My recent focus on concentration has caused me to reassess a couple of life tools I have already been using and how they’ve helped me maintain focus on my language study.
The first of these tools is what Julia Cameron calls “morning pages,” introduced in The Artist’s Way
Every week as I tackle new material, I have the same experience. The day after my Korean lesson, I listen to the new Sogang audio and find it almost incomprehensible. I have a few moments of despairing that I’ll ever be able to learn or understand it, but after a day or two, it all starts to make sense.
Still, there are sentences that seem particularly difficult. I’ve started writing a few of them on 3x5 sticky notes and carrying them in my car. My commute is mostly highway, so once I set the cruise control I post one up on the speedometer and repeat it until it feels comfortable. I cycle through them until I either get home or get to work. It’s been a good way to use time heretore unavailable for learning Korean.
I’ve just uploaded the file that contains the 50 한자 in the eighth (yet first) level of 한자 learning.
The file and its caveats are available in the 수퍼매모 section.
I studied the listening section of the second lesson of Sogang’s Novice II tonight with 덕수. After I read through the dialogue, he said, “Not like Korean, but very good.”
Not like Korean? What was it like, Japanese? Arabic? Klingon? How could it be good—very good—if it wasn’t like Korean? He then explained that what he meant was “Not like a Korean, but very good. You talk like an American.”
In a recent Salon interview, Rachel Dewoskin talks about her language difficulties in China:
씬8. 레스토랑 홀/밤
모두 퇴근했다. 작은 조명등만 켜있는.. 강욱과 태현이 창가 앞에 나란히 밖의 불빛들을 보면서 서있다.
태현 (앞을 본 채로) 부장님 제자였다고.
강욱 (툭) 네.
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