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		<title>Very short monologue from School 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcript: 오늘 중으로 아주 깨끗하게 싹 청소해 놓으시게. 흠~ 어, 여,여길 혼자 다 해요? 아, 정말 혼자 하겠냐? 부르셨습니까? 이거 드시게. 예? 어이, 두 제자분들. 내 말 잘 들으시게. 학생님께서는 수업 땡땡이치시고, 선생님께서는 출결 체크도 안 하고 눈감아주셨으니 두 분 다 벌 좀 받으셔야겠습니다. 선생님께서는 학생님한테 다 떠넘기지 마시고 여길 그냥 딱 반으로 나눠서 공평하게 <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/very-short-monologue-from-school-2013/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1637&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Importance of helpful and concrete goals</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/importance-of-helpful-and-concrete-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was stuck by this quote reading the recent interview with Benny: A: The most important piece of advice [in language learning] is that set a specific goal. Myth 5: &#8216;learn a language&#8217; isn&#8217;t a helpful goal because it&#8217;s far too general. You need to set specific goals or milestones and come up with concrete steps <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/importance-of-helpful-and-concrete-goals/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1632&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Korean facebook feeds I subscribe to</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/korean-facebook-feeds-i-subscribe-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last several months I&#8217;ve been finding all kinds of fun and interesting facebook pages in Korean to subscribe to. A lot of these I found by browsing the pages my Korean friends liked. Most of the pages are updated rather frequently so whenever I&#8217;m on facebook my feed is taken up with free, interesting <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/korean-facebook-feeds-i-subscribe-to/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1605&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up daily goals and keeping them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few months there have been several study goals that I haven&#8217;t worked on half as much as I wanted. One of them is with regards to Hanja. I planned to study ten minutes a day at least on them. Another is Anki. Anki I have really no excuse because I&#8217;ve found even if <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/setting-up-daily-goals-and-keeping-them/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1547&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bang Bang Korea &#8212; cool new site</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I came across this quite cool website &#8212; Korean Bang. It takes popular news stories and comments from netizens and translates them into English. What&#8217;s really cool is that by hovering over the translated paragraph you can see the original Korean paragraph. As I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of translation it <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/bang-bang-korea-cool-new-site/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1521&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diary writing</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/diary-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written 42 entries this month so far on Lang-8. As can be seen though, I didn&#8217;t write every day.I don&#8217;t really beat myself up if I don&#8217;t write on a given day, although I always like it when I do fill up day after day with solid blue. Also, I don&#8217;t really consider writing <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/diary-writing/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1489&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A code or a rebirth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend the other day about her Japanese study (she has reached a very high level of Japanese and has worked in Japan). I asked her specifically about the claim that Japanese never accept foreigners as real people or as insiders. Her reply was very interesting. She told me, &#8220;If you <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/a-code-or-a-rebirth/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1373&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My kimchi</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/kimchi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I emailed one of the guys in charge of the Koreans in Turkey website asking where in Istanbul it was possible to get 배추 (Chinese or Nappa cabbage). He emailed back right away saying that they sold it all over the place. I hadn&#8217;t seen Chinese cabbage in the several months <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/kimchi/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1422&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cracking the Korean speaking nut: a languacultural critique</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/cracking-the-korean-speaking-nut-a-languacultural-critique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LanguaCulture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been continuing to think about why we Korean language learners (and definitely some much more than others) face trouble with speaking Korean to other Koreans. Reader choronghi shared a link to a post at Korean Champ with a couple different tips he&#8217;s used for overcoming this language speaking barrier. David Wills over at Triumph of <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/cracking-the-korean-speaking-nut-a-languacultural-critique/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1283&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When language is like breathing</title>
		<link>http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/when-language-is-like-breathing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Everyday Language Learner posted today an interesting quote by Greg Thomson: “If we ignore a whole bunch of problems, the hardest thing about language learning is getting started. The second hardest thing about learning another language is not quitting.” Perhaps this is true in the beginning stages. But if living the language has become as integrated <a href="http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/when-language-is-like-breathing/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acquiringkorean.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8295473&#038;post=1369&#038;subd=acquiringkorean&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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