Japanese | Golden Zephyr

Learning one language by another…

It was recommended to me today to try learning Korean through use of my Japanese. This was something I had never thought about before, but something I am definitely very interested in pursuing. When I googled it I found this video, which is quite funny:

(It’s yunho from Korean boy band DBSK ‘teaching’ Korean through Japanese [...]

Hangul

I added a hangul page today–instead of trying to explain it myself I added links to videos and resources to help you all out. Learning hangul is extremely important, as romanizations really just don’t help. I firmly believe they make it more difficult. When I was first learning Japanese, my sensei was extremely adamant that [...]

A Cool Site

I found yet another cool site today – MyEyesTokyo. It’s a wonderful site containing interviews with foreigners living in Tokyo, Japan. Basically it asks what we all want to know–how did you get here, why did you come here, and what are you doing here?

I love it!

Here is a video (made by Hikosaemon–again!!) of an [...]

Hurrah!

One of my favorite sites ever is BACK! チョコチョコ – Chokochoko has returned and is looking SUPER awesome (made me realize that I need to get moving designing a decent banner for this site. Of course, when it comes to design I can never get what’s in my head out of my head!) But, you all [...]

An Important Video

It might not stay up for long, but it’s definitely worth a watch:

Snow, snow and more snow!

It’s still snowing~! We’re supposed to get another 10″ on top of the remaining 5 or so from the last snow storm (which gave us about a foot). It’s pretty much a white-out right now!! Glad that they canceled my school, that’s for sure!

In other news, I made the Korean Blog List so I’m super [...]

Asked already…

I was asked by Phil Void from the Dharma Bums to aid in translating their “Rangzen, Free Tibet” song into Korean. Of course, being the silly goose I am, I said SURE!! So, now I need to find 수민 하고 민영 to help me! I also posted a “please help” on lang-8 hoping that someone [...]

Snow!

Finally we got some decent snow today! It seems everywhere in the world but here is having the worst winter for many years!

It's only a few inches…

We’re supposed to get more on Thursday–here’s hoping for a snow day!!

Today I have made up my mind I’m actually going to study. O_o *gasp* ! I [...]

Slang

先生

I visited Maggie 先生 today to catch up with some long overdue Japanese studying, and I came across a post regarding “ヤバい” – slang. I feel that as an intermediate (barely, lol) student of Japanese and a beginner in Korean this is something that’s very important. It’s so easy to make a mistake and [...]