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100 Days of Languages: Korean (Day 14)
14. Write about your day in 3-5 lines.
오늘은 학생들의 품행이 너무 나빠서 제가 진짜 피곤해요! 저는 품행이 제일 나쁜 학생에게 맞았는데 뺨에 멍이 들었어요. 이주에는 일이 정말 쉽지 않아요! 그리고 오늘 날씨 어제보다 조금 추운데 별로 안 좋아요. 그런데 좋은 것도 있었어요. 교무실에 피자가 있었어요!
(I actually love my job, don’t get me wrong! We’ve just had a rough week and I am very tired. I did get to play four square with the kids today, so that was one plus at least!)
100 Days of Languages, Day 13 (Korean)
Day 13. Learn a new grammar point/explain it
Ok so technically I learned this grammar point a few days ago, but technically day 13 was supposed to be like, 3 months ago, so who cares?
I’m gonna talk about the grammar point from Level 6 Lesson 18 of TalkToMeInKorean, which is about how to say “or” in Korean.
There are a few different ways to say “or” in Korean depending on how you’re using it. I would say I’m grateful that we use “or” for everything in English, but then again English is a terrible language in many other ways.
Usage 1: (Noun) or (Noun) --> -(이)나* or 아니면
Coffee or tea 커피나 차 커피 아니면 차
*Note: as with many Korean suffixes, you use -이나 if the preceding word ends with a consonant (i.e. 책이나...) and -나 if the preceding words ends with a vowel (i.e. 친구나...）
To my understanding, there is a slight difference between -(이)나 and 아니면.
-(이)나 is used when of the two nouns, there is no “correct choice,” just two viable options that might happen.
For example, if you’re not sure if you’re going to drink coffee or tea, you could say 커피나 차 마실 거예요 (I’m going to drink coffee or tea). There’s no choice being offered and neither choice is the “right” one. You’re just saying that one of two things is going to happen.
-(이)나 is not going to be used if you’re asking someone to choose between two things. When you are offering a choice, you use 아니면.
For example, if you’re asking someone if they want to drink coffee or tea, you could say 커피 아니면 차 마실래요? (Would you like to drink coffee or tea?)
아니면 is also used when you’re not sure which of two options is correct, but one of them is objectively true.
In keeping with the coffee/tea example, if I was talking to my roommate about what to buy at the grocery store and I know that I bought coffee or tea already, but I can’t remember which one it was, I might say 커피 아니면 차 샀어요 (I bought coffee or tea).
If it’s hard to remember the difference, it helped me to know that linguistically speaking, 아니면 means “if not...”. So you can think of it as “If not coffee, do you want to drink tea?” or “If it wasn’t coffee, it was tea that I bought.”
Usage 2: (Verb) or (Verb) --> -거나
Note: This usage is also how you link descriptive verbs/“adjectives”
To use “or” with two verbs, add -거나 after the verb stem of the first verb, then you finish the sentence by conjugating the second verb.
To study or to exercise 공부하거나 운동하다
Today I will study or exercise. 오늘은 공부하거나 운동할 거예요.
This usage is analogous to the -(이)나 usage for nouns. There are two options, one of which will happen, but it’s not offering a choice and there’s not a “correct” option.
There are two variations on this. One is that if you want to emphasize that one or the other will happen, you can add 아니면 between the actions. 오늘은 공부하거나 아니면 운동할 거예요.
The other is that you can add -거나 to both verbs. However, if you do that, you must add 하다 after the second verb +거나, because otherwise you have no way to finish the sentence. 오늘은 공부하거나 운동하거나 할 거예요.
Usage 3: (Sentence) or (Sentence) --> 아니면
This one is framed as combining two sentences, but, it’s actually not dissimilar to combining two verbs and asking a question. The example sentences they gave were things like “Are you going to go home, or meet a friend?” That’s pretty similar to the verb + verb sentences, but it’s being used to ask a question/give a choice.
The way this is set up is that you write the first sentence, end it with a period, and then start a second sentence with 아니면. It’s not all that different to how we would use “or” in English, but it’s two sentences instead of a compound sentence.
Are you going to study Korean or work out today? 오늘은 한국어를 공부할 거예요? 아니면 운동할 거예요?
Now, these aren’t the only ways to say “or” in Korean, but they are the ones that were introduced in this TTMIK lesson and therefore, the only ones I know!
100 Days of Languages, Day 14 (Spanish)
Day 14: Write about your day in 3-5 lines.
Hoy es sábado, y por eso no tengo que ir a mi trabajo en la escuela, pero todavía tengo que trabajar en Sylvan. Tuve la intención de ir al gimnasio para ejercer, pero no me desperté a tiempo porque estaba soñando con cosas muy interesante. Me desperté a las 10, y mi jefa me mandó un mensaje de texto para decirme no tenía que ir a trabajar hasta la una en punto. Porque tenía tiempo extra, cociné un almuerzo grande y estudié un poco coreano y chino. Trabajo fue normal, y ahora no tengo nada que debo hacer. Honestamente, es un situación muy raro. Estoy practicando español y respasando coreano y chino, y luego voy a ver una película con mi compañero de cuarto.
100 Day Language Challenge-Day 12 (Chinese)
Well, it’s more like day 12, part 50 because I disappeared for a while, but I’m gonna try to get back into this habit. Anyway!
Day 12: Watch a movie/tv show in your target language
I’m not technically doing it today, but over the past few weeks I’ve binged quite a few episodes of 非诚勿扰, a highly scripted but still entertaining dating show. I am gonna try to find a show to watch that’s from Taiwan though, since I found out recently I’m going to Taiwan in August and need to brush up on my traditional characters/Mandarin in general ASAP!
pronunciation rules in Korean & further reading
a lot of this stuff you learn naturally but it’s nice to know about it beforehand. if you’re barely learning hangul then don’t worry about it tbh! it’s just a reference for some of the rules in case there’s a word with pronunciation that you don’t understand
Please like or reblog this if you’re a langblr blog! (I am mainly looking for chinese blogs)
Btw. This is a side blog, I follow from my main!
100 Days of Languages: Day 12 (Korean)
Day 12: Watch something subbed or dubbed in your target languages
Well, instead of watching something subbed or dubbed in Korean, I’m watching a Korean show-Korea’s Next Top Model-with English subtitles (although at first I couldn’t find the subs, so I watched the first half without and I didn’t get all that much beyond the basics...still good practice, I think?). America’s Next Top Model was my childhood fave, and it’s fun to see how the vibe of the show changes with the different cultural backgrounds!
100 Days of Languages: Day 13 (Spanish)
Day 13: Make a post explaining a grammatical point.
Ok, so for me the trickiest thing about Spanish is almost always conjugation, and although I’ve been exposed to a decent number of tenses, a lot of them I don’t feel super confident with. So I’m going to make a post about the simple future tense, because I need to review it anyway.
The simple future tense is one of two main ways to express the future, the other being the ir+a+infinitive form.
The Simple Future Tense
The simple future is a conjugation using the following endings, which are added directly to the infinitive form (of regular verbs) without dropping any letters.
yo: -é
tu: -ás
él/ella: -á
nosotros/as: -emos
vosotros/as: -éis
ellos/as: -án
Some examples of regular verbs in the simple future:
hablar: hablaré, hablarás, hablará, hablaremos, hablaréis, hablarán
ir: iré, irás, irá, iremos, iréis, irán
100 Days of Languages: Day 11 (Chinese)
Day 11: Learn four idioms
与日俱增/與日俱增 (yǔrìjùzēng): to increase gradually day by day
以前，關注中國嘻哈的人很小，但現在中國嘻哈和中國rapper的粉絲與日俱增。
狼吞虎咽/狼吞虎嚥 (lángtūnhǔyàn): to wolf down one’s food, to gorge oneself
我和我的家人都狼吞虎咽地吃感恩節的晚飯。
知足常乐/知足常樂 (zhīzúchánglè): to be content with one’s lot
我覺得生活中最重要的事情不是取得成功，而是有知足常樂的精神。
爱不释手/愛不釋手 (àibùshìshǒu): to love something dearly to the point that you don’t want to let it leave your side
這本書令我愛不釋手，但不幸的是我明天要把它還給圖書館。
100 Days of Languages: Day 12 (Spanish)
Day 12: Watch a movie/tv show subbed/dubbed in your target language
Yeah, so I’m exhausted and still have a few things to do, so this one’s getting put off til tomorrow. I’m still posting to remind myself to actually do it though.
Update: I watched the first episode of the first season of Mexico’s Next Top Model (without English subs for the last half because I couldn’t find them). Def less drama than the original, but better for language practice.
100 Days of Languages: Day 12 (Spanish)
Day 12: Watch a movie/tv show subbed/dubbed in your target language
Yeah, so I’m exhausted and still have a few things to do, so this one’s getting put off til tomorrow. I’m still posting to remind myself to actually do it though.
100 Days of Languages: Day 11 (Korean)
Day 11: Learn four idioms
쏜살같이: (lit: like a shot arrow) very fast
바람을 맞다: (lit: to run into the wind) to get stood up
그림의 떡: (lit: rice cake in a painting): something you want but can’t have
귀 빠진날: (lit: the day one’s ears were pulled out): a person’s birthday
100 Days of Languages: Day 10 (Chinese)
Day 10: Learn 15 words
公认 (gōngrèn): to generally acknowledge or recognize
操作 (cāozuò): to operate, manipulate, work with one’s hands
动脉 (dòngmài): artery
执行 (zhíxíng): to execute, carry out
隔阂 (géhé): estrangement, barrier
生疏 (shēngshū): rusty, out of practice, estranged, not familiar
转折 (zhuǎnzhé): turn in course of events, transition in an essay, complications, twists and turns
卫星 (wèixīng): satellite
扎 (zhā): to pierce, prick, plung into, be stationed, draft beer, mug for draft beer
化石 (huàshí): fossil
罕见 (hǎnjiàn): rarely seen, rare
注重 (zhùzhòng): to stress, pay attention to
精心 (jīngxīn): meticulously, painstakingly
发呆 (fādāi): to be in a daze, to stare blankly, to be lost in thought, to look like an idiot
梢 (shāo): top (of a tree), tip, tail end, boat rudder, end (of a matter)
100 Days of Languages: Day 11 (Spanish)
Day 11: Learn 4 idioms
1. Estar en la edad del pavo (lit: to be in the age of the turkey): to be in the awkward teenage phase of one’s life
2. Darle la vuelta a la tortilla (lit. to flip the tortilla): to turn the tide
3. Acostarse con las gallinas (lit. to go to bed with the hens): to go to bed early
4. Arrimarse al sol que más calienta (lit: to get close to the sun that’s the hottest): to know which side one’s bread is buttered on
100 Days of Languages: Day 10 (Korean)
Day 10: Learn 15 words
유학 (留學): study abroad
겨울: winter
물건 (物件): thing, object
값: price, cost
편하다 (便--): to be comfortable, convenient
강 (江): river
벽 (壁): wall, characteristic
지붕: roof
거스름돈: change (coins)
당연하다 (當然--): to be natural, reasonable
불규칙 (不規則): irregular
신발: shoes, footwear
열쇠: keys
신경 (神經): nerves
걸리다: to take time, to be caught
100 Days of Languages: Day 9 (Chinese)
Day 9: Try two tongue twisters
Oh man, I’ve done these before in my Chinese class and they’re HARD. I love Chinese tongue twisters though.
I did record these ones! (Although my second tone is rough, I need to practice pronunciation for sure)
1. 老頭兒端湯上塔, 湯燙, 塔滑, 湯灑, 湯燙塔 (An old man, holding (a bowl of) soup, climbed up a tower. The soup was hot. The tower (steps) slippery; (so) the soup got spilt (and) the soup scalded the tower (steps). )
2. 吃葡萄吐葡萄皮， 不吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮。 吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮， 不吃葡萄倒吐葡萄皮 (Eat grapes throw out their skins, don't eat grapes don't throw out their skins. Eat grapes don't throw out their skins, don't eat grapes throw out their skins.)
100 Days of Languages: Day 10 (Spanish)
Day 10. Learn 15 new words
No example sentences (yet) because it’s late and I’m tired
debido (a): due to
definitivo/a: definite, conclusive
determinado/a: determined, fixed
diario: newspaper
directo/a: direct, straight
dispuesto/a: willing, ready
diverso/a: different, diverse
duro/a: hard
enfermo/a: ill, sick
entero/a: entire, whole
hundir: to sink, submerge
araña: spider
oficialmente: officially
contagiar: to infect, infest
preferencia: preference
