About
My name is Jeena. I'm a software engineer, my email address is hello@jeena.net.
I live in South Korea, brew beer, dry meat, play metal and develop games and other software. I'm a hobby photographer and use Mastodon and Lemmy.
This website is divided in several parts:
There is the blog for longer essays, I post short notes which are kind of like tweets and I post photos, you can think of it like my private Instagram.
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I bought a Weinstephan Lucky Box! But instead of a PS5 I got a original wheat beer glass, which I was already looking for here in Korea but couldn't buy. now I'm tempted to buy another one to have two. But if I'm unlucky I'll get a PS5 and will have to buy another one and another one until I get the second wheat beer glass. But it's quite expensive because the beer is imported from Germany, about 16 €, and you only get 4 beers. In Germany you can get 24 beers for the same price.
Jeena,
I’ve been living in Korea for about three and a half years now. I have the language around me, my partner and her daughter speak it at home. But for some reason I am not learning anything from being exposed to it for such a long time.
I tried using apps like Duolingo, Drops, etc. but practically nothing really stuck, perhaps a word here or there. I watched Korean Dramas with English subtitles, but because the order of the words in a Korean sentence is the opposite to English I would never be able to know which word is which.
Two month ago I saw some Korean Teacher advertising 1-1 teaching of Korean so I decided to try it and to pay for help, because I feel I’m really stuck. Now after 2 months she expressed frustration about my progress. She asked me why it’s so slow, if it’s the first time I’m learning a new language (no, this is my 5th language I’m learning).
It’s very frustrating. I feel I invest a lot of the little free time I have into it and it’s embarrassing how little I have to show for it. The Korean words are so totally different from the words in my other Languages (Polish, German, Swedish, English) that they more often than not blend together and I remember and hear mostly gibberish.
I always hated learning grammar and vocabulary in every language. And somehow with the other languages I magically got to a level where I would just be exposed to the language and could watch TV and talk to people and would get better at it without much effort.
But Korean proves to be very difficult for me to get to this point. I get that I only will get there with consistency and a lot of grinding, there seems no other way for me.
In Japan
My vacation in Japan with Luna.
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