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I Have No Better Plan.

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all work, no play (well, maybe a little play?)

today was my first 100% self care day during the semester! i am not letting myself do any homework today, even though i have stuff to do, because i need to reconnect with myself. i got my first ever massage this morning, had therapy, walked along my local river & visited my favorite shop, & spent some time smoking & watching one of my favorite tvshows/reading. overall, it’s been so nice!

this is your reminder to take breaks! you have not failed for taking care of yourself— that is priority uno.

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an apple a day keeps the doctor away, unsure what two cappuccinos will do

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5.7.21 | Finals week

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so cozy tonight✨

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new ttmik books ✨

- my first 500 korean words

- real life korean conversations for beginners

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↳ 09.03.19. tuesday

they’re here!! i ordered these two gorgeous textbooks from TTMIK (talktomeinkorean) a few days ago, and i splurged a little bit for express shipping because i couldn’t wait to get my hand on them haha~ at first glance they seem to be very clean in design and each one has a nice intro and quality audio recordings to go along with the vocab and dialogues. the audio files are automatically added to your TTMIK online account with purchase of the textbooks. check in later to see my first impression after attempting a lesson in each!

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currently channeling everything i have into finding primary sources and pinning down a plan for my term paper

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The process of writing up lecture notes; articulating, researching and building on knowledge while watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer before realising you’re about to be late for work.

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I'm surviving on caffeine and a cold heart. x

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It’s the season for oat milk iced coffee content ✨

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Vocabulary: Colors (색깔)

안녕! Hi! This vocab lesson will be focusing on how to say colors in Korean! Before we begin, let’s learn about how colors are used in the language.

Most colors in Korean end with the syllable 색 meaning “color.” This particle may, however, be dropped when using a color to describe a noun. For example:

빨간색 = Red

빨간 셔츠 = red shirt

빨간색 - 색 + 셔츠 = 빨간 셔츠

*Note that dropping the 색 can only work for some colors when modifying nouns, including 빨간색, 노란색, 녹색, 녹색, 검은색, 파란색, and 하얀색. For any colors other than these, just attach it before a noun:

분홍색 = Pink

분홍색 셔츠 = pink shirt

You may also see some colors ending in 빛. You can use these colors as adjectives also by simply adding them to a noun:

쪽빛 = Indigo

쪽빛 하늘 = indigo sky

Now that we know how to use colors, let’s learn some of them!

Red = 빨간색

Blood red = 핏빛

Burgundy / Crimson = 진홍색

Maroon = 고동색

Pink = 분홍색 / 핑크색

Baby pink = 베이비 핑크

Magenta = 자홍색

Salmon = 새먼핑크색

Ruby / Scarlet = 다홍색

Orange = 주황색

Apricot = 살구색

Coral = 산호색

Peach = 복숭아색

Yellow = 노란색

Cream = 크림색

Gold = 황금색

Lemon = 레몬색

Green = 녹색

Emerald = 선녹색

Mint = 민트색

Blue =  파란색 /푸른색

Navy =  감색

Periwinkle =  페리윙클의 파란색

Sapphire =  사파이어색

Turquoise / Teal / Blueish-green =  청록색

Indigo =  쪽빛

Violet =  보라색

Lavender / Lilac =  연보라색 

Purple =  자주색

More Colors

Black =  검은색

Brown =  갈색

Bronze = 구릿빛

Gray = 회색

Silver = 은색

White = 흰색 / 하얀색

Let’s learn about some adjectives you can use to describe colors now!

Adjectives

Bright = 밝다 

밝은 파란 눈 = bright blue eyes

Dark = 짙다 

짙은 갈색 머리 = dark brown hair

Deep = 깊다 

깊은 자주색 꽃 = deep purple flowers

Light / Pale = 연하다 / 엷다 / 옅다 

연한 파란 하늘 = light blue sky

엷은 녹색 색조 (from Naver Dictionary) = a pale shade of green

분홍색 드레스 = a pale pink dress

That’s about it for this lesson! Hope it was helpful! 제일 좋아하는 색깔 뭐예요? What’s your favorite color? Comment it! See you in the next lesson! 안녕!

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Level 1 / Lesson 7: Telling Time

안녕하세요! Hey everyone! Some time ago I posted a vocab list about time-related words (things like morning, afternoon, etc.), but I realized I never put out a lesson about actually telling time, so that’s what this lesson is all about! Before getting into it, you should be familiar with the native and Sino-Korean number systems – check out my lesson about those here if you haven’t! 

Also, I have a post about telling time on my Instagram! Check it out here! Let’s start!

Asking for the Time

First off, if you want to ask “what time is it?” in Korean, you can say “몇 시예요?” To be a little more specific, you can say “지금 몇 시예요?” meaning “what time is it right now?”

Hours

Let’s learn how to simply say the basic hours in Korean, as in one o’clock, two o’clock, etc. To do so, you would use the native Korean number system. Notice how some of the numbers are a little different – that’s just for the sake of easier pronunciation. After each number, add 시, which mean “o’clock” in this case:

한시 = 1 o’clock

두시 = 2 o’clock

세시 = 3 o’clock

네시 = 4 o’clock

다섯시 = 5 o’clock

여섯시 = 6 o’clock

일곱시 = 7 o’clock

여덟시 = 8 o’clock

아홉시 = 9 o’clock

열시 = 10 o’clock

열한시 = 11 o’clock

열두시 =  12 o’clock

So, you could say 지금은 9시예요, meaning “it’s 9 o’clock right now,” or 7시에 시작돼요, meaning “it starts at 7 o’clock,” for instance.

Minutes

Minutes, on the other hand, use the Sino-Korean number system. Simply say whatever number of minutes you’re talking about, and add 분 on the end, meaning “minutes” after the hour For example:

다섯시 사십구분 = 5:49 

다섯시 = 5 o’clock

사십구분 = 49 minutes

If you want to say something like 8:30, you can say the following:

여덟시 삼십분

여덟시 반 

반 means “half,” so this is like how we say “half past 8″ in English.

AM and PM

You might be wondering if people in Korea use the 24 hour clock – in a lot of K-dramas, the character’s phones will say something like 17:00 instead of 5:00 p.m. According to 90daykorean.com, however, you will typically hear people say “it is 5 p.m.” rather than “it is 17 o’clock.” So here’s how you say that!

오전 = AM (literally “before noon”)

오전 열시에 영어 수업이 있어요. = I have English class at 10 a.m.

오후 = PM (literally “after noon”)

저는 오후 여섯시에 자요. = I go to bed at 6 p.m.

Here are some charts to summarize all of this!

Talking about Elapsed Time

If you want to say something like “I drove for 5 hours,” you would attach 시간 to the native Korean number and 분 to the Sino-Korean number. For example:

저는 다섯 시간 동안 운전했어요. = I drove for five hours.

동안 means “during” and can be used for talking about time frames like in this sentence, even if it doesn’t necessarily translate to “during.”

한 시간 걸려요. = It takes one hour.

두 시간 반 동안 읽었어요. = I read for two and a half hours.

(inspired by sentences on Naver Dictionary) 여기서 자동차로 서울까지 세 시간 이십분 걸려요. = It takes 3 hours and 20 minutes from here to Seoul by car.

That’s about it for this lesson! If you want to practice writing and reading Korean with others, join my Discord chat here and my Tumblr chat here! Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram too!

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if you're a human adult you physically need to eat actual vegetables, read real books, work, exercise, be outdoors, have sex, and have other real adult humans to talk to all on at LEAST a weekly basis or else you go will literally go completely insane and the problem is too many people choose to skip all those basic needs on purpose

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20:19 — i’d say this week is less overwhelming than last week, but i’m afraid i might have intensified my unhealthy habits to cope with whatever bullshit i am putting myself into. i need a reset and will try again next week. baby steps. slow is fast; fast is smooth.