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Ginkgo Dreams: Redesigned

I’m pleased to announce the redesign of Ginkgo Dreams. Reese of Design by Reese has done a fabulous job of making Ginkgo Dreams look better than ever. Click here for the old version, and you’ll really see what I mean.

Posted by kangmi on July 31, 2006 at 9:35 AM0 comments

Ginkgo Dreams

In addition to not blogging here at kangmi | learning Korean, I curate the collection of ginkgo images and related items found at Ginkgo Dreams.

For the first time, I have posted an ginkgo item related to Korea. North, that is. Read more about it here.

There’s a South Korea ginkgo post in the pipeline, and I promise it will have little to no propaganda.

In other site news, Ginkgo Dreams has been undergoing a makeover. The designer expects it to be live in the next couple of days. I invite all of you to stop by to see the results.

Posted by kangmi on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 AM0 comments

Resources feed change

Over the next week or so, I hope to run all of the feeds on this site through Feedburner. I’ve run other feeds on other sites through Feedburner, but this time I’m unable to find the feed forwarding service that would allow this occasion to pass unnoticed by my readers. Therefore, please note that 48 hours from now the following feeds may not work again:

• RSS 2.0
• Atom

However, I am confident that this Feedburner feed will work: http://feeds.feedburner.com/kangmiResources.

Update your feed readers accordingly.

For readers who don’t use feed readers, I have added the option to subscribe to kangmi | resources. See the Subscribe section in the sidebar.

Posted by kangmi on July 4, 2006 at 10:41 AM0 comments

Language learning advice

Of course, by now I’ve also made friends with Giovanni and Dario, my Tandem Language Exchange fantasy twins. Giovanni’s sweetness, in my opinion, makes him a national treasure of Italy. He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, “Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, page 56

Posted by kangmi on July 3, 2006 at 8:43 AM0 comments