You just want to learn how to construct a simple sentence right? This is one of the first things I wanted to do after I figured out the basic pronunciation of the Korean alphabet and memorized a few nouns. I didn’t want anything complex. I wanted the equivalent of an English sentence in the simple [...]
Got an email today from group94, my favorite design group. They just put up a tribute site to Michael Jackson. Nicely done. Like the rest of the world, his music and his moonwalk were a part of life. While I’ll never get the high notes, I still believe I’ll be able to do a decent [...]
Pronouncing Korean is difficult. You will find that differentiating between certain vowel sounds is nearly impossible. I wish it was easy, but it’s not. The biggest pronunciation tip ( for vowels, consonants, phrases, sentences…) is the following. Listen carefully (and I mean carefully) to the vowels voiced by a native speaker or at the very [...]
The Century Gothic typeface wasn’t working for me as a handwriting example for my lessons. I recently found a few alternatives that were perfect. More can be obtained by going to about.com, but the ones below are the most accurate handwriting typefaces. Download the opentype and truetype versions in one nice little zip package. More [...]
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What kind of kimchi do you want? This fouth of July weekend I spent with my friend in Gwangju, then followed it with a quiet 4th party in Jeonju. These photos are from Yangdong market in Gwangju. Here you can buy kimchi, multicolored plastic tubs, all kinds of seafood (octopus, squid, clam, eel), pig parts [...]
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