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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Michael Jordan

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Steve Jobs

I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.

학여역수행주 부진즉퇴 (學如逆水行舟 不進則退)

배움은 흐르는 강물을 거슬러 오르는 배와 같아서, 앞으로 나아가지 않으면 퇴보한다. - 晉(진) 葛洪(갈홍)의 '抱朴子(포박자)'

Mahatma Gandhi

Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Theophrastus

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

J. K. Rowling

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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Sunday, February 05, 2017

[Tips] English Proficiency Test: IELTS


If you are an international student,
and
did not take regular English course for more than 3-4 years

you MUST take an English proficiency test

There are several choices,

such as IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, PTE:A and OPI/OPIc.

On this post, I'll focus on IELTS!

만약 당신이 캐나다 시민권자나 영주권자가 아닌 국제학생이고
캐나다에서 정규 영어 수업을 3-4년 이상 듣지 않았다면
대학교 입시 전
아이엘츠, 토플, 토익, PTE:A, OPI/OPIc
같은 영어 시험을 꼭 치러야 해요.

그러면 이번 포스팅에선 IELTS에 대해 알아봅시다!




Official Website

IELTS Canada - British Council: CLICK HERE
IELTS Canada - IDP: IELTS Australia: CLICK HERE


IELTS is the International English Language Testing System

It is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers.

It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment

It was established in 1989.

IELTS is accepted by most Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand academic institutions, by over 3,000 academic institutions in the United States, and by various professional organizations across the world.

아이엘츠는 국제 영어 시험 시스템을 뜻하고

영어가 모국어가 아닌 사람의 영어 수준을 평가하기 위한
국제 표준의 영어 시험이에요.

British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment의 3곳의 기관이 있으며

1989년도에 출범하였고

호주, 영국, 캐나다, 뉴질렌드, 3000개가 넘는 미국의 교육기관 등 전 세계에 걸쳐 표준화가 됐어요.  




An IELTS result or Test Report Form is issued to all test takers with a score from "band 1" ("non-user") to "band 9" ("expert user") and each institution sets a different threshold.r 3,000 academic institutions in the United States, and by various professional organisations across the world.

아이엘츠는 1점에서 9점까지 점수가 매겨지며
각 교육기관마다 요구하는 점수가 달라요.




Test fees are: 309.00 CAD in Kitchener, London, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and all British Columbia venues. 319.00 CAD in Niagara Region, Windsor.

응시료는 지역별마다 다른데
런던, 토론토, 오타와, 몬트리올, 위니펙, British Columbia에 속한 모든 아이엘츠 시험장소는 309 (캐나다)달러이며
나이아가라와 윈저 지역은 319 (캐나다)달러에요.




If you ask for an Enquiry on Results (EOR), they will charge you 176.00 CAD (British Council) or 165.00 CAD (IDP: IELTS Australia).

혹시 받은 점수가 부당하다 여겨 다시 채점을 요구한다면
176 달러나 165 달러를 내야 해요.
비용은 기관마다 다르답니다.



UWaterloo indicates minimum score below (2017)

Test
Minimum score
Internet-based TOEFL (iBT) - Test Of English as a Foreign Language
90 overall
25 writing
25 speaking
IELTS Academic - International English Language Testing System


Note: Incorrect scores were listed in the Faculty of Engineering admissions brochure. The scores listed here are correct.
6.5 overall
6.5 writing
6.5 speaking
6.0 reading
6.0 listening
MELAB - Michigan English Language Assessment Battery
85 overall
80 per section
3.0 speaking
CAEL - Canadian Academic English Language Assessment
70 overall
70 writing
70 speaking
60 reading
60 listening
PTE Academic - Pearson Test of English
63 overall
65 writing
65 speaking
EFAS - English for Academic Success
Overall 75% at the 400-level
75% in each of academic, oral, and writing

For more information: CLICK HERE

워털루 대학교에서는 위에 표에 있는 점수를 요구한답니다.



Then how to prepare IELTS?

There are two options.

아이엘츠를 준비하는 방법은 2가지가 있어요.



#1
Go to an Academy

There are several academies in GTA.
This is the easiest way to prepare IELTS
However, it cost average 1000 CAD.

#1
학원다니기

광역 토론토에 아이엘츠 학원이 여러군데 있어요.
아이엘츠를 준비하기 제일 확실한 방법이지만
가격이 대략 1000 달러 정도랍니다.

저는 혼자 공부해서 학원에 대한 정보는 잘 모르겠네요.




#2
Self-Study

Yes. It is tough.
But you can save a lot of money.
In my case I studied with my friends,
it was much easier and fun.

#2
자습하기

이건 좀 힘들지도 모르지만
돈을 많이 절약할 수 있지요.
저의 경우에는 친구들이랑 같이 준비했는데
시간도 금방 흐르고 재미있더라고요




If you decide not to go to an academy,
let me introduce some helpful websites.

만약 학원을 않다니고 혼자 공부하기로 결심했다면
몇몇 좋은 웹사이트를 추천해 드릴께요.





These two websites have the practice tests for each sections with the answers.



This website specifically focuses on vocabulary and grammar.


This YouTube channel offers some other general tips and advice for the IELTS exam.


This website is well organized.
You’ll find straightforward tips on how to improve and prepare you IELTS test.


Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Republic of Korea/South Korea




South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; About this sound listen), is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

Highly urbanized at 92%, South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle; half of them live in high-rises concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents and the world's sixth leading global city with the fourth largest economy and seventh most sustainable city in the world.

The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC. The name Korea is derived from one of them, Goguryeo, also known as Koryŏ, which was a powerful empire and one of the great powers in East Asia, ruling Northeast China and parts of Russia and Inner Mongolia under Gwanggaeto the Great. Since their unification into Later Silla and Balhae in the 7th century, Korea enjoyed over a millennium of relative tranquility under long lasting dynasties with innovations like Hangul, the unique alphabet created by Sejong the Great in 1446, enabling anyone to easily learn to read and write. Its rich and vibrant culture left 17 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed by Imperial Japan in 1910 due to its strategic and central location, Korea was divided into North and South after its surrender in 1945. A North Korean invasion led to the Korean War (1950–53). Peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the world's 10th largest defence budget.

South Korea's tiger economy soared at an annual average of 10% for over 30 years in a period called the Miracle on the Han River, rapidly transforming it into the world's 9th largest high-income economy by 1995. A long legacy of openness and focus in innovation made it successful. Today, it is the world's fifth largest exporter and seventh largest importer with the G20's largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. In 1987, it became a multi-party democracy with universal suffrage and is today Asia's most advanced democracy with high government transparency, universal healthcare, freedom of religion and fundamental rights protected by the most developed rule of law in East Asia. High civil liberties led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon green growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC and Paris Club contributor. It is the OECD's most welcoming country by visa-free entry to foreigners and rated highly in peaceful tolerance and inclusion of minorities.

South Korea is East Asia's most developed country in the Human Development Index. It has the world's eighth highest median household income, the highest in Asia, and its singles in particular earn more than all G7 nations. Globally, it ranks highly in personal safety, education, job security, ease of doing business and healthcare quality, with the world's third highest health adjusted life expectancy and fourth most efficient healthcare system. It leads the OECD in graduates in science and engineering. Home of Samsung, the world's leading smartphone and TV maker, LG and Hyundai-Kia, South Korea was named the world's most innovative country in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, ranking first in business R&D intensity and patents filed per GDP. It has the world's fastest Internet speed and highest smartphone ownership, ranking first in ICT Development, e-Government and 4G LTE coverage. In 2005, it became the world's first country to fully transition to high-speed Internet and start the world's first mobile TV broadcast with 97% of cellphones already having Internet access.

영어 명칭은 Republic of Korea. 남쪽으로는 1,000㎞에 이르며, 북쪽으로는 중국·러시아와 접경을 이루고 있다. 남북한 전체 면적은 영국이나 루마니아와 비슷한 크기이고, 남한은 헝가리나 포르투갈보다는 조금 크고 아일랜드보다는 조금 작다.

전 국토의 70%가 산악 지역으로 서해로는 완만한 경사를 이루며, 동해로는 급격한 경사를 이룬다. 또한 국토의 면적에 비하여 강이 많은 편이다. 기후는 사계절이 뚜렷하여 덥고 습한 여름과 춥고 건조한 겨울은 길고, 상쾌하고 청명한 날의 봄·가을은 비교적 짧다. 기온은 겨울에는 영하 15℃로 내려가고, 여름에는 34℃로 올라간다.

한국의 전통적인 종교는 샤머니즘·불교·유교이며, 이들은 역대 국가들의 문화발달 및 사상과 행동에 지대한 영향을 끼쳐 왔다. 그 밖에 근대 이후 고유 종교인 천도교를 비롯해 외래 종교인 기독교(개신교)·천주교를 믿는 인구가 급격히 늘어나고 있다. 주민은 한국인이고 인종적으로는 몽골계에 속하며, 고조선시대 이래로 단일민족으로서 존속하여 왔다.

고조선 이후 고대의 삼국시대, 통일신라와 발해시대, 중세의 고려시대, 근세의 조선시대로 이어져 오던 우리나라는 1910년 일제에 의하여 역사상 처음으로 국권을 상실하고 식민지 지배체제하에 놓이게 되었다. 오랫동안 독립투쟁을 벌여오던 우리 민족은 일본이 제2차세계대전에서 패배함으로써 마침내 광복을 맞이하였다.

그러나 광복과 더불어 승전국인 미국과 소련의 군대가 38선을 경계로 남과 북에 각각 진주하여 군정을 실시하게 됨으로써, 일제로부터 광복은 되었으나 독립을 이루지 못한 채 오히려 남북이 분단상태에 놓이게 되었다. 그러나 독립을 이루고자 하는 한국민족의 열망이 국제연합에 반영되어 1947년 제2차 UN총회에서 UN한국감시위원단 감시하의 남북한 동시 총선거가 제의되었으나, 북한은 이를 극력 반대하였다. 그리하여 1948년 5월 10일 남한만의 총선거가 실시되어 5월 31일 제헌국회가 개설되었다.

제헌국회는 7월 17일 「대한민국헌법」을 제정, 공포하고(제9호 개헌 때부터 대한민국 헌법 전문에 ‘대한민국임시정부의 법통을 계승’했다고 명시) 그 달 20일 초대 대통령으로 이승만(李承晩)을 선출하였다. 그리하여 대한민국은 1948년 8월 15일 국내외에 그 성립을 선포하고 자유민주주의국가의 일원으로서 출발하여 오늘에 이르게 되었다. 국제연합은 이와 같이 성립된 대한민국 정부를 ‘한반도에서의 유일한 합법적 정부’로 인정하였다.

대한민국은 정부를 수립하면서 영토를 한반도와 그 부속 도서로 규정, 대한민국의 통치권이 한반도 전체를 통할함을 선포하였다. 그러나 하나의 정치공동체로서의 실제 행정영역은 북위 38°선 이남으로 한정되다가 1953년 휴전 이후에는 휴전선 이남으로 바뀌었다. 휴전선을 경계로 한 현재의 행정영역은 한반도 총면적 22만 258㎢의 약 45%인 9만 9720㎢이다.

대한민국의 수도는 서울특별시이며, 행정적으로는 서울특별시, 1개 특별자치시, 6개 광역시, 1개 특별자치도, 8개 도로 구분되어 있다. 총인구는 1988년에 4197만 5000명이었으나 2015년 현재 5061만 7045명이며, 인구밀도는 1988년에는 423명/㎢이었으나 2010년 현재 485명/㎢이다.

대한민국의 국어는 한국어이며, 문자는 한글을 쓰되 한자도 혼용하고 있다. 통화는 원화(won貨)이며, 국기는 태극기(太極旗), 국가(國歌)는 애국가, 국화는 무궁화이다.

P.S.) I am from the city called Gangnam like in Psy's Gangnam-style. Gangnam is the town inside the capital city Seoul and some people call it small New York City. There are a lot of rich people and usually they live in Condominium because there is no house in that town. I don't usually recommend people to go to Korea because there is too much air pollution. However, good thing is there is no extra tax like U.S.A. or Canada, and also people don't need to give tip. Personally, I don't like Korea due to air pollution. However, Korean people are hard worker.

대한민국이란 (http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=657659&cid=46626&categoryId=46626)

About Republic of Korea/South Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea)

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Canada

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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area. Canada's border with the United States is the world's longest land border. The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. About four-fifths of the country's population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border. Its capital is Ottawa, its largest metropolis is Toronto; other major urban areas include Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg and Hamilton.

Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French claims were made on the area, with the colony of Canada first being established by the French in 1537. As a consequence of various conflicts, the United Kingdom gained and lost territories within British North America until it was left, in the late 18th century, with what mostly geographically comprises Canada today. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1, 1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia joined to form the semi-autonomous federal Dominion of Canada. This began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. 

In 1931, Canada achieved near total independence from the United Kingdom with the Statute of Westminster 1931, and full sovereignty was attained when the Canada Act 1982 removed the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks. Canada's long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture.

Canada is a developed country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, and education. Canada is a Commonwealth realm member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a member of the Francophonie, and part of several major international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the G8, the Group of Ten, the G20, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

러시아에 이어 세계에서 두 번째로 넓은 나라로서 북아메리카 대륙 면적의 1/3을 차지하는 거대한 면적의 나라이지만 사람이 거주할 수 있는 곳은 한정되어 있다. 서쪽으로 미국 알래스카주(州), 남쪽으로 미국 12개주에 접하고, 서쪽으로 북태평양, 북쪽으로 북극해, 동쪽으로 대서양·데이비스 해협·배핀만(灣)에 면한다. 서경 144°(알래스카 국경선 근처)에서 동쪽으로 배핀 제도(諸島)까지의 북극해상 섬들이 캐나다에 속해 있다. 행정구역은 10개주(province), 3개 준주(準州:territory)로 이루어진다. 국명은 수천년 동안 이곳에서 살아온 캐나다 인디언의 후예인 휴런-이로쿼이(Huron-Iroquois)족의 언어로 '마을', '정착지'를 뜻하는 '카나타(kanata)'에서 생겨났다. 15세기 영국과 프랑스가 캐나다를 탐험하였고 유럽에서 건너온 이주민이 동쪽 대서양 해안가에 정착하기 시작하였다. 영국과 프랑스는 7년전쟁을 벌여 캐나다를 차지하기 위해 싸웠고 1763년 프랑스가 패배하여 캐나다에서 물러나게 되었다.


P. S.) 하나 당부하자면 여기 많이 느려요... 뭐든지...
'미국은 돈없어서 죽고 캐나다는 기다리다 죽는다.' 이 말을 유념하는게 좋을 듯 하네요.
느리니까 무상의료고 뭐고 필요 없습니다. ㅋㅋ
그리고 여기는 면역체게 기른다고 약을 잘 안줘요.
아플 때가 가장 서럽습니다 ㅠㅠ...

캐나다란 (http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%90%EB%82%98%EB%8B%A4)

About Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada)


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