The most common problem students in South Korea face when learning English. Korean learners of the English language face numerous challenges in acquiring the language on a proficient level, although English is introduced to children at an early age. English is incorporated into the primary school curriculum from the age of 4, yet only a small minority master the language on a proficient conversational level. Unfortunately, the reasons seem to stem from cultural and social differences, the significant differences between the two languages, Korean and English, and the Korean educational system is also a contributing factor. Problems relating to cultural differences. To begin with, cultural differences seem to be a central reason why Koreans find it challenging to master English. Firstly, Korea is a distinctly stratified society. This is evident in their language, social customs, and human interactions. Koreans vary their language depending on who they are communicating with, for example, a higher ranking official versus a close friend. Such distinctive differences do not exist in the English language, while our attitude and level of politeness may vary, the language used between parents and children, teachers and students, friends or strangers does not change. We do not vary our use of language or language structure to adapt it to social statuses, and the use of our language is fairly consistent in all social situations. However, Koreans have seven different levels of speech, all reserved for specific situations, and social hierarchy. Koreans are therefore taught to speak up or down, and as they cannot find this difference in the English language. They often feel intimidated when needing to address someone in English, as they find this uniformed way of speaking to be impolite and have trouble consolidating their social norms and accustomed manners. Other cultural factors, include the way Koreans are taught to express themselves which is mostly indirectly, as they are taught to think inclusively and are trained to express themselves indirectly in order not to offend others. When speaking English we generally express ourselves directly and clearly. When Koreans are trying to express themselves in English, this ingrained way of thinking coupled with the lack of structural difference in the English language, can cause great difficulty in communicating their thoughts and emotions. Problems relating to the different phonetic and grammar systems. Another significant problem Korean learners face is the difference between the two languages, their native Korean and English. The phonetic system, pronunciation and the grammatical structure of the two languages are all extremely different. There are many sounds in the English language that simply do not exist in the Korean language, and this causes a multitude of pronunciation difficulties for Korean learners of English. Examples of these sounds include F, V, X, and hard R sounds, as well as combination sounds such as ERT, in the word turtle. This is even further complicated through the use of the phonetic spelling of English words using Korean characters, Hangul, as well as the application of Korean language rules to English words. In terms of the phonetic system and pronunciation, Korean learners find it very difficult to comprehend the differences between spelling and sound in English, in Korean, each letter corresponds to a sound. However, in English a letter can be pronounced in many different ways depending on the word. In addition, there are some vowels and consonants in the English language that do not exist in Korean. For example, F, V, L, and R, or the exact sound for A, as apple, or I, for ice. The main culprit of this pronunciation struggle is teaching students at a very young age how to use Hangul to spell and pronounce English words phonetically. Common examples of this are fish becoming pissy, lunch becoming lunchy, violin violin. In my experience, students would rather take five minutes to translate these words into phonetic spelling that is easier for them than take that same amount of time to read and sound out the words that they see. If a student has trouble reading or takes a moment longer than their teacher likes, I've personally witnessed the teacher walk over and phonetically spell every word on the page for them. In this manner, students never learned proper pronunciation. In regards to the grammatical structure, the main difference is the word order. Korean word order is soft subject object verb. In English it is SVO, subject verb object. For a Korean speaker, a conscious effort is needed to change the word order when communicating in English, which coupled with the challenges of pronunciation can be incredibly difficult. Problems with English education in the Korean school system. Finally, the third challenge that Korean learners face is the way English education is provided in the Korean school system. Learning English is very important to Koreans and primary school children are introduced to the language from the age of four onwards as English is incorporated in the primary school curriculum. Students are offered one or two 40-minute classes a week with the aim to encourage their interest in the English language using music and games. The class sizes are large with approximately 40 children per class which makes the interaction between teacher and students quite difficult. In middle school, Korean students learn English as one of their major subjects, and the focus of learning shifts to obtaining a high grade, as middle school is considered a preparatory stage for higher education. Therefore, the focus shifts to grammar and textbook knowledge and middle school students along with teachers mainly concentrate on skills, exam questions, reading, and grammar. Conversation sessions are almost non-existent. While students might have a sound vocabulary and strong knowledge of grammar, their knowledge is of textbooks and bears little resemblance to English spoken or communicated in general by a native speaker. Now you are ready to teach English in South Korea. To conclude, Korean students learning English face many challenges, including cultural and social differences such as observed social hierarchy and social behavioral expectations and the differences in the two languages, including the alphabet, grammar, and pronunciation. In addition to this, English is introduced and taught in highly competitive government schools, where the emphasis is placed on obtaining results of a high standard to advance education and university placement rather than having an inclusive English language program that enables students to speak and communicate effectively. The points stated above therefore all demonstrate the various problems learners face in South Korea. Certified to Teach English Abroad and Online


What's up everybody? I'm EvilRabbit. We're here on TorkDrift and it is Tuesday So you know it's TorkDrift Tuesday time that FC is gonna be getting a full build today We're gonna start it see how far we can get with it. Make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter All of which are found in the description box below. Let's get to it All right, so we got some money and some gold to burn here for today's episode with the FC So we're gonna go right away to the FC. I want to see what Body kits has on the FC. It's only one That's pretty it's actually a pretty nice body kit. That's an expensive body kit. I Would eliminate my entire funds for this car on number one So we're gonna go performance. Of course, you know, we have to buy angle kits Well, there's different ones 13 13 Go with these Instantly by those although we probably should have waited and then we're gonna, you know order the clutch or the exhaust We're gonna see where we sit at for Oh where we sit up for higher parts All right, so we do have some higher upgrade parts, I think we will get that field suspension Put that on See which exhaust 290 264, okay, we're gonna go with this exhaust throw that on there This intake throw that on there this clutch throw that on there And then I think I don't know if we're gonna have enough to put the ECU in we do have pro parts But we're gonna go with the import parts first. So we do need to throw the instant by the ECU and instant by that And we should be good So we're gonna go with that. We're gonna leave the factory engine it for right now We do kind of want to change up the wheels a little bit, but I'm not sure what what I'm feeling for wheels on this car Although I do like the way those look Not sure about the red, but we're gonna throw those on anyways right now I don't think we're gonna do any body kits or anything like that I guess there are any wings or anything on it to start so we're gonna go with that So let's go do some Suspension tuning and stuff like that. I could have stayed in that didn't need to change it So let's go to tune and let's tune some stuff up and then take this to the track. I'm gonna go to the ECU Usually higher we're gonna increase that rev limiter that yep. Yep continue go back Okay, can I just okay? Let's see other things that we can tune or nothing here. We didn't even get a turbo. That's it's a little disconcerting But We're gonna go and make sure we have the biggest angle kit on here We do 55 degrees and then we're gonna go mess with the suspension Soft and soft. I think we're gonna run this exactly how it came with This right now. Maybe we will soften up the rear Because soft in the rear probably soft as it can go see if we can't get some more grip out of that thing Even though I'm not sure. Oh, no, did I just Nobody saw that No, but he saw the fact that I just completely reset that so We have to redo the front. No, we can leave all that. All right, so we're gonna take it out how it is right now and See what we can do with it and then we're gonna continue building this car up This car is gonna get a full build up as well as the other cars in The new pack. So we do have FD Irwindale Skate plan these are still working on some stuff. So this is Dean Kearney's in the slab We may do that to check out the new look of the slab. We're gonna hit up Cali banks I don't know if this car is gonna be able to handle the high bank of Irwindale with this car Fallen our horsepower We're gonna go full send with it and see what happens because It could do very well. We don't know until we hit the track If we can even find somebody to run We can do that little little trick Doesn't work Don't think we're gonna find anybody to run. We may just have to run some practice with it because unfortunately We're not finding anybody to run So we're gonna bounce back and go into a freestyle possibly freestyle We're gonna go to the freestyle with the new slab so we can take a look at the way the slab works How the new slab really looks And we're gonna take the fc out. We did take the fc out here last time So let's see what we can do with it Initiate in with the handbrake Angle kits definitely helping a little bit of left foot brake. I didn't want to hit the wall, but unfortunately we did Hard on the handbrake trying to get it into that five Spot just a little wall tap Apparently I'm nowhere near where I need to be to get first because if you remember last time We did try this car here. We were all over the place, but now the car handles a little bit better just with some mild mods See if we can't tag this five and switch it back That I think is our biggest problem. We keep losing the drift. We're not able to link Everything that we need to we need to do quick switchbacks like that And some wall rides so we don't lose the points So we did figure that out leader with the car. We did not finish good at all. So we're going to give it another shot Here with the fc how it sits See what we can come up with maybe take a win in the freestyle event with the fc That's what we need to do. We need to keep The drifts alive with the car And not lose Drifts but still get The points We're not going out to get that. So we are gonna handbrake this in Uh, stay in it stay in it stay in it quick switch so we don't lose drift points. Oh, and we're gonna lose it there, but We are actually up there now. So Definitely getting much more comfortable on a controller We're actually gonna finish maybe third Which is not bad for me Seeing is how you know controller life not my thing. We did still finish third. It's better than last So we're gonna try and maybe see if we can't get another tandem On the cali bank with this car. We may have to switch over to mobile for the next Version of this game so we can actually oh um It switched on us full tracks lab Okay I don't think i've ever really driven the full tracks lab. Let's see if we can find tandems here the full tracks lab That would be premium to get some actual tandems in this car But apparently i'm having a hard time finding people to go against I don't know if maybe it is just because i'm rocking the pc even though it's cross platform I'm just not finding anybody to go against for today Which is kind of unfortunate and kind of sad Oh, I didn't want to go back to the garage. We're gonna try one more thing real quick. Oh, okay Max engine, okay, so we're gonna have to upgrade our engine soon because apparently we're uh Gonna blow that thing up. See I wish these would actually work credit graphics are coming soon So we're gonna try one more here We may have to switch to mobile for the next time so that we can actually get on these other tracks So if we do end up switching to mobile for the next episode you guys will definitely know So we can run some other tracks and stuff like that with these cars Because I don't think we're gonna find anybody to run fail so Let's see if we can maybe get Another freestyle at another track. We do it was a west We do have a cali banks freestyle. So we're gonna run cali banks freestyle And see if maybe we can run that bank wall and get a win Here for today Probably gonna have to kick this thing up into fourth gear for this We try it in third Oh We almost had it Wrecking as the new fc. We're gonna try to get the long bank on this side That's what we needed to do. So let's flick it back this way. Maybe come in here and wall ride this on that five Yeah, this is what we need to be doing right now here In this fc I'm gonna continue this in I definitely like how this fc is ripping right now So we're gonna try and flick this back Get back in drift. Don't lose it. Oh, we did lose it and that loss was probably why we dropped out of that Spot, but we are still in second Quick drift switch Oh, that was a bit more of a wall tap than I wanted Get off the wall So close yet so far We definitely need to not lose those points Try and flick it this way and try to go back on the outer bank And we're not able to link that it's kicking in the fourth There we go Maybe four scares what we need to be Oh Nope We were doing so good actually here Oh, and so we started biffing it into the walls wall tap so Not the greatest I think we want to give this one more shot because I feel like this fc is capable of Taking a win here if I can Not lose my drifts Definitely like how this fc handles it just on these mild tune that it is So when this car gets tuned more, it's probably going to become quickly become my favorite My favorite car here on torque drift She used to always love this car See we gotta not do that we gotta all or that We need to actually link all of this stuff Wrong way on the gears fourth gear for the banks Third gear on the intersection So let's try and run this bank again I mean the little wall graze is okay, but unfortunately We did lose Our drifts through there quick downshift Little brake change over get this inner line All right now we got a bit of a flow going when we go into fourth See if we can't keep this flow going A lot lower than I wanted to be but we're just gonna keep The drift alive I should downshift in the third Sadly not going to make a w but a beginning progress has been made on the fc Probably going to be switching over to the mobile platform for next episode So we can do some more tracks and stuff like that with the car because the pc version does have some limitations at the moment So if you guys follow me on instagram and twitter all which found the description box below and as always Thank you guys for watching. I'll be more of it. I'll see you guys on the track


Hello everyone, this is Melissa Armell and I'm reviewing Tesla reviewing the option call that I made in Tesla on the 11 stock gapped up ran up Was a 360 strike called it out to October 13th. Look at the moves is made just in the very first week Again couple weeks left in this and it's still going still running I did say in the room today this probably hits over and makes a brand new all-time high today Which it did almost got up to 390 this looks like this could see over 400 even in the time of the option, but this is such a big move such a huge move. I reviewed this in the room Last week it was because I gave the call to the whole room actually not even just a letter people I said this has got to get over this area right away It's got to do it It can hesitate this time around and that is absolutely what it did it blew right through it here So made the call on this day, but this was the real pinnacle day for this to really say I've got it and I'm gonna move over and it plowed through the resistance and then within two days made a new high So all of this is happening with a markets very strong The FOMC is a rate decision announcement on our meeting on Wednesday, which you know We'll wait and see how the market reacts to that But if you did this trade, this was a great exit here today, but still has several weeks left like I said It's not a good idea to have piggy targets when you do any trade But there are trades that give you all the right reasons to hold something with Tesla showing the strength in here It's been waiting to make this move over the high really for about two months It is a very strong stock The market is very very close to making a new high again in the spies and the cues So if it does Tesla will most likely go with the overall market and it's proving its strength today And actually in the last week so a very nice call 158% return investment if you took it the day I called and got out today and You can still be in it because like I said, I mean this could get to some crazy number because I've gave so much time in the call So congratulations to every one that did the trade whether you did it and got out already or you held it through And it was a good one. So we'll see what we go for fall earning season I didn't look at the date of the test the reports I'll be on the lookout for that and for watching it But as of right now, you can see the overall look here is very very strong for this stock And it's moving ahead of the market to which is another great sign So congratulations to all the people in the options letter And if you'd like more information and want to sign up for the options letter Feel free to email me at Melissa at the stocks wish calm you get the emails the calls emailed to you When when I make them and I just call puts and calls and this was a call It was a 360 calls expiring October 13th, and I called it out the 11th. It was a great. It was a great call Have a great night everyone again email me at Melissa the stocks wish calm if you'd like more information


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Good morning cyber traders. Welcome back on this lovely Tuesday. Good to see you all welcome back Good to see you Grant Renzo. Good to see everybody on YouTube Facebook live Looks like we're having a couple of another again a couple of nice little movers this morning. Got this a Y La had a little bit of a pop early run 730 starting to make a little bit of a move looking at a couple of good orders out there Plus with a couple of the ones moving out there. The you can see we got the watch list the F the FR GT, you know, I Can't we talk about red box? Oh my god, that was absolutely phenomenal yesterday We're gonna talk a lot about that one, but remember there's a lot of big news coming out this week This is probably, you know, August is where things really start slowing down a lot of people gonna be on vacation You know even Congress is gonna be out, but this is a you know earnings is really big This is probably the biggest week. Obviously, you could see a lot of the retailers did come out You I'm glad I could tell you this. I'm happy.  We're gonna be doing an event on swing trading We're gonna we're gonna launch our first product on swing trading We have done in a long time and we're gonna talk a lot about it And you know what this is not swing trading at the stand is not like a buy-and-hold, okay? It's like day trading But it's longer, you know, but it's not investing because if you investing from last year to this year, you're getting crushed But there's some great opportunities, you know regarding about the day trading that's now swing into swing trades It's just a little bit You know you trade less shares and longer for swing because some of you here, you know Once again, you can't date trade can't afford it or you can't be here all day But you know, it's a very popular strategy of trading. So let's talk about what happened regarding and then also Tomorrow very very important news.  They're gonna rate They're gonna raise 75 basis points and it's just this is like the fat I don't I think this is the fastest that they have raised interest rates ever now If you have a savings account, you're probably happy, you know You're probably gonna be doing a lot better if you got a line of credit It sucks if you're looking to get a loan. It sucks even more If you're looking to sell your house you're getting crushed now because if you sold it sooner I'm just happy that, you know, some of the stuff I bought, you know about and let me tell you this All happened in like within the last couple of months, but I'm glad if you if you bought anything around January February and March You know, and you locked in you're looking excellent. You do it looking great But as of right now that they're trying to do everything can to slow down inflation But we'll see how we'll see how things work out and you know And for what and with the news that comes out on Thursday is gonna kind of tell us a little bit more if we're in a Recession, all right, which is really gonna suck. So but you know us as day traders is doing great Now I just want to kind of bring up a good example of a swing trade You know Boyle Boyle that we've been trading it We still has to go from 25 to 130 right back down to about 30 Eight right here things already about 101 a lot of these stocks like this one are doing really really well, too So, you know what I would I buy it now? No, but it was a great little swing trade. You can't day trade Boyle It's too fast. It's too crazy. It's nuts But if you do, you know, you could have trades you could have trades some small one and there's a lot of them Like lithium all of them the old moving pretty nicely some of these stocks right here. All right, so well, let's talk about what happened yesterday I want to go over that list first of all, I want to talk about the the the GOV x trade and Hold on. We bring this back. I'm thinking about two days So this one had a really nice move yesterday on the watch list It didn't have the legs like red boxed But this thing did move really really nice going into the afternoon once again If you missed the morning you could trade the afternoon that one did pretty well si ga Another stock nice little mover went from 1380 all the way to 1630 Nice little move to also did its nasty shake right here early in the morning came right back down And then finally, you know going into the afternoon had a nice little push The only bad thing I didn't like right here is right around 3 o'clock when you get the the 3 to 3 30 shake It never kind of came back. It was kind of kind of trend down right there. So that one was also You know, like I said decent mover NEM That one just got Crushed okay go mining down big can we find a bounce? I don't know listen I love dead cat bounces Unfortunately, I was raised to be a dead cat bounce. I portrayed her. I haven't seen as many as I used to now I'm just trying to chasing you know doing a little bit more of Just following the wave on the longs and on then on the bounces But let's see how this thing bounces. It took a major major hit and then also rdbx That thing was just Ridiculous yesterday that they came out right at a gate. It wasn't a morning watch list stock It's just I don't know, you know, but everyone here in the cyber group members you know that I was pointing it out and You know what when you hear me talk and you don't hear me talk When I'm talking on people listen, but when you're like, why is fast a little quiet believe me? I am a Hawking these things. I'm looking around and this stock right here Unfortunately, I chased it.  I think two times Did a little shake right here and that in no way I ran from 470 went all the way up And we're still at 10 o'clock in the morning and the thing just hovered hovered and this would think start slowing down But it had a nice push around 11 o'clock ran from 540 shout up to 620 another very very big move So it was a fun stock. It started getting a little tricky right after 10 a.m But right around here around the 945 it was pretty awesome And that was really the big winner and once again it didn't come up in the morning watch list It kind of showed up later on the afternoon now I'm putting it back on a watch list because she is trading pretty strong this morning Listen the stock was a category I think a 2 I would say right and then all of a sudden it kind of came at 3 and a 4 and when you know that You know that when we when we teach you in phase one two We talk about the things that we always have to learn is what's called the three T's tradable Trend and trap and the first T tradable makes things, you know, it's the most expensive part of the trade It's not the ticket charges anymore like I used to it's the spread So you got to make sure it's tradable and it's not and and due to its trade how it's tradable It the more volatile it is the more you can lose from the wrong side So that's why it's important that when we go over your journals and you do those quizzes and you do those Those the sheets that we give you to make sure you know what level you're at So you don't trade something that's basically a little bit over your head, which is normal Okay, that's people do now. Let's talk about what's moving this morning. So like I said, we have a lot of a Lot of stocks that are coming out You can see right here. We're gonna pop over here on the big percentage gainers, which you always for obviously focus on first AYLA She's kind of flat very cheap stock 8.5 million shares. I like that up 88 percent It's up a lot in pre-market. So let's be a little cautious on that one FRGT this one is obviously making a little bit of a pop right now FRGT is the one we had this morning Didn't really do anything. It's about 8 a.m. This morning But she just made a little bit of a move from 420 up to about 240 up to about 270 really nice move right there new company actually came out nice spread 7 million shares. I'm gonna hop over here and check on level 4. I got to bring it up. What do we got? FRGT Let's see what's going on on the on the where the orders are with the stock right here All right, so it looks like a lot of guys were getting filled right around 249 and then 250 those guys got those traders got filled and now looks like it's going about 280 I'll show it to you right here for some of you on YouTube Facebook If you don't have a CDAP but cyber group members in the trade room, you always see this all the time We always just follow the money and see where they're going Here's a stock that just basically just came out of nowhere PGY Gray volume 1.4 million shares stocks been a really nice move You know, you could see that nice little trend last couple of days We traded this a couple of days ago two days ago ran from 5 to 14 very very volatile So if you know the stock if you traded it when we traded it back on the 22nd on Friday Make sure you check and see if it's in your if it's in your level because it looks like she's pretty Pretty volatile when it looks like it's moving here I Now we're at 7% we're gonna scratch that we always like to trade stocks over about 10% Listen, whatever works on the big gainers on the losers check out the stock right here Boom Liz in one day ran from $2 to 15 came right back down. You could see that The stock's not doing too well Cuz this one is one of those stocks that we traded ran from $2 to 140 that was one of the Mean stocks that we traded so on the big losers list, but we're not gonna look at that on New York stock exchange anything there Nothing much nothing much Definitely on the losers though, I could tell you that on the losers We got you got Shopify out there taking a very big hit not doing well You know, these all those stocks we were talking about The big one that's really making the big news this morning is Walmart Walmart's trying to make a little bit of comeback, but look at that nice little trend It's got big support levels right around here about 117. You know what these these are very these are leaders and With the leaders everything else follows with it. Chewie's also taking a big hit. I got my out of my Amazon That's taking a big hit. I'm glad I got out of that thing took a nice profit on that one Coinbase obviously taking a hit. You could see what's happened with Bitcoin. Those are all coming down big So if that's the case, you know, a lot of us did really well with Mara You know, this is what I'm talking about regarding about the short-term swing trades these stocks are all short-term swing trades So they went up very quickly and you know what whatever goes up comes down So there's not like a buy-and-hold type of thing that about does it I don't really say anything more out there It's four stocks.  All right anything else. I'm missing. I did not call out traders Rich just posted a link in the cyber group room Anyone else anyone else?  All right, so that's fine. Just remember This is a really big big week. I don't like to be long You know, especially with the Fed rate coming out not that that we all know it's gonna be a three-quarters Jump, you know in interest rates, but a lot of the earnings coming out and then Thursday With the you know with the report from out from the state will find out if they're in a recession You know, I I said we're in recession a month ago two months two months ago So and listen once I started raising rates, we knew that that was gonna happen So remember unfortunately catastrophes do make opportunities. So go out there and benefit from it All right, everybody and also don't forget Josh has traders talk today is Tuesday at 11 o'clock So you have a lot of good content a lot of good training going on today Remember you gotta learn before you could earn good. Look everybody if I don't see in the in the in the in the class with me Everyone the cyber group room will see you there You got to have the other instructors working with you and if you're on YouTube Facebook live We'll see you back here at 230 and if you ever want to join our trading room Just like us friend us just do a trial for a week and join our room and see how how trading all works Good luck everyone. Happy trading and be safe


And in sports news, a football enthusiast and president at Jebo Football Club, Chidi Daniel, has blamed my administration of the Nigerian football as a factor responsible for the loss of interest in local league by Nigerian youths. Daniel said lack of grassroots sports development discouraged Nigerian youths from showing interest in sports. He stated this in a Jebo Bafemio-Woodi local government area of Ogwen State at the official unveiling of a Jebo Football Club. He explained that sports remain the only unifying factor that can equip the youths and dissuade them from engaging in cyber crime. We are interested in local football because of the amount of effort that has been deployed in developing the local football. We want to be able to develop the Nigerian league. When we develop that is what we are doing. When we develop it you find that our league will not only attract Nigerian youths but will attract youths from other parts of Africa and of course other parts of the world. With good administration youth, they love football. It doesn't matter what that football is thinking, the Nigerian youth still love football but with good administration you find them come out to show their love and passion. No, I don't think the government is doing enough. Of course there's no amount of effort that the government puts in.  You also expect corporate organizations that can also play their role to come in. But of course the government has not done sufficiently enough. But of course there's always room to... We have talent. Like the president said we Nigeria, we are very rich in talents but there are no sponsors. We have players here and every group of Nigerians we can get better players. But where there's no sponsors there's nothing we can do. If we can get more sponsors they will be able to pass a bit more in sports and that will help our youths. Yeah, we stay there by working with the state effort. Naturally we are going to be affiliated with the footballers who will promote them to the state and from there promote them to the NFF. I believe with what we are seeing today this team has come to stay.


The degree of crystallinity of cellulose was measured using X-ray diffraction, XRD, and Fourier transform infrared, FTR, spectroscopy to determine the effects of weathering on wood samples. Results showed an increase in the crystallinity index, CI, of cellulose with weathering, as well as an increase in the size of crystallites. Additionally, the amorphous fraction of wood was reduced, leading to an enrichment of the relative crystalline content. FTR analysis revealed that weathering had a greater impact on uncoated samples than uncoated ones due to their protective properties. Correlation between the crystallinity indexes obtained from X-RD and FTR was found, suggesting that this method could be used to quickly estimate the degradation level of wood exposed to weathering. This methodology has potential applications in the field of conservation and restoration of wooden objects or in the industry of wood coatings. This article was authored by Alfonso Maffizoli, Giuseppe Vassapallo, Donato Canaletta, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.