Half the size but in much better condition

Green is the theme

The newly purchased rack to hold a microwave, a slightly larger oven, a rice cooker, a water boiler, some pots and pans, some food, and some stuff I need to give away

Beautiful wallpaper detail

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 forgot how nice it was to read so smoothly through my email pages.

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 good. The problem is that its too sweet for my taste.  My friend saw me trying to separate the coffee and sugar with a fork. She laughed and showed me the right way.

The coffee rests at the top (the green part of the package) the cream and then sugar below that.  If you pinch about halfway down the package or even a little lower and then pour into your cup you can get all the coffee, some of the cream, and barely any sugar.  It works well.

This time of the year ice coffee is popular. The ice coffee mixes come in a similar package. I haven’t tried the trick but I would assume it would works the same.  It would be great  test because the ice coffee mixes are even sweeter.

OK, back to Anki SRS.

Doing SRS reps for several months, I’ve  noticed some patterns with those cards that fail repeatedly. -no sticky in the brainy. For me it usually comes down to these four reasons.

1. The card is way too hard because the sentence is too long or has many new patterns or words.
2. I don’t see new words or words often enough in multiple contexts.
3. The words are hard to pronounce or sound weird to my ears.
4. The words or patterns look like other words or patterns.

This is how I solve them.

1. Delete the card. Ahh, that feels good. I never have to see that card again.
2. Find more sentences with that word in it.
3. Use rhinospike.com to get the correct pronunciation then repeat out loud and often.
4. Suspend all cards with words that have look the same but have a different meaning. Once the card is nailed down, reintroduce the suspended cards.

This time it’s 3000 sentences in ~6 months.  The deadline is January 7, 2011.

Korean study continues! I’m still reviewing my anki deck (sort of)  but i haven’t added anything for several weeks. At the moment I have a backup of around 900 cards. Honestly, I just lost interest after I did six months of anki. I reached my goal didn’t bother making another.

As I said, Korean study continues but these days I’m doing other stuff.  My latest project is memorizing and reciting things that are said to me or asked of me over and over and over to me by Koreans I’ve never met or just met.  It’s all true. The list is not complete and not in any particular order.

1. 나이가 어떻게 돼요? / 몇 살이에요? / 몇 살이세요?
2. 이름이 뭐예요? / 성함이 어떻게 되세요? 돼요?
3. 언제 한국에 오셨어요? / 한국에 얼마나 있었어요?
4. 결혼하셨어요? / 왜 결혼 안 하셨어요? 했어요?
5. 어디서 오셨어요?
6. 어디 사세요?
7. 오빠나 언니 있으세요? / 가족 어떻게 되세요?
8. 한국음식 좋아하세요?
9. 맵지 않아요? 괜찮아요?
10. 왜 한국에 오셨어요?
11. 무슨 일 하세요? / 어떤 일 하세요? / 어디서 일하세요?
12. 한국 좋아하세요?
13. 한국 날씨 좋아하세요?
14. 미국은 날씨 어때요?
15. 잘생기셨어요. / 잘생겼다! / 멋있으세요.
16. 한국 나이가 어떻게 돼요? / 한국 나이로 몇 살이에요?
17. 한국말 잘하시네요./ 한국어 잘 하시네요.
18. 한국말 이해할 수 있어요? 한국말 이해돼요? /한국어 이해되세요?
19. 어디서 태어났어요? / 고향이 어디세요?
20. 가족들 보고 싶지 않아요?
21. 얼마나 여기 있을 거에요? / 얼마나 여기서 지내실 거에요? / 얼마나 여기에 머물 거에요?
22. 미국에서 무슨 일 하셨어요?
23. 소주 좋아하세요? / 몇 명이나 마실 수 있으세요? = 주량이 어떻게 되세요?
24. 쉴 때는 뭐하세요? / 일 끝나면 주로 뭐하세요? 주말에는 주로 뭐하세요?
25. 여자친구 있으세요?/ 어자친구 있어요?
26. 핸드폰 번호가 어떻게 되세요?
27. 젓가락 사용 참 잘하시네요. 젓가락을 참 잘 쓰시네요.
28. 어디 가요? / 어디 가세요?
29. 집에 가요? / 집에 가세요?
30. 아침/점심/저녁 식사하셨어요?
31. 안녕하세요? / 안녕하십니까?
32. 참 예쁘세요./ 정말 예쁘세요./ 정말 예뻐요.

1. How old are you?
2. What’s your name?
3. When did you come to Korea?
4. Are you married? Why aren’t you married?
5. Where are you from?
6. Where do you live? Where do you live in Buan?
7. Do you have brothers or sisters?
8. Do you like Korean food?
9. Isn’t it too hot?
10. Why did you come to Korea?
11. What kind of work do you do?
12. Do you like Korea?
13. Do you like Korean weather?
14. What’s the weather like in the US?
15. You’re handsome! ;)
16. What’s your Korean age?
17. You speak Korean well.
18. Can you understand Korean?
19. Where were you born? What’s your hometown?
20. Do you miss your family?
21. How long will you stay here?
22. What kind of work did you do in the US?
23. How many bottles of soju(Korean vodka) can you drink?
24. What do you do in your free time?
25. Do you have a girlfriend?
26. Can I have your phone number?
27. You use chopsticks very well.
28. Where are you going?
29. Are you going home?
30. Did you have lunch/breakfast/dinner? (How are you?)
31. Hello, how are you?
32. You are very pretty.

It’s here!

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