2007.10.09 | no, i'm not dead...

it's been a while since my last post, but that's largely due to the fact that not much has been happening. i spend a large portion of my day at work so it doesn't leave much time for other things.

but... despite that i have now picked up two languages, and by "picked up" i mean "i am currently learning". the first is 한국어 (korean) which i am learning through work. so far we have learnt the alphabet

and the other is italiano. my friend from work managed to persuade me to join him in learning italian, so every tuesday and thurday we will go after work to learn some. in today's lesson we learnt quite a bit of grammer so i will need some time for it to sink in, but i think i'll keep at it and see where it takes me.

what really makes all this language learning interesting (and quite a bit more difficult) is the fact that they are both being taught to me in polish (which is not entirely my strong suit :). but this way i figure i'll pick up some more polish at the same time.

and in other news, i'm off to london next weekend (the 19th). i've taken a friday and monday off so i'll have four days in the uk. my flights are also quite conveniently organised, in that i arrive in the uk early and leave latish so i will have loads of time to see the sites. should be absolutely brilliant as not only do i get to meet up with some friends from sa, but we are all going to go see paul van dyk [wiki] at kokos [wiki].

anyway, that's it for today. more when i get back from london (with tons of photos).

oh and check out the daily fail. and the correct way to write each letter. it's actually quite interesting the it works. you have your individual sounds like ㄱ (k), ㅖ (ye), ㄷ (d), ㅏ (a) and ㄴ (n) (and more, but i'm using only these to illustrate my point) to make the work kyedan (stairway). then you stack these individual sounds into the more compact symbols; 계 (kye) and 단 (dan) and finally write it as 계단. all in all, i haven't learnt much, apart from that, but it is interesting enough to keep going.