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		<title>Video diary entries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started recording my lang-8 entries so I get practice speaking my sentences out loud. Yesterday I made my first of these podcasts &#8212; uploading it as a youtube video so that people can easily listen to it in lang-8. I&#8217;ve tried to make Korean podcasts regularly before but the production of those podcasts was <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/video-diary-entries/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=860&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for the ending &#8220;다던데&#8221; on google today and came across a wonderful document with a whole bunch of Korean grammatical endings with example sentences made available by the University of British Columbia. This is  good supplementary material along with the Korean grammar dictionary. In case the link goes dead I&#8217;ve also uploaded <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/grammar-notes/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=844&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A kind of green</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Korean]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I met a 형 that has befriended me here and as we were eating pizza in a small Arabic shop his wife told me how to make 무김치 here in Israel. (A lot of the ingredients for kimchi are hard to get here in Israel &#8212; so people have to make do with various make-dos.) <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/a-kind-of-green/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=838&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>채면을 봤으라다도 For your sake</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/%ec%b1%84%eb%a9%b4%ec%9d%84-%eb%b4%a4%ec%9c%bc%eb%9d%bc%eb%8b%a4%eb%8f%84-for-your-sake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my students wrote me about her English test coming up. She wrote &#8220;*쌤을 바서라두 해야하는데. . .&#8221; I was completely unfamiliar with this grammatical/idiomatic construction &#8212; but fortunately there there were some very kind people at lang-8 who explained it to me! It&#8217;s short for &#8216;선생님의 채면을 봐서라도&#8217; so the above sentence my <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/%ec%b1%84%eb%a9%b4%ec%9d%84-%eb%b4%a4%ec%9c%bc%eb%9d%bc%eb%8b%a4%eb%8f%84-for-your-sake/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=813&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most common words list for Korean</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found a very 50,000 frequency word list based for Hebrew that has been very helpful for filling in gaps in my Hebrew vocabulary. I would love if there was something like this for Korean. Has anyone heard of a list like this or where it would be available? I&#8217;ve used the 6,000 most common <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/most-common-words-list-for-korean/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=810&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl&#8217;s monologue &#8212; Will it snow for Christmas?</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/girls-monologue-will-it-snow-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first girl&#8217;s monologue I&#8217;ve done. I watched when it first came out two years ago, but it really stuck in my head. I&#8217;ve clipped it and uploaded it on youtube. This monologue is from the end of episode 10. The transcript is below. 아줌마 사실은 아까 두번이나 오빠 속였어요. 자뻑 먹으면 원래 <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/girls-monologue-will-it-snow-for-christmas/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=803&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More listening content</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/more-listening-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve put up the first four episodes of 남녀탐구생활 with transcripts. These are also all linked over at the Treasure Chest. 남녀탐구생활 소개팅 편 1회 남녀탐구생활 2화 목욕탕편 남녀탐구생활 3화 동성친구모임 편 남녀탐구생활 4화 헬스장편 I&#8217;m trying to get the transcripts for more of these episodes. When I get them I&#8217;ll also post them here. <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/more-listening-content/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=800&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magical goodness. . . a turn of a phrase</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/magical-goodness-turn-of-a-phrase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magical Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Korean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[유행어]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[korean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the magical turn of a phrase. . . you know the ones that cause people to stop and listen. They&#8217;re idioms, slang, 유행어 (trendy words). . . proverbs that are used often, and just plain expressions and words that, when you start using them, will find out are anything but plain. I&#8217;ve started making <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/magical-goodness-turn-of-a-phrase/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=774&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ideas for Writing a Foreign Language Diary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in a diary in a foreign language is very good for your language skills. . . but how does one go about it? When I first started writing Korean diary entries I put them online and asked visitors to correct my entries. That worked. However now I use  lang-8.com. I usually get corrections to <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/10-ideas-for-writing-foreign-language-diary/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=682&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scolding in the classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Korea I worked at a village elementary school. Usually the kids were very sweet and behaved excellently. . . but there were always those times few and far between when one (or sometimes a couple) kids would act up. Since I was doing most of the teaching myself, I eventually became responsible for the <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/scolding-in-the-classroom/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8295473&amp;post=674&amp;subd=acquiringkorean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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