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misslinguistic

Founder: Meridian Linguistics (Asian Language Data Services).
Spare time: Learning languages, 📸 my drink
Current📍: China
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참 오랜만이야 많은 길을 돌아왔어 늦

참 오랜만이야
많은 길을 돌아왔어
늦어져서 미안해

It has been awhile,
I’ve come a long way.
Sorry for being so late.

Finally home sweet home in Beijing ❤️

(Swipe to see my 豪华房间): I’m thankful fo

(Swipe to see my 豪华房间):

I’m thankful for so many things this week: that I made it back into China, that my quarantine conditions are pretty decent (just 1 more day at the quarantine center - I hope! And then three more days at home.)

It has been a pretty wild ride to get back, not gonna lie. I've been posting about my journey back to China and my quarantine life in my stories.

Thankful à tous mes amis, a todos mis amiguitos for making quarantine time fly by with your silly memes and encouraging messages. 🙏

So thankful for @obe_fitness online boxing classes!

And really thankful these windows open ☀️🍃

So where's the party at in Beijing when I get out? We all going clubbing? 😂😅😅🥹😭

Ok, accountability time! I’ve been in Korea for

Ok, accountability time! I’ve been in Korea for two weeks, so I took advantage of the extra time to work on reviving my flagging Korean abilities. My fantastic teacher @koreanteacherx has been helping train me to use longer sentences, which sounds more natural in Korean.

Practicing these “monologues” helps me feel a lot more comfortable answering expected questions (I’ve chunked those sentences already and just have to swap out a number or a noun here or there) so that I have more energy and processing power left for the unexpected. It also has the added benefit of making people think my level is much higher than it actually is, so they don’t switch to English right away! 😅

Most importantly, for people like me who aren’t good at quickly switching between languages, having the important chunks memorized helps give me time to launch “Korean.exe’ in my brain and to not get nervous about a sudden spotlight!

#monologuemethod
#correctionswelcome

I’m heading into Chinese qtine soon, will miss m

I’m heading into Chinese qtine soon, will miss my Seoul hotels for sure! Hopefully it will just be five days, but these days you have to be ready for anything. Any recommendations??I’ve got protein bars, 미숫가루, ankle weights, 暖宝宝, coffee, tea, mezcal 😜

I’m glad to have my workstation setup: my external monitor isn’t pictured here but it is nice and big and light! (swipe for my two Seoul setups)

I’m kinda looking forward to some solitude, some extra time to study/box/get work done.

Has anyone else done hotel qtines? Any recommendations on how to prepare?

After several days living in hiking clothes, it fe

After several days living in hiking clothes, it felt good to get dressed up for Gangnam! #gangnamstyle

Soon I'll be in Chinese quarantine, living in my pajamas, so let's not get used to this.

I was lucky to have a super chatty 아저씨 cabdriver on the way to my Gangnam meetings: one of those wonderful humans that knows how to adjust to second language learners, so that you always feel comfortable and so the conversation flows. Even if your Korean is (like mine) currently halting, unpolished and full of holes.

The more I think about it, any success I've had with my strongest foreign languages (Spanish and Mandarin) I really owe to having important people in my life that had skills like this 아저씨, people who I talked to every day for long spans of time. In Spain it was a guy that I dated, in China it was my host mother and host grandmother.

Did you have someone like that for you?

Yesterday was 11/11, or in Korea, Pepero (빼빼로) Day. Koreans sometimes refer to this day as their "Valentine's Day." Pepero is a stick-shaped cookie similar to Pocky (remember Pocky?) and since the sticks resemble the numbers 11/11, Koreans give pepero to their crushes or significant others on this day.

Conversely in China, 11/11 is known as single's day. Supposedly, this began as a cynical response to China's many other couple-centric holidays. On this day, single people celebrate their unchained status by taking advantage of many, many online sales.

I didn't get any pepero yesterday, but I did get a bag of fresh ripe of persimmons! Persimmons were one of the things I missed most about Korea (fresh persimmons, dried persimmons, and especially the gorgeous view of persimmon trees in the snow at Seogang University) so that was much more meaningful than any cookie stick.

고마워요~ 🧡

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