tarvos wrote:I am definitely in awe of your Korean skills. My Korean has lagged so hard since I joined that HTLAL team years ago and right now I am trying to make up for lost time, but the Korean vocab and syntax completely do my head in. It's taking me much longer than I expected, so now I can really see I am in it for the long haul.
My Korean is still very basic...
You've taken up Korean again? Good luck then! But my Korean is nothing to be in awe of yet, I'm really surprised you would say that. The number of words in my Anki deck may be impressive but I wouldn't recognize many of them if I heard them because I haven't really used them outside of Anki.
But I'm excited today because I just got my books from TTMIK! I already read 3 pages from the children's book and it feels really great to understand the majority of the text without a dictionary. I did look up 문어 다리 (the arms of an octopus?) because it seemed central to the story. I also tried to look up 핑코 but that's not in the dictionary. Then I googled it and was reminded of the Coldplay music video Only then did I notice the picture in the book which made it clear that 핑코 is a piggy bank.
Speaking of octopuses, I've been watching The Return of Superman a bit. It's all on Youtube. It's a reality show about how fathers take care of their children when the moms are away. One of the fathers has triplets who are maybe two years old, and he took them out to eat octopus. That's when I also saw how Korean children learn to eat with chopsticks. I had never given it a thought and didn't realize that such chopsticks existed. I should try to get a pair for me because I don't know how to handle them at all.