The personal project isn’t finished, but it’s gotten a good start. Studying will be light over the next few weeks as I finish it. Then I plan to take another break to get another project started.
Although I didn’t crack a book, I did keep up with 아름다운 유혹. No way I was going to get behind.
Either the block is ending, or you all are used to proxy servers. Which is it?
Yesterday my husband and I attended a wedding. At the reception, we found ourselves at a table with my aunt and uncle (he’s Icelandic), three Indians, and an Iraqi. The Indians had to leave early, but not before we shared a few stories about mutual acquaintances.
Eventually the conversation turned to language, and I asked my uncle how long it took before he felt comfortable speaking English. He said that it took a summer and a semester of study in England before he felt comfortable (this was preceded by the usual several years of study in elementary and high school). Norwegian used to be his second language, but it was long ago overtaken by English. He’s also comfortable speaking Danish, and he’s capable of interpreting Swedish.
I put the same question to the Iraqi, who’s been here for over twenty years. He said that it took about two years before he felt comfortable speaking English.
I then asked my American aunt, who spent many years living and working in Iceland. “Never!” she said. My uncle explained that her Icelandic was good enough to function as a school principal, a role that required public speaking.
Here’s my question for all of you who speak a second (or third, or fourth) language...how long did it take before you felt comfortable speaking it? How do you define that level of comfort?
I await your responses with interest.
- In 42회 of 아름다운 유혹, scene 3, 3:37, 세희 and 재혁 go ice skating at Lotte World. 세희 has obviously never been ice skating before, and eventually she falls and tears up her suit jacket. If one tears one’s clothes while skating, there’s perhaps no better place to be than Lotte World. To the accompaniment of “Pretty Woman,” 재혁 fixes her up with some new clothes (undoubtedly, no one thought that “Pretty Woman” wasn’t the best choice for this sequence, since 세희’s line of work is not the same as that of the Julia Roberts movie character. Of course, the song predates the Julia Roberts movie character, but if you’re going to have a sequence showing a man with money buying a woman nice clothes, what are people supposed to think?).
And where were the white gloves? When I went skating at Lotte World, everyone had to wear white gloves.
- The script from 42회 includes a scene in which 나경 learns that it is 세희 who has replaced 미라 in 재혁’s affections. I was looking forward to seeing this scene, since the script was easy to follow, but it wasn’t in 42회. It’s the kind of thing that’s bound to show up later, since it was clear that some evil wheels began to turn in 나경’s mind.
- That table in 금실’s office (19:25) looks just like the one in the office of the director of the language institute for which I worked, covered in green felt and topped with glass. The furniture is a lot like his, too. Ah, memories.
한국어로 말합시다 seems to be on hiatus. It’s been a month since they posted any new programs.
At the moment, it’s no great loss to me, as there are over a hundred and fifty lessons I still haven’t seen.
Finally solved a problem which has been plaguing me ever since I started watching 아름다운 유혹. I’ve been unable to watch it on my own computer. I could read the scripts, which pop up into a separate window, but the VODs would never load. I was limited to watching it on either my husband’s computer or on my work computer during lunch, neither of which were ideal options.
I finally traced the problem and its solution to Norton Internet Security in which the pop-up blocker was turned on. Works great when the pop-up blocker is turned off, but now I have these other pop-ups (calling them annoying seems redundant). I’ll have to install another pop-up blocker which will allow me to configure it specifically for KBS (NIS’s version is either off or on, with no exceptions).
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