Last week, we learned about house/furniture/appliance related vocabulary words such as bedroom, living room, kitchen, sink, bathtub, bed, vanity, mirror, lighting, fridge, microwave, and more. I was already familiar with a majority of them, but a few of them were words I somewhat knew but never used or heard often. I didn't realize that there were two ways to say sink. A sink in the bathroom is called 세면대, while a sink in the kitchen is called 싱크대. My family tends to just say 싱크, or sink for all the sinks, so I haven't really heard the Korean word for a bathroom sink that much. Another word that I didn't hear often was a full body mirror, which is 전신거울 in Korean. Also I was a bit surprised by the spelling for the Korean word for kitchen, 부엌. I didn't know that the second syllable ended in a ㅋ consonant. We also learned some vocabulary that describes texture like for some surface or skin and sometimes personality depending on the word. The ones that were new to me were the following: 푸석푸석하다 (dry), 꺼끌꺼끌하다 (scratchy), 맨들맨들하다 (smooth/shiny). We then watched a couple videos where Korean YouTubers give an apartment tour. Most of the vocabulary we learned was mentioned in the videos.
This week we talked about Korean food, what a typical meal looks like, and the variety of Korean dishes. We read an article explaining how the author followed Baek Jo Won (a very famous Korean chef)'s 김치찌개, or kimchi stew recipe. It included step by step instructions with some modifications and tips. We also watched a video on this recipe. It was actually Baek Jo Won's video on his YouTube channel. Talking about Korean food made me really miss homecooked Korean food.
I also practiced typing in Korean on my computer. I practiced typing this.
오렌지 립의 성패는 발색에 달렸다. 오렌지 톤의 워터 틴트로 입술 톤을 정돈하고, 립 펜슬로 입술 안쪽부터 꼼꼼히 덧발라 발색을 높인다. 마지막에 같은 색상의 아이섀도를 가볍게 찍어 바르면 발색은 물론 매트한 텍스처를 오래 지속시킬 수 있다. 여기에 여름에 돋보이는 아쿠아 블루 네일로 청량한 기운을 더할 것. 이때 한 손가락에만 페인트처럼 쨍한 녹색으로 포인트를주는 것도 좋은 방법이다.
Typing this took a very long time. Since I don't have the Hangul letters on my keyboard, it was really difficult because I didn't know which key was which. On a website called 10fastfingers, I got 13 WPM, which is really slow. Then on another day, I tried using this website. https://tadaktadak.co.kr/taja/sentence.html
You type sentence by sentence. This one feels like a game because if your accuracy is off, then your health goes down. Hopefully, this will help me become faster at typing in Korean.
Also during fall break, I decided to read more Korean webtoons, so I practice reading Korean even more. The webtoons are very interesting and fun to read, so I think it's a great idea for anyone who wants to practice reading in Korean more.
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