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May 1st, 2007

The last post was depressing, so in order to prevent ending on that note, here’s a shoutout to Davemo, who has started his blog. North American Scum. Yay, go Dave.

Also, I installed a new plug-in so I can have a cool audio player for when I want to post mp3s. Here are two examples.

Stay – You and I are Fools
This first song I’ve been listening to over and over to try to translate it and practice my Korean-learning abilities. It’s from the Korean drama Goong.

[audio:Goong - 05 - You and I are Fools.mp3|loader=0xF6CCFF]

Jang Pil Soon – 10 Month
This movie was depressing as all hell, but I rather liked the soundtrack. It reminded me of what the music would be for one of those indie films if it were in English, haha.

[audio:Sad Movie - 07 - 10 Month.mp3|loader=0xF6CCFF]
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You know you’re getting older when you get excited about household appliances. The highlight of my week was getting a new washer/dryer set installed and going shopping for a new vacuum at Target — we got the dirt devil.

I’m not sure how much I like growing up. This summer is started to freak me out — I’m supposed to go to New York, but this is the first time I’ve gone somewhere by myself where there wouldn’t be a familiar face to pick me up at the airport. I’m also turning 21 this summer, which completely blows my mind. I can’t believe I’m in my twenties. I feel like I could still be 14 in terms of maturity.

I think I’m also freaking out because there’s a lot of things developmentally as a human being that you stop being able to do after you get older. It makes we wonder what I should have done earlier. For example, you no longer can increase the amount of calcium you can store in your bones. Once you hit a certain age, you’re only able to replenish the calcium reserves. I realize worrying about my calcium levels seems silly, but as someone who has never really had health problems, the idea of having to deal with those in the future makes me uncomfortable.

I think wanting to learn Korean right now is also a result of getting older. The part of your brain used for language learning, they say, can increase in capabilities in your youth. If you never use it, it never reaches its full potential. Once you hit a certain age, it plateaus and your language learning abilities can’t increase — however difficult it is for you to learn new languages at that point will stay that way for the rest of your life.

I’m sure there are multitudes of examples like that. Is it too late for me to do anything about it? I don’t want to grow up. It seems dreary.

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Git Yer Ejumication On

April 21st, 2007

My self-administered Korean lessons have been going well so far. The biggest problem is that right now my reading abilities are sub par so I always need a romanized translation of words (e.g. 나는 바보 입니다 [Korean] –> Na-neun pa-bo-im-ni-da [Romanized Translation]). This, of course, severely limits my ability to use various sources to learn not only new vocabulary, but grammar, too. (The first person who tells me what that phrase means gets five points!)

Anyway, so I’m continuing my attempt to learn grammar too, but I’m first putting all my efforts into improving my reading first. Right now, I can recognize about 10 of the 14 consonants pretty quickly. As for the vowels, I really only know the “ah” and the “ee” sounds on sight — the rest I have to think through or look up, which is time-consuming.

On the up-side, I watched an episode of Ma Nyeo Yoo Hee (Witch Amusement is the English name), which is a Korean Drama, and managed to recognize some of the words and phrases so that was kind of exciting. Yay! I trudge forward.

Unfortunately, I’ve been putting off my actual work (Business Law exam, maybe? Communication Law papers, perhaps?) in order to study Korean, haha (and no, I’m not considering time spent watching Korean dramas as practice). So, chances are, if I mention it again before the end of exams (May 3rd, for me), I’m probably procrastinating, but oh well.

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