I feel you, OP. Same here with Japanese. I started out so young and I can read and somewhat write it now but it's incredibly hard to listen to when it's anything more than a few short sentences. I realized that my biggest weakness was vocabulary when reading the news, so I got to that and it seems to have paid off a bit. However, it still feels painfully slow and difficult.
Well, the other 4 languages you mentioned are all closely related. They are all Indo-European and 3/4 are Germanic. So I would guess that you had a lot more scaffolding to climb while learning those, in the form of similar grammar, syntax and word roots.
Korean is so completely different that you're really starting from scratch this time. It's going to take a lot more time to get to that level where you start to improve naturally without much effort, because you're literally starting from 0.
Do you converse with your partner and her daughter in Korean at home? If not, I would highly recommend taking advantage of that opportunity, because it seems like a good way to speed up your learning.
I don't speak Korean with them because I don't know the words and when they speak to each other it's so fast with so many words that I can't follow anything.
But yeah I agree, if we could figure out how to integrate me it would be very helpful.
What is wrong with those fans, and what's wrong with her management to not protect her from those fans but instead to make her do that? Crazy, such a unhealthy way of doing business. I guess she is just not rich enough, Tailor Swift has made a whole career singing about her ex boyfriends.
Thank you, I can understand this better now.
So basically each instance is separate from others, but it can choose to federate with other instances.
For example YuruLemmy is federating with a few other servers, and that is why I can see some (but not all) communities from other servers.
I think to Koreans, evading government censorship is more important than corporate tracking, algorithms, etc. because Korean law makes it easy to get sued for defamation from a comment, NSFW content is banned, North Korean websites are blocked... things like that. You can get away from corporate tracking but you still need to follow the law 😮💨
So without a need to move to decentralized platform I think it will be difficult to make Lemmy well known.
I do have a question though, how I can trust Lemmy communities? For example if I were using Reddit, I can just trust one entity (the owners of Reddit) that they keep my data somewhat safe. But since Lemmy is hosted by many different people, I would have to trust many people at the same time!
At the moment I can only think of my email address. I guess Lemmy does require less personal info (at signup)
But I could be asking, is this website actually using Lemmy code? Or is it just a random forum website that look like Lemmy? Can I verify if a site that I am visiting is part of the Fediverse?
Not every server asks for a email address, they only use it so you can log in, to prevent automatic spam accounts and for password reset. I went around that problem by setting up my own instance where I never had to put in my email address. For the distributed nature of Lemmy the email address is not necessary. So it is also not shared with any other server. Therefor this specific data you only need to trust the one admin who runs the server where you have your account on with.
Yes you can verify if a site is part of the fediverse by using it to post into a community on a different server. If your post or comment shows up there, then it is part of the fediverse.
Ah okay, that solves my question. While it's true that I'm basically visiting totally different websites for each instance, admins only know what is happening on their server.
After reading some other sources about Lemmy I guess it's more about freedom and data resilience, than avoiding tracking and unwanted data collection
Anyways I'm glad someone gave me a detailed explanation upon my first visit - I am grateful!
Yeah, the 어린이집 places all have long wait lists. Don't see why foreign babies aren't allowed though. Maybe because you don't get the government stipend for child care? There must be other places that accept foreign babies. Have you tried Facebook groups for parents in Korea? They gotta have some advice for you.
Ok, we dug deeper and they sent us a mail with steps what we need to do to apply to be on some list, it's not clear yet if it is the same list as the 30 other babies are or if it is a different list.
Good to hear you're making progress! Let us know what you find out. I have a thirteen month old that I have to start thinking about sending off to socialize at one of those places.
So we applied to be in the line and didn't get any answers via email, so went to that Kindergarden and they said they couldn't really promisse us that there will be space for our baby when I need to go back to work. There seems to be a point system and we only have 300 points, while many other people have over 700 points so they would get in first. This was one of those national Kindergartens where they appearently have kindergarten teachers with a higher education, it was also a very new building, etc.
Anyway, we started looking for a different Kindergarten which would still be close to us. We found one which is not run by the state/city or how ever it works here in Korea. We went there and it was older and a bit run down, but they said that they have space there. They have space for 6 small babies like him and only 2 are using it. They blamed the lack of children on the fact that during Covid people stopped having children, which yeah, having seen the line to the other Kindergarten obviously is just their dellusion. So it looks like it depends on the Kindergarten if they have space for your child or not.
In the second one we also asked how much it would cost, because we as foreigners have to pay for it ourselves. They said it's around one million KRW. Damn, I didn't expect it to be that expensive. I mean we both pay taxes like everyone else, but we can't use the infrastructure for our children like everyone else, that's a bummer. Don't get me wrong, I'm still happy that they even allow us to live here, but yeah.
Thanks for the update. Korea loves their point systems. I'm curious how a newborn even accumulates points.
A mil is quite a lot compared to what Korean parents pay after the government helps them out. Are you sure there aren't any government programs you could take advantage of? My wife, who's Korean, and I had to hit up the government office a couple of times to get enlisted in the programs we're in. I know it's a lot harder to navigate as you're both foreigners, but it might be worth a shot to call around and see if you qualify for some kind of aide. Like you said, you're paying the taxes.
My partner is ethnically Korean, but she is still Chinese citicen (but is switching to Korean citicenship right now), she was born into the Korean minority in China and grew up speaking Korean only until she went to middle school or something. She is handling all of it, I'm just watching her doing it ^^. Anyway there was something where we can get a coupple of thousends but nothing worth mentioning.
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