Caveat: Beat the keyboard

"The piano is easy to play.  Beat the keyboard."  – Shaina, 5th grade.  And here, all this time, I thought it was difficult.  That it required some kind of finesse.  Maybe I should give it a try. 

I found a phrase that just drove me nuts: 
우리학원을 오시려면 이렇게 오세요

The breakdown, as far as I can figure out:
우리학원을  =our school+[OBJ]
오시려면 = come+[HONORIFIC]+["INTENTIVE-SUPPOSITIONAL"(whatver that is)]+[CONDITIONAL-CLAUSE-SUBORDINATOR]
이렇게 = being thus+[-LY] ("thusly")
오세요 = come+[HONORIFIC CONJUGATED]+[POLITE/FINITE]

So, from all that:
if your honorable self might come to our school, come like this [i.e. here are some directions for getting here? or, i.e. come "as you are"?]

Meanwhile, babelfish alleged:
"Our school five cotton come coldly like this"

Hahaha.  Never trust babelfish.  That looks like it should be on a tshirt, though.

Other Korean Vocab:
회원 = member

셀프입니다 = self serve (this is konglish sel-peu =self with a deferential be-verb ending)
지역=region

금상=gold (first) prize

은상=silver (second) prize
장려=encouragement
장려상="honorable mention" prize
상담실=conference room 
여름휴가=summer holiday
 
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