It is a true snow day in New York City! City schools are closed, and parents everywhere are despondent and/or desperate. I am doing Pimsleur and watching the snow fall outside our living room windows. Currently I am on…
When I woke up today, I went for a 9-mile run in Central Park, doing two Pimsleur lessons while I was out there. It has been a long time since I have run with Pimsleur. It sucked. The only reason…
I am not doing so well with Pimsleur. In order to finish all 60 Pimsleur lessons for Korean, I need to be doing a lesson a day. I am only on lesson 14, and each one is taking me a long time,…
I am finding Pimsleur lesson 15 (Level I) absolutely impossible! It is one of those Pimsleur lessons I feel as though I will never, ever get. Ever. What is causing me the most trouble is the Korean numbers. Even though I…
I think I have commented on this before, but since beginning this language project, I seem to need less and less sleep. I don’t know why, but whatever the reason, it is great. Less sleep means more hours to…
I woke up too early, again. I tried Pimsleur lesson 17 (Level I), but was doing so horribly that I stopped after less than 10 minutes. I decided to save it for later, for a walk, to see if the exercise would…
It is March! I can’t believe it. This is so exciting. I woke up a little after 5:00 and promptly got to work on Pimsleur. As I went through my lesson, I watched the sun rise, and felt glad to…
I was supposed to run a race today in the Bronx, but didn’t because I have been sick all week. I am coughing and my chest hurts. So, instead of racing, I ran a loop of Central Park, very…
I have now finished teaching my third day of writing workshops for my client in Indianapolis. I discovered yesterday that a number of the employees there speak, or at least are familiar with, Korean. It’s not too surprising, I…
Tonight is my last night in Indianapolis. During one of my phone conversations with Brandt this evening, I told him in Korean, De-il chonyogay diogero toraga gesaio. I’m 90 percent sure I succeeded in saying to him, “Tomorrow night I…
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