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  Yesterday, I attended the speech held by our department, and the topic of the speech was the career that students from department of English could choose in the future. The lecturer, Sonny, was a professional translator. In this lecture, he not discussed three kinds of careers that most students form department of English would probably choose in the future, including English teaching, working in foreign companies, and translation. Sonny discussed about the education of English in Taiwan in the speech. He pointed out that people should put more emphasis on writing and speaking than reading and listening. Also, there were too many people who did not view basic skills as important ones, and it was caused by “fast food culture”. People who wanted to improve their English skills should follow the three steps: being correct, being fluent, and being local. When learning, try various ways to learn English and learn to express in English. People could read news, letter, ads, novels, bi...

        In the summer vacation before I became sophomore, I made my heart to learn Korean. As the semester begins, I was quite excited to learn it. Since I had listened to k-pop songs for half and a year and learned alphabets on the Net, it was not difficult for me to dip into learning Korean. Before I start the class, I was always busy remembering many names of idols. Memorizing the alphabets and the pronunciation was a piece of cake for me.         Time flies, I learned more and more about Korean, but I also faced some difficulties when learning. I was poor at learning grammar, and I found it difficult for me to learn Korean auxiliary verbs. The same word would serve as different usage in different sentences, like past tense used in past sentence and in hypothetical sentence in English. There was a period that I mix all the usages of auxiliary verbs when practicing composing the sentences. Finally, I sorted out al...