Re:Welcome aboard!

Dear Elaine As I was previously greeted with warm welcome by several members of this cafe and had a good feeling about it when I first visited, I also would like you to make yourself comfortable like home here. Looks like you and I are in a very similar situation being on a same boat. Living in the states for considerably long time, sometimes I feel alienated watching other people sharing their opinions in somewhat rather complicated spirit. But this doesn't stop me from enjoying it and even taking advantage of it by learning new things from it. I am also a member of another similar cafe called, "Helen's English Cafe", but this cafe provides much more excitement when it comes to exhibiting different thoughts from different intellectual beings in well versed english language. I bet you will find this cafe exciting as much as it is beneficial. I encourage you to post up many of your ideas, thoughts, suggestions, experiences and warm stories that reflect your wits and sensitivities. I am pretty sure it will raise morale of several people who also want to join in but a bit hesitant to do it yet. --------------------- [원본 메세지] --------------------- One day I was surfing the Daum cafe and found this site. Although I have been living in U.S. for a long time, I still don't feel comfortable with my English. (Some of you may notice it by this.) Sometimes, one can learn English better (grammars) with foreigners rather than from the natives. And the foreigners can give you all the grammatical rules. However,the most of the time, the natives would say, "because it sounds right." (This is from the personal experiences, even from teachers.) As I help others with English through this site, I would like to learn more English and Korean. Now that I am not in U.S. and learning other foreign language, I am losing both English and Korean language skills. What a shame! Getting to know some of you through your writings has been joy to me.