I want to buy a handheld. Ideally, I’d have a Korean-English dictionary on it. Readers, what Korean-English dictionaries do you use on your handhelds? Are there any useful Korean applications that you would recommend?
Your answers will play a role in settling the Palm/Pocket PC question.
Last night I dropped off a pile of Meetup cards at the Oriental Market (not the same as the Oriental Supermarket). They were kind and a bit puzzled about why I am learning Korean.
Later, so was my waitress at the Seoul Garden Restaurant. “English is a world language, and Korean is spoken by only a small number of people,” she said after answering a couple of homework questions.
I had earlier decided to change the location of future meetups from Barnes and Noble to the Seoul Garden Restaurant. I cleared it with one of the owners (I want attendees to feel comfortable just ordering drinks if they don’t want food, and I purposely selected a slow time for the restaurant), and then changed our meetup from the standard third Tuesday of the month to the second Monday of the month. (In Meetup’s earlier days, the time and date were inflexible, and only a limited number of locations were available.)
My speaking-Korean-in-front-of-other-people doom draws nearer.
Long car trips can be hard on the family, but this trip the 빼빼로 challenge broke some of the monotony. I have scrupulously avoided buying that Japanese Pocky stuff, but I read recently that Pocky is better than 빼빼로. While I instinctively bristled at the thought (why should the Japanese be better at chocolate-covered pretzel sticks? Aren’t cars and electronics enough?), a seed of doubt had been planted, so on the morning of our departure I visited the Oriental Supermarket and picked up four boxes of 빼빼로 and four boxes of Pocky. For good measure, I got one of those big boxes of almond 빼빼로.
Classic 빼빼로 lost to classic Pocky three to one, and the one wasn’t me. Children overwhelmingly preferred the classic Pocky, but given the option, they’d rather have almond 빼빼로. I’ll have to pick up some almond Pocky the next time I have a chance.
You don’t have to be American to be grateful, and neither do you have to be American to accept my holiday greetings: 줄거운 명절 태십시오.
One of the categories I’ve been looking forward to seeing used over at 한국어 연습장 is Korean Around Me. That’s one crucial component missing from my current studies. 필립’s got a new post.
Car-deer collisions are not uncommon in my neck of the woods, especially during mating and hunting seasons. My commute includes a long stretch of highway that bisects deer habitat: forests, orchards, and farmland. As long as I had made that commute, I periodically saw dead deer on the shoulder or in the roadway. Whenever I saw one, I thought about what hitting a deer would be like. I imagined that the impact would hurt me and my passengers (never mind the deer). Sometimes people die in such accidents, and I wasn’t too keen on dying.
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