Not really in the mood to type much. I think tomorrow or Friday I'm going to do a view of the lessons, because these expressions aren't really getting under my tongue.
So, "_____에서왔습니다" means I am _____ nationality. "어느나라에서왔습니까?" is how you ask what nationality someone is. "미국" is my home country (aka USA). And final expression is "안녕히가세요", which is farewell.
So if I don't post tomorrow, it's because I didn't watch a new video. But if I review, I'll post. I may not review either.
Even though I'm learning Korean, it's only small steps. I'm not seriously considering serious study of the language while my Japanese is at such a lower intermediate level and my Chinese is at a beginner level. Perhaps I ought to reconsider studying Korean at all - it would be a smart move. But I'm stubborn on this fact. And particular occurances have reassured by desire to learn Korean for particular reasons.
I will most likely post on Friday if I do not post tomorrow.
2009-03-04
2009-03-03
LSK 03
Keeping it pretty short, because my day was pretty bad.
So I learned how to say "I am from ~" or rather, I think it's more like "I am a person from ~" (저는)_____사람입니다. The 저는 is in parenthesis, because it can be omitted. The phrase was a bit difficutl the first few times, but I've got the hang of it now.
I also learned, "이느나라사람입니까?" which means "Where are you from?" or, like the phrase before, more literally (I think) it is "You are a a person from where?" I'm not too good with this phrase.
I also learned "고맙습니다" as thank you. However, this was only gone over twice in the video, so I don't have it down at all.
And that concludes my Korean for the day.
So I learned how to say "I am from ~" or rather, I think it's more like "I am a person from ~" (저는)_____사람입니다. The 저는 is in parenthesis, because it can be omitted. The phrase was a bit difficutl the first few times, but I've got the hang of it now.
I also learned, "이느나라사람입니까?" which means "Where are you from?" or, like the phrase before, more literally (I think) it is "You are a a person from where?" I'm not too good with this phrase.
I also learned "고맙습니다" as thank you. However, this was only gone over twice in the video, so I don't have it down at all.
And that concludes my Korean for the day.
2009-03-02
LSK 02
I told my friends at school, that... indeed, I had picked up learning another language.
My one friend who is also -kind- of learning Korean was amazed that I could write... except all I wrote was 입니다. And then I found out when I got home... I was writing it wrong. Oh well.
And another friend didn't believe that I was learning Korean because of movies and dramas. Oh well. I will admit that there is the slight other reason, but if it was purely for that reason, I would have either picked up trying to learn it long ago, or been able to keep away from it.
My entry today's going to be relatively short. Then again, I hope most of my entries are long like my first entry.
So today, on the second episode of LSK, I learned "저는~임니다" which now adds the subject "I" to the phrase "입니다" from earlier. At first, the 저는 was a little bit awkward. But hearing it several times helped me to get it better. The other phrase was much harder. 만나서반갑습니다. Something along the lines of it's nice to meet you. The only way I was able to get it was after one person put a pause between 만나서 and 반갑습니다, but it's still a little bit awkward. Now off to watch 태왕사신기 (Legend). It's the first period drama I've ever seen. I watched the first part of the first episode yesterday and it seemed pretty interesting. Let's just hope I can still manage to get my chemistry homework done while watching. At least I don't have to worry about math. (No math teacher for a few days~)
My one friend who is also -kind- of learning Korean was amazed that I could write... except all I wrote was 입니다. And then I found out when I got home... I was writing it wrong. Oh well.
And another friend didn't believe that I was learning Korean because of movies and dramas. Oh well. I will admit that there is the slight other reason, but if it was purely for that reason, I would have either picked up trying to learn it long ago, or been able to keep away from it.
My entry today's going to be relatively short. Then again, I hope most of my entries are long like my first entry.
So today, on the second episode of LSK, I learned "저는~임니다" which now adds the subject "I" to the phrase "입니다" from earlier. At first, the 저는 was a little bit awkward. But hearing it several times helped me to get it better. The other phrase was much harder. 만나서반갑습니다. Something along the lines of it's nice to meet you. The only way I was able to get it was after one person put a pause between 만나서 and 반갑습니다, but it's still a little bit awkward. Now off to watch 태왕사신기 (Legend). It's the first period drama I've ever seen. I watched the first part of the first episode yesterday and it seemed pretty interesting. Let's just hope I can still manage to get my chemistry homework done while watching. At least I don't have to worry about math. (No math teacher for a few days~)
2009-03-01
Reality Check
I doubt anyone's going to come across and read this. But if you manage to, I'll give a short introduction.
I'm a high school student. I'm in a rigorous academic program, so time is quite spare. Not to mention I play two instruments - cello and viola. But this kinds of things will -NOT- be what you will read about if you play on reading this.
My true area of interest is foreign languages. It began with French, which I started learning in elementary school (but it was mostly learning the colors... for four years). I moved and did not have French for my fifth grade year. Middle school, I took French every year. My French teacher was extremely hard - and we were supposedly on a high school French 3 level by the time we finished. However, high school saw the downfall of my French. The teacher was horrible, my French actually de-proved instead of improving. So I sought to satisfy my yearning for Foreign languages in a different way.
And thus, I began trekking on learning Asian languages. I'll admit, it began with Japanese because I was interested in Anime. However, my Japanese didn't take off until a year ago, around the same time I applied for a summer program in Japan. About the same time I became more serious about Japanese, a friend of mine told me about her Chinese school*, and that it had a class for English speakers. I joined in four weeks late - but I spent the entire next week learning the lessons I had missed.
I developed an interest in Asian dramas around this time as well. (And left the Japanese anime that had brought me into the world of east Asia behind me, mostly. I still enjoy a few manga - but I'm no hardcore addict - and it must be in Japanese.)
However these two langauges are still not the focus of the blog - maybe.
I started this blog because I commited... the horrible act of trying to pick up another language.
Some people juggle several langauges all at once. But most of the blogs I've read advise NOT to do this. The AJATT is a fairly popular method, and a lot of langauge-learning blogs out there are going with the idea of native input. However, the main point of native input is to surround yourself with the langauge.
And if you decide to pick up more than one language, you're already halving what little time you have to spend with a specific language.
That being said, my primary langauge is Japanese. My room has signs all over it in Japanese (mostly with sayings like 頑張って to remind me to study, or telling me that English is not allowed in my room), I use firefox in Japanese, iTunes in Japanese, most of the time half or more of my tabs are in Japanese, I rip the audio from my favorite drama episodes and listen to it while doing chemistry homework, etc. I think you get the point.
Chinese has been put to the way side. Much to the disappointment of my Chinese teacher. I feel pretty much like a failure in Chinese class. But there's only four of us, and I'm the youngest and the only one still in school. One person took Chinese at univeristy for four years. Another lived in China for several years. And one is an older second generation Chinese-American. And then there's me. It's only my second year - but I probably only know about two month's worth of Chinese.
Asian dramas do not just have Chinese and Japanese. There's still Korean. I've looked at Korean and my first thought was "There's no 漢字/汉字, I'm not interested." That was true, until I started watching more Korean dramas and movies. I love the dramatic movies that make you cry - and Korean movies are well-known for doing just this.
And then I was doing an assignment for my economics class, and since I had used Japanese newspaper last time, I decided to use a Korean newspaper. However, the side displays with Hangul looked very interesting.
And then, I watched April Snow, a Korean drama. And realized, that a particular person whom I may have a particular interest in.... is Korean and, as far as I know, speaks Korean.
It all came down to one thing - it wouldn't hurt to learn... a litlte Korean.
So I downloaded a few episodes of Let's Speak Korean. And I'm going to watch one a day. Learn the phrases. And avoid romanization at all costs - I've heard that Korean isn't very easy to romanize, and I would rather not depend on it. Let's Speak Korean is great for this - because there is no romanization what so ever.
So today, I watched lesson 1.
I learned how to say "Hello": 안냉하세요. I know a little bit about the Korean script since I've read about it a bit before decided that "I was going to wait until I was a lot better with Japanese and Chinese before touching Korean (that plan failed). So I understand how it works. And I hope that by looking at the script I can make sound connections.
I also learned that you introduce yourself by the phrase "~입니다." I don't yet know if that is more of a "My name is..." or if it's just a "I'm ...".
And that concludes my post. It's 10 PM, and I need to go finish reading the stranger and practicing for my French oral tomorrow. (I'm in my last year of French, and it couldn't have come sooner.)
*I don't even know how many people know what Chinese school is. Whenever I mention it, people seem to assume that Chinese school is a normal-day school taught in Chinese. It's not! It's like Saturday school where - usaully - second generation Chinese-Americans go to learn to read and write Chinese.
I'm a high school student. I'm in a rigorous academic program, so time is quite spare. Not to mention I play two instruments - cello and viola. But this kinds of things will -NOT- be what you will read about if you play on reading this.
My true area of interest is foreign languages. It began with French, which I started learning in elementary school (but it was mostly learning the colors... for four years). I moved and did not have French for my fifth grade year. Middle school, I took French every year. My French teacher was extremely hard - and we were supposedly on a high school French 3 level by the time we finished. However, high school saw the downfall of my French. The teacher was horrible, my French actually de-proved instead of improving. So I sought to satisfy my yearning for Foreign languages in a different way.
And thus, I began trekking on learning Asian languages. I'll admit, it began with Japanese because I was interested in Anime. However, my Japanese didn't take off until a year ago, around the same time I applied for a summer program in Japan. About the same time I became more serious about Japanese, a friend of mine told me about her Chinese school*, and that it had a class for English speakers. I joined in four weeks late - but I spent the entire next week learning the lessons I had missed.
I developed an interest in Asian dramas around this time as well. (And left the Japanese anime that had brought me into the world of east Asia behind me, mostly. I still enjoy a few manga - but I'm no hardcore addict - and it must be in Japanese.)
However these two langauges are still not the focus of the blog - maybe.
I started this blog because I commited... the horrible act of trying to pick up another language.
Some people juggle several langauges all at once. But most of the blogs I've read advise NOT to do this. The AJATT is a fairly popular method, and a lot of langauge-learning blogs out there are going with the idea of native input. However, the main point of native input is to surround yourself with the langauge.
And if you decide to pick up more than one language, you're already halving what little time you have to spend with a specific language.
That being said, my primary langauge is Japanese. My room has signs all over it in Japanese (mostly with sayings like 頑張って to remind me to study, or telling me that English is not allowed in my room), I use firefox in Japanese, iTunes in Japanese, most of the time half or more of my tabs are in Japanese, I rip the audio from my favorite drama episodes and listen to it while doing chemistry homework, etc. I think you get the point.
Chinese has been put to the way side. Much to the disappointment of my Chinese teacher. I feel pretty much like a failure in Chinese class. But there's only four of us, and I'm the youngest and the only one still in school. One person took Chinese at univeristy for four years. Another lived in China for several years. And one is an older second generation Chinese-American. And then there's me. It's only my second year - but I probably only know about two month's worth of Chinese.
Asian dramas do not just have Chinese and Japanese. There's still Korean. I've looked at Korean and my first thought was "There's no 漢字/汉字, I'm not interested." That was true, until I started watching more Korean dramas and movies. I love the dramatic movies that make you cry - and Korean movies are well-known for doing just this.
And then I was doing an assignment for my economics class, and since I had used Japanese newspaper last time, I decided to use a Korean newspaper. However, the side displays with Hangul looked very interesting.
And then, I watched April Snow, a Korean drama. And realized, that a particular person whom I may have a particular interest in.... is Korean and, as far as I know, speaks Korean.
It all came down to one thing - it wouldn't hurt to learn... a litlte Korean.
So I downloaded a few episodes of Let's Speak Korean. And I'm going to watch one a day. Learn the phrases. And avoid romanization at all costs - I've heard that Korean isn't very easy to romanize, and I would rather not depend on it. Let's Speak Korean is great for this - because there is no romanization what so ever.
So today, I watched lesson 1.
I learned how to say "Hello": 안냉하세요. I know a little bit about the Korean script since I've read about it a bit before decided that "I was going to wait until I was a lot better with Japanese and Chinese before touching Korean (that plan failed). So I understand how it works. And I hope that by looking at the script I can make sound connections.
I also learned that you introduce yourself by the phrase "~입니다." I don't yet know if that is more of a "My name is..." or if it's just a "I'm ...".
And that concludes my post. It's 10 PM, and I need to go finish reading the stranger and practicing for my French oral tomorrow. (I'm in my last year of French, and it couldn't have come sooner.)
*I don't even know how many people know what Chinese school is. Whenever I mention it, people seem to assume that Chinese school is a normal-day school taught in Chinese. It's not! It's like Saturday school where - usaully - second generation Chinese-Americans go to learn to read and write Chinese.
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