Moving today!
Getting out of the apartment for real today. Most of my stuff is at home, but now I have to get the furniture and the remaining things, like my food and the like. Then we have to clean the fridge and do some other things. Ewww. (Mostly Ewww because the Freezer doesn't really work so it's going to be hideous to clean.)
I also have a dentist appointment at 9.50, and my genius self decided to drink coffee until 10pm last night, so I was up packing until 3. Drrrr. I hope I didn't keep Stephanie up. She always says she's a heavy sleeper but she's been also complaining of not being able to sleep at all.
Korean is close to Japanese in some ways. I'm enjoying learning how to write the language. They have similar linguistic shifts like k/g, d/t, and s/shi. However, they don't have specific markers for these shifts. You just have to know that when the character appears in the center of a word, it is g, and when it appears on the outside of the word, it is k. This is really frustrating for romanization because for some reason, the Korean government requires all of these particular characters to be romanized as G. Which means that sometimes the G makes a K sound, and sometimes it doesn't. Best to learn it in Hangul then.
I can really tell that I am going to enjoy this country a lot. It won't be permanent for sure, but it will make a lot of great stories, and a lot of good learning for a year.
Also, I posted this on Facebook, but I was also interested in hearing it from the LJ folks.
How many languages can you say 'How are you'? in?
A friend of mine from Nigeria has everyone beat with 11 1/2. (The 1/2 counts for pidgin.)
I have 5 1/2: English, Spanish, Japanese, Twi, Somali, and Pidgin.
Will of course soon be adding Korean to the mix, and then one of these days I'll get around to learning Arabic.
Sadly I can only have a conversation in English, and very brief encounters in Spanish, Japanese, and Twi. In Pidgin I know only select phrases, mostly surrounding what my boys would yell at each other. What's up?--you're an idiot--and stuff about eating. In Somali I literally know only hello and how are you. But I'm going to go back to the women's center so I will learn as much as I can!!
Gross. Dentist. Gotta run.
I also have a dentist appointment at 9.50, and my genius self decided to drink coffee until 10pm last night, so I was up packing until 3. Drrrr. I hope I didn't keep Stephanie up. She always says she's a heavy sleeper but she's been also complaining of not being able to sleep at all.
Korean is close to Japanese in some ways. I'm enjoying learning how to write the language. They have similar linguistic shifts like k/g, d/t, and s/shi. However, they don't have specific markers for these shifts. You just have to know that when the character appears in the center of a word, it is g, and when it appears on the outside of the word, it is k. This is really frustrating for romanization because for some reason, the Korean government requires all of these particular characters to be romanized as G. Which means that sometimes the G makes a K sound, and sometimes it doesn't. Best to learn it in Hangul then.
I can really tell that I am going to enjoy this country a lot. It won't be permanent for sure, but it will make a lot of great stories, and a lot of good learning for a year.
Also, I posted this on Facebook, but I was also interested in hearing it from the LJ folks.
How many languages can you say 'How are you'? in?
A friend of mine from Nigeria has everyone beat with 11 1/2. (The 1/2 counts for pidgin.)
I have 5 1/2: English, Spanish, Japanese, Twi, Somali, and Pidgin.
Will of course soon be adding Korean to the mix, and then one of these days I'll get around to learning Arabic.
Sadly I can only have a conversation in English, and very brief encounters in Spanish, Japanese, and Twi. In Pidgin I know only select phrases, mostly surrounding what my boys would yell at each other. What's up?--you're an idiot--and stuff about eating. In Somali I literally know only hello and how are you. But I'm going to go back to the women's center so I will learn as much as I can!!
Gross. Dentist. Gotta run.