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Monday, February 25, 2013

What do you do after work?

What do you guys do after a hard work day? Do you sleep and eat and eat again... Or are you doing something very productive that may get you out of work. This may be a controversial question but I want this question answered by comments on this blog. I don't think do the same thing after work is healthy for you. You have to break the cycles of circles going round and round. You have to make the circles to into a car wheel driving somewhere that you have never been. Or create a blog online or sell stuff online for extra money around your house or apartment. If you are couch surfing "My dream"... You should earn extra money for yourself and don't pay the rent and instead just do the dishes and chores for whoever you are staying with. Yea break the circle into something that the circle can turn into something that can make you happy not bored and tired of doing the same thing all of the time...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Why I think memorizing something at night is better than memorizing something on the day of the quiz.

Do you think that memorizing something at night is better than memorizing something on the day of the quiz or test? What's your opinion?

Answer to the question...

Um sir I think it's better for you to memorize words before the day of the " test or quiz " because you can sleep on it...

If this was your answer... I am happy to say that your answer matches my opinion.

Memorizing words for a foreign language usually takes me 2 hours for 5 words and 3 hours for 7 or more words at a time at everyday of the week. I think I feel like right now that when your memorize something before you sleep or you do something productive before you go to sleep, like I am doing right now. I think sleep makes you make Nero pathways new habits and I think the information soaks in more than just the subconscious level. I think it makes your remember in your active subconscious level. Your conscious thinking. That's why tonight before I go to bed I am going to memorize maybe 4 out of 12 words for tomorrow's vocab quiz to get a little head start. Or I am just going to go to bed right now. I think I might just have to learn a couple words and go to bed. I want to sleep my way to the top most of the time.

Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

What you have to do to learn the Korean alphabet.

Learning the Korean alphabet sometimes takes longer than expected... But I am going to tell you how to learn all the sounds of the vowels and consonants. First print out the the Korean alphabet so you can practice each sound one by one. Make sure you print out the consonants and the vowels because each word are made out of these two pieces of grammar. And now go on YouTube and pronounce the Korean alphabet... They have lots of YouTube tutorials on the Korean language so there is no excuse for not learning the sounds. And now when you know all of the sounds, buy the Sogang 1A textbook and the Sogang 1A workbook. These are very important because the textbook gives you a disc to listen to the pronunciation of a whole bunch of sentences. And these books will help you make a simple sentence. But the first note that I am going to leave you with today is, The beginning dialogues in the textbooks have the dictionary form verb ending. And you will have to change these endings in the future. Because the verb endings tell you the formality and the Present, Past, and Future of your sentence. So don't just say these sentences just yet until you change the endings to the speech ending. You can say Hello or Food. Also if you are not serious about learning a foreign language like Korean... Don't waste your time because Korean will take you hours and hours of good practice to acquire simple skills like listening and reading.... So take your time and good luck....   

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The hardest part about learning a language... Learning how to speak it.

Speaking the language to me is the hardest part about a foreign language. Foreign languages are foreign to us so it may take a while to learn how to respond with the correct words. For me I am still struggling with the basics but I will struggle over my problems to succeed over this language. I really want to learn how to speak my foreign language I am learning "Korean" because now I have Korean friends that want me to teach them English and they want to teach me Korean. But the problem is that I am still struggling with the basics. You have to have the foundation done before you move onto harder things like honorifics... Like sentence structure and basic word endings. I have to get these done or else I will be very behind in my Korean class... I care I really care. Now I just have to practice my ass off speaking and memorizing sentences and sentence structure. And learn the sentence endings like 해요 and other basic endings. I know 해요 means 하다 that means to do. 하다 is the dictionary form of the verb ending so you have to change it into something that means present, past, or future... And I have to learn more words and phrases.... Knowing some phrases is better than knowing none. Thank you for reading my blog... Speak and get some friends that know your foreign language... Like a native speaker as your friend so they can help you and so you can help them. Thank you.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Taking pictures of people finally.

For a while or for almost the whole time I have been practicing my photography, I have never though I could shoot portraits for a long time. Two days ago when I went to Chicago and my brain had a switch to to the other side place so now I can take pictures of people now! Maybe it was the RedBull I drank or my growth of my human emotions. Now I can take pictures by asking people on the street. " May I take a picture for my photography class? Even though there really isn't a photography class that I am taking except a photography class that I have made for myself. I would call it a self-made course. For the last three days I have only been taking portraits of people. And even emailed them to the person that I have took some pictures of and she liked them very much. I think if you can photograph people you are a good photographer. I know people specialize in certain areas of photography but I think everybody should expand in every area of Photography. I don't think that people should be shy of taking photos of people. The people should only be shy of you taking pictures of them. Because they have to make a good pose and a great smile that they may not really have. Please try if you haven't to take photos of people on the street because it really opens your mind up and you also make friends really easily while doing it. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Taking a nap everyday and doing the Korean language.

Learning the Korean language is very time consuming if you take it as a 5 credit course in college. I have read online that not that many schools in the country actually teaches the Korean language. So I feel very fortunate to be in this class because I am only 14 and not many people in the United States know Korean except a lot of Korean people that come here to learn English and a lot of times get their degrees here.

My strategy is to take a nap everyday when I comeback from class. Because everyday we have a vocabulary test that is 4-9 words everyday. That is kind of exhausting to the average learner like me. I spend about 3 hours every morning just on these words. Today I did pretty bad on my vocabulary test because I 
couldn't remember some of the Korean words and the English translation of the words. A lot of times I find myself forgetting the English translation more than the Korean vocabulary words most of the time. But most of the time I usually get a good score on the vocabulary quiz. Also we are learning honorifics in the past tense and the present tense yesterday and today. I love this class.. I feel grateful that I am learning Korean because in South Korea you have take a English test that you get a score on to get a Job in Korea. Something like Toeic....? But I have the advantage of not taking the really hard test but I would be able to take the easier version on the test. "Topik".... I am happy to be a American so I can compete with the community in Korea is business relations if I want too. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day. 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

My goal is to have a mobile business.

The one thing I want in life is a business that I can create that is mobile. I want to tell you why I want to have a mobile business instead of just having a business in one city and staying there forever. The number one reason I want to make a mobile business is that I want to travel the world while I am working on my business on a laptop. I want to expand in many areas, that includes South Korea buy online marketing. Having a local business in South Korea is very expensive plus the laws are different over there. But I think having a online business is the best way to go. I have to figure out what my product I am selling will be. Will it just be a web application, like video or tutorials or will it be a actual product that people can actually use in the 3D world we live in? The answer is both. Having both of these things I think is very important. Have a basic free login for users on your website and a premium login for your website. All I know is that you can't just have a account you have to buy. You also need to have a account that is free for all users so they can spread the word. Only a majority of them will buy the premium account. But the majority can still be a lot of people. And also if I have over 1 million dollars to spend, I would make a restaurant like Jimmy Johns or Mcdonalds and hire a manager for it and I can just be the building manager. So I can put the chain restaurants in very good locations around the country or even around the world. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Antivirus companies making antivirus programs for mac for upcoming vulnerabilities

It seems like to me that Antivirus companies are currently developing their antivirus software for free and trying to be on the number one list so they can have a paid version of their antivirus later on when things get worse. What I mean by worse, is that it changes into a Windows machine worse. But I think a lot of things are hidden now because I honestly thing that people mostly want money right now. So they are probably installing Mac key-loggers right now recording everything we type, and the one thing that they pay attention most to is your credit card numbers. When you buy online it is kind a risk. I think everything is a risk right now online and I really believe that at least a 100 people made a very bad virus or bad object that can not be seen for years until they notice huge changes. I have Avast free installed on my Mac and I believe that everybody should have this installed on their computer so it can be protected a little bit instead of nothing. So install Avast Antivirus for free on CNET before another form of the Flashback Trojan comes back. 

Thursday, February 7, 2013

One reason why you should get the latest technology when you don't absolutely need it.

I am going to tell you one reason why you should by the latest technology even though you don't really need it. I am going to to exclude DSLR's or anything else that doesn't really matter for this topic that I am writing about today. I would only upgrade your DSLR when you really need it. Like if you are doing wedding photography probably the one of the hardest kind of photography you can do. You need a good camera that has good autofocus or you are going to miss some amazing shots even though you have gotten used to the bad autofocus. The things that I am talking about is computer mostly. If you have a old computer and it still works for you. That's good. But I would by a new computer for one reason even though you don't need one. The top reason for me is having the newest technology like the latest processors, GPU, and displays matters to me a lot. And I hate being late on technology especially computers. If I have a old computer I kind of really feel really outdated. I would just buy a new computer just to get the mental block out of your system. It's like getting the latest iphone and ipad. If you don't upgrade some apps won't work in the future for you old ipad. Thank you for reading my opinion and I think this is true for a lot of people also. 

Monday, February 4, 2013

Make a vocab quiz for yourself while learning your foreign language.

The 3 most important parts about learning any language is vocabulary, grammar and speaking. I think the best way to learn and memorize vocabulary words is to speak it and make tests for yourself you it can be soaked up by your brain. It doesn't matter how old you are you just really have to have a open mind to learning a language and you have to know that it's going to take a while to learn a foreign language if you don't have anybody to talk to that much. That's why I am happy that the college that I am learning Korean from has a ESL program ( English Second Language). I think that's what ESL means. I am going to meet my conversation partner this afternoon at 5:00 to 6:30PM.... It's going to be an interesting experience helping someone speak English and also trying to learn Korean from the person you are teaching. I can set appointments to practice with my conversation partner. And I am getting to the level where I can make sentences into Korean. But I still have to work on grammar and vocabulary though. I am also taking another semester of Korean " 5 credit course " but it's Korean 102 instead of Korean 101. The class that I am auditing is very structured and you learn a lot just by listening and speaking with the teacher. Plus I like that the Professor also gives out a weekly syllabus on what you are supposed to do for the week instead of just writing the syllabus in your notebook. Week 3 of my class has 5 vocab test this week. That's how you learn foreign vocabulary by practicing by writing them down from the foreign word to the English definition. Over and over again. Just keep writing down phrases and words and try to mix them up. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.