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I'd say you should just start learning it and see for yourself whether it works for you or not. It's not like once you decide the rest of your life is set in concrete and your fate decided for all eternity. It is possible to try it out for a month and at the end of that time assess for yourself whether you're satisfied with the results... Then you can base your decision on your own experience rather than rely on the advice of some stranger on an internet forum who could be much smarter or dumber than you, or maybe even a deceitful troll...

But, I'll make a few comments anyway:

•"I'll keep learning English until I become a fluent speaker. After accomplishing all of my English-related goals I'll pick another language."

You seem to write English quite well already. What are you waiting for? If you're not satisfied with your English yet, you're probably one of those eternal perfectionists, and thus never will be satisfied. You'll probably never consider yourself a fluent speaker and will always be setting new goals. Hence, you'll never be ready to move on to a new language.

•"I'll try to learn both English and the other language simultenously (assuming I don't need to start learning this new language from scratch). "

Yeah, why not... Just give it a whirl. You can always reconsider whenever you want.

•"The second approach would slow down my progress in English a little. Plus I would have to study two totally different accents (I still have to work on my English accent). And this is the main reason why I'm a bit wary of applying 2."

Yes, it probably would slow down your progress in English. But does that matter? Do you need your English to be at a certain level by a certain deadline? Maybe it doesn't matter if you become fluent in 3 years or 3.5 years? Only you know the answer to that question.

As for two different accents. Unless the languages are very similar I doubt there would be any interference between the two accents.

•"To put it simply: Is it effective to learn two foreign languages simultaneously? Are you for or against? "

Effective in what sense? Yes, it's equally effective. Simply the results of your efforts are distributed across two languages rather than one. Is that less effective in your view? Do you define effectiveness in a local or a global sense?

•"I'd rather speak 2 or 3 languages pretty well than 5 or more and end up scratching the surface. Perhaps this is why I wonder what would be most optimal in my case."

In my opinion 2 languages is optimal, 3 is doable in ideal conditions. 5 is a pipe dream suitable only for psychotic monomaniacs.

So, just start learning and decide for yourself. One month of lessened attention is not a death sentence for your English.

I think he's a swindler. He preaches laziness and "winging it". He wants to make language learning look fun and easy, full of hope for the beginners. But then they start learning and realise that his sentimental slogans are nothing more than sentimental slogans laden with cringe inducing clichés that bombard the medulla with ferocious fallacies. He emphasises the "feel good factor" and appeals to cheap demagogy in his propaganda and pseudo-techniques and shrugs off reality like a demented monomaniac shrugs off psychological intervention. Maybe it will work for beginners with naive and false expectations, but serious people should go elsewhere. Sorry Krashen, but what does it matter if serious people avoid you, serious people make up only 3% of the market. The law of diminishing returns demand that you turn away from that segment of the populace, the most resistant to demagogy, it should be noted, and rechannel your attention towards the elaboration of a new perverse lure for those of minds easily confounded.

In Korean "조심하십시오" means, "Take care." or "Be careful" in Englsih====so I looked up those example sentences in the dictionary.; I usually confuse 'Take care' wirh "Be careful".

.----< Talk care>------------------------------
• I'll take care of it later, mom. 나중에 처리할게요, 엄마
• It's Banks. Zora Banks. You're the one who offered. But it's okay. I can do it myself. Take care. 뱅크스에요. 조라 뱅크스요. 먼저 제안한 사람은 당신이었어요. 하지만, 괜찮아요. 저 혼자 할 수 있어요. 잘 가요.
• Oh, we're sorry. We'll take care of it right away. What's your room number? 아, 죄송합니다. 즉시 조치해 드리겠습니다. 방 번호가 어떻게 되죠?
• I'm gonna take care of things. 일을 처리해야겠어
• Officials of the Libyan government are already approaching us, asking us to take care of the job, he said. “리비아 정부 관리들이 공사를 맡아 달라며 이미 우리에게 접근하고 있다”고 그는 말했다.

--<Be careful>---------------
• Be careful not to drop[Careful that you don’t drop] the vase.꽃병을 떨어뜨리지 않도록 조심해라.
• be careful in negotiating a new trade agreement 새로운 무역 협정 협상을 신중히 하다.
• She was careful that everything was[would be] completed on time. 그녀는 모든 것이 제시간에 끝나도록 유념했다.
• We must be careful with dynamite. 다이너마이트는 조심해야 한다.
• Be careful of your health건강에 유의하시오.
• Be careful when you cross the street. 길을 건널 때 조심해라.
• Be careful, it's about to fall조심해요, 떨어지려고 해요
• You must be careful how you hold it. 그것을 잡는 법에 주의해야 한다.
• I shall be careful in deciding what to do. 어떻게 해야 할 것인지 신중히 결정해야겠다.
• Police advised Internet users to be careful about downloading unfamiliar programs and to install protection programs such as firewall and nprotect, provided by the banks` Web sites. (출처: The Korea Herald)
경찰은 인터넷에서 배포하는 무료프로그램이나 보안검증이 되지 않은 프로그램은 함부로 다운받지 말고 인터넷뱅킹 등 금융업무를 할 때는 금융기관이 제공하는 방화벽을 반드시 실행해야 해킹을 막을 수 있다고 당부했다.
• Be careful. It's unstable. (출처: 웹검색 예문) 불안정하니 조심하시오
• Be careful not to get on his nerves. or Give him lots of room. 그의 신경을 건드리지 않도록 조심해라
• be careful so as not to get one´s clothes stained with spots and stains 옷에 얼룩지지 않도록 주의하다
• Just be careful, okay? 조심해야해, 알았나?
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http://lang-8.com/117072/journals/588103/Strange-message%3F-%2A-dangerous%3F-%3C%3CBE-careful%21%3E%3E

Aug 15th 2010 21:36

Aug 15th 2010 21:36
Today by accident, I found below some sentences with pictures.
오늘은 아래 문장과 그림을 우연히 보게 되었습니다.

Wa~~~They are really fun and cute animal , I couldn't help laughing when I saw these pictures...
와~~~ 그것들은 정말 재미있고 귀여운 동물이였습니다. 그래서 나도 모르게 웃음을 터뜨리고 말았습니다
~((((^______________________^))))))).~
But these are good sentences, and we need it.
그러나 그것은 정말 좋은 문장이고 우리들에게 필요한 이야기 입니다.

I hope it will help you feel good.. ^.^......
여러분들에게 좋은 느낌을 줄 수 있기를 바라며,

If you click this sign☞ , I am sure that you will burst into laughter, too.
그러나 다음 싸인을 클릭하면, 여러분도 분명히 큰 웃음을 터뜨릴 겁니다.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

어린이 같은 마음을 유지하세요
Please keep yourself as a childlike innocence.

항상 웃으세요!allways laught! 큰 소리로 웃으세요. laugh loudly / laugh out loud /

자신을 믿고 자랑스럽게 여기세요.Belive yourself and be proud yourself.

용기를 가지세요. Be brave!

놀라운 일이 생겨도 마음의 평화를 유지하세요.
Even though unexpected things be happened /happen unexpected things ?/ please keep your peace of mind.

목적와 목표를 가지세요. Have a target and a goal.

유머 감각을 지니세요.Have sense of humor!

일을 즐기세요.Enjoy your work!

행복을 나누세요.Share happiness with others!

다른 사람을 도와 주세요.Help the other person.
약자를 존중하세요. Respect weak person!

정말 좋은 친구를 가지세요. Have real good freinds.

항상 팀으로 일하세요.Work with good teamwork . /Have fine teamwork ./

가족과 즐거운 시간을 가지세요. Have good/fine?/ time with your family.

그리고 너무 돈을 밝히지 마세요. Don`t excessively calculate about money.

-----★☆------★-------☆--★--☆-----
Just moment ago, I got a message.
But I felt it was a little strange, I think he/she is not a real lang-8 user.
Because when I clicked their profile, not only I couldn`t I find their profile, but also it was disappeared in just a moment/in an instant.
And what's more, she mentioned to me that she wanted me to
e-mail her directly.
So, I feel we real lang-8 friends should more be careful of these kind of messages.
Then afterward I found this warning.
Please be careful!＊＝〉　http://lang-8.com/4/journals/495046
below: the message that I got today.
-----★☆------★-------☆--★--☆-----
http://lang-8.com/117072/journals/588103/Strange-message%3F-%2A-dangerous%3F-%3C%3CBE-careful%21%3E%3E

[recipe]rec•i•pe [résəpì]
1. (요리의) 조리법, 요리법 (for) a recipe for a cake 케이크 만드는 법
2. (약 따위의) 처방(전)
3. 방법, 비결, 비방, 비책 (for)

--예문-
• For this recipe, beat two egg whites until stiff. 이 요리를 위해서는, 두 개의 달걀 흰자를 걸쭉해 질 때까지 휘저으세요.
• She is writing a recipe book. 그녀는 요리책을 집필하고 있다
• Who gave him the recipe book? 누가 요리책을 준 거야?
•Neither is a recipe for stability.그 어느 것도 러시아의 사회 안정을 위한 처방이 못된다.
• I found the recipe online. 인터넷에서 요리법을 찾았지

~~~~~~~★~~☆~~~~★~~~~~~~~~★☆~~~~~~~~~~~~
<I don`t know how to say this recipe in English, just it`s pretty spicy,and needs boiling, and main contents are chicken and potatoes.>
hi everyone, how has been your Saturday?
At here in Seoul, already it`s dark night, and it thunders, and lighting is striking, although it isn`t raining.
In Korea we can say it was a ‘dried lighting’, meaning the lightning came without rain.
But even more there is gusty wind with strange whistle between curtain and opened window. (Haha, looks like the 'Wuthering Heights ' s ;Heights`s view ..?..)

Isn`t it a strange Saturday night?
Wowooo ~~ it seems like ‘강시’(a frozen corpse: from Chinese ), ‘Dracula’ (from western) or not ‘Maiden ghost’(from Korean) visit ?
Woooooo~~~ REALLY STRANGE fEELING~~
OK, let`s change the topic, today I will talk about “chopped roast chicken(chicken dish)”.
On the day before yesterday evening, my husband made a simple dinner with a chicken..
It was a ‘ 닭도리탕chopped roast chicken’.
So I will talk about it briefly / ?
I`ll explain it briefly. /?
I `ll tell you about it briefly/?

The first picture : prepared one chopped chicken, four potatoes and one onion .(there is not in this picture), and well done chicken dish.:
I don`t know how he made it, because I was not there when he made it.Yeah? I am a shameful wife? Yeah!
Oh, he said that he also added two tomatoes. (it`s his idea, not bad!)
The second picture:: I found Methods it from Korean wikipedia.
I didn`t write the Korean wiki article in English, just added it in Korean,
so if you want to make it you can try read in Korean once and make it .
It`s a delicious Korean food!

<영어로 뭐라고 불러야 할 지 잘 모르겠어요. 맛은 좀 맵고, 요리법은 끓이고, 또 주재료는 닭과 감자예요.>
여러분 안녕하세요?
여러분 토요일을 어떻게 보내셨어요?
여기 서울은 이미 어두운 밤 이예요. 그리고 천둥이 치고 번개도 치고 있어요. 그런데 오히려 비는 오지 않네요
서울에서는 이렇게 비가 오지 않고 마른 하늘에 치는 번개를 ‘마른 번개’라고 한답니다.
게다가 세찬 바람이 커튼과 창문 사이로 이상한 소리를 내며 휘파람을 불고 있어요. (하하, '폭풍의 언덕'의 거센 바람 장면처럼.. ^^)

이상한 토요일 밤 이지요?
우~~~~ 마치 중국 강시나 영국의 드라큘라? 아니면 한국의 처녀 귀신이 등장 할 것 같아요. 우~~~ 정 -말- 이상한 기분이 들어요~ <<*. ___*>>
그건 그렇고, 화제를 바꿔서, 오늘은 “닭도리탕”에 대해서 이야기 해 드릴께요.
그저께 저녁, 남편이 닭으로 간단한 저녁식사를 만들었어요.
그것은 닭도리탕이었어요..
그래서 지금 간단히 설명해 드릴께요.
첫번 째 사진: 토막 친 닭 한 마리, 감자 4개, 양파 1개 , 그리고 토마토 2개 (사진에는 없어요.) 그리고 다 만든 요리.

남편이 요리 할 때 제가 옆에 없어서, 어떻게 만들었는지는 몰라요. .*/네?엉터리 아내라고요? 네! 그래요 ^*.*^
오, 남편 말로는 토마토 2개를 더 넣었다고 했어요.
(이건 남편의 아니디어예요. 꽤 괜찮은 생각이지요?)

두 번째 사진: 코리아 위키 사전에서 찾아 본 닭도리탕
아래 코리아 위 의 내용은 영어로 쓰지 않았어요.
만약 만들어 보고 싶은 분은 한국어로 읽으며 만들어 보세요.
닭도리탕은 맛있는 한국 음식입니다.
~~~~~~~★~~☆~~~~★~~~~~~~~~★☆~~~~~~~~
http://lang-8.com/117072/journals/587411/%E2%80%98-%EB%8B%AD%EB%8F%84%EB%A6%AC%ED%83%95Korean-spicy-chopped-roast-chicken%E2%80%99

1501 I hear that she has made such a decision.
1502 She has made two million yen through a part-time job so far.
1503 She has a bright character, so if she goes to a foreign country, that will make me lonely.
1504 If she wants to study English, these books will make good reading for her.
1505 The guests to her farewell party will make 18 people in all.
1506 I will make contact with Norio, too. 　
1507 Though she likes drinking very much, I don't like to make her drink too much.
1508 Who will make up for the loss？　
1509 I can't make use of such an old computer.
1510 You shouldn't make a fool of him.　I didn't want to make a fool of myself.
1511 He often made fun of me. 　I didn't want to make a fool of myself.
1512 He could make it after his long effort.
1513 We are making much of such a small matter.　
1514 My mind is made up.　　
1515 I made up my mind to go there.

1486 He made an effort to get it.
1487 He made a proposal to them for another recreation trip.
1488 He made a strong appeal to his superior to raise his salary.
1489 I have't made a decision about it yet.
1490 She will make a good wife.
1491 He made an English teacher at last.
1492 This train makes a brief stop at Kyoto.　
1493 We will make an earlier start for Tokyo than scheduled.
1494 I made her happy.
1495 I made her sad.
1496 He made me gloomy.
1497 He made her go there.
1498 I had her go there.
1499 Whenever I go to her house, she makes cakes and coffee for me.
1500 She is making an effort to make a Japanese teacher in a foreign country.

1471 I'm sorry I got your flowers damaged.
1472 I got the flowers arranged in a vase.
1473 I'd like to get my hair cut.
1474 We are very pleased to get our pictures exhibited here.
1475 Please take this medicine and you can get rid of your fever.
1476 If you take this medicine, you can get rid of your fever.
1477 The boy got hold of his mother on the way home and asked her to buy it.　
1478 I will make coffee.
1479 Have you already made supper？　
1480 She usually makes the bed for me before I take a bath.　
1481 He often makes some trouble when we go somewhere.
1482 He made a promise with me to get it later.　
1483 She will make a busy timetable for the teachers.
1484 When did you make a date with her？　　
1485 We have to make a better working environment.