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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: |
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I could tell you a lot about what Confucius himself actually said, though I'm not interested in societies based on it because I think they always miss the point regardless of religion or ethos.
Since then I've read ����, ����, �߿� a number of times but I just can't get through ���� because he's so dry. There are some other books here and there including ���ں��� (art of war) which are really good and I'm glad I've been able to read the originals.
After this dilemma I decided that it would be better to just work on Chinese since you can read the originals the way they were meant to sound and don't have to worry about putting in silly Korean grammatical bits here and there to make it match, which is the main reason why I decided not to go there.
And a professorship?
 
No...being a professor wouldn't help me get want I want. |
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tommynomad
Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Location: on the move
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
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Actually, depending on the school, tuitions are waived. I have been offered free tuitions to Korean universities (on MA/Ph.D programmes) just 'cause I am what I am.
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I'm curious about this, what kinds of programs were you offered free tuition for? What were their requirements? |
I'm interested to know about these discounted/waived tuition fees too. |
You should definitely find out what kind of benefit it will have elsewhere.
My situation: I'm being teased/lured by a Canadian university's English Dept, on the condition that I get the PhD done. I looked into studying here, and from the Korean perspective, it was all well and good. When I mentioned it to the uni back home they said unequivocally:
"Don't bother. The degree must be from an English country, or we won't consider it."
This uni is by no means a major player, so if they balked, I'm sure bigger schools would too. (Keep in mind this is only re: English degrees.) |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| tommynomad wrote: |
| Mashimaro wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Ryst Helmut wrote: |
Actually, depending on the school, tuitions are waived. I have been offered free tuitions to Korean universities (on MA/Ph.D programmes) just 'cause I am what I am.
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I'm curious about this, what kinds of programs were you offered free tuition for? What were their requirements? |
I'm interested to know about these discounted/waived tuition fees too. |
You should definitely find out what kind of benefit it will have elsewhere.
My situation: I'm being teased/lured by a Canadian university's English Dept, on the condition that I get the PhD done. I looked into studying here, and from the Korean perspective, it was all well and good. When I mentioned it to the uni back home they said unequivocally:
"Don't bother. The degree must be from an English country, or we won't consider it."
This uni is by no means a major player, so if they balked, I'm sure bigger schools would too. (Keep in mind this is only re: English degrees.) |
My interests lay mainly in asia so a degree done in Korea would probably be advantageous if anything |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, the professor told me that the reason she wanted me to study there so much is because of the lack of people that can transliterate ancient Chinese into modern English, or modern Korean for that matter. After doing away with Chinese characters in 1950...in the 50s, they lost quite a few scholars that used to be able to read the stuff and now they're quite rare which makes it quite a rare thing to know. |
Hmmm, interesting. She should go find experts in Hong Kong or Singapore.
Personally I studied Chinese poems etc since I was 3 (I was forced to do it!) and I can pretty well tell you the meaning of some ancient Chinese in modern English.  |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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The other universities just said that the place was a really good place to learn Chinese lit if you were willing to put the effort in. It's quite hardcore but mostly self-study at the same time, so it takes a lot of personal motivation.
It's funny that you mentioned music because I learned about half of the Korean I know through it. I started out in 1998 learning Japanese back in Canada as an outlet to escape from my office temp work, went to Japan and became fluent in Japanese later on. After all that work on a difficult language I thought that I would have had enough of studying by the time I mastered Japanse, but I was wrong - it's become quite the addiction. That's when Korean came in because Korea's close to Kyushu and I had found out some time before how closely related the two languages are. I would say I put in...four hours a day? I can't just study all day; I need to work and see friends and so on as well. The minumum amount of study I do in a day is about two hours, and two weeks before a big test I usually do 6-8 hours a day if I can handle it. |
Yes, singing helps to learn a language - why else are there so many songs in kids English books? I consolidated my German and Italian through singing arias and lieders because as a lyric soprano, you have to fully understand what you are singing to be able to interpret the song. |
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