The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5641 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 17 of 844 12 December 2009 at 4:14am | IP Logged |
Korean
Vocab Today: 25 words
This week: 125
This month: 187
Scriptorium Today: 24 sentences
This week: 83
This month: 184
Japanese
Vocab Today: 15 words
This week: 48
This month: 93
Scriptorium Today: 20 sentences
This week: 48
This month: 94
Kanji Today: 10 kanji
This week: 45
This month: 45
Watched Atashinchi no Danshi episode 5 and Kara's reality TV show about baking. Also listened to a lot of music today.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5527 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 18 of 844 12 December 2009 at 5:26am | IP Logged |
The Real CZ wrote:
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Interesting...I didn't realize they had a TV show. How are you acquiring your Korean TV material? Satellite? (I've noticed DirecTV has several of the big Korean networks.) Torrents / download sites? Streaming sites?
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Shadow1984 Groupie United States Joined 5481 days ago 53 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 19 of 844 12 December 2009 at 12:48pm | IP Logged |
Hey CZ,
Even though there are some days that you don't really have time to practice it looks as if you are actually putting in at least a little time each day to study. Good Job! I think it will yield positive results.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5641 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 20 of 844 12 December 2009 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
Warp3: Have you ever heard of allkpop? They link to YouTube videos when they have a news update on a reality show for a Kpop group. So, YouTube until they get taken down, mysoju, DramaFever(<<---this is the only legal site), and d-addicts for the dramas. I don't get foreign network with my satelitte, so it's all computer for me.
Shadow: Thanks. Yeah, when I lumped my studying together, it just set me back to square one, so doing something everyday is good for me.
Edited by The Real CZ on 12 December 2009 at 2:03pm
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5527 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 21 of 844 12 December 2009 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
I've heard of mysoju (only recently, though) and d-addicts, but not the other two.
Most of my video material has come from http://yoobin-hq.skyrock.com/ so far. She uploads mostly music performances (usually in 1920x1080 TS/TP format), but there are some videos like http://yoobin-hq.skyrock.com/2373426055-KARA-SNSD-Come-2-Pla y-Live-2009-03-23-8-52-GB.html (which is just over an hour long and is nearly all dialog) and various KBS Sketchbook and SBS Chocolate episodes (which usually have interview sections) that I've found immensely useful for dialog listening practice.
It wasn't long before I found myself buying a Megaupload Premium account (all her videos are hosted on Megaupload) and a huge external HDD after finding that site...hehe :)
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5641 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 22 of 844 13 December 2009 at 4:26am | IP Logged |
Korean
Vocab Today: 50 words
This week: 175
This month: 237
Scriptorium Today: 0 sentences
This week: 83
This month: 184
Japanese
Vocab Today: 5 words
This week: 53
This month: 98
Scriptorium Today: 0 sentences
This week: 48
This month: 94
Kanji Today: 20 kanji
This week: 65
This month: 65
Listened to Japanese Pod 101 Beginner Season 1 Lessons 81 and 82. Biggest accomplishment was a 50 vocab day in Korean. Since I had work today, my mind just stops worrying about studying and focuses on getting as much "fun" in as possible, so I spent a lot of the day listening to music.
Eun Ji Won (G-One) - Siren
I was addicted to this song today. Good stuff.
Yeah, I did no grammar study today. I'll probably do that first thing after vocab and kanji review tomorrow.
I also chatted with two Koreans this morning...100% in English. I think I'll need to try to make an active push to use Korean, even if it's 5-10% of the conversation for now. That's better than 0. I haven't used Korean in a while, actually. I've chatted with some Japanese people in the past, but my Japanese ability overall is low, my listening probably being my best ability (I can make out most of the things said, but my vocab is extremely weak at the moment.)
Tomorrow should be a good day, and I can finally make time to watch some dramas. Just some of my day will be working on the car and watching the Cowboys vs Chargers game.
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Warp: Thanks for the links. I'll be sure to check them out. A lot of the popular shows do get uploaded onto YouTube, but you have to watch them as soon as they come out, since accounts last 2 months at the most for those uploaders.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5527 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 23 of 844 13 December 2009 at 6:01am | IP Logged |
Wait...he's a singer? I recognized the name because he is on that show I linked to above and I've seen him in other videos (mostly doing brief interviews of music groups and in a short excerpt where he was co-presenting at an awards show with Im Yoon A from SNSD), but I never realized he was a performer as well (when the only thing I really saw him doing in videos was interviewing, I just assumed that's what he did). Now, you've got me wondering who the other three guys in that video are.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5641 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 24 of 844 13 December 2009 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
Yeah, I didn't know Eun Ji Won was a rapper either, since I first saw him in variety programs too (Hello Baby as the dad of the day, Intimate Note, etc.) He was part of the group Sechskies, where he was the leader and main rapper, and when the group disbanded, he became part of The Movement (rapping movement that includes groups and people such as Drunken Tiger, Epik High, LeeSsang, T(Yoon Mi Rae), etc.
Edited by The Real CZ on 13 December 2009 at 3:05pm
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