4. ์ž…์ด ํŠธ์ด๋Š” ์˜์–ด 74

24.10.15 Applauding Myself

I used to study “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ using only my phone and e-books for quite some time. ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ‘์ž…ํŠธ์˜’์„ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ๊ณผ ์ด๋ถ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. As a result, I often skipped a day, and it felt like I wasn’t getting the most out of my studies. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ๋น ์ง€๋Š” ๋‚ ๋„ ๋งŽ์•˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๋ถ€๋„ ์ž˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค. * skip a day : ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋›ฐ๋‹ค * get the most out of : ~์—์„œ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งŽ์ด ์–ป์–ด ๋‚ด๋‹ค So, at the start 2023, I decided to sign up for a one-year subscription to the printed textb..

24.10.14 Retracing a Trip After 15 Years

What remains unchanged as time passes? ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ๊นŒ? * remain unchanged as time passes : ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค Memories fade, and youth diminishes, but the memories of shared moments seem to stay alive in their places. ๊ธฐ์–ต๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ Š์Œ๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์€ ๊ทธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค. * memories of shared moments : ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ถ”์–ต 15 years after my honeymoon in Germany, I returned there with my children. ์‹ ํ˜ผ์—ฌํ–‰..

24.10.11 Wildlife Traffic Accident

I’m a listener who recently moved to Gangwon-do province because of my job. ์ €๋Š” ์ง์žฅ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ๊ฐ•์›๋„๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜ค๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. To celebrate moving to Gangwon-do, I decided to enjoy the winter sport of snowboarding by getting a season pass for the first time. ๊ฐ•์›๋„์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ธฐ๋…์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒจ์šธ์ฒ  ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์ธ ์Šค๋…ธ๋ณด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ฆŒ๊ถŒ์„ ๋Š์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * winter sport : ๊ฒจ์šธ์ฒ  ์Šคํฌ์ธ  * get a season pass : ์‹œ์ฆŒ๊ถŒ์„ ๋Š๋‹ค So, at 5 p.m. on New Year’s Day, my girlfrie..

24.10.10 Teaching Kids Economics

A variety show that I enjoy watching once featured the economics education being taught by a homeroom teacher at an elementary school in Busan. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฒจ ๋ณด๋Š” ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์—์„œ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์˜ ํ•œ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๋‹ด์ž„ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นœ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๊ต์œก์„ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * homeroom teacher : ๋‹ด์ž„ ๊ต์‚ฌ The teacher had the children come up with a country and engage in work activities. ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ง์—… ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * come up with : ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋‚ด๋‹ค, ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค * engage in ..

24.10.09 Overcoming Smartphone Addiction

My daughter is 11 years old and loves browsing YouTube. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋”ธ์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ 11์‚ด์ธ๋ฐ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ์˜์ƒ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * browse YouTube : ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ์˜์ƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค But we made an agreement that she would watch for only 30 minutes a day, and she sets an alarm to manage her screen time. ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— 30๋ถ„๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ์•ฝ์†์„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์•„์ด๋Š” ์‹œ์ฒญ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•Œ๋žŒ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * make an agreement that : ~ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์•ฝ์†ํ•˜๋‹ค, ํ•ฉ์˜ํ•˜๋‹ค * set an alarm : ์•Œ๋žŒ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๋‹ค * someone's screen time : ..

24.08.15 Children's Choir

Our kids are currently part of a youth choir.์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์†Œ๋…„ ์†Œ๋…€ ํ•ฉ์ฐฝ๋‹จ ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹It's a newly formed choir that operates within our neighborhood.์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ตฌ๋‚ด์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ์ƒ ํ•ฉ์ฐฝ๋‹จ์ด๋‹ค. * within one's neighborhood : ๊ตฌ๋‚ด์—, ๋™๋„ค์—โ€‹When we first saw the recruitment notice, the kids signed up along with their friends out of a mix of curiosity and interest in singing.์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ชจ์ง‘ ๊ณต๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ , ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๋ฐ˜ ๋…ธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.โ€‹* sig..

24.08.16 Studying "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" Independently

I have been studying "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" on my own for three years.์ €๋Š” '์ž…ํŠธ์˜'์„ 3๋…„์งธ ํ˜ผ์ž ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * on one's own : ํ˜ผ์ž, ์Šค์Šค๋กœโ€‹I wake up at 6 o'clock on the dot.์ผ๋‹จ 6์‹œ ์ •๊ฐ์— ๊ธฐ์ƒ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * on the dot : ์ •๊ฐ์—โ€‹Then, I recite the "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" dialogue.๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋‹ค์Œ '์ž…ํŠธ์˜' ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฌธ์„ ์•”์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹My principle is to memorize each day's dialogue on the day of.๋‹น์ผ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹น์ผ ์™ธ์šด๋‹ค๋Š” ์›์น™์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * on the day of : ๋‹น์ผ์—โ€‹When the "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" broadcast starts, I get ready to tak..

24.08.19 Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is when consumers directly invest in the production costs of products that are still in development, helping to get them released. ํฌ๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ํŽ€๋”ฉ์ด๋ž€ ์•„์ง ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์ œ์ž‘ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์„œ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ถœ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค.* directly invest in : ~์— ์ง์ ‘ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋‹ค* be still in development : ์•„์ง ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค, ์ถœ์‹œ ์ „์ด๋‹คโ€‹The consumers can get early access to the products, and at a lower price. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋Š” ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.·..

24.08.20 Seed Vault

A notably high number of wildfires have been reported this year. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ์‚ฐ๋ถˆ ์†Œ์‹์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค๋ ค์˜จ๋‹ค.* a notably high number of : ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ๋งŽ์€โ€‹Recently, a large wildlife wreaked havoc in Hawaii, resulting in the lose of many lives and wildlife. ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ•˜์™€์ด์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์‚ฐ๋ถˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํฐ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋™์‹๋ฌผ์ด ํฌ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. * wreak havoc : ํฐ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…๋‹ค โ€‹If such natural disasters continue to occur, the survival of plants that sustain our lives..

24.08.21 Visiting New York Alone

I used to be afraid of doing anything all by myself. ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋“  ํ˜ผ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * all by oneself : ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ, ์Šค์Šค๋กœโ€‹I had never dined solo or watched a movie alone, and especially never even imagined I could travel by myself. ํ˜ผ๋ฐฅ๋„ ํ˜ผ์˜(ํ˜ผ์ž ์˜ํ™” ๋ณด๊ธฐ)๋„ ํ•ด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ €๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ๋‚˜ ํ˜ผ์ž ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ์ƒ์ƒ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * dine solo : ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ๋ฐฅ์„ ๋จน๋‹ค* never even imagine : ์ƒ์ƒ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹But just before I turned thirty, I planned a month-long t..