Living in the US and looking for a hard Korean ‘yo’ mattress? I searched the US websites with little luck. I did find one site but 200 bucks for a Pororo mattress pad seemed a little expensive. Check out the Korean website Gmarket, you’ll find them there. Some of the sellers do international shipping. [...]
Posted in Korea | Also tagged mat, mattress, yo
The little LG Cyon cell phone was put to sleep and replaced by an Anycall Samsung Galaxy S. I didn’t do a lot of research before buying, perhaps none really. I think I had heard that the Galaxy S was the latest and coolest phone that wasn’t an iPhone and it could run Android. And I [...]
Posted in Korea, Korean Language | Also tagged Anki, SRS
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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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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녹차 라테 We talked over lattes in in the town of Kimje . I told her I wasted my time for the first year of studying Korean. I spent all that time struggling, trying to retain what I had learned and trying to output using grammar rules. But she said, “No. You have what you [...]
Posted in Korean Language | Also tagged music
Here’s a cool explanation. http://www.xamuel.com/spaced-repetition-systems/ The following bit caught my attention. The guy is experimenting with SRS and listening to music. “Basically, if you listen to the same song over and over, it gets tiresome. And if you haven’t listened to a song in awhile, it sounds better. Hmmm, this sounds analogous to something, doesn’t [...]
This experiment was sparked by a Christmas weekend where I spent much of it lost in Korean conversation. I was lost and I wasn’t even participating. It was very clear to me as I sat there, that my listening skills really really sucked. I’ve reached the end of Intermediate Series of the Season Two Korean [...]