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Originally Posted by loveskyliemole
Thank you Koir san, always 
I see...
I often get confused with
to be and to get...
When you feel tired...
would you say
"I get tired"
"I got tired"
as well as
"I am tired"
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I would say "I am tired", or the even shorter "I'm tired"
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"got" and "was" were both"past" form right?
but
"I got tired" and
"I was tired"
mean different?
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Yes. They differ in the perspective and emphasis the speaker wishes to place on the concept of being tired.
"I got tired" would be used if the act of becoming tired was part of telling a story or relating a series of events. Effectively, it would change how the person reacted to events after becoming tired compared to reactions to the same event if he/she were not tired.
"I was tired" is used if the speaker wanted to place more emphasis or focus on the events after he/she became tired, with less focus on how he/she would act in the same events were he/she not tired.
Examples:
"I was waiting at the bus station for him to arrive. As the hours passed, I got tired and decided to sleep for a while."
"I was tired from waiting hours for him to arrive, so I decided to sleep for a while."
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and I also confused with
to be and to become
I want to be a teacher in the future
I want to become a teacher in the future
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The difference between the two sentences, again, is in the emphasis and focus the speaker wants to communicate.
Sentence 1 concentrates more on being a teacher at some point in the future, with no thought as to the working and studying needed for that career.
Sentence 2 concentrates more on the process of becoming a teacher at some point in the future, not just being a teacher.
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sorry Koir san to ask you many questions...
What time is it in Canada now?
It's 0:50 pm here in Japan
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*chuckles* 22:07 p.m. yesterday to your point of view