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Goals Update – 30/01/10

January 30th, 2010

Well its been a while since my resolutions post but thought I would post a quick update on how I’m getting on so far.

한글 – Hangul – DONE!
This one’s already done learned all the characters within a day or two and have already got to the point were I can read without needing to refer to anything to see what a character means all thanks to the power of an SRS.

Weight Training – In Progress!
Have gained almost 2 pounds in weight (having to eat over 3000 calories a day to gain) and improved my lift on the bench press to 3×6 of 60KG not a huge weight but great for me ^^

JLPT – Temp Hold
Not worked on this yet as have concentrated on Hangul and a few other things but will get round to full on study at some point in the very near future.

Climbing – Future Plan
Aiming to give this try within the next month or two when some funds have been freed up.

Blog More – In progress
Trying to manage a few posts a week depending on time constraints.

Go Abroad – Funding Pending

— New Goals —
Going to start adding any new goals I have planned at the end of any goals update posts.

LPIC-1 – Linux Professional Institute Certification
Not done any new IT certs in a while now and wanting to further my knowledge and potentially my career its about time I did. Linux has always interested me and after setting up my new Linux box to act as a home media server and playing around with the likes of Samba, Cups etc I’m becoming more interested. So I’m going to start studying for this cert using an SRS to remember anything obscure.

Korean Language Log 1

January 16th, 2010



Well as I mentioned in a previous post I was going to learn to read Hangul 한굴 this year well days after that post I went ahead and re-learned the Hangul probably took 1-2 days to memorize them all and a little longer to get the pronunciations and irregularity’s correct, still probably not perfect but can read quite well now I just need to speed up.

After getting the taste of Hangul my attention turned to actually wanting to learn Korean itself as I’ve always had an interest in Korea and its culture other than Japanese its by far my next favorite language, so for a while I’m going to switch my attention to learning Korean especially after my long hiatus from Japanese its very daunting to re-start 1700 sentences that haven’t been reviewed for 5 months or so.

Although to not forget my Japanese I’m going to were I can translate my Korean sentences into Japanese and avoid English as much as possible the great thing about Korean for anybody who has studied Japanese is the many similarity between the two languages.

e.g.
저 – jeo = Similar to 私
씨 – ssi = similar to さん Mr, Mrs, Miss
은 / 는 – eun / neun = Topic Marker similar to は
입니다 – nida = similar to です ”to be”
이 / 가 – -i / ga = Subject marker

저는 학생입니다. = I (topic marker) student am a – I am a student

The sentence structure is pretty much the same too as above. Now that I know the writing its just a case of learning the vocab and grammar so should be pretty quick to match my Japanese ability and to pass it, currently the thing I’m finding most difficult is getting the pronunciation correct but that just needs practice.

So I intend to keep these regular logs on my Korean progress and also for a place to list things I’ve learned which will hopefully be beneficial for myself and anybody else that’s interested in or learning Korean.

Oh and one last thing to finish up I’m also going to set a few mini goals (as suggested by Squintox) each time I make a log as a way to keep pushing myself along and as a guide of my progress.

- Finish Beginner series 1 of Korean Class 101 – 5/31
- Add 200 vocab/sentences to Anki – 62/200
- Watch at least 1 Korean movie a week – 0 (3-iron has arrived ^^)
- Listen to more audio 20Mins today so far (still collecting things together for this)

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Goals Update – Savings

July 6th, 2009

Just a quick update on the savings front which is mostly for my trip to Japan its been going pretty good I’ve made sure to put some of my money from my wage into a savings account each month although not as much as I would like. Once I’ve paid of my debts I vow to at least double the amount I save every month if I’m going to save enough for my year long trip to Japan then I really need to save more as at the current rate I’ll have only just over half of what I need.

Progress – OK

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