영어유감

[street]Vendor / Stand

(A=Agnes/ H=Hoonsam)

H: Today, there will be the univerity festival.

A: The highlight in the festival is firwork

H: It's so fancinating~ What time does it start firework

A: It starts at 10 pm, so you wanna drink in the daily drink-vender before you go?

H: That's nice. There are a lot of street drink-stands

A: Let's go together~

Vendor means sb/sth that sells things, paticularly on the street ( so-called, street vendor)

Vendor is standard English while stand is spoken English.

이번영어유감 게스트는 외국인 '애론'. 가나에서 온 애론과 함께 하는 영어유감. 애론이 생각하는 한국인의 영어실력과 왜 한국사람은 영어를 못하는가에 대한 이유.

Lose weight

(A=Agnes/ H=Hoonsam)

A: I need to lose my weight

H: I know you're trying to lose a few pounds

A: I've put on some weight while on vacation

H: If you want to lose your weight, keep dieting and exercise a lot

A: I've been on a diet, but I fine it hard to go on.

H: Agnes, beauty is nevery enough, you know?. to stay healthy, try to balance yourself with a regular exercise and a proper diet.

Lose weight means take off weight

*Ref = reduce weight/ lose pounds

Diet means a prescribed selection of foods or the usual food and drink consumed by an organism.

Visit a tomb/ Half moon-shaped rice cake

(A=Agnes/ H=Hoonsam)

H: What did you do last Korean Thanks-giving day

A: I visited my grandfather's tomb to pay a respect

H: Oh~ anything else did you do?

A: And I made half moon-shaped rice cake.

H: Wow. that's nice.

A: Also, I take some for you

H: Oh, thanks agnes~

Visit a tomb means to visit an ancestor's grave in order to pay a tribute/respect, called '성묘' in Korean

Half moon-shaped rice cake means Songpyeon named in Korean, which looks like half moon, used for Korean traditional food

Shop around for window/ Bargain sale

-> Shop around in the window/ Bargain sale

(A=Agnes/ H=Hoonsam)

H: I'm go shopping at a department store.

A: Can I go with you? I want to buy gift for my mom.

-> a gift.

H: Good idea. There doing the 30% Bargain sale!

-> There is 30% of bagain sale going on

A: But still expensive.

-> But it's still expensive

H: It's just ok price.

-> The price is just reasonable

A: I just do shop around for window.

-> I will shop around in the window.

H: How about your mother gift?

A: HAHA... Next time.

Shop around for window means looking at different shops/stores but you know you can't have/get for some reason.

-> Shop around in the window means to spend time looking around a shop without any reason to buy something

Shop around for window, Can use short to window shopping.

-> you can use a shortened term of window shopping

Bargain sale means something sale cheaply or for less then its usual price.

-> Bargain sale means something that is sold at the cheaper price for the promotional reason