difference between the two words "presence" and "existence"? seems like they have the same meaning tho... please explain with some detailed examples thanks :D

The usage of some similar words I want to know how to use these words below which have similar meanings, 1. relieve 2. allay 3. mitigate 4. reduce 5. lessen Please explain with some examples, thanks!! :)

vocabulary question~!!! Flimsy & frail The patient lost forty pounds over the course of treatment and has become quite ____________. 1. benign 2. flimsy 3. frail 4. burly The answer is 3. frail but why cannot 2.flimsy? It also has the meaning of "weak" and "easy to break". Thanks for answering the quetion in advance! :)

The food we eat today is much healthier than in the past. As our society develop, people’s eating pattern has been changed over time in a variety ways. Over decades, with the improvement of international trade and food industry, people are able to taste different food and ingredients from all over the world. Despite of the diversity of the food we eat today, it is hard to say that the quality of food nowadays has been improved for the following reasons below. First of all, with the possibility of mass production, the food from other countries are able to appear in our meals almost every day. In addition to this, the seasonal fruits or some vegetables, which are only available during a certain period of time, are possible to be planted and grow in a greenhouse. However, to keep this food fresh and foster them grow faster, people start using more and more pesticide and preservative. It is proven that the chemical materials in the food are harmful and have a negative effect on our body, which can cause a number of serious diseases like a cancer. Additionally, due to the excessive use of fertilizer, the average time for fruits and vegetables to mature has been considerably reduced. As a result, the nutrients within the food raised by the fertilizer becomes scarce so that people have to consume more food to get enough nutrition. Furthermore, knowing that the numerous man-made pollutions and catastrophes have been destroying the world we live, a large number of people refuse to eat processed food because the uncertainty of the security of the food. It is obvious that we do not know where the food we eat every day come from and how are they made as final products. That is why people recently pay more attention on organic and well-being foods to be free from the danger that today’s food might bring to our body. The environmental issues such as climate changes and water and air pollution now threaten our life as well as the life of our next generation. Even though the state-of-the-art medical system that human have achieved so far, there still are a lot of epidemical diseases existing of which the vaccine has not found yet. In conclusion, despite the fact that human have achieved unprecedented improvement in every aspects of the life, based on the reasons that I mentioned above, it is hard for people to be reassured that the food we eat today is better and much healthier than in the past.

TOEFL integrated practice 8 - please revise my writing, thanks :) The meaning of history, according to the reading, is a selection of events based on the interpretation of the historian recording the event. Selection and interpretation are the major factors when identifying the concept of history. In the lecture, the professor tells about a story of a man who were a candidate for a presidential election. The two books were published based on his life story and the contents that two books dealing with were totally different from each other. The first book mainly focused on the negative parts of his life such as the financial problem of his father, his failure to organize a football team in high school as well as his mediocre grades. Meanwhile, the second book portrayed the bright parts of his life including a happy home life with lovely parents in his early years, his experience serving as a student president in high school, his great academic interest in university and an outstanding performance in military. Therefore, as we can see, the story of his life becomes entirely different based on the two key factors that reading passage discusses: what events do the historians (writers) decide to select and how they interpret the story in a certain direction

TOEFL integrated practice 7 - please revise my writing, thanks :) According to the reading passage, there are two major aspects of group behavior described by a research: deindividualization and polarization. The research shows that when there is a group of people working together, they tend to lose their self-control and not able to behave rationally rather, they behave in a violent and aggressive way. Polarization, on the other hand, means when a group of people gather together, they usually are like-minded and prone to make an extreme decision in contrast to when they are alone. Whereas the professor in the lecture points out that there are not always anti-social activities associated with the deindividualization and polarization. Contrary to the examples in the reading passage, the professor mentions the pro-social deindividualistic behaviors by people like those who share similar emotional pain and gather together to pour out their severe emotional feelings and those who are overwhelmed by the joy and pleasure when an underdog wins a game that they have been rooting for. Also, not every polarization behavior is related to the anti-social activities. The professor also gives two examples of this: when a group of people living in a town together who are suffering from town bully raise to fight and when a workers in a company group together to deal with their sadistic boss.

Course grades based on exams / based on class participation. Which do you prefer and why? When we study in university, a wide range of courses that we have to take require various type of systems to grade our scores. Some courses grades are only based on exams while other grades are based on our performance of class participation. In my view, I like the courses in which I can participate more in class for two reasons. First of all, it is no doubt that the reason why we take different classes in university is to learn something new and to it is impossible to gain knowledge by not attending our classes every day. Class participation, needless to say, is the best way to keep student focused on their studying and has a significant effect on students' attendance as well. If a course grade is solely determined by the scores on exams, a lot of student may not want to attend class every day because their attendance has nothing to do with their grades. To increase students' attendance rate, teachers should require their student to participate in diverse class activities such as a group presentation and a discussion on a certain topic. Also, it is more fun when student are able to take part in different school activities in class. For example, when I was in university, I was not really into history because I thought it was so boring and there were too many things to remember. However, my history teacher was an energetic and humorous person and he liked to give us quiz before he started teaching. It was a lot of fun because the quiz was a competition between three groups and some extra credits were added to the grade for the members of group that won the quiz. By participating group quiz every day before the class started, naturally, my interest in history class was largely increased as well as my knowledge about Chinese history. To sum it up, there are two advantages of on class participation: to raise students' attendance rate and to stimulate students' interest in a certain subject. For these reasons, I prefer to take a class where a course grade is based on class participation.

The difference between two similar words What is the difference between the words "perpetual" and "perennial"? I know that they have similar meaning to "everlasting" and "continual". But want to know how to differentiate them. Please explain with detailed examples :) Thanks!