Monthly Archives: February 2010

Classroom Korean

By mattgirod | Published: February 9, 2010

A few weeks ago I was sitting in the staff  office checking my email when my co-teacher opened a package. She pulled out three books. One was a English classroom activities book, a TOIC (Test Of English for International Communication) study guide, and then this one, Classroom English Expression Dictionary. I looked at all three, [...]

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Do’s and Don’ts

By mattgirod | Published: February 6, 2010

I borrowed a children’s book from the library today. I should say two books really. The title on the front cover is  Good! Very good! and on the back cover it’s Don’t do that! As you might imagine the book is about good and bad behavior. It’s written and illustrated by two Koreans.  It’s a [...]

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Four Month Report

By mattgirod | Published: February 4, 2010

I made a discovery this last month. Surrounded by a sea of  ballads and teen-pop, I found this tiny tiny island of K-rock. On it, was  Delispice, the band above,  and a few other ones. I’m still searching for some more. The progress report on my Korean Language Study Experiments: Listening: There was definite progress [...]

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The Word

By mattgirod | Published: February 3, 2010

Surprisingly, this post isn’t about Korean. I just really enjoyed Stephen Colbert’s The Word today and had to post it here. hehe… www.colbertnation.com

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