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My Mini Black Dress (Korean Movie)

★★★★★

I'm pretty sure I love all the movies that Yoon Eun Hye 윤은혜 is in! Today I watched "My Mini Black Dress" – and let me just say, it's one of the great Korean movies I have seen (not that I have watched that many). 

I wouldn't say it's much of a exciting/cheerful movie (there is a death), but it's extremely enjoyable. The story is about four close friends that have met each other in college, and are connected by the black mini dresses they wear. They all experience different conflicts, but manage to pull through and save their relationship.

Dongho 동호 from U-Kiss is even in the movie! He yelled some profanity in the movie, and I couldn't help but blush. I couldn't tell if I was blushing from the sudden curse word, or from how different I perceived Dongho ^0^

You deffinitley need to watch this movie. You can watch it on Youtube, so it shouldn't be too much of a hassel.

Chinese Startalk: Day 5

大家好！！

Today, I took a second quiz and presented my family project! I did really good on the quiz...I got a 97%. As for the presentation I got a 95% =-=;;; I was so nervous during the presentation, so I missed up on the tones – which is why some points were taken off ^^;;  The teacher wrote that she was shocked on how much I learned in just this one week! My whole presentation was in characters, so it took a lot of studying to be able to do so.


Recently, I have been trying to find things that interest me in Chinese culture (music, movies, celebrities, etc). I believe it is important to stay interested/motivated in learning a language. That way learning the language soon provides a purpose.

So far, I haven't really found anything else that interest me besides artists such as Elva Hsiao 蕭亞軒, Show Luo 小豬 or my shainese hubby Jing Boran 井柏然. 

I feel so bad that I don't have enough time to study 한국어!! Being so, I ordered a few books from Gmarket that I will be doing a review on when I receive the shipment ^^ I couldn't help from ordering a cardigan and Korean keyboard stickers :D 

Anyways sorry for the long post!

감사합니다 ^^

PS. I will be working on the Chinese resources page, so check it out soon ;)

Startalk Chinese: Day 2-4

Sorry for the lack of posting, the Chinese class, Economics, and Sociology have been keeping me super busy =-=;;

Anyways, I want to give a brief post on what I have been doing in my past few classes.Our homework as mostly been dealing with character practices and various workbook exercises.The class has been focusing greatly on Pinyin 拼音. This is useful since it makes reading new vocabulary simple, not to mention it helps in typing Chinese.

Tomorrow, my presentation on my family is due. Sentence structures like: 《他叫…》or 《我的妈妈师…》are supposed to be present in the presentation.

So far, the class has taken 1 quiz, and there will be another one tomorrow =-=;; I didn't do so will on the first one because of silly mistakes! But hey, learned right?

Anyways, sorry for the long post, I'm to tired and busy to go on the internet these days!

再见～

Startalk Chinese: Day 1

Wow! I can't believe I finally started my Chinese class!

Today, the clasroom time was mostly spend introducing ourselves in Chinese with various introduction vocabulary, along with typical classroom nouns. The teachers briefly went over fixed expressions such as 'I don't understand', or 'May I use the restroom'.

For some reason, I find the sentence structure in Chinese a little confusing since I have been studying SOV languages =-=;;

We got our textbook and workbooks as well. Afterwards we went to the computer lab to do some assignments that were uploaded the school's online class system.

The homework we get on a daily basis includes:

These are the books we're using for class

• Homework: Regular homework will be assigned by everyday.
• Character assignment: Coping characters 5 times
• Daily can-do statement and Linguafolio: Self-evaluation.

I just finished my workbook homework... so I'm almost done ^^

PS. Sorry for the brief post =-=;; I'm just so tired from all the classes I had toay ^^;;;

Mei Wei Qing Ge 美味情歌 (BOBO组合) MOVIE TRAILER

Definitely gonna watch this movie! It has BOBO组合 in it!!
 I love Jing Boran ^===^

Lang-8 Review

This post will be covering the amazing website, Lang-8 :D

I have been a member with Lang-8 since December 2010. I haven't participated much because of school exams, but I'm starting to log back on.

In Lang-8, you create a post without any prompts (so it's like a journal), in any languages you are currently studying. Because Lang-8 has such a great community, your posts will get corrected by native/fluent speakers with correction tools provided on the site. In return, you correct other journals from users writing in your native/fluent language. The system extremely simple, yet efficient.

Believe it or not, I learn a lot from the corrections I get from people on the website. I'm not afraid to make grammatical mistakes because I'll end up learning learning the correct form or even an alternative usage. I even ask questions in some of my entries, and get answers immediately!

Here's my journal ;)

The Downside
I see to Lang-8 is that somewhat fluency is required in order to write entries  – but that isn't their fault of course ;)

In short
I definitely reccomend checking Lang-8 out. They offer many languages and a great community as well! I learned a lot through this website, so it might be of some benefit to you as well. Luckily if your not content with the service, you can always delete your account ^^;;;

Startalk Program: Orientation

Today I attended the orientation for the Startalk Chinese Program! It was a bit boring and extraneous, as it covered topics and guidelines for the University itself. Both Arabic and Chinese instructors introduced themselves and the class schedule ^^

Here are some of the things that the program entails:

- classes held 9:20 to 12:30 (sometimes ends at 3:00, twice a week at least)
- Field trips and community spotlights are included
-Grade distribution as follows:
• daily class performance 20%
• homework 20%
• projects 20%
• written exams 20%
• oral exams 20%

The teacher emphasized that the class is heavily based on projects, along with participation.

On the schedule, I also noticed that we will be visiting a local chinese/middle eastern super market, along with a Chineserestaurant, "Yummi" :D

Anyways, sorry for the quick/brief post. I'll be posting what I learned/experienced after every other class ;)