Urdy got a jar of *real* Kimchi!

[diva_urd]

... not just the wilted cabbage in a can that's been pickled in a bit of Louisiana Hot Sauce. No, REAL salty, fishy, spicy, makes-your-tongue-tingle Kimchi! And it is still the food of the gods and the best way to use anchovies ever thought up. *digs into her bowl*

Tomorrow: Japanese 202 oral final exam. Wish me luck!

Comments

[shibara]

Happy digging... one day I'll have to taste that stuff, too, although I don't expect to like it *g*

Good luck for your finals!

[ikaya]

Mhmm, kimchi... that reminds me I need to find out when the little potentially not quite legal Korean market on my dorm's parking deck is going to take place next - need to get me some nice Gochujang (or however you spell the nice spicy Korean sauce)...

期末試験、頑張ってね！ *kanji spam*

[diva_urd]

ありがとうございます！

Kinda sad that I only know one of those kanji so far... I hate being illiterate! Well, 300 kanji and counting, and I hope that we at least double that count by the end of next year. From what I heard, reading gets easier once you get past the 500 mark. *crosses fingers*

Gochujang, hmmmmm... tasteh.

[ikaya]

Aah, the endless joys of studying kanji... Don't worry too much about not knowing most of the kanji in the above comment - I only learned the kanji for ganbaru after coming to Japan, didn't even know they existed before some weird kanji I'd never seen before kept popping up in subtitles for silly Japanese tv shows. ;)

I'm not sure about the 500 mark being a "big thing" - from personal experience, I'd rather go for 1500 *coughs* (but that's if you want to have the kind of reading ability that'll enable you to read a normal newspaper article without a dictionary and still get most of what it's saying). But of course "every kanji helps", so to say. I'm still sometimes frustrated by my partly illiterateness (is that even a word? ^^"), but considering that I could basically not read any kanji at all 3 1/2 years ago, I guess I'm not doing too bad after all - so keep on ganbaru-ing. ;) I find the kanji box application on facebook is a nice way to practise, by the way.

[diva_urd]

Heh, newspapers? No, I'm aiming much lower - I'll already be happy if I can read light entertainment media without having to get out the kanji brick :P And yeah, I'll make sure to keep on ganbaru-ing (love that phrase, I need to use that in a conversation sometime this week)!