Irene

Software - Regional Sales Manager 

Previously Synopsys.
EDA Electronic Design Analysis tool.

VP of her previous company.

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Software company with R&D engineers.

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Professional Lessons.
Fun Homework.

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Travel, Camping, and Movies.

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Husband & 4-year old Daughter.

Image by Johny Goerend

📊 Synopsis & Sales Management - 8/3

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Allegedly 據稱

  2. Poached 偷獵 

  3. Prosecution 起訴 

  4. Prowess 實力 

  5. Rope 🪢 繩索 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Fiscal Year "Fis-cal"

  2. 🦈 Shark | Shock ⚡ 

  3. Hot Air Balloon 🎈 

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📝 Action Items

  1. Horrible Bosses 

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Synopsis Worklife

  2. Horrible Bosses

  3. Past Tense Review

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🔎 Comments:

  • Reviewed Past Tense

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. A lot of challenges 

  2. They think it's hard to work with foreigners 

  3. I read a lot of emails 📩 

  4. Any questions or issues 

  5. All the internal processes 

  6. There are a lot of issues 

  7. Why the other countries show respect

  8. I tried to understand my team members 

  9. Not all the sales people are very smart

  10. Some sales people can't

  11. One of my members 

  12. We have three products 

  13. I hope my sales members can do it

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. He's watching TV

  2. Q3 ended 

  3. I almost worked 14 hours a day

  4. When I became a sales manager

  5. Then I became the sales manager

  6. My teams became bigger

  7. I called a customer

  8. I was really angry

  9. I got the approval

  10. He just did nothing

  11. He's not who I interviewed 

🔥 Descriptions

  1. She did the translations for us

  2. She talked to the korean customers 

  3. They are Koreans in Korea 

  4. If they can go to Korea, and work in Korea 

  5. My previous colleagues

  6. His English is better than mine 

  7. Korean or Chinese dramas

  8. We are self managed, working independently

  9. Usually, I don't contact them directly 

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. They have a budget

  2. You must talk to every customer

  3. He's weak in social skills

  4. They'll share information with each other

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Why my company wants to

  2. You can imagine that

  3. My husband likes foreign dramas 

  4. He doesn't want to promote anybody

  5. He thinks the customer is not trustworthy

  6. Every customer wants a discount

  7. If he restricts himself

  8. He just waits for the customer

  9. He has an engineering background

  10. If he doesn't like this customer

  11. He doesn't want to talk to him

📊 CC's PPTs + Fun Homework - X

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. ​

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. ​

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. T

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🔎 Comments:

  • ​

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. W

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. T

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. W

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. M

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. I

📊 Email PPT - 7/13

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. It can Vibrate 📳 顫動

  2. Halt 🛑 Stop 

  3. Bully 💪 欺負 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Inflation 💹 通貨膨脹
    Inflection 🎢 拐點 

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Devices

  2. Samsung's Inventory

  3. Benefits of Covid

  4. Email PPT Slide 48

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. There are a lot of ENGINEERS

  2. Some STORES

  3. She has a lot of TOYS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I think I MUTED it

  2. The componants HAD a shortage

  3. They really WEREN'T influenced

  4. We're not so AFFECTED by COVID

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📝 Action Items

  1. Add Card to Watch 

  2. Try to finish the Email PPT

  3. Love Island on Netflix

🔥 Descriptions

  1. I asked HIM to give me HIS laptop

  2. When SHE can't find HER toy

  3. My husband will help HER

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Our customers ARE maybe influenced

  2. People ARE getting poorer

  3. To ride A bicycle

  4. The customer won't BE satisfied

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. It INFLUENCES your life

  2. My daughter COOKS everyday

  3. She HAS new friends

  4. My husband also HAS new friends

🏕️ Camping & Children - 7/6 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Jade 玉 

  2. Slippery 滑

  3. Crack 裂縫

  4. Lunar Calendar 🌙 

  5. Herbal Medicine 草藥

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Buddha Temple 🛕 

  2. Mid Autumn Festival

  3. Camper (Van)
    The RV
    Camping Trailer

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📝 Action Items

  1. Generational Weatlh

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Camping

  2. Herbal Doctors

  3. Generational Wealth

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. There's a lot of Buddha Temples

  2. For their STUDIES

  3. You must lay down the SEATS 💺 

  4. To check your LUNGS 🫁 

  5. I must buy two CARS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I WORE another one before

  2. We RENTED a camper

  3. Someone INVITED their daughter

  4. We HAD a lot of fun on the trip

  5. He FOUND it's very convenient

  6. I just TOOK a look

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Everyone LOVES her

  2. She LIKES to talk a lot

  3. I can't IMAGINE it

  4. She'll feel the gas TROUBLES her

🔥 Descriptions

  1. Your skin will be SLIPPERY

  2. I wore a jade BRACELET

  3. It's not totally BROKEN

  4. It was CRACKED

  5. Pray for good HEALTH

  6. You will be so AMAZED

  7. He'll just touch your WRIST

  8. You can see their PRIVATE part

  9. They'll use some TECHNOLOGY

  10. It's more FASHIONABLE

  11. Then you can get a DRIVER'S license

  12. The environment is more COMPETITVE

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. I'll put IT somewhere and forget it

  2. I can wear it FOR a long time

  3. He can DO everything

  4. To have A second baby

  5. A healthy baby is easy to take care OF​

  6. Because I have a DAUGHTER

🛩️ Women Are Not Airplanes - 6/1 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. A Wig 👱‍♀️ 假髮 

  2. Sci-Fi = Science Fiction
    科幻小說 📖 

  3. Encompass = Include

  4. Scrutiny 🔎 審查 

  5. 離奇 Bizarre

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Korean Drama 💗

  2. Lawyers ⚖️ "Loy-er"

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📝 Action Items

  1. Love Death Robots 💀

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🔎 Comments:

  • Irene is focused on the 's's at the ends of words. 👍 

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Maybe 1 DAY to clean his company 🗓️ 

  2. You can wear a lot of STYLES 👱‍♀️ 

  3. All of them are LAWYERS 

  4. He SELLS other things too

  5. I have a lot of STYLES

  6. I can do ANYTHING 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. They WERE in different law firms

  2. We CHATTED every night

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🔢 Numbers 

​First, Second, Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Nineth, Tenth

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Weekend Cleaning🧹

  2. Korean Laywers 👩‍💼 

  3. Hair Styles 👱‍♀️ 

  4. Emails Slide 34 📧 

  5. Airplanes & Women

  6. Jack Ma's Weddings

🔥 Descriptions

  1. HER husband is very rich 🧧 

  2. It's EASIER to use Facebook

  3. So WASTEFUL

  4. HE is my husband

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. FOR more than 1 month

  2. She will fight AGAINST/WITH him

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. He DOES business by himself 👨‍💼 

  2. She WEARS a WIG 👱‍♀️ 

  3. She WANTS to get some evidence 

  4. Nobody KNOWS it

  5. The female lawyer WANTS the evidence

  6. My husband LOVES her short hair

  7. He HANDLES an online shop 🛍️ 

  8. He WANTS to take care of OUR daughter

  9. I can't IMAGINE his world

  10. He TAKES care of OUR daughter

  11. OUR daughter LOVES him very much

  12. You can't IMAGINE how MUCH she loves him

  13. She SLEEPS very early

📧 Result 1st, Details 2nd - 5/25 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Small Talk:
    Ex: How's the Weather?

  2. At This Point in Time
    Right Now 

  3. Exclamation Mark ❗

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Signature "Sig-na-chur"

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📝 Action Items 

  1. Emails PPT Slide 34 📧

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Sales Forecasts 💹 

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Because I'm the sales MANAGER

  2. With my many sales MEMBERS 

  3. The probability of each OPPORTUNITY 

  4. Thank you for your KINDNESS (n)

  5. You have many JOKES

  6. If the receiver HAS a lot of EMAILS 📧 

  7. ALL electronics / EVERY electronic device

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. To know whether he WILL manage it well

  2. We were not AFFECTED by Covid

  3. I WROTE a lot of EMAILS recently

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⭐ Focus

  1. Every = Each

🔥 Descriptions

  1. We treat Covid-19 very SERIOUSLY (adv)

  2. HER English writing is really good

  3. Her English is really GOOD

  4. Her English is BETTER than mine

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. To consult WITH me

  2. I need TO review all the opportunities

  3. If the order has BEEN lost

  4. He must reply TO me

  5. Because we are A software company

  6. My boss is A man

  7. You don't need TO/IT

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. When the time COMES

  2. We encourage people to STAY at home

☯️ Business with Koreans - 5/18 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Seafood Pancake 🥞 

  2. Skiing ⛷️

  3. Etiquette 禮儀 🕴️ 

  4. Crucial 至關重要的 ❗

  5. Reciprocate 往復 🎁 

  6. Bribe (v/n) 賄賂

  7. Err = Lean (v)

  8. Surname = Last Name

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Colleagues "gs"

  2. Circumstances
    "Sir-cum-stan-says"

  3. Funeral "Few-ner-all"

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📝 Action Items

  1. Your Business Card

  2. Korean Business ​

  3. Avatar

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. I have two JOBS

  2. I try to know my team MEMBERS

  3. I don't know anyONE in Korea

  4. In such a short TIME 

  5. We have two VERSIONS

  6. Many Styles

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Then I ATTENDED a lot of MEETINGS

  2. We WENT to the SNOWY (adj) mountains

  3. We WENT there

  4. Did you fall a lot? Yes, I FELL a lot.

  5. I GAVE him a mobile phone

  6. He GAVE me a car

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⭐ Focus

  1. We focused on Korean business culture as her new colleagues are in Korea.

🔥 Descriptions

  1. With the KOREAN (adj) team next Monday

  2. I think they're single SIDED

  3. The car's HORSEPOWER 🐎 

  4. Not the ALCOHOLIC (adj) drinks  

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. We had A company trip there

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. I didn't have any time to DO the homework

  2. When you MARRY

  3. I think it DEPENDS on the industry

  4. He DOESN'T like to drink

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Korean Business

🥇 My Team Members~~~~  - 5/11 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Northern Lights 北極光

  2. A Hook 🪝 一個鉤子
    Catch Their Interest

  3. A Call to Action
    What to do Next

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. 🖼️ Image / Imagine 🧠

  2. Iceland "Ice-Land"

  3. Yield Rate "Yeeld"

  4. Genuine 真的
    "Jen-you-in"

  5. Colleagues "guh"

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🏆 Completed

  1. First Class - N/A

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📝 Action Items

  1. Avatar 2 

  2. Polish Your Self-Intro and send it to Chad

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Most of the ENGINEERS

  2. We WERE 

  3. Multiple DEPARTMENTS

  4. All the US COMPANIES

  5. They can't sell any CHIPS to Huawei

  6. I don't have many OPPORTUNITES 

  7. I don't have MUCH time ✔️ 

  8. I'm a social media MANAGER (singular)

  9. To help my team MEMBERS succeed

  10. It's aimed at/to my COLLEAGUES 

  11. My team MEMEBRSsssssSssSSSss~~~

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Almost 35 years AGO

  2. They TERMINATED the distribution channel

  3. Both of us TERMINATED the relationship

  4. It AFFECTED our business with China

  5. They COULDN'T sell any software 

  6. We also GOT hurt seriously 

  7. I will be BOARDING the new company

  8. It WAS CHOSEN by my good friend

  9. I never STUDIED over there

  10. If COMPETING WITH TSMC

  11. You WERE / I WAS

🔥 Descriptions

  1. I just focus on TAIWAN'S market

  2. They make the pictures look BETTER

  3. Their core technology is from AMERICA

  4. Hurt by AMERICA 國家 / AMERICANS 人

  5. She was my SENIOR HIGH classmate

  6. I like to travel in NORTHERN Europe

  7. I should prepare the introduction of MYSELF

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. My boss is A foreigner 

  2. To communicate with THE legal team

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Synopsis HAS many products

  2. Not as young as you IMAGINE

  3. You can IMAGINE it

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Irene's Introduction

  2. Setting Her Up

  3. Self-Intro PPT

  4. Her Intro