Full-Day Beginners Intensive in September

	Saturday, September 8, 2012 11 AM ~ 7 PM
	Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA Exact address will e-mailed individually by Friday afternoon
	RSVP strongly recommended. See below for details.
	Free for classes $8~10 for the venue

Before providing you with details about this special intensive classes, we'd like to remind you that the Summer Study Group for the Intermediate Korean Learners is having its last day on September 8. So please join the study group and meet each other! Please click here for details.

To avoid the confusion, please read the instruction thoroughly. Thanks!

UPDATE (Sept 7 2012): Please note the change of schedule.
To minimize the cost, I had to change the venue. Since most venues do not open at 10 am, I also had to change the time. It affects only the first class, which starts later than originally scheduled. Thank you for your understanding my effort to keep the classes free of charge.

Kindly update your RSVP if this affects your schedule. Thank you.

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Usually our workshop days are designed to accommodate multiple levels of Korean learners. This time, we will have a different kind of workshop: a Full-Day Intensive Classes dedicated to Beginners (and Novice).

Classes will be intensive, but you will be in a casual and laid-back setting. Let's laugh and have fun while learning too.

Click "more" and/or see below for the event details.

*한국어 원어민이세요? 도와주세요! 여기를 누르고 읽어주세요. 감사합니다.

Word Play: Vocabulary Workshop

	Saturday, May 19, 2012 12:00 PM ~ See below for the schedule.
	Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA Exact address will mailed by Friday evening.
	RSVP appreciated. See below for details.
	$7.50 for the venue. Free for Workshops.

Please read the instruction below thoroughly. Thank you!
This event was moved from Second Saturday to Third Saturday for May only. We apologize for this change.

Let's meet for an easy-going and relaxed workshop - but on a serious topic: Korean Vocabulary.

We will use whatever tools necessary to expand our vocabulary. We will start with basics and move to practical then to higher level. We will be guided throughout the workshop to pick up new vocabs, play silly games, and sing silly songs. We will divide into groups - or be paired up - and help each other memorize new words and encourage each other to move forward and up.

Our focus is not on grammar, but you will be shown a quick-and-dirty grammar points that will help you double your vocabulary. We will also discuss what we do to help ourselves in this area.

As always, your RSVP is strongly recommended. Your RSVP helps us minimize the cost of the event - so that we can keep on organizing events like this at very low cost.

The workshop is free, and we ask one thing only: please buy a drink or two at the venue. Please support the venue so that they can support us.

* 한국어 원어민이세요? 특별히 부탁의 말씀이 있으니 꼭 읽어주세요. 감사합니다.

'-(으)니' in Seung Ki Lee's song '지금부터 사랑해'

Question today comes from Tan in Malaysia.

I'm now trying to understand the song "지금부터 사랑해" by 이승기,
and of course.. I'm facing some problems. :( Please help!!!

"지금 와서 보니 추억도 많더라"

- I'm eager to know how to use "보니", I know "보다" means "to see", but I wonder its usage right here means:

→"looking back"??? as there is an "오다" [back] before it... OR,

→ the "보니" is actually a grammar point which indicates "After doing..., I found out that...", or only the "-니" is having this indication, not the whole "보니"?

Many thanks!

What's African-American in Korean? How's it different from 흑인?

Question today comes from K.B. Ansari about the term "African-American."

I was watching Korean television and I came across someone talking about black culture, hip-hop and so forth. I never knew of a way to say "black" in Korean (other than the color) and always used 아프리카 미국인. To see this other way caught my attention and I wanted to see if it has any other meanings behind it before I started to use it.

Does '흑인' mean anything else? I don't want to start referring to myself and say something degrading. Not to say that I believe it will, but just to be on the safe side.

정말 감사합니다! ^^