I’ve been in Korea for over two years now. I’ve tried numerous times to learn to read Korean with the the help of the internet. I’ve failed each time. At least for languages, I’m one of those people who need to be shown. I need a teacher.
So where does one find a Korean teacher? At her own school of course. I have a zillion kids running around who are expert Korean speakers. Kate, Shirley and Becky from D3 are my primary teachers. I’ve shown some of my November kids and my A5 kids what I’ve learned and they’ve helped by writing their Korean names and letting me sound them out.
For fun, I asked my November Speaking and Writing kids how I would write my name in Korean. This is as close as I’ll get because there is no “th” or “r” sound in Korean. It would sound like “ka-sa-lin” Of course, I don’t have Korean support installed on this computer (and I probably won’t) so I wrote it using the mouse and KolourPaint (this little KDE paint program kicks the butt of MS’s Paint).
ka-sa-lin
2 comments
Comment by CoderForLife on August 29, 2008 at 5:24 am
Are you sure it’s Korean? It looks more like 1337! =)
Comment by katiesue on August 29, 2008 at 7:52 am
Well, my kids tell me it’s Korean. Now they could be pulling my leg like I did to them. The other day I told C5 that I was 642 years old, and managed to keep a strait face the whole time.