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Yaaaay! I have a new DVD player and it is region free and! It plays DivX files! Finally! I can watch video files on TV! And! It plays .srt files, which means...

I CAN WATCH COFFEE PRINCE ON MY TV!

Possibly I even tested it by watching the chestnut scene and the couch scene for the third time in a week.

And to make this post not entirely pointless, I present for your edification and amusement (if you speak Korean and want to mock my horrible grasp of the language): Korean I have learned from watching dramas so far (excluding appellations).

(I actually wasn't going to post this, because I felt it only illustrated how dumb I am, and I don't want to mock kdramas as a whole, since I have very limited exposure and am still trying to differentiate kdrama tropes from things informed by Korean culture. But I remember how interesting I found it when anime/manga-newbies posted about their first impressions. So hopefully this will be somewhat interesting, though I am not at all sure it is.)

I love you - learned from every drama I have seen
I like you - also from every drama I have seen
I'm sorry - also from every drama I have seen, but definitely from Coffee Prince, as there is one scene in which Eun Chan says it about a billion times.
Hello (for answering the phone) - from all the modern dramas, of course. On a side note, I am geekily amused by how much plot takes place on cellphones via calls and text messaging, as opposed to emails. So much so that taking your battery out of your phone so people can't get to you is sort of like deleting your LJ!
"my lord" - from Damo
Library - clearly my brain prioritizes this, even if dramas usually do not
Don't go! - from Coffee Prince, although I think this will come in handy

Sadly, I have not yet learned key phrases like "I am the god of death! I will kill you!" or "absolute destiny apocalypse," two of the first things I learned to say in Japanese.

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Man, someday I am going to have to arrange to visit Korea and let the lizard re/acquaint herself with my parents, and you and

rachelmanija will have to come with me! Then my mom and/or dad (they're divorced) can be completely amused by the strange things we want to know about Korea and Korean!

It's really amazing how much you can pick up just from watching dramas. I made a list a few weeks ago of all the Japanese words I know, and I startled myself: http://calixa.livejournal.com/421940.html#cutid1

It's just good incentive to watch more :)

Sadly, I have not yet learned key phrases like "I am the god of death! I will kill you!" or "absolute destiny apocalypse," two of the first things I learned to say in Japanese.

I'd like to randomly note that one of my Japanese phrasebooks includes "I don't love you, I never loved you, and stop calling me!" (Mostly I find it funny/scary that this is considered essential knowledge.)

One of these days I really am going to have to sit down with one of these shows. ^^

Sadly, I have not yet learned key phrases like "I am the god of death! I will kill you!" or "absolute destiny apocalypse," two of the first things I learned to say in Japanese.

HAH. (says the Utena fangirl)

I have so far failed to pick up that mandatory anime line, "I will never forgive you!" Mostly, I think, because I'm usually too busy giggling at the line to listen to it.

What brand of DVD player did you get? I MUST put this on my birthday 'wish list' for parents and siblings, since I'm heartily sick of only being able to watch DivX files on my little laptop.

It took me some amount of time (which is not specified because I feel dumb) to realize that ahjussi and the like were not names. In the old VHS anime fansubs, you got helpful cultural notes explaining that sort of thing.

How bad is the overlap among Chinese/Japanese/Korean?