Let's Learn Korean
Hangul for today:
ㅏ A
ㄹ R/L
I introduced R first because it's my favorite hangul symbol. It's easy to remember because it looks like an S. A is a pretty common letter in Korean, and it's very easy to mistake with "eo".
Annyonghaseyo- hello
(ahn-young-hah-say-oh)
This can be used at any time of the day. It can also be used for bye. It's often shortened to "anyo", though that is very informal.
Aniyo- no
(ah-knee-yo)
Ne- Yes
(nay)
ne kuraeyo- yes, that's so/right
(nay coo-ray-yo)
aniyo, anguraeyo- No, that's not so/right
(ah-knee-yo ahn-goo-ray-yo)
Korean, at least for me, is a lot more difficult than Japanese. The alphabet is harder to read because the letters change (but at least there are no complex Chinese characters!), and everything seems to take longer to say, in addition to being hard to pronounce. It's kind of a shame because I've been here for so long, yet I haven't picked up as much as I would have liked to. But at the same time, that's kind of my fault. I've had a really bad attitude when it comes to learning Korean, and it doesn't help that the pushy church members were kind of shoving it in my face that I didn't know the language. We're at an English church, right? Why should I have to speak Korean? But oh well.
I'm planning on going to the new church tomorrow. I wanted to go last week, but I was starting to feel better from my cold and didn't want to risk making it worse running around not knowing where I was. I've gotten a lot of calls from the other church (like 3-4 calls a day and text messages on top of that), but I'm not sure what to tell them, so for right now I've been ignoring it. I'm a little worried because they know where I live. I'm kind of afraid they'll come to my place and harass me about going back. And the worst thing is I only didn't go last week... so it's not like I've been gone for months. They're going to have a hard time keeping members if they go after them like this... that's what I think anyway.
One of the things they wanted me to do was "evangelize". Now, evangelizing is good and all, but the way they do it is kind of...useless. Standing on a corner and yelling at people to go to church is probably the most ineffective way of getting people interested in the church. People here KNOW, they just don't care. And the killer thing is they didn't even ASK me if I wanted to go, they pretty much told me to be at the church by 1 o'clock to evangelize. Come to think of it, that might be the reason why they're calling me so much.
But anyway, I'll let everyone know how the new church goes tomorrow.
ㅏ A
ㄹ R/L
I introduced R first because it's my favorite hangul symbol. It's easy to remember because it looks like an S. A is a pretty common letter in Korean, and it's very easy to mistake with "eo".
Annyonghaseyo- hello
(ahn-young-hah-say-oh)
This can be used at any time of the day. It can also be used for bye. It's often shortened to "anyo", though that is very informal.
Aniyo- no
(ah-knee-yo)
Ne- Yes
(nay)
ne kuraeyo- yes, that's so/right
(nay coo-ray-yo)
aniyo, anguraeyo- No, that's not so/right
(ah-knee-yo ahn-goo-ray-yo)
Korean, at least for me, is a lot more difficult than Japanese. The alphabet is harder to read because the letters change (but at least there are no complex Chinese characters!), and everything seems to take longer to say, in addition to being hard to pronounce. It's kind of a shame because I've been here for so long, yet I haven't picked up as much as I would have liked to. But at the same time, that's kind of my fault. I've had a really bad attitude when it comes to learning Korean, and it doesn't help that the pushy church members were kind of shoving it in my face that I didn't know the language. We're at an English church, right? Why should I have to speak Korean? But oh well.
I'm planning on going to the new church tomorrow. I wanted to go last week, but I was starting to feel better from my cold and didn't want to risk making it worse running around not knowing where I was. I've gotten a lot of calls from the other church (like 3-4 calls a day and text messages on top of that), but I'm not sure what to tell them, so for right now I've been ignoring it. I'm a little worried because they know where I live. I'm kind of afraid they'll come to my place and harass me about going back. And the worst thing is I only didn't go last week... so it's not like I've been gone for months. They're going to have a hard time keeping members if they go after them like this... that's what I think anyway.
One of the things they wanted me to do was "evangelize". Now, evangelizing is good and all, but the way they do it is kind of...useless. Standing on a corner and yelling at people to go to church is probably the most ineffective way of getting people interested in the church. People here KNOW, they just don't care. And the killer thing is they didn't even ASK me if I wanted to go, they pretty much told me to be at the church by 1 o'clock to evangelize. Come to think of it, that might be the reason why they're calling me so much.
But anyway, I'll let everyone know how the new church goes tomorrow.