kangmi: learning korean

UN declares April 1 as World Hangul Day

Or so says Michael Breen.

(Yes, I know it’s early.)

Posted by kangmi on March 30, 2007 at 5:02 AM0 comments

Inspiration

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

Kind of like learning Korean. It won’t just seep into your brain all by itself.

Posted by kangmi on March 29, 2007 at 1:20 PM0 comments

Where I’ve been and what’s new around here

It’s hard to take my own advice to back off Korean study when the timing is off, but sometimes my will is overcome. Three days after I put up the Kangmi Blog Festival post, my husband had a dramatic incident in which we found him laying on the floor. A couple of weeks later, another dramatic incident sent him to the emergency room.

While his ailment turned out to be nothing more than an inner ear disorder (seemingly temporary, at that; and now we know that his heart and brain are healthy), it did throw a wrench into our lives from which mine has only recently recovered. Somewhere in there I had a viral infection that knocked me out for a few days, and some other stressors (so minor that I can no longer remember them) cropped up. Several things that were on track got knocked off, and my Korean study is the last thing to be put back on. The mechanics are in fact still working on it, and I expect that it will be a couple of weeks before I get into the full swing again.

So while the still-nameless Korean blog carnival is behind schedule, I’m planning to put up the first one on May 1. You may still send me your ideas for a name for this event, and I still have a World Language Repeater for the winner.

kangmi (the site, not me) will shortly undergo a transformation. You’ll see a new look. The Resources page will become a wiki. Lots of crap will go away. Even better, I will not be doing the work. Learning Korean is enough.

Posted by kangmi on March 29, 2007 at 11:56 AM1 comments