which university did you attend to do the 5 week summer course? and how was you able to do it. All of the courses I've looked at you have to have a high school diploma but I live in the UK so I'm not sure if I will be able to do the summer courses or the regular programs. If possible can you give me some advice? I am really wanting to go out and study in Korea so please help me^^
i was looking at SNU's site and they showed exchange programs, but they were only for students at other universities, not still in high school. through what program were u able to go to korea?
@puertorican0192 I took part in the 5 week summer program. I wasn't at university at the time so couldnt have participated in the exchange programs even if I had wanted to :(
@forevajazzy vegetarian was one of the first words I learnt in Korean. People are generally really happy to adapt meals to make them vegetarian and there are also lots of vegetarian dishes :)
LOL, I was listening to your awesome Korean really closely cause the volume was low.. then all of a sudden it was all *BAM* SOOMEUL GOTDO CHATJI MONTHAE NANEUN-- XDD
@ElleWhiteTV I know~ I was in a bar when I saw it playing on the background screen I was like "Omg must take a picture!!!' and sat there waiting for the map to come round again on the slideshow loop ^^
i'm jealous when im done university since im a sophomore in high school, which is in like 9 years, im planning to visit korea. I'm learning the language by myself and i never went to a korean class. :(
@Mysteri0uus I speak a little french~ I am (very) slowly learning ^^ It's quite funny ...I get confused between languages....I started speaking Korean in my spanish class last week and I was in paris and tried to say something and I came out with chinese ^^ Oh well~ They looked at me really strangely, then my brain decided to behave and the french came out ^^ lol~ I was in Korea for 2 months :) I can't go this year - I am still paying back my parents for last year ^^ hehe~~~
omg what is up with the map!! your trip looks really amazing! you seem like such an interesting person.. i hope i can one day travel like that, first i want to learn the language though because i am too embarrassed to go to a country and not speak their language
@eronprice I know~ I saw the map and was like....WTF? And had to take a picture! It was a truly phenomenal trip ~ i never wanted it to end :) coming back to the UK was like falling out the clouds :( You shouldn't be embarrassed about it - I made mistakes so much I got it more wrong than right! One american guy came up to me in Korea when he heard me swapping between korean and english and said " you're american right, where's Mc Donalds?" I pretended I didn't speak english....
@XXfireheartXX99 Haha~~~ thanks ever so much :) If you have any requests let me know - I won't be able to do it for a while - but I will try to do it if I can :) xx
@smileyweeds i know!! I went to a bar with some of my friends and the owners were running a slideshow in the background and this is one of the pictures on the slideshow that I took a photo of .... ^.^ It made me laugh~~
@iceannice my best advice would be to go to the SNU language school website and have a look there :) if you have any questions, feel free to private message me :) I am more than happy to help! ~Joanna x
@emtinort I'm still learning :) Yes it is quite hard in the sense of getting the level of politeness you use right - i have managed to accidentally insult people by using the wrong one although since im foreign they usually correct me and let me off ^^ I think a language will always be hard to learn but if you are really determined and passionate it becomes a little bit easier :)
omg you're so lucky! i also want to go to south-korea, but i don't know how haha. i'm not in university or college, so it's hard go find something. how did you go to there? (i'm sorry, my english is bad) ^^
omg you're so lucky! i also want to go to south-korea, but i don't know how haha. i'm not in university or college, so it's hard go find something. how did you go to there? (i'm sorry, my english is bad) ^^
@kelvinkh94 sorry this is so late ~ i cant remember if i pmed or not ^^ umm i learnt a tiny bit before going - the little bit i had learnt the year before when i went to stay with my korean friend - like please, thank you etc but really, i learnt there.
when i arrived, it was a question of memorising what i wanted from the guide book and then running to ask for it before i forgot ^^ :D but also it was a lot of gesture and konglish - the korean people are really really helpful :)
Yeah~ it was a fantastic experience - i am hoping to go there again next year :)
good luck with all the studying ~ its worth it if you can get on the program!
I know~ that map just made me burst out laughing~!!! i was looking at it- i pointed it out to my friends and they were like....whats wrong with it? i said - look closely and everyone just burst out laughing :) :) :)
hey~ a lot of the really good books are also really hard to get hold of~! have you got any books *just so i know if youve got them before i start recommending and what kind of level are you at??
@mrsonewful 서울대학교 언어교육원 does some really good books (literally called level 1-5) - and thats where i studied- but im not sure where you can get hold of those books~ its impossible in england but you should be ok in the states- i picked mine up in korea ^^ also, darakwon books are really good : 2000 essential korean words for beginners (also given in japanese and chinese so definite value for money for me since i do them all ^^) and survival korean basic grammar are really helpful too~! xx
@ChaeKyon Yeah it was really good~ I love taekwondo too~ im gonna see if i can continue doing it in england! Yeah~ we went to the DMZ on a school trip but we could only take pictures in certain areas- it was incredibly restricted. we werent allowed to point at anything and the north koreans were watching the whole time~ but actually, quite alot of people are able to visit the DMZ. Yeah~ again, Arirang was another school trip with all the people from my course :)
@ChaeKyon no.no^^ it wasnt a school trip~ i planned it all on my own and travelled on my own ~ but during my time there, i spent 5 weeks studying korean language at SNU and the trips shown were part of our course so when i say "school trip" i am referring to trips by SNU with other people from my course :) I actually went to Lotte World last year so I went to Everland this time :D
^-^ korean isnt too bad ~ if you decide to get stuck in, i can point you in the direction of some good books and websites which i found really helpful when i first started learning :)
@ChaeKyon haha~ same - before this course, I was completely self taught :) I also study Japanese and Chinese so can empathise ~ you are right, korean is much easier than Japanese! And your also right in that remembering all the katakana, hiragana and kanji is a nightmare!!! @-@)
Finding books can be really hard and very expensive (i learnt the hard way by buying them all to see what works!) but i can recommend some good less expensive ones :)
wow you don't know how jealous i am right now. i wanna have that experience too! T_T how did you do that? like how did you apply to a school there? is it easy or HARD omg hehe! was it scary cuz like you were alone and stuff.. but did you have friends already before you went there? man that's so exciting. i would have been a lil bit scared though if i went there along not knowing anyone XD!
@hzel011393 haha~ i can imagine :) yeah~I think you were meant to have a university diploma but thankfully, i did really well on my high school exams (only A's and A*'s) so they let me in anyway~!) I was the youngest person on my course :) It was hard at times because I was on my own and I am pretty young but it was a fantastic experience! I knew people from chatting on the net but I didn't get to meet them til I arrived (like 영준 and Nelly) but a lot of people, I met on my course! xx
@funkystar25 oh man i can only dream about this. you're so luck you get very high grades. so that means ppl who are like not so smart can't go in? T-T you need to tutor me, srsly. but do you know any other schools where they don't take grade as a requirment? just payment.. haha as if i'm rich. XD!! oh & this might have cost you a lot, didn't it?
@hzel011393 haha ~ no its just because i am so young. really, the course is meant for people who are already at university whereas i have only done one year of high school ^-^ but i think that because I had high grades, they knew i wouldnt mess around on the course and that i would study properly :) most universities require you to be at university to start studying on the summer courses - SNU was actually the only one i could find that didn't say anything about it :) Actually, it wasnt too bad!
@funkystar25 OOH i get it! it must have been nice for you being the youngest there haha! so are you going back next year? lol because of this i feel motivated already XD !! haha i'll try to get high grades and graduate already XD !! so were you used to the way of living there? kekeke~~
@hzel011393 ^^ haha yeah ~ there were alot of younger people there like 18,19,20 (but i was the only underage one...made going out ...interesting!! ^^) Yeah~ i really wanna go back next year or go to china ~ well have to see :D haha ~ its definitely worth going. It's not too expensive because the living costs are fairly low as a visitor (a meal is about 5000원 or 2.75 pounds) although living there permanently is like living in London~ expensive! yeah~ coming back to england is a killer!
@hzel011393 im still bowing to every adult i see and answering the phone in korean....i was in the supermarket yesterday and walked up to an assistant and asked for something in korean,,,,,he just looked at me like..."you're white...but you're speaking a language i dont understand!" so yeah ~ its a bit of a body shock but you adjust pretty quickly :D
haha yeah it was absolutely fantastic! You should definitely go if you get the chance~! Its actually my second time going :) I was lucky enough to go last year and stay with friends but this time I went on my own to study and work.....despite being only 17~! ^-^ If you do decide to go, definitely let me know!!
Seriously~ another video? I shall look into it ^-^ I might have to get hold of my friends photos too :D
Any difference from Korea and Tokyo? Me and my friends (were british) are planning to goto Tokyo but anything Korea has that Tokyo doesn't? Thanks!
E1SUNZ 2 months ago
which university did you attend to do the 5 week summer course? and how was you able to do it. All of the courses I've looked at you have to have a high school diploma but I live in the UK so I'm not sure if I will be able to do the summer courses or the regular programs. If possible can you give me some advice? I am really wanting to go out and study in Korea so please help me^^
kaiyou1000 3 months ago
i was looking at SNU's site and they showed exchange programs, but they were only for students at other universities, not still in high school. through what program were u able to go to korea?
puertorican0192 3 months ago
@puertorican0192 I took part in the 5 week summer program. I wasn't at university at the time so couldnt have participated in the exchange programs even if I had wanted to :(
funkystar25 3 months ago
앞구정->압구정, 독수궁->덕수궁 ^^
97megabass 4 months ago
YOU'RE KOREAN IS SOO GOOD. :))
Hehehe. I like the music (:
St4rDr34m3r 4 months ago
What is the song?
IMMMMMKEWLLLIO 4 months ago
@IMMMMMKEWLLLIO Lucifer by Shinee (SM)
funkystar25 3 months ago
how did u eat in korea if they usually eat every meal with meat?
forevajazzy 6 months ago
@forevajazzy vegetarian was one of the first words I learnt in Korean. People are generally really happy to adapt meals to make them vegetarian and there are also lots of vegetarian dishes :)
funkystar25 3 months ago
@funkystar25 oh thats awesome! yay! i dont have to worry bout my food anymore! i hope i get to travel there soon :)
forevajazzy 3 months ago
how long did you go?
ahgoh69 7 months ago
@ahgoh69 Just under 2 months but I was studying in SNU for just 5 weeks :)
funkystar25 6 months ago
You hve friends IN korea?
Aww I wish I had korean friends xP
It looked like a lot of fun! I hope to go someday too!! ^^
LaJackquelineHouston 8 months ago
Did you go visit Daegu!?! I live there(:
ninah1234567890 8 months ago 2
@ninah1234567890 I didn't get a chance to go but when I return next summer, hopefully I'll get a chance to travel around~ ^^
funkystar25 6 months ago
perfect bgm. lucifer
youlahaha5 8 months ago
LOL, I was listening to your awesome Korean really closely cause the volume was low.. then all of a sudden it was all *BAM* SOOMEUL GOTDO CHATJI MONTHAE NANEUN-- XDD
<3 SHINee.
CharlestheStrange 8 months ago 7
oooohhhh ......i wish i go to korea too!!!
LeeChaerin63 9 months ago
2050 map of asia?? Colony of corea is japan! lmao! koreas going to take everything over? :)
ElleWhiteTV 9 months ago
@ElleWhiteTV I know~ I was in a bar when I saw it playing on the background screen I was like "Omg must take a picture!!!' and sat there waiting for the map to come round again on the slideshow loop ^^
funkystar25 6 months ago
respect
SwissCow85 10 months ago
i'm jealous when im done university since im a sophomore in high school, which is in like 9 years, im planning to visit korea. I'm learning the language by myself and i never went to a korean class. :(
talk to you sometime Joanna :)
MiyoungHaseon96 10 months ago
@Flytothesky8595 yep :(
funkystar25 10 months ago
i want to go this year, is it the summer course one?
and how old do you have to be? the application is due 29/04 :L
around how much did it cost? :)
applegirlhk 10 months ago
@applegirlhk the course cost around 700 GBP . ~ yes- I did the summer course one :) I answered most of your questions in the pm I sent you :)
funkystar25 10 months ago
@funkystar25 how did you apply? :\
MiSSiNGYU88 9 months ago
Hey, you speak French ? :o
How long did you stay there ?
If you'll go this year, let's meet us (:
I'll go in August during one year :p
Mysteri0uus 10 months ago
@Mysteri0uus I speak a little french~ I am (very) slowly learning ^^ It's quite funny ...I get confused between languages....I started speaking Korean in my spanish class last week and I was in paris and tried to say something and I came out with chinese ^^ Oh well~ They looked at me really strangely, then my brain decided to behave and the french came out ^^ lol~ I was in Korea for 2 months :) I can't go this year - I am still paying back my parents for last year ^^ hehe~~~
funkystar25 10 months ago
omg what is up with the map!! your trip looks really amazing! you seem like such an interesting person.. i hope i can one day travel like that, first i want to learn the language though because i am too embarrassed to go to a country and not speak their language
eronprice 10 months ago
@eronprice I know~ I saw the map and was like....WTF? And had to take a picture! It was a truly phenomenal trip ~ i never wanted it to end :) coming back to the UK was like falling out the clouds :( You shouldn't be embarrassed about it - I made mistakes so much I got it more wrong than right! One american guy came up to me in Korea when he heard me swapping between korean and english and said " you're american right, where's Mc Donalds?" I pretended I didn't speak english....
funkystar25 10 months ago 5
La chance tu as été en Corée du sud =D
MusicSouthKorea 10 months ago 2
wow how come you're so fluent in korean?
BakaPowah 10 months ago
@BakaPowah I am far from being fluent ~ but I guess, a lot of practice ^^ and chatting to lots of native koreans to improve pronunciation :)
funkystar25 10 months ago
You don't have a video of your interview? That would be interesting to see/hear. (:
dudeitsdylan 10 months ago
@dudeitsdylan Sorry~ I didn't think of that at the time :) All i have is a few photos that my friends took~~
funkystar25 10 months ago
@XXfireheartXX99 Haha~~~ thanks ever so much :) If you have any requests let me know - I won't be able to do it for a while - but I will try to do it if I can :) xx
funkystar25 10 months ago
at 2:51 ->> by 2050,, japan will be the colony of corea (corea),, uhmm?!
smileyweeds 10 months ago
@smileyweeds i know!! I went to a bar with some of my friends and the owners were running a slideshow in the background and this is one of the pictures on the slideshow that I took a photo of .... ^.^ It made me laugh~~
funkystar25 10 months ago
I wonder how can you can get into school? I want to do like you too, but dont know how to
iceannice 10 months ago
@iceannice my best advice would be to go to the SNU language school website and have a look there :) if you have any questions, feel free to private message me :) I am more than happy to help! ~Joanna x
funkystar25 10 months ago
I wish I can go there by the end of this year >.< I don't want to go to China~
jeonghwa97 1 year ago
@jeonghwa97 I wish I could go to china!! ^^ Why don't you go there for a little trip when you're in China?? :)
funkystar25 10 months ago
@funkystar25 where?
jeonghwa97 10 months ago
@jeonghwa97 Korea~~
funkystar25 10 months ago
@funkystar25 How would I got to china then to Korea? Nevermind, i'll just go straight to Korea. LOL ^^
jeonghwa97 10 months ago
@jeonghwa97 you can fly from China to Korea ^^ it's not TOO far ^^
funkystar25 10 months ago
You're really lucky!! :D I wish i can go to south korea `:D
yingying868 1 year ago
I wish i knew korean!
XDunLoVed 1 year ago
Was learning the language extremely difficult?
emtinort 1 year ago
@emtinort I'm still learning :) Yes it is quite hard in the sense of getting the level of politeness you use right - i have managed to accidentally insult people by using the wrong one although since im foreign they usually correct me and let me off ^^ I think a language will always be hard to learn but if you are really determined and passionate it becomes a little bit easier :)
funkystar25 10 months ago
your perfect at speaking korean !! i speak some koran myself but that is waaayy better thatn i can speak !
catsandbunny 1 year ago
woaaa u studied korean? for how long!
thats awesome
YumixPanda332 1 year ago
@YumixPanda332 i studied for about 5 weeks (100 Hours of classtime) :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25
woaa, in korea?
thats so cool o-o
can you just do that?
i want to do it too! XD haha
YumixPanda332 1 year ago
how long did you learn korean? you sounds so great :))
ThhdFeatTvxq 1 year ago
@idkjustk i was there for just under 2 months :)
funkystar25 1 year ago
omg you're so lucky! i also want to go to south-korea, but i don't know how haha. i'm not in university or college, so it's hard go find something. how did you go to there? (i'm sorry, my english is bad) ^^
Flowerrr1994 1 year ago
omg you're so lucky! i also want to go to south-korea, but i don't know how haha. i'm not in university or college, so it's hard go find something. how did you go to there? (i'm sorry, my english is bad) ^^
Flowerrr1994 1 year ago
열심히 노력하는 모습이 보기 좋아요 ^^...(한가지만 수정 .... 3:19 독수공---->덕수궁 )
nabasa1 1 year ago
Lol looks like you had a blast.. I really wanna go too!
favoritor7 1 year ago
@favoritor7 oh it was fantastic~! If you get the chance to go you should!!! :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
korean men love caucasian's. you must of been noticed everywhere you went haha..hope you checked out the seoul night life!
hksxskyline 1 year ago
@hksxskyline haha yeah it was a bit like that :) but the seoul nightlife is AMAZING :D
the clubbing in hongdae and gangnam is epic ~!
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funkystar25 1 year ago
whoa! your korean is really good... Did you learn korean first before going to korea? or you learn there?
If you learn there, how did you get around when you just arrive at korea, when you are not speaking well korean?
kelvinkh94 1 year ago
@kelvinkh94 sorry this is so late ~ i cant remember if i pmed or not ^^ umm i learnt a tiny bit before going - the little bit i had learnt the year before when i went to stay with my korean friend - like please, thank you etc but really, i learnt there.
when i arrived, it was a question of memorising what i wanted from the guide book and then running to ask for it before i forgot ^^ :D but also it was a lot of gesture and konglish - the korean people are really really helpful :)
funkystar25 1 year ago
omg omg your korean issss gooodddd
i miss korea so much
kawaiinails 1 year ago
@kawaiinails haha thanks ~~ i know ~` me tooooo!!! I want to go back asap~~ ^^
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 how long did you study korean for ? i would love to go there to do that
kawaiinails 1 year ago
@kawaiinails umm i studied for 5 weeks at 서울대학교언어교육원 (SNU Korean Learning Centre) and i know ~ I would love to go back~!
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funkystar25 1 year ago
awwww my sis went to everland!!
bittersweetkuri22 1 year ago
@bittersweetkuri22 haha did she like it? it was epic ^^
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funkystar25 1 year ago
조안나시,안녕허세요 ^^
저는 자프네 이에요 ^^ 한국말 질 못해요 =(
well,I'm just a beginner，하하하 =D
your Hangul is very good ^^
eclipse0516 1 year ago
@eclipse0516 와 안녕하세요~ 잘 진앴어요~? dont worry your hangul is good ^^ im still a beginner too ~! :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
wooow :)) this makes me want to come back even more :(( theres so much i havent seen yet
arvin01 1 year ago
@arvin01 you should so go~ its so amazing :) i really want to go back and travel to other places like Jeju an climb some of the mountains~^^
funkystar25 1 year ago
말 귀엽게 잘하시네요 나이도 저랑같고 하하..
khh925 1 year ago
말을 또박또박 귀엽게 잘말하시네요 하하.. 저랑 나이도같고
khh925 1 year ago
말을 또박또박하시는게 귀엽네요 .. 저랑 나이도같고
khh925 1 year ago
how did you learned korean..i listen to this not watching the video and i heard a korean girl speaking..amazing
younhakey08 1 year ago
Your Korean is sooo good! I envy you! (PS... LOVE THE SONG!)
1996peacelovemusic 1 year ago
@1996peacelovemusic haha thanks ^^ and yeah i know~ am totally in love with this song :D
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funkystar25 1 year ago
your korean is very good
KYUNGILNAM 1 year ago
@KYUNGILNAM thank you but it actually sounds really weird in this video ^^ i speak a lot better normally :D
funkystar25 1 year ago
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KYUNGILNAM 1 year ago
@funkystar25 probably you have a talent in languages.
KYUNGILNAM 1 year ago
Wow your koreans great :D it looks amazing, I wanna go some day ^__~
IchigoBaraXSaranghae 1 year ago
@IchigoBaraXSaranghae thanks ^^ yeah its an absolutely fantastic place~ if you get the chance - you should definitely go :D
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funkystar25 1 year ago
wow~
now i want to go to Korea too~~=3
but i have to study more and maybe, i can apply for an exchange program at my university next year~~ (they're really strict about grades. .___.) :D
I bet you had a fun experience there~ ^^
btw, LOL at the 2050 map!! really...korea haven't moved on... =))
SuJuAngelTeukieLove 1 year ago
@SuJuAngelTeukieLove
Yeah~ it was a fantastic experience - i am hoping to go there again next year :)
good luck with all the studying ~ its worth it if you can get on the program!
I know~ that map just made me burst out laughing~!!! i was looking at it- i pointed it out to my friends and they were like....whats wrong with it? i said - look closely and everyone just burst out laughing :) :) :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
do you have any books you can recomend
mrsonewful 1 year ago
@mrsonewful
hey~ a lot of the really good books are also really hard to get hold of~! have you got any books *just so i know if youve got them before i start recommending and what kind of level are you at??
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25
is it really hard .even ordering online??
well i dont have any at all.. and im definITLY a beginner
just starting??
mrsonewful 1 year ago
@mrsonewful 서울대학교 언어교육원 does some really good books (literally called level 1-5) - and thats where i studied- but im not sure where you can get hold of those books~ its impossible in england but you should be ok in the states- i picked mine up in korea ^^ also, darakwon books are really good : 2000 essential korean words for beginners (also given in japanese and chinese so definite value for money for me since i do them all ^^) and survival korean basic grammar are really helpful too~! xx
funkystar25 1 year ago
You used my newest favorite song by Shinee
sooooo lucky :( i wanna go also wanna start learning korean but my school doesnt have classes for it
superjuniorsfan4ever 1 year ago
@superjuniorsfan4ever haha ~ its my favourite song at the moment too ^^
my school doesnt have classes either ~~ i was completely self taught korean before going out there :) x
funkystar25 1 year ago
조안나 한국에서 좋은 추억을 만듣 것 같네요
영국에서도 늘 건강하고 행복 가득하세요
freetop100 1 year ago
@freetop100 고마워요~
funkystar25 1 year ago
Wooooow!!!!!!! It looks so amazing!!!
I guess you had a great time~ ^^
I love Taekwondo, and omo the DMZ????
I never knew people gould go there (and take pics!)
And you got to visit Arirang too? O.O
wow~ what type of trip was it? O.o
...you said it was related to your course?
ChaeKyon 1 year ago
@ChaeKyon Yeah it was really good~ I love taekwondo too~ im gonna see if i can continue doing it in england! Yeah~ we went to the DMZ on a school trip but we could only take pictures in certain areas- it was incredibly restricted. we werent allowed to point at anything and the north koreans were watching the whole time~ but actually, quite alot of people are able to visit the DMZ. Yeah~ again, Arirang was another school trip with all the people from my course :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 O.O wow! a school trip?
that's a good school!!! XD
did you get to go to Lotte world too?
ChaeKyon 1 year ago
@ChaeKyon no.no^^ it wasnt a school trip~ i planned it all on my own and travelled on my own ~ but during my time there, i spent 5 weeks studying korean language at SNU and the trips shown were part of our course so when i say "school trip" i am referring to trips by SNU with other people from my course :) I actually went to Lotte World last year so I went to Everland this time :D
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 wow~ that's really cool ^^
I'm really hoping I can learn Korean this year >.<
ChaeKyon 1 year ago
@ChaeKyon
^-^ korean isnt too bad ~ if you decide to get stuck in, i can point you in the direction of some good books and websites which i found really helpful when i first started learning :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 ah~ komawoyo ^^
my current Korean (which isn't much) is self taught
...but I'm never consistent with it XD
Korean is actually easier than Japanese
(although Japanese is easy... the hard part is remembering Hiragana and Katakana while learning lots of Kanji >.<)
I know most of the Korean alphabet already ^^
but finding books can be really hard TT.TT
ChaeKyon 1 year ago
@ChaeKyon haha~ same - before this course, I was completely self taught :) I also study Japanese and Chinese so can empathise ~ you are right, korean is much easier than Japanese! And your also right in that remembering all the katakana, hiragana and kanji is a nightmare!!! @-@)
Finding books can be really hard and very expensive (i learnt the hard way by buying them all to see what works!) but i can recommend some good less expensive ones :)
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funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 ha! me too!!! Mandarin Chinese right? ^^
I like Hiragana and Kanji... but Katakana is so tiring >.<
I used to learn French when I was really really young too,
and I'm sure most of us did some French and Spanish in school XD
but I really love learning languages!!! XDDD
ah yeah... I hate buying books and hoping they'll help TT.TT
I once bought a lanuguage book and it didn't even have:
"Hello my name is..." XDDD it just 'kind of' had the hello!
ChaeKyon 1 year ago
Looks like you had a lot of fun~
avrilrocks15 1 year ago
@avrilrocks15 yeah it was fantastic ^-^ x
funkystar25 1 year ago
wow you don't know how jealous i am right now. i wanna have that experience too! T_T how did you do that? like how did you apply to a school there? is it easy or HARD omg hehe! was it scary cuz like you were alone and stuff.. but did you have friends already before you went there? man that's so exciting. i would have been a lil bit scared though if i went there along not knowing anyone XD!
hzel011393 1 year ago
@hzel011393 haha~ i can imagine :) yeah~I think you were meant to have a university diploma but thankfully, i did really well on my high school exams (only A's and A*'s) so they let me in anyway~!) I was the youngest person on my course :) It was hard at times because I was on my own and I am pretty young but it was a fantastic experience! I knew people from chatting on the net but I didn't get to meet them til I arrived (like 영준 and Nelly) but a lot of people, I met on my course! xx
funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 oh man i can only dream about this. you're so luck you get very high grades. so that means ppl who are like not so smart can't go in? T-T you need to tutor me, srsly. but do you know any other schools where they don't take grade as a requirment? just payment.. haha as if i'm rich. XD!! oh & this might have cost you a lot, didn't it?
hzel011393 1 year ago
@hzel011393 haha ~ no its just because i am so young. really, the course is meant for people who are already at university whereas i have only done one year of high school ^-^ but i think that because I had high grades, they knew i wouldnt mess around on the course and that i would study properly :) most universities require you to be at university to start studying on the summer courses - SNU was actually the only one i could find that didn't say anything about it :) Actually, it wasnt too bad!
funkystar25 1 year ago
@funkystar25 OOH i get it! it must have been nice for you being the youngest there haha! so are you going back next year? lol because of this i feel motivated already XD !! haha i'll try to get high grades and graduate already XD !! so were you used to the way of living there? kekeke~~
hzel011393 1 year ago
@hzel011393 ^^ haha yeah ~ there were alot of younger people there like 18,19,20 (but i was the only underage one...made going out ...interesting!! ^^) Yeah~ i really wanna go back next year or go to china ~ well have to see :D haha ~ its definitely worth going. It's not too expensive because the living costs are fairly low as a visitor (a meal is about 5000원 or 2.75 pounds) although living there permanently is like living in London~ expensive! yeah~ coming back to england is a killer!
x
funkystar25 1 year ago
@hzel011393 im still bowing to every adult i see and answering the phone in korean....i was in the supermarket yesterday and walked up to an assistant and asked for something in korean,,,,,he just looked at me like..."you're white...but you're speaking a language i dont understand!" so yeah ~ its a bit of a body shock but you adjust pretty quickly :D
xx
funkystar25 1 year ago
OMG! Seems you have a fantastic time in Korea! Now i REALLY want to go ^_______________^
&& hope you make another video with all your other pictures! They're so pretty :DD
kpopfun27 1 year ago
@kpopfun27
haha yeah it was absolutely fantastic! You should definitely go if you get the chance~! Its actually my second time going :) I was lucky enough to go last year and stay with friends but this time I went on my own to study and work.....despite being only 17~! ^-^ If you do decide to go, definitely let me know!!
Seriously~ another video? I shall look into it ^-^ I might have to get hold of my friends photos too :D
Thank you ~ im really glad you liked it :)
funkystar25 1 year ago