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Okay, last post I said this open wireless was a decent connection. It's not. It has been bloody horrible. Stupid thing is fine for a few hours and then mysteriously goes down and stays down the rest of the day. But when it goes down, it doesn't completely stop working. I've found that secure sites (https) work fine. They're slow to load, but they at least load. This means I can access e-mail, but not much else. I found an https proxy, which is what I've been using a lot lately to go to sites. When it's down, AIM works fine, and I'm also able to join some Unreal Tournament 3 servers. Stupid router. It's been fine the last couple days, so I'm not sure what's up with this thing.
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I haven't mentioned that I'm taking elementary Korean. There was only two courses that were worth taking for me, and I needed another to be a full-time student. Korean and Russian were the only languages that had an opening during a time I was free, and I went with Korean over Russian.
First thing about Korean, is that Sejong the Great really deserves his title for creating Hangul (Korean alphabet) alone. Everything is phonetic. Words are spelled the way they sound and when you see a symbol, it always has the same sound. Nothing like English, where letters vary depending on the word. It seems so logical and well thought out.
The professor is making everyone give a short presentation on a topic. Guess who was able to snag the Korean movie topic? Me! It's only like a 5-10 min presentation, which is actually rather lame. How am I supposed to fit my Korean film knowledge into 5-10 mins? I have to cover actors and actresses in that time too.
There's also a journal part of the class. We can either team up with someone and write out our study progress or go for a self-study thing. He mentioned in the e-mail a possible movie theme for self-study journals. If I can get him to agree to that, my work is practically done already :). I wonder if I should pretend I've not seen over a 100 Korean movies.
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I haven't mentioned that I'm taking elementary Korean. There was only two courses that were worth taking for me, and I needed another to be a full-time student. Korean and Russian were the only languages that had an opening during a time I was free, and I went with Korean over Russian.
First thing about Korean, is that Sejong the Great really deserves his title for creating Hangul (Korean alphabet) alone. Everything is phonetic. Words are spelled the way they sound and when you see a symbol, it always has the same sound. Nothing like English, where letters vary depending on the word. It seems so logical and well thought out.
The professor is making everyone give a short presentation on a topic. Guess who was able to snag the Korean movie topic? Me! It's only like a 5-10 min presentation, which is actually rather lame. How am I supposed to fit my Korean film knowledge into 5-10 mins? I have to cover actors and actresses in that time too.
There's also a journal part of the class. We can either team up with someone and write out our study progress or go for a self-study thing. He mentioned in the e-mail a possible movie theme for self-study journals. If I can get him to agree to that, my work is practically done already :). I wonder if I should pretend I've not seen over a 100 Korean movies.