After spending a week in bed since testing positive to COVID-19, I am now slowly getting back on my study routine. Missing a full week has been a bit discouraging but I am thankful that I am not sick anymore! (Apart from having to blow my nose from time to time🤧)
I truly hope you all stay safe!
Sometimes I surprise myself by having to look up so many vocabularies.😇
A veces me sorprende que tengo que buscar tantas palabras.😇
종종 생각보다 내가 단어를 많이 몰라 놀라곤 한다..😇
我不想相信我不知道这么多单词。😇
Sometimes the fact that there are so many characters to memorize could be discouraging.
However, if you just keep up your work and not give up, you will have made progress and your language skills will have improved in the end.
Let us all keep up our hard work! 🔥
Working on my Chinese today. Mandarin is such an interesting and fun language to learn. Some people think that East Asian languages are all similar to each other, but they’re not. Although they-or we-share similarities in many expressions or pronunciations, each language has developed it’s unique way of speaking or expressing feelings, according to the country’s culture(and of course, the characters are all different, too.)
I love noticing how Chinese is different from Korean, and Korean from Japanese. Acknowledging how some Asian language expressions differ from those of Western countries are so exciting as well. Does that qualify me as a language nerd?🤓💗
*an example of similarly pronounced word:
🇺🇸🇬🇧: Library
🇰🇷: 도서관 (Do- seo- gwan)
🇨🇳: 图书馆 (Too- shoo- gwan)
🇯🇵: 図書館 (To- shyo- kan)
Korea’s Namhansanseong Fortress 🇰🇷
Today is a national holiday in Korea. We call it “삼일절(sam-il-jull)” which basically means “3-1 Day”.
March 1st, 1919 is the day when groups of Koreans peacefully marched in the streets holding the national flag, shouting for the independence from Japan. They were unarmed, but the Japanese police sent them to jail and brutally tortured them. One of the well-known Korean who fought for the independence in March 1st is 유관순(Yoo-Gwan-Soon), who was seventeen at the time. She eventually died at the age of nineteen from harsh torture and malnutrition in jail, after leading a peaceful chant for independence inside the jail. The torture that Koreans who fought for their independence experienced are extremely brutal and cruel, beyond imagination, to the point where just by reading them makes me feel nauseated.
It is wrong to hate individuals from certain countries just because of the history. I do not blindly hate Japan or Japanese because what happened in the past; I have Japanese friends, travel to Japan, and enjoy Japanese food very much. However, it is important to face the past as it is without distorting it and not forget what happened; especially, to remember those who fought for the independence of our country with their lives, knowing what they will have to go through once they were caught.
I am proud and thankful to be Korean. 🇰🇷
My online uni courses for Spanish and Chinese started today. It won’t be too easy for me since I am working at the same time, but I shall do my best to manage both. I really hope to improve my Spanish and Chinese this year!
Didn’t realize that the British call eggplants “aubergine” until I went to the UK. I remember asking my British friend what an aubergine, which was under the vegetarian lasagne menu, was. I was quite surprised when she seemed a bit confused when I asked her if it is the same as an eggplant. Love noticing such differences! 🤓
Used my handmade paper fruits to visualize some words in 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇳. Three may seem like a small number, but if you memorize three vocabularies every single day, you will have memorized more than a thousand words in a year!
Trying to memorize full paragraphs- memorizing full sentences or paragraphs helps to understand sentence structures and even to memorize vocabularies. ✨
Trying to make sure I’ve got a robust understanding on basic grammar. After focusing on so many verb tenses, today I thought the first-person singular verb conjugation for “empezar” was empezco… Sí es muy triste..
Studying Spanish everyday. I would think I completely got it and then some exceptions and irregular verbs would just pop up like a surprise birthday party without families and friends and gifts.🥳
Spanish prepositions are quite confusing as sometimes they are used exactly the same as English prepositions while sometimes they just seem to disappear. ¿Adònde fuiste?😭
Some sentences with prepositions that I have studied today are:
- Ayer por la mañana vi a mi hermana en la parada del autobús.
- Mañana una amiga mía va a dar un concierto de piano.
Este año, he estudiado español todos los días. Algunos son fáciles y otros son difíciles, pero me gusta mucho aprender español. Hoy estudié preposiciones y no son fáciles porque a veces son similares al inglés y a veces, no. Muchas veces quiero preguntar, ¿adónde fueron?🧐