Love of everything KOREAN

Sentence construction:  S.O.V. instead of S.V.O. (English)
Saranghae - I love you (informal)
Saranghae-yo - I love you (formal)
Kamsamnida - Thank you
Gomawo - Thank you to a younger person
Anyong  - General Greeting
Jal mukesupnida - I will eat well
Jal mukeosupnida - I ate well
Mashisuyo - delicious
Dong Saeng - younger brother
Do bwa yo- see u soon
Tteokboki - streetfood made up of spicy rice cake 
Babo - idiot/silly

Nomu nomu - so ( to make extreme)

Chal gayo- farewell 

Nei irimun ( name is David ) trisha imnida 

Na nun trisha - informal

Anyong hi kaseyo- what to say if they are leaving

Charl GA yo- informal way to bid farewell

Anyong hi keseyo- what to say if I am leaving 

Jo wa yo - I like ( formal )

Jo wa- I like

An jo wa yo - I don’t like ( formal )

Shiroyo- I hate ( formal)

Pizza moko shippo yo ( formal ) I like pizza 

Pizza mokko shipta ( informal ) 

I like - Ma shida ( for liquid )

Murl ( water )

Uyu ( milk )

Eego- this

Gugo- that

Mo e o - what is ?

Eego moeyo- what is this?

Gugo moeyo- what is that?

Efem- too nice

Gupshik- school kid

Araso- okay

Ttaemune - because

Sincha - really?

Weh- why

Give me - juseyo

Odie- where

Chokkum-  a little

Neo gwiyeobda - you’re cute

Mashusiyo- delicious

Dong saeng - younger brother

Kamsamnida - thank you

Sincha - really?

Kenchana - It's okay between friends
Kwenchan Simnida - it's okay for older / show respect
Sun-yung- Simple Rice soup
Jo Sobang - how to call Bro in Law

Chim de - bed
SAN seng - sensei/ guru
Hak-sen - student

Don - money
Eung- yes ( friends)
Ne- yes ( respect )
Ye - yes
Anni- no ( friends )
Anni yo - no ( respect )
Pyong- wan - hospital
Kedang- stairs
Supeu- soup
Achim siksa- breakfast
Chebarl- please
Yobo nawa so - honey, I am home

Forming Active-Passive Verbs in Spanish

I currently dug up an old notebook from College (1996) and found this entry on converting singular active verb to past, future, passive by adding suffixes/prefixes.

E.g.

es comprado  --             present
fue comprado --            past
era comprado --            present perfect
sera comprado --          future
ha sido comprado --     have been
habia sido comprado-- had been
habra sido comprado--will have been

New words learned from the book I am currently reading - The 50th Law by Robert Greene (about Curtis Jackson)

A book that teaches about being powerful by being fearless.  I'd like to note that somehow, it is inspring to have read a portion of the book mentioning the greatness of US President Roosevelt.  He was 39 when he contracted Polio which made him paralyzed from waist down.  For some people, this would have already meant a certain kind of death, or feeling of powerlessness/uselessness, instead he has become more powerful and effective as a leader.  Pushing the people forward despite the hard times of recession.   

Here are some of the new words I've learned from the book:

1.       Pernicious –  causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

2.       Guillotine—  a machine with a heavy blade that was used in the past to cut off the heads of people who had been sentenced to death

3.       Abolitionist— principles or measures fostering abolition especially of slavery

4.       Ratchet— a device made up of a wheel or bar with many teeth along its edge in between which a piece fits so that the wheel or bar can move only in one direction

5.       Impetuous— acting or done quickly and without thought : controlled by emotion rather than thought
Myopic - 

synonyms:

nearsighted; shortsighted "a myopic patient"

• lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

  "the government still has a myopic attitude to public spending"

  synonyms:

  unimaginative, uncreative, unadventurous, narrow-minded, small-minded, short-term, shortsighted Dilettante - noun a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

Authority - comes from latin root word - autore - meaning author - a person who creates something new

My friend Angel shared this Cheatsheet to learn beginner arabic yesterday. It's fun to pronounce and learn

Types of Spanish Accents - Joanna Rants

This is funny

अमीर भारतीय भाषा (Sorry, as I cannot write in Hindi, I am not sure if this translation is accurate for -- The Rich Indian Language)

I have worked in Singapore for <1 year.  During this time, I have spent 80% of my waking day with Singaporean Indian, and pure mainland Indians as colleagues or company owners.

They were most comfortable speaking their Mother tongues compared to English or any other language.  They come from the different rich cultural places in India, from South India (Tamil, Kerala), Surat, Gujarat, Bangalore, and Mumbai,

I will add more insights into my observation and experiences with Indians as I had a 2-year's worth of Journal entry just purely about them but for now, I will list down some of the words I've learned during my stint with them.

They have laughed at my habit of documenting all words I've come to know in my little beloved excel sheet meant to capture my passion for language.

INDIAN WORDS LEARNED:

English	Hindi
ghetto	badmash
Thank you	shukriya
beautiful	khubsurit
means?	matlab
why	kyu
where	kahan
who	con
how	kaise
key	chabi
sorry	maf karo
wait	ruko
we	ham
going	jaa rahe hain
please	merban
you	tum
water	pani
I	me
I accept	maf cadiye
now	abhi
did you tell?	bolakya
his	uska
yours	tumara
Sex	sambhog
thank you	dhanewaad

English	Gujarati
i like you	hun tamne pasand karu chu

English	Tamil
sorry	manichidinra
come	wa
go	po
handsome	nalapayen
Let's eat	sapal
Very hungry	pasi kidu
i don't understand	puriyala
yes	ama
no	ile
good-bye	poitovaren
it's nothing	Parawa ile

I've also learned a few concept like "abel mudjye mar"  -- Meaning "Don't call on the bull to attack."

Sesame Street - first reason I fell in love with the American English LANGUAGE.

My love for new language started with American English.  To be more specific, it started with Sesame Street.  I still remember when I was 7 years old, time when I had sty/conjunctival granuloma.  It was abundant around my eye area that I can barely open them but my mom was shocked to see that I was still trying hard to open them just to watch Sesame Street.

Cookie Monster, Elmo, Big Bird, Ernie & Bert, Count, Bob, Little Miss Piggy, Oscar the Grouch, Snuffleupagus, Grover, the aliens, etc. were my best buddies.  

This is where I mostly learned stuff like my ABCs, count 1-12, and songs like the Sesame Street jingle.  

In Nursery and Kindergarten, my graduation commendation was "Best in Rhyme and Stories."  In Elementary throughout Highschool, my highest grades were in English/Communication Studies.  One of my social groups was English Club -- to which I was minor officer together with my high school best friend --Rina.  This is what prompted me to tick off a graduate course in B.A. Organizational Communication.  My most favorite professor in College was mi maestro en Espanol --Atilio Alicio y Vega (my professor in Spanish-- Atilio Vega Alicio) 

In my observation, majority of people think that language is trivial, a given, can be dismissed as a thing that can be taken for granted. On the contrary, I indubitably agree with my Linguistics Professor Dear Arwin Vibar - that language is a complex, evolving, infinitely developing matter. Almost like a living creature shaped by people who use it.  

I also have a desire, an excruciating longing to write and document almost anything and everything under the sun.  I understand that to be a good writer, one must WRITE non-stop.  Write and edit non-stop.  My first unforgettable rejection was an essay full of RED MARKS by my Communication Professor - Mr. Immanuel Magalit with embarrassingly wrong lines such as "Knight and Shining Armor."   My worst criticism was from DOST's Communications Media Officer.  I wrote a semi-press release or article about an upcoming event which we have planned, facilitated, and carried out last early 2013.  Despite the good intentions behind the event's objective which really focuses on generating jobs for my countrymen, I cannot wrap my head around the feedback I got -- "THIS IS THE WORST PRESS RELEASE I'VE EVER READ MY ENTIRE LIFE. It's amateur.  It really hurts but come to think of it -- he was right.  It bugged me up to this day and now I am taking that as a challenge.

In the past, I have been lazy in my compositions thinking that it is enough to rely on stock knowledge, not knowing that continuous reading and hungrily absorbing materials outside oneself or everything about the world is what contributes to good writing.  Now that I am in my late 30's, I have found that I simply have to WRITE.  Perhaps it is my "personal legend."  :)  Perhaps, it will prevent oblivion by forever having something to leave to the world long after I have bid this world adieu (French Word meaning -- good-bye).  

Anyhow, I have learned quite a few English words since I've been born but will still list some random words in this list. 

1. Eulogy - a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died.

*This word got stuck in my brain after watching -- The Fault in Our Stars (2014) -by John Green.

2. Somnambulism -- sleepwalking.  State of moving but not really walking.
*The word sounded familiar when I read it on a movie review about A Coffee in Berlin (2014)