One of the fascinating things that keeps coming up in my Korean lessons is the generation gap. It’s not that I was unaware of this before, but my tutor has made a careful point of noting when she shows me a word that older people either won’t find appropriate in speech, or which she...
Read more →Let’s see, in my notebook there are the following new vocabulary terms: 신상 정보: personal ID information 생물측 정보: biometric information 심리학: psychology 작업 멘트: pickup line 몸이 좋다: to have a good body 핸드폰 번호 따다: to get phone number 세계 구역기구: The WTO 합병하다: to take over , for example,...
Read more →Today’s fun conversation in Korean: ME: You have a nose star calipers?1. DOLLAR STORE CLERK2.: Huh? Nose star? ME: Yeah, you know. Nose star calipers.3. DSC: You mean a nose hair trimmer? ME: Uh… maybe. Nose hair? DSC: Yeah. Like, this? ME: No, no. I mean like this… [Makes a buzzing...
Read more →Try Chinesepod. I wish there was a good one of these for Korean. In fact, it’d be a great project for someone like Kangmi. (via A Glimpse of the World.)
Read more →Myung Mi Kim is a Korean-American poet, and you can hear her read poems about some of the various consonants in the Korean language. This is a link from the previously mentioned Factory School link I put up a few days ago. I think she gets the names of a couple of consonants wrong,...
Read more →같? 값?면 다?치마. It came up in conversation the other night, and Lime and her friend couldn’t explain it to me, so I asked Chullsung here at work. He explained that it was something like, “If the two skirts are the same price, I’ll take the fancy royal red one!” Something roughly like that....
Read more →옛날에 한국어 블로그 있었는데 요즘 그 블로그 update 안했어. 그런데 요즘 한국어 공부를 다시 시작 했어서 까금 한국어 쓰기 연습 하고싶어서 eclexys에서 in Korean category 만들었지! (여기서 볼 수 있어요.) 그리고 엿날의 포스트들은 거기서 볼수있어요… (I’ve recently begun studying Korean again and while I don’t have it in me to sustain regular posting in...
Read more →똥침을 알아요? 이 개임 해봐…. 대희씨… 당신이 너무 무서워요… 빅 호미니드도 무서워요! (For those wondering, just click the first link and try this messed-up flash game. The point is to shoot your fingers up someone’s bum. It’s a Korean thing. No, I’m not making that up.)
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