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[oyceter]

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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Very interesting! I had heard that there was a lot of vocabulary overlap, so I wondered if the meanings of a particular character/kanji would -change- as it developed into Japanese, and wot.

[oyceter]

Um... sometimes they change and sometimes they don't? Frex, the kanji for "benkyou" (study) is hanzi for "mian qiang" (to force). My friends and I laughed when we learned that. So... sometimes it's the same, sometimes you can see the relationship when you squint sideways, and sometimes the relationship is so far in the past that I have no idea what it is. Though usually it's the former two. (All just for Chinese and Japanese, I wish I knew more for Korean)