Back to Reality

Mom's spaghetti. Hopefully someone gets this. Anyways, I had one of those days where it felt like I will actually be able to learn Korean. That was a good feeling. However, my listening comprehension is still way behind. Speaking is getting better as I sprinkle what I can in while talking to the other members of our boy band. The books we are studying with come with a CD-ROM that have all the lessons on them so I'm going to start listening to those for awhile each night and that should help.

We FINALLY learned future tense today. 미래 (Mi Rae) it is called. It is conjugated as such: (으)ㄹ거예요. I understand that's not something you can understand unless you've been in our class so I'll try to help. Korean works on a consonant/vowel system. Two consonants cannot be together in one syllable. The bottom of a syllable is called the 받침 (Paht Cheem). I've talked about this a bit before. If the paht cheem is there 있어요 (Isseo Yo) Ex: 먹 the ㄱ (G sound) is the paht cheem. Then you add the 을 in. Ex: 먹을 거예요 (Muh Geul Geo Ye Yo) I will eat, or I'm going to eat in the future. If the paht cheem is not there 없어요 (Eobseo Yo) Ex: 가 there is no paht cheem. Then you skip the (으) and insert the ㄹ as the paht cheem. Ex: 갈 거예요 (Kal Geo Ye Yo) I will go, or I am going in the future.

Hopefully that doesn't confuse anyone, even though I'm not sure how it wouldn't haha. We also learned how to connect two related sentences. 아서/어서/해서 (Ah Seo/Eo Seo/Hae Seo). These conjugations are based on the ending vowel in the verb. I won't go too deep into it, but those are the general conjugations.

After class I came back to the dorm and the other RA's were all busy so I did some studying and took a nap. We headed out to dinner around 5:30 and I got some chicken curry bap. YJS and Heavy G headed back to the dorm after they dropped me off at the fitness center. I worked with the students lifting and the machines. After that we all walked back to the dorms together.

Luckily today was restful and not too stressful. I have a dictation test tomorrow I have been studying for, and a speaking part of our mid term on Thursday to prepare for. Dr. Rhee the director of the K-PACE program, and who's grandfather founded Daegu University sent me a message on Kakao tonight saying that he was going to take me out to dinner to thank me for publicizing the university and the program. I wasn't gonna turn that down, so I asked for some 차돌바기! That is apparently quite the specialty over here. I used to go to an all you can eat Korean BBQ back in the states and eat plates of that with them. Here, every time I mention it they look at me like I'm crazy because it's so expensive and rare. I'll leave you guys with a few pictures I took of the mountains tonight with some clouds over them that I thought were really pretty. It rained all day so these were taken at a few opportune moments.

Korean Word/Phrase of the Day: 주말에 뭐 할 거예요? (Ju Ma Re Mweo Hal Geo Ye Yo) This means what are you going to do this weekend?

TL:DR I'm in Korea.