Hello there! I don't speak Korean!
Well, now that you know that, let me start explaining some of the similarities between Japanese and Korean!
I want to learn Korean and hopefully in the future I can start taking a course or something, because I am not very good at motivating myself to learn stuff on my own without some sort of pressure, like the kind of pressure you get from knowing there will actually be a test coming up. I am not one to accept failing a test, haha.
Anyway, yesterday I started looking into Korean again, like we all do when we don't have enough pressure from school to be able to focus on school work.
And I find that every time I look up Korean words I discover words that are almost the same as a word in Japanese. This time was no different, among others I found that "picture/photo" and "moment" are almost the same in Japanese and Korean.
Picture is in Japanese: Shashin, and in Korean: Sajin.
Moment is in Japanese: Shunkan, and in Korean: Sungan.
There are word that I would've never realized were almost the same just by hearing them being spoken in Korean. I had to actually see the word written on a paper, with the English translation, to be able to realize this.
Even the word "Shigan"/"Sigan" in Korean, a word which I've heard time and time again, did not register with me as being the word "Time", which is "Jikan" in Japanese. But then when I see it on paper, it's so obvious!
It's annoying to have all these similar words and not be able to notice them in speech. But at least it's somewhat helpful when it comes to writing, and it's always funny to have that kinda "Aha!" moment, when you realized that you have been blind/deaf(?) all along!
Anyway, I just came to think about this other thing too. How kanji also helps you (well, me atleast) to map Korean words to Japanese words:
If you know Japanese (probably works if you know Chinese too), you can sometimes guess what the kanji should be for Korean words. Back in the days, they used to use Chinese characters in Korea to write, before a guy came up with Hangul (glad that happened!).
Take for example the Korean words "Yoja" and "Namja", meaning "woman" and "man". My guess is that they used these symbols for these words back in the day (altough I am writing in kanji so it might be a bit off stroke wise n stuff): 女者 for woman and 男者 for man. In Japanese both these symbols exist but would not be used in this way. The "equivalent" of the Korean Yoja in Japanese would be Joshi 女子, and to Namja would be Danshi 男子. Well, not exact equivalent, since danshi and joshi have the kanji for child in them, which implies that we are talking about young people specifically.
If you want to be precis I suppose the equality would be "Onna no hito" 女の人 and "Otoko no hito" 男の人 in Japanese, but I liked the other comparison better, since they have the non-japanese reading of 女 and 男. Namely "Jo" and "Dan".
"Dan" (男) by the way also has the reading "Nan", which is very similar to the Korean "Nam".
And "Jo"(女) in Japanese, does sound a bit similar to the "Yo" they use in Korean.
Then there is also 者 ("Ja" in Korean), which kinda means person. This generally has the reading "Sha" in Japanese.
So if we would try to turn 女者 and 男者, into Japanese it would sound like "Josha" and "Nansha". In my opinion they sound very similar.
I have found that it often helps to try to remember the kanji symbols of a word, if you can't really remember what the word means. There are only so many different kanji with the same sounds used on a daily basis, so often it's not that hard to come up with fitting kanji that might help you remember a certain word.
So if you already know Japanese and want to learn Korean, or vice versa, I've found that it's a lot easier to learn one through the other. Since English is not very similar to Korean, it's not very helpful.
Well, that's my post. Not sure where I was going with it, but here it is. Cheers!
Nov 26, 2017
Nov 23, 2017
Teamwork is hard
We have a course right now called "Team programming". As you can tell the title is pretty straight forward on what the course is about.
We got to choose our own groups for this course and I ended up in a group of friends, and acquaintances. Also I had already worked with two of my friends in the group, and thus knew that they were good workers and great to be on the same team as. Some group members I had no idea how they would work out, if they were good workers or not, but luckliy it turned out that they were really motivated too!
So we got ourselves a good group of hard workers where everyone is on friendly terms, what could go wrong?
Well, obviously just because you're friends doesn't mean you're going to be on good terms all throughout your project.
There were some days where we were all so annoyed with a problem we were having, that were really tough for all of us, and probably had us all at some point thinking "Ugh, I wish I was in another group!". Even though we probably all know that all groups have pretty much the same problems.
The point of this course is not just to program, it's main goal is to teach us how to program as a group. My group still has a long way to go and the teacher hasn't really taught our class how we should go about doing our group work, it was just all left up to us! So now our group is working as one giant mess, which is ok since we just started and not much else can be expected of us since the teacher hasn't given us any concrete instructions.
Anyway group work is fine, and I feel like it's probably a good thing for me, since I am a friggin pessimist that always gets super annoyed and angry when things go wrong, and can't help but take my anger out on other people by getting annoyed at them. I don't even know really how I would say I act when I get annoyed like that, but you can always tell when I am not in a good mood, haha.
It's not that bad of course, I am no monster, but I still don't like that part of myself and I feel like as this project has gone on, I've been able to hide it more and more, and act nicer toward people.
Because it's not nice to sit there and be annoyed by people when they don't deserve it, and in turn they get annoyed by me which isn't fun either. Vicious circle!
Group work is draining my energy right now though, I've lost my will to code, or maybe I just need to get back into it after a weekend of not doing any school work at all.
Right now I just want to go do something fun, instead of sitting at home trying to code whatever vague task I've been assigned for this week.
I should stop complaining... But at least I am doing it here and not in peoples faces, cheers!
Okay, time to go learn some more team work! Cause I need it!
We got to choose our own groups for this course and I ended up in a group of friends, and acquaintances. Also I had already worked with two of my friends in the group, and thus knew that they were good workers and great to be on the same team as. Some group members I had no idea how they would work out, if they were good workers or not, but luckliy it turned out that they were really motivated too!
So we got ourselves a good group of hard workers where everyone is on friendly terms, what could go wrong?
Well, obviously just because you're friends doesn't mean you're going to be on good terms all throughout your project.
There were some days where we were all so annoyed with a problem we were having, that were really tough for all of us, and probably had us all at some point thinking "Ugh, I wish I was in another group!". Even though we probably all know that all groups have pretty much the same problems.
The point of this course is not just to program, it's main goal is to teach us how to program as a group. My group still has a long way to go and the teacher hasn't really taught our class how we should go about doing our group work, it was just all left up to us! So now our group is working as one giant mess, which is ok since we just started and not much else can be expected of us since the teacher hasn't given us any concrete instructions.
Anyway group work is fine, and I feel like it's probably a good thing for me, since I am a friggin pessimist that always gets super annoyed and angry when things go wrong, and can't help but take my anger out on other people by getting annoyed at them. I don't even know really how I would say I act when I get annoyed like that, but you can always tell when I am not in a good mood, haha.
It's not that bad of course, I am no monster, but I still don't like that part of myself and I feel like as this project has gone on, I've been able to hide it more and more, and act nicer toward people.
Because it's not nice to sit there and be annoyed by people when they don't deserve it, and in turn they get annoyed by me which isn't fun either. Vicious circle!
Group work is draining my energy right now though, I've lost my will to code, or maybe I just need to get back into it after a weekend of not doing any school work at all.
Right now I just want to go do something fun, instead of sitting at home trying to code whatever vague task I've been assigned for this week.
I should stop complaining... But at least I am doing it here and not in peoples faces, cheers!
Okay, time to go learn some more team work! Cause I need it!
Nov 4, 2017
Things are looking up
For a while there I thought I would have to quit the program, because I was sure I had failed the math exam, and was afraid I would fail a re-exam too.
Turns out I worried my ass off for nothing (as is usually the case).
I needed 42 out of 100 points to pass, and was afraid I would not make that mark. But as it turns out I got 65/100 points! Might not sound like a lot, but to me it feels great!
So now I am back in business and feel confident that I wont get kicked out of the program any time soon. Which is nice, cause I like it here.
Gothenburg is a very rainy city though...
Anyway, the past couple of days have been pretty chill and I have had time to do things other than studying, which has been nice. So today I started looking into stocks again, since I really want to start trying to get into it as soon as possible. Even if I can only save a small amount each month, I think it would probably be good to do so in stocks or the likes.
Then when I finally get a job I can really get in to it and save lots of money and hopefully make lots of profit. The goal is to be a millionaire before 40, but since I am a pessimist I wont make any promises that the goal will be reached.
Since I moved to Gothenburg I have realized that a lot of young people are dealing with stocks, which is kind of unexpected to me since before coming here, I didn't know anyone apart from myself remotely interested in saving money by using stocks and funds.
Turns out though that there are many young people out there who are already saving up for their future! A friend agreed to help me get started with it, and I will keep doing research on my own.
If you choose to buy stocks you choose yourself what companies you want to invest in, which is interesting. I thought I would invest in Tesla in the future, just because I like Tesla. And Elon Musk seems cool.
Not sure if it's a good decision but we will see.
On a sad note I am also wondering if investing in weapon companies would be a good idea, since it kinda feels like world war 3 could be around the corner considering the rise of far rightwing nationalism happening in pretty much every country in the world...
As a pacifist though, this feels counter intuitive.
Too depressing? Sorry.
Lets not talk about depressing things! Like I said, things are looking up! Not on a worldwide scale, but on a personal life scale.
I passed the exam, I made some tasty pasta sauce with anchovies, I finsihed a nice drawing, I just made a Java GUI using JavaFX, the limited edition polka chocolate is back in stores again, I got to see the new Thor movie.
Oh yea, I just remembered another bad thing. We got a bad teammate in our group for our school projects... kinda sucks. The teammate is a nice person but not at all good at groupwork. If I could stand up for myself and the group I might kick him out. Instead I am just waiting for the truly very slim possibility that the person might show theirself out.
Turns out I worried my ass off for nothing (as is usually the case).
I needed 42 out of 100 points to pass, and was afraid I would not make that mark. But as it turns out I got 65/100 points! Might not sound like a lot, but to me it feels great!
So now I am back in business and feel confident that I wont get kicked out of the program any time soon. Which is nice, cause I like it here.
Gothenburg is a very rainy city though...
Anyway, the past couple of days have been pretty chill and I have had time to do things other than studying, which has been nice. So today I started looking into stocks again, since I really want to start trying to get into it as soon as possible. Even if I can only save a small amount each month, I think it would probably be good to do so in stocks or the likes.
Then when I finally get a job I can really get in to it and save lots of money and hopefully make lots of profit. The goal is to be a millionaire before 40, but since I am a pessimist I wont make any promises that the goal will be reached.
Since I moved to Gothenburg I have realized that a lot of young people are dealing with stocks, which is kind of unexpected to me since before coming here, I didn't know anyone apart from myself remotely interested in saving money by using stocks and funds.
Turns out though that there are many young people out there who are already saving up for their future! A friend agreed to help me get started with it, and I will keep doing research on my own.
If you choose to buy stocks you choose yourself what companies you want to invest in, which is interesting. I thought I would invest in Tesla in the future, just because I like Tesla. And Elon Musk seems cool.
Not sure if it's a good decision but we will see.
On a sad note I am also wondering if investing in weapon companies would be a good idea, since it kinda feels like world war 3 could be around the corner considering the rise of far rightwing nationalism happening in pretty much every country in the world...
As a pacifist though, this feels counter intuitive.
Too depressing? Sorry.
Lets not talk about depressing things! Like I said, things are looking up! Not on a worldwide scale, but on a personal life scale.
I passed the exam, I made some tasty pasta sauce with anchovies, I finsihed a nice drawing, I just made a Java GUI using JavaFX, the limited edition polka chocolate is back in stores again, I got to see the new Thor movie.
Oh yea, I just remembered another bad thing. We got a bad teammate in our group for our school projects... kinda sucks. The teammate is a nice person but not at all good at groupwork. If I could stand up for myself and the group I might kick him out. Instead I am just waiting for the truly very slim possibility that the person might show theirself out.
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