Monthly Archives: July 2010

What would happen if…

By mattgirod | Published: July 15, 2010

I ‘ve had my Yahoo mail account in the Korean language for the past six months or so. Today,  I decided to  use the translate function in the Google Chrome browser to see how well it would translate to English. “Pretty good”, I thought. In fact, it felt so much nicer. It was butter. I [...]

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Instant Coffee

By mattgirod | Published: July 14, 2010

The most common form of coffee that I see. Instant coffee in Korea is everywhere. It’s ubiquitous  I would say. Businesses  have instant coffee dispenser machines.  And everywhere else there are single size packets of instant coffee mix. These coffee mixes I see contain instant coffee, nondairy creamer, and sugar. The flavor, for me, is [...]

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Moving along again

By mattgirod | Published: July 12, 2010

It’s been two weeks since the new goal was set. I finally brought down the amount of Anki card reviews to zero and even learned 30 new sentences.  I didn’t intend to finish up the reviews, and didn’t even think about learning new sentences. But I was on a roll and I couldn’t stop.  I also added 2000 [...]

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