Anyways, I need to learn Korean. My friend speaks decent Korean, which is helpful, but he lived here for a year before and had a Korean girlfriend to help him. The #1 obstacle for me is that there are no English classes here. That means I would have to take a bus to the nearest city and try to find a class there on the weekends. So far I haven't heard any concrete details of classes. Somebody mentioned the cultural center by my house but I think one of the foreigners here would have told me. Still, been meaning to check that out.
I've heard of a couple of methods. Classes at a university, and even a delivery service that sends you tests and grades them for you. I prefer the class though. I'm so damn lazy that I wouldn't do the stuff on my own. I've been here almost 2 months and haven't fully learned Hangul (the alphabet) which can be learned in an hour.
Why the sudden interest? This is the second time I've met a girl, thought I was good to go, and been left confused. This woman was pretty cool. She was so shocked to meet an American. I'm not saying this from a "haha Koreans are isolated right?" standpoint, but simply because I live in the country. In my city of 20,000 people I get stared at all the time and have random people say hi to me. That doesn't happen in Seoul or Busan. If I just knew some Korean I could seal the deal. But again I'm lazy so I'm probably just going to watch tv and work out tonight and not even look at Hangul. But I'm trying, I downloaded a bunch of apps on my phone.
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