Category Archives: Korea

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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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SRS Observation

By mattgirod | Published: June 21, 2010

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. The card is way too hard because the sentence is too long or has many new patterns or words. [...]

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New Goal

By mattgirod | Published: June 21, 2010

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

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For the Month of May

By mattgirod | Published: May 31, 2010

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 [...]

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Anki Official Release for iphone/ipod Touch

By mattgirod | Published: May 31, 2010

It’s here! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ankisrs/id373493387?mt=8

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In the Zone

By mattgirod | Published: March 18, 2010

Took a trip to the 38th parallel last weekend.

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