The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 41 of 844 17 January 2010 at 5:34am | IP Logged |
It's about 50/50 at the moment. Some sentences I understand all of it or just need to look up a word or two, even if I don't know all of the grammar. Other sentences...I ask for a translation. With the emails, they write in English and I (try to) write in Korean.
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Today, I spent some time on Shared Talk, and about 60% of one of my conversations was in Korean. I'm slowly being able to use more of the grammar I learned in Continuing Korean. I was talking to a Japanese person, but that was in 100% English. I need to fix that.
Watched Chuno episode 1 with subs. It. Is. Awesome. Watched Invincible Youth episode 9 subbed (watched ep 13 raw yesterday.) Also watched the Jo Kwon/Ga In parts of We Got Married, and for Japanese, I continued with Nodame Cantibile.
Now that I know how I need to prepare and study for my college courses, I think I'll be able to spend more time studying...until Lee Hyori, SNSD, etc. make their comebacks in the next couple of months.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 42 of 844 18 January 2010 at 5:03am | IP Logged |
January Week 3 (Jan 11-17)
Korean
Measurement
Vocab This Week: 21
Vocab This Month: 44
Scriptorium Sentences This Week: 0
Scriptorium Sentences This Month: 0
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Time
This Week
Music: 850 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 708 min
(Passive) Listening: 0 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 42 min
New Vocab Study: 19 min
Review Vocab Study: 1 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 4 min
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This Month
Music: 1428 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 1870 min
(Passive) Listening: 29 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 156 min
New Vocab Study: 37 min
Review Vocab Study: 12 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 10 min
Japanese
Measurement
Vocab This Week: 0 words
Vocab This Month: 15 words
Scriptorium Sentences This Week: 0 sentences
Scriptorium Sentences This Month: 0 sentences
Kanji This Week: 20 kanji
Kanji This Month: 75 kanji
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Time
This Week
Music: 154 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 315 min
(Passive) Listening: 0 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 28 min
New Vocab Study: 0 min
Review Vocab Study: 0 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 5 min
New Kanji Study: 15 min
Review Kanji Study: 1 min
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This Month
Music: 243 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 910 min
(Passive) Listening: 25 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 81 min
New Vocab Study: 19 min
Review Vocab Study: 2 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 5 min
New Kanji Study: 65 min
Review Kanji Study: 1 min
Edited by The Real CZ on 18 January 2010 at 5:03am
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 43 of 844 18 January 2010 at 5:05am | IP Logged |
Hm, today I also chatted some in Korean. Still simple one liners, but I can't rush it for now. Doing these numbers really help me, because I need to cut down on the entertainment part a little bit and add more studying. Yes, the entertainment is a big reason for learning both, but it's not helpful going in without knowing anything.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 44 of 844 21 January 2010 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
I tried something I haven't done for a while, and this is learning vocab by rote memorization. Yes, you can "learn" more faster and in a shorter amount of time that way, but the next day, I can only remember 20% of the words. I tried this for a few days, reviewing more than I normally do, and decided it just wasn't working. I thought it would work because I realized that even if I remember a word the next day, I won't remember it a month from now because I hardly review. So I'm just gonna stick with mnemonics (until I learn a lot more kanji) and actually review vocab everyday.
Aside from that, I'm starting to get addicted to Jdramas like I was with Kdramas last year.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 45 of 844 25 January 2010 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
January Week 4 (18th-24th)
Korean
Measurement
Vocab This Week: 108
Vocab This Month: 152
Scriptorium Sentences This Week: 0
Scriptorium Sentences This Month: 0
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Time
This Week
Music: 940 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 646 min
(Passive) Listening: 0 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 19 min
New Vocab Study: 57 min
Review Vocab Study: 8 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 0 min
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This Month
Music: 2368 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 2516 min
(Passive) Listening: 29 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 175 min
New Vocab Study: 94 min
Review Vocab Study: 20 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 10 min
Japanese
Measurement
Vocab This Week: 55 words
Vocab This Month: 70 words
Scriptorium Sentences This Week: 0 sentences
Scriptorium Sentences This Month: 0 sentences
Kanji This Week: 0 kanji
Kanji This Month: 85 kanji
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Time
This Week
Music: 392 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 366 min
(Passive) Listening: 0 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 23 min
New Vocab Study: 27 min
Review Vocab Study: 14 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 0 min
New Kanji Study: 6 min
Review Kanji Study: 1 min
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This Month
Music: 635 min
TV/movies/etc (raw and/or subbed): 1276 min
(Passive) Listening: 25 min
Textbook/Grammar Study: 108 min
New Vocab Study: 46 min
Review Vocab Study: 16 min
Scriptorium: 0 min
Speaking/Practice: 5 min
New Kanji Study: 71 min
Review Kanji Study: 2 min
Edited by The Real CZ on 25 January 2010 at 4:02am
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 46 of 844 27 January 2010 at 2:08am | IP Logged |
I don't think I'll get much done this week.
1) I have three tests next week. Then I think two more the week after.
2) The main reason, Girls Generation is having their comeback. That's much more important to me than any kind of studying, school subjects or languages.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 47 of 844 27 January 2010 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
As long as you have your priorities straight...hehe
Is there a new album/mini-album coming out or are they just going to be performing a different single from the existing mini-album?
EDIT: Nevermind...apparently it is a new album (a full one, this time).
Edited by Warp3 on 27 January 2010 at 5:32pm
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6437 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 48 of 844 27 January 2010 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
Oooooh.. you naughty naughty boys drooling over GG.. :P
It's nice to see Korean learners who are into Korean culture.. but it's slightly embarassing when they happen to know more about Korean contemporary culture than I do... and I'm supposed to be a Korean! XD
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