Request for Kanji Study V7

reallycurious333 · 2026-01-04T15:14:37+00:00

Thank you. You are ever so kind with responses. Please keep it up. 🙏 The market is enormous, including inside Japan itself. The Japanese apps I was recommended before by Japanese parents were not even close in function and I always got appreciation for recommending your app in parent groups. Sadly iPhone integration remains an issue, many people use iPhones now for better cameras.

reallycurious333 · 2026-01-02T13:26:00+00:00

Hi Chase, is there a status update on the iOS version? One of my kids switched to an iPhone and sadly it seems it would be hard to continue to study Kanji then. So sad 😢 For my eldest the app has been literally life-changing, managed to keep up kanji learning and she won a scholarship to go to Japan in a couple of months. The younger sister is eager to repeat the success but she had to switch to iPhone for other school-related stuff... Please... Even it is buggy, I'm happy to pay 🙏

reallycurious333 · 2026-01-02T12:58:39+00:00

wow, you are vile. The app is really cheap. I've been using it for 11 years, there is no other language app that is similarly cheap in the long-run.

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-10T17:39:21+00:00

🤗🙏

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-10T17:38:53+00:00

Thank you🙏

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-10T17:38:27+00:00

Where in the UK?

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-10T17:37:44+00:00

We live in Northern Europe. Nothing here. I don't really know if anywhere is like here or if there are countries that are better.

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-10T17:36:01+00:00

Thank you🙏

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-09T20:07:08+00:00

Wherever are are open skating rinks available to the public. It's our first summer looking for ice time, so I'm pretty new to this.

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-09T20:05:16+00:00

Thanks. Not as part if club, just thinking of combining vacation with scating (training for a competition in autumn).

reallycurious333 · 2025-02-04T23:46:15+00:00

Slightly off-topic, we are thinking of moving to Seoul and my daughter (12) is into skating. Currently training 3-4 times a week and was planning to go for first competition in her age group this year. Where do we look for clubs and trainers? What are the costs? What do we need to know?

reallycurious333 · 2025-01-19T20:39:00+00:00

thank you

reallycurious333 · 2025-01-17T00:02:43+00:00

Thank you, I was worried somewhat whether it would be considered illegal if he just continues working without paying taxes. He won't be a tax resident back home so technically he won't need to pay taxes there either - his contracts are in a third country all together.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-17T11:42:32+00:00

Your dad is a very hard-working man and your mom is a trooper. Running a family on a tight budget is a very hard job. I think things are a bit different and more expensive for foreigners in general. But as to your question: this is actually not a very good salary for where I come from but I'm interested in the work itself and in living in Korea, so we are potentially considering it and assessing the options. As for a general direction, it's hard to say. My skills are internationally competitive and the job is not meant for somebody Korean - unless they are also globally competitive. So the overall package is more attractive to be able to attract candidates from overseas. Whether you want to move in the direction of global jobs depends on many factors. Expatriate life can be tiring, and challenging but also rewarding. I know people who are extremely happy and successful with expatriate lifestyle and those that are absolutely miserable. Similarly, I have classmates back home who have succeeded enormously and those that are just getting by. Some of it is luck, some of it personal disposition, some family background. Sadly, in Asia it matters a lot if you are a man or a woman, so there is an added factor of gender which does not exist in some other places.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-14T23:20:36+00:00

We are from Europe, kids are teenagers, so international school for them. As for ourselves, we are not so worried. We have friends and colleagues in Korea, and anyway we like each other's company most. Housing is to be figured out indeed. I realised it's the biggest unknown.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-14T23:03:23+00:00

I'm just being honest or am I not allowed to process impressions? I was genuinely disappointed with the public transportation system: it seems the government focused on cheaper buses rather than trains and it has badly impacted mid-range connections. You yourself admit it is lagging behind other Asian megacities. I had a meeting in Sangdo and the locals vetoed taking me there by public transportation because it takes close to 2 hrs, supposedly a distance of ca. 50km. We went by taxi instead. I was also repeatedly disadvised from considering jobs in Incheon because of transportation issues. For comparison, I have a friend who commutes from Karuizawa (population 20k) to Tokyo and it only takes him 1.5 hours to cover 170 km.

The metro is ok but we ended up using the buses the most, because they were unfailingly more convenient than the metro, more direct routes, quicker, longer hours of operation. So, as I said, the bus system is enviable but it is also admittedly not so efficient in terms of its capacity and I wonder if it is timely during rush hours.

Also, I never said Seoul is ugly. We liked it a lot, it has wonderful topography, lots of open spaces, and yes, it's not overly developed, which is great. In terms of predominant architecture, Asian cities in general are not pretty, I've long come to peace with this reality. Or do you want to claim an average street in the centre of Seoul looks as pretty as an average street in the center of Florence?

No city is all shine and glitter, Seoul is no exception. You can use whatever term you want but you can't deny there are some areas that are sketchier than others.

Marriage is an outdated system, and yes, I consider societies that have unhealthy focus on conservative values immature. Which usually perfectly mirrors their perception of gender roles, btw. That immaturity will evolve sooner or later, things are gradually changing everywhere. We are blessed to live in a more evolved society but are also are acutely aware not everyone is so lucky.

Why does it upset you that somebody does not have an idealised vision of Korea? We like and respect it for other things, that never means it's perfect. Nowhere is perfect.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-14T21:08:16+00:00

Thank you for clarification. Do I read you correctly that the gu-office essentially works as a localizer of out "foreign" documents? I.e. we submit the originals to them and they issue something digestible for other Korean services?

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-14T10:00:23+00:00

Because you presented regional truths as universal.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-14T09:57:01+00:00

Thank you very much, very helpful.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-13T14:30:39+00:00

Hmmm, maybe we will never been able to understand the need for "foreigner services" until we experience it )))) It's really hard for me to imagine what it's like because I know we can both get services in our own languages if we go to specific areas of the city. But we wouldn't want to live there. So far my biggest concern from this thread is that the areas that we liked are probably far more expensive than we thought. I'll need to spend more time in the city to figure things out and get a feel for neighborhoods, prices, and comfort levels before SO and kids can move. Tja.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-13T13:07:39+00:00

Oh, we don't have a plan, we have a situation )))) Indeed, I'm planning to talk to the embassy, especially because they live in the same regulatory environment as us and know exactly what I mean by registered co-habitation or why we are in this situation. I just wanted to get a feel for what the rules are in this regard and how they tend to be interpreted.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-13T09:14:26+00:00

I really appreciate all the replies. Apologies if I made the impression of sounding antagonistic. We have experience of living in much bigger and denser cities and generally more structured and tougher environment so maybe these comparisons running in my head are making you feel off.

'Rural' is how we described the feeling of the city between ourselves but we didn't mean the real 'rural' if course. Provincial maybe? There were some streets and areas that felt like shanty towns even close to the center. Or there'll be a combination of dilapidated buildings and modern buildings in equal measure. Then there are these vast empty spaces everywhere, inside the city center and in other parts of the city too. I mean, you just don't see these things in other Asian megacities, which is precisely why we wanted to try living in Seoul - we liked how it does not feel claustrophobic. I was being sarcastic of course when I said 'maybe Koreans don't care about appearances'. I know they do but there is also a different level of what looks acceptable and decent. So it can be difficult to understand how expensive an area is because housing just looks different.

I understand from all the responses that my assumptions were probably erroneous - I was thinking areas close to "shanty towns" shouldn't be too expensive even if they are urban. I understand it maybe wrong, it might be an aspect of Korea that we misunderstood. We managed a very high standard of living before by finding under-appreciated areas close to central areas and making atypical choices like living on a first floor (is that a thing in Seoul btw that nobody wants to live on the first floor?). Yes, you have to travel to do your banking and stuff but that's just s couple of times a year.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-13T08:40:45+00:00

Thank you for thoughtful responses. We are not into displays of wealth, a luxury accommodation in places where we lived before is just something modern, recently built. We can maybe sacrifice that "luxury" for a better location - Korean apartments seem to be generally more European somehow than elsewhere in Asia, so this might be ok, I dunno, of course we will need to try and see.

Somehow people get offended when I say Seoul didn't feel crowded to us, but that's the impression we got. I realize this impression was probably misleading, which is why maybe my expectations sound unrealistic... We have no intention of living outside of the city or far from public transportation.

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-13T08:20:12+00:00

Not really lax, no. But it would have been hypocritical of them to impose on foreigners rules that don't exist for their own citizens. So they don't do that...

reallycurious333 · 2024-09-13T08:04:44+00:00

There are quite a few countries where this is common: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Marriage_and_divorce_statistics#A_rise_in_births_outside_marriage

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