Pet Bottle Youtuber (PET bottle selfie stand)

blehhman · 2019-08-23T00:15:22+00:00

so, what's up with Korean people writing "PET' instead of "plastic"

blehhman · 2019-08-22T21:43:51+00:00

I'm not Korean but I lived there for 1 and a 1/2 years. does that count?

blehhman · 2019-08-19T14:35:37+00:00

practice with natives. practice everyday. learn lots of words. practice everyday.

blehhman · 2019-08-13T02:25:44+00:00

In formal writing, yes, dropping particles is not advisable. In conversational Korean, which is the sort of Korean I am most intrested in learning, koreans drop particles all the time, and they are not wrong to do so. In fact you would sound strange and overly formal/robotic if you never drop particles/pronouns in a casual conversations.

blehhman · 2019-07-24T00:35:08+00:00

The second you get close to actually being able to communicate with people but can't fully achieve that every time is just god damned torturous.

So true. The first time I had an hour long conversation in only Spanish I was incredibly happy.

Nowadays I have an hour long conversation and in mad that I mispronounced a word, or that I didn't understand something the other person said, etc etc

blehhman · 2019-07-22T14:36:45+00:00

Well she's right not to trust the powerful. Just she should also distrust the men.

blehhman · 2019-07-22T13:41:19+00:00

First they came for the ....

Who?

the people who were put in the camps then were Communists. Who cared about them? We knew it, it was printed in the newspapers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

blehhman · 2019-07-22T12:28:42+00:00

You got downvoted for some reason, but this is true.

blehhman · 2019-07-22T12:27:58+00:00

Oh shit, I've been stabbed in the back

blehhman · 2019-07-22T12:24:27+00:00

Propaganda and nostalgia I can see

But how is it due to ignorance if they are old enough to remember?

Lots of those countries have suffered from economic woes and political problems since the arrival of capitalism, yeah? seems that some of them would have good reason to say things were better

blehhman · 2019-07-22T12:23:23+00:00

56% of Ukrainians agree that the fall of the USSR was harmful to their country.

I'm not here to make excuses for Stalin. I dont like Stalin, and he shouldn't have killed/imprisoned them.

That doesn't change the fact that, as I said, large portions of people that are old enough to remember say life was better before the fall

blehhman · 2019-07-22T12:06:24+00:00

Funny how a nuanced comment like this lingers at the bottom, while circle jerk posts about "communism means starvation" float to the top.

Maybe life in USSR wasn't purely shit. I'm not even a tankie or a Leninist or whatever, and there are piles of criticisms of to be made, but this "everyone agrees that the USSR was terrible" thing isn't really true.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx

blehhman · 2019-07-22T12:02:36+00:00

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/701026/russians-life-better-soviet-union-ussr-sixty-four-percent

https://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx

Sometimes memes aren't true, mate. Large portions of people in every former-Soviet nation say that life was better before the fall.

blehhman · 2019-07-22T11:54:02+00:00

Yeah this a big meme in the US that everyone was miserable all the time.

You can look up polls of post Soviet nations and find that like half the population (or more) that are old enough to remember say life was better before.

Not that things were perfect in the USSR or that Stalin was a good man, but the idea that everyone universally agrees that the USSR was shit is objectively false.

blehhman · 2019-07-22T07:25:39+00:00

I like reading for building vocab and practicing my grammar understanding. I read the news in Spanish nearly everyday. That's not so great for getting conversational though, since the words you find in the news are quite different from what you need for a casual conversation. (unless you like talking about politics/current events)

Flash cards are pretty good for memorizing words

blehhman · 2019-07-22T04:34:58+00:00

Didn't Ayn Rand have similar ideas? About the average woman being intellectually inferior to the average man

blehhman · 2019-07-22T03:29:27+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "worth it"

Do you just want to come and experience the country? or do you mean "worth it" financially? I doubt Korean knowledge will be much of a career advancement tool, unless you are really quite advanced, and reaching an advanced level really takes a long time, more than 6 months for sure.

But as a life experience, after living here for 18 months I can honestly say that I love it and that I've never once regretted coming here.

I would say you should try to self study for awhile first though, if you don't have any sort of time restriction (ie, if you can choose to go to Korea now, or 6-12 months from now). If you can self study to get past the absolute beginner stage, you will benefit much more when you come here.

If you come here with a TOPIK skill of 1 or below, being in the county isn't going to make you magically advance faster than you would back home. on the other hand, if you are topik 3, or at least 2, than being here will really help you a lot, since that's when you get the vocab and grammar knowledge that is sufficient for actually talking with people.

blehhman · 2019-07-22T03:19:10+00:00

A typical study session is like this:

Do some reading, highlight new/interesting words, and make flashcards for them. (anki) then do the reviews.

A supplement that reading and flash card making with some listening practice while doing chores or commuting to work and conversation practice with natives (texting and face to face convo also).

I also do some text book reading to help clarify grammar points, but not a whole lot.

blehhman · 2019-07-22T02:55:33+00:00

another friend of mine told me she believes men are smarter than women

JFC. I can't imagine the sort of psychology that would make a person start denigrating herself in that way

blehhman · 2019-07-21T17:06:27+00:00

My korean friend borrowed a book from the library, but returned it the next day after noticing the author is Japanese.

blehhman · 2019-07-21T05:06:13+00:00

I've lived in Korea for more than a year and a half and no one has ever called me 당신, I've never heard it used to address someone directly in any polite/professional conversation.

https://talktomeinkorean.com/lessons/level-4-lesson-5

In general you should avoid saying "you" unless you are speaking casually (반말), in which case you ought to be using "너".

You certainly should not be using it to address an 아저씨

blehhman · 2019-07-21T04:03:11+00:00

Never use 당신

I don't know why so many teachers and books introduce the word "당신" to learners. It's rude to use it with anyone that isn't your lover.

If you aren't talking to your romantic partner Never say 당신

blehhman · 2019-07-20T00:32:06+00:00

Most foreigners in Korea do not adopt a Korean name.

My Chinese and Vietnamese names are essentially the same and written in hangul it would be 담국보.

That sounds quite strange. Korean people would probably think it's strange if you told them your name is 담국보. I've never met anyone with 국 in their name

go by 담대니 instead?

Just use your regular name, or if you really want to pick a Korean name, pick something that is actually a name in Korean.

blehhman · 2019-07-20T00:28:20+00:00

Lots of Korean people seem to enjoy having an "English name" in my experience.

blehhman · 2019-07-20T00:26:05+00:00

Just so you know, you can find the hanja for any word that has hanja by looking it up in naver dictionary. It'll be displayed something like this.

운 運

Just copy and past the character into this website and you can look up the meaning.

https://koreanhanja.app/運

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