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Not sure if you kids noticed this or not, but give a listen. I was recommended MC Sniper (MC 스나이퍼), and have come to like much of his stuff, particularly this song, "Seoul Station" from "Be in Deep Grief" which contains some other nice stuff.
Over on the blog for the Double-Tounged Dictionary I ran across a post from a travelling blog discussing the many difficulties of English spelling as it relates to this guy's travels and the military system (of Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, ...). He created a new list to replace the military one (which is used for ease of understanding). The main feature of this list is that it is confusing, vague, and often misleading -- which characterises English orthography.
Read it like, "A is for Are, B is for Beady" for the best effect.
Ripped off:
A) Are
B) Beady
C) Cue
D) Django (helpful only to jazz guitar aficionados).
E) Eye
F) Fiji
G) Gneiss
H) Honorable
I) Ian
J) Jeans
K) Knees
L) Llama (you’d use the authentic Spanish “y” pronunciation, of course)
M) Mnemonic
N) Niece
O) Oedipus
P) Pneumonia
Q) Quay
R) I don’t have a good example of a confusing “R.” Maybe you could roll it, as in “Rrroberrrt Burrrns.”
S) Sea
T) Teepee
U) Urn
V) Apparently a V is always a V, although my dictionary says that Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, is pronounced “fah-DOOTS.” And any excuse to say “fah-DOOTS” can’t be a bad thing.
W) Why
X) Xerxes
Y) You
Z) Ziti
Surprisingly, I was able to get into every class but one I wished to enrol in. But that one was somehow full a few days before I could even enrol, so I had planned for having that one lacking anyhow. I remember in my first year it took a good hour to register for classes because of slow servers and such, but for the past couple of years, the process has been smooth. In fact, I managed to get 9 classes regstered in just about two (2) minutes. Surprise! Efficient.
I still couldn't fit in the basic Korean history classes I wanted into my schedule, but I got a couple other Dae Han Min Guk related classes in there. I am done with all but two half year courses in the way of tedious required stuff. I couldn't fit them in in previous years so, I am left with taking Phonetics and Sound Patterns this year.
- East Asian Studies 462 Ethnography on Korea
- East Asian Studies 247 History of Capitalism in Modern Japan
- Linguistics 315 Language Acquisition
- East Asian Studies 477 Missionaries in Korea
- East Asian Studies 333 Modernism and Colonial Korea
- Linguistics 228 Phonetics
- Linguistics 341 Semantics
- Linguistics 229 Sound Patterns
- Linguistics 328 Writing Systems
Now that I have my 2007 - 2009 school year planned, it's time to think about the summer of 2008. I know I must leave the country and since meeting "noona" going to Korea has been at the top of the list of things to do. At first I thought I might go by way of a UofT exchange program for a month-ish as a classmate is doing now. But, after exploring my options further, I think I may go about it independently. I really don't need any credits to graduate anyway, so the best thing for me to do is go with the goal of studying Korean at one of the large institutions.
People seem to talk a lot about Yonsei (연세대학교) -- specifically the Korean Language Institute (한극어학당 ). It has many benefiits I think. The schedule for their summer term is June 26 to September 6th. That's about two months. The special "Summer Program" is only about a month, and too short for me, I think. The problem with the September 6th end date is that I will have to hurry back home to finish up my schooling here at UofT.,
Enter, Seoul National University (서울대학교) and their Language Education Institute (언어교육원). They are actually a bit cheaper (not really enough to make a difference), but their schedule suits my plans a bit better I think. Their summer term is June 4th to August 10th -- significantly earlier than Yonsei. That means I can do my traveling after I have been studying for two months, which seems more logical than traveling then studying. I will hopefully have learned a bit more to help me out by the end, so I can have the rest of August to discover Dae Han Min Guk.
Now, I have to work out where I will stay after they kick me out of the school dorms should I go that route in the first place. Suggestions welcome.
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In 5 words or less, who are you?
Submitted by dejablu503.
Slightly intriguing, not too interesting.
Man, I was counting syllables for a while, then I slapped myself for being stupid. haha
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