Our department (World Languages and Literature) is having a party a week from Friday. All the classes are going to be doing something–singing Christmas songs, doing skits, that kind of thing. Our class is going to sing a Korean New Year song (a Children’s folk song) called 까치 까치 설날은 (the sound file is underneath [...]
I found a book in my University library yesterday called “토끼의심판” or “Rabbit’s Judgement”. The book is bilingual, with the story written in both Korean and English. There are other rabbit stories; I recently read one called “Rabbit’s Escape”, so I think the rabbit is a fairly common character in folktales.
In “Rabbit’s Judgement” a poor [...]
Okay, so to start this post, I just need to ramble about how crazy my life is at the moment. I study hard, really hard, for all my classes–but especially Korean. I know how much work learning a new language is. Problem is, I actually can remember some words and sentences and get pretty good [...]
I have been looking at Korean children’s videos and songs. My son, Phoenix, we’ve discovered, likes to watch Pororo (뽀로로) without subtitles (he’s 6) and we can both pretty much understand what’s going on. (I always get super happy when I hear words I understand, of course!!) It’s a great learning tool. So, I stumbled upon [...]