What is the benefit of having good English pronunciation?
• The first impression is extremely important when you speak with new people.
• People will know straight away your professional level by listening to the way you pronounce English words
• You can hide your limited vocab and grammar weakness, but not bad pronunciation.
• Good pronunciation simply opens you to huge opportunities to meet potential employers.
• Being able to communicate well with people from diverse countries is also a big achievement.
• Networking is extremely important. Consider if people will avoid talking to you if they have difficulty understanding what you want to say.
• If you have skilled pronunciation, people will very much enjoy make friends with you
Ways to improve your English conversation skills
Write your own blog
You may not know that writing is actually a good way to improve your vocabulary. When you want to describe something but get stuck, you will have to look at the dictionary. By writing your own blog, after a period of time, you will be surprised in the way you can express your idea in a conversation.
A meet up group
Join an English conversation “meet up” group to meet with people who want to practise their English speaking skills and you certainly will learn a lot from each other.
Sing karaoke
Learning through singing is such an effective way to improve your pronunciation and confidence. Why not surprise your friends in a party night singing your most favourite song?
Take an English conversation course
It is a good way to start, if you have no idea at all. The tutor in the class will guide you on what to do and correct your individual common mistakes. Later on, you can learn by yourself easily.
Think in English
Try to force yourself to think in English but not your own native language. It will likely be hard initially, but this will be a great way to learn more things around you which you didn’t really actually think of in the past. Later on, you will find more things to say when you speak in English
Pick up your favourite movies
Watching movies in the English language with English subtitles may help you to understand the movie and help you to know how people actually converse in real life. We always learn from something and someone, so this is one of the many ways.
Vocabulary list
Building up your own vocab list will help you a lot in the long run. Don’t forget to go through the list whenever you have spare time. Make the most of your smart phone, iphone and iPad apps such as note taking app, and to do list.
5 steps to improve English Grammar
• Start from basic sentences, move onto compound sentences and then complex sentences.
• Learn grammar rules and make good notes for future revision purposes.
• Double check your English grammar exercise/s every time you finish. You may make careless mistakes without notice.
• Learn from your mistake/s; you will not improve if you keep making the same mistake/s over and over.
• Learn from classmates, friends and the teacher. Some people may have difficulty in a particular skill and expertise in others. So why not learn from each other and together improve.
Series 1 of Korean Food : Japchae (잡채) Recipe
Japchae is one of the best Korean traditional foods have been still loved for every Korean regardless of gender and age. The dish is often served in Korean traditional Holidays such as Lunar New Year, Chuseok (추석/ kind of Korean Thanksgiving Day) and even someone’s birthday.
Japchae is a healthy and delicious food made with chewy cellophane noodle from sweet potato starch. 잡채 (Japchae) literally means a mix of chopped vegetables but modernized Japchae is a cooked noodle mixed up with many kinds of cokked vegetables and meat. Japchae is also very good dish for vegetarian if you make it without meat. You may choose the kind of vegetables you prefer. Japchae is a very colorful, tasty and highly nutritious food.
Let’s have a look at ingredients and how to cook it now!
Ingredients
200g japchae sweet noodles
1 onion, finely sliced
1 carrot, finely julienned
1 green or yellow capsicum, julienned
6~10 shitake mushrooms, soaked until soft and sliced into 5mm
Cooked spinach
100g lean beef, cut into thin strips (around 5~7mm)
Soy sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp sesame oil
Sesame seeds
Vegetable oil
Pepper and salt
How to cook
1.Preparing beef
Marinate the sliced thin beef with 1/2 tbsp soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil.
(If you want to remove the bad smell of meat, add a pinch of ginger power.)
Place it for 15 minutes.
Stir-fry them with vegetable oil in a pan over high heat until cooked through.
Put it on the platter.
2. Preparing shitake mushroom
Marinate the sliced mushroom with 1/2 tbsp soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil.
Place it for 15 minutes.
Stir-fry them with vegetable oil in a pan over medium heat.
Put it on the platter.
3. Preparing spinach
Put your spinach in a pot of boiling water and blanch it slightly for around 30 seconds.
Do not overcook.
Then rinse it in cold water 2~3 times and squeeze it lightly.
Chop it in half or into 5~7cm long.
Mix it with a pinch of salt, sesame oil, sesame seeds and pepper.
Put it on the platter.
4. Preparing carrots and onions
Cut carrots into strips and stir-fry it until they soften.
Add a pinch of salt. Just season to taste.
Put it on the platter.
Cook sliced onions with the same way.
5. Preparing capsicums.
Julienne capsicums into 5mm. It doesn’t need to be precooked.
6.Preparing noodles
Cook the noodle in plenty of boiling water for around 5 minutes.
When it is cooked thoroughly, it will look translucent.
If you are not sure of it, just taste it J. But do not overcook.
Rinse in cold water and drain well.
Cut the noodles into around 15cm.
7. Making Sauce
Mix 3 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 2 tbsp sesame oil and sesame seeds.
Add a pinch of pepper.
8. Mix every ingredient.
Put the noodles into a big bowl.
Add stir-fried beef, marinated shitake mushroom and precooked all vegetables.
Mix all ingredients smoothly with premade sauce.
Depending on your taste, control the amount of soy sauce or sugar.
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