Hi everyone, it's Lindie
Today's topic is how after I learnt Korean,
how I changed.
Yeah, about that.
I'll be talking about my habits,
language-related things, and
opportunities. What kind of interesting opportunities have come my way since I started learning.
So first is habits.
Like many other foreigners learning Korean,
sometimes when I get hurt I say "aigoo"
or "omo"
I react like that
When I'm surprised I'll say "omona" or "aigoo"
The second habit is that I started eating Kimchi
When I was a high school student I worked in a Korean restaurant part-time
I slowly started eating Kimchi there.
And I really don't think I can live without kimchi now.
I'll show you my fridge and you can see I have a big glass jar of Kimchi there.
The third habit is taking of my shoes at home
My family lived in Japan for a long time
and in Japan of course one takes off their shoes at home
I don't know if that habit is something I picked up after learning Korean or after having lived in Japan.
I can't distinguish that, but in any case, I personally take my shoes off at home most of the time.
The next point: when I take notes, I usually write in Hangul.
Hangul words are a lot faster to write than English words since they can be written in a shorthand manner.
For example: I'm a designer
and when I got design homework as a student, I would write in my diary ㄷㅈ for "Design" [디자인]
Its a lot faster than writing out "design" in English.
So my diary and planner usually has a lot of Korean written in it.
Any notes I take are usually in Korean since it's faster.
And I think my handwriting has changed too!
Lots of Koreans have similar English handwriting styles [because of the geometric structure of the Hangul alphabet]
When [Koreans] write the letter "i", sometimes the "i" is written with a line instead of a dot.
I also somewhat started writing like that.
Probably because I write Korean a lot more than I do English!
Ok! Point 2 is languages
Korean and other languages - how they changed and so forth.
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of Kpop
Korean bands often release Japanese songs
I think it was SHINee, a Korean band, that released some Japanese songs
So thanks to Kpop I secondhandedly got introduced to Japanese
And I became interested in Japanese
I started learning Japanese a bit more,
and I realized the two langauges have lots of similarity to Chinese.
Hanja and some words are similar
so I thought, "let me learn Chinese too!"
Thanks to Korean, I started learning both Japanese and Chinese. Thanks, Korean!
And another thing related to languages,
I started reading a lot of interesting books.
There's a bookshop closed to Gyeongbok-goong in Seoul, I think its called Kyobo books,
I went to Kyobo books and it was like heaven!
I thought "wow, Koreans must really love reading books"
We don't really have such big book stores in South Africa, and
people don't read as much here either.
So when I was in Korea, I bought a few books
and I also got some books from friends
Thanks to learning Korean,
I got introduced to some excellent books.
Third point is
opportunities.
What kind of interesting opportunities I've experienced
Let's take a look
First,
I was able to visit Korea.
The Korean embassy in South Africa had a competition where you had to make a video about why you love Korea
When I was in high school, I made a silly little video like "Hi, I like Korea blah blah"
But thanks to that video I received the first prize, which was a ticket to South Korea
And I finally visited Korea
When I was in Korea, I also starred in a travel program on Arirang TV called Travel Story.
If I hadn't started learning the beautiful Korean language, I don't think opportunities like these would have popped up.
Another nice opportunity is...
There is a design exhibition called Incheon Design Fair (INDEF) in Incheon
A really close friend of mine who studied the same major as I (information design) invited me to participate
So last year
my design works were exhibited in Incheon and also printed in the catalogue.
I feel like if I didn't learn Korean, things like this wouldn't have happened.
And a few years ago
when I worked at a Korean restaurant (in South Africa)
there was a magazine that was always delivered to the restaurant
Korean magazine. When there were no customers, I'd sit and read the magazine, marking words I didn't know.
I read the magazine a lot
and decided to write an email to them.
"Hi, I'm South African and I really like your magazine" etc
I sent them an email like that and then they featured me in their magazine.
I thought that that was quite an exciting moment in my life.
And I also think my fashion sense, handwriting
and design style has changed.
Korean typography
difficult word!
I'm really interested in designing Korean fonts
I've designed one Korean font before
When I design a font (in English), I try to design a matching Korean version
I think my design style has been influenced by Korean design as well.
I really like Korean design.
And in terms of my fashion sense,
I bought a lot of clothes in Korea, so I guess that's why my style may have changed
I buy a lot of clothes in Japan/Asia, so I've heard that my fashion style doesn't seem "South African".
And finally, the best point is that I've made many special friends.
I've also met some of my subscribers
I usually talk a lot on Kakao Talk
So I've made some nice friends on there too.
I also have a language exchange Open Talk room on Kakao
the link is in the description if you want to join!
Thanks to apps like Kakao, I've made good friendships
I'm so glad I started learning Korean!
So happy. Thank you, Korean!
This was quite a long video, but thank you for watching
I just wanted to share my love for Korea
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See you next time! Bye!
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