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We spent yesterday travelling to San Francisco to pick up a Korean boy who will be staying with us for the next four months. He is 11 years old (양력으로). To me this seems very young to be away from home for that length of time, especially to be staying with relative strangers. However, as I understand it, this practice is fairly common in Korea. While we are not doing a business, the "home stay" market is quite large. We had two home stay children a couple of years ago with limited success. What I mean by that is that the parents sent their children here to America with the hope that their children's English speaking ability would improve and thus increase their educational opportunities in the future. Most of these programs, as far as I... Show more

These days, Korean students are in the middle of 겨울방학 (winter vacation) so things are pretty quiet around the orphanage.  Kids go home (remember that some of them still have parents) and a few are away on some sort of school trip.  I also haven't been around there as often as I usually am since my own schedule is a bit different right now. It must be pretty boring for them.  Since they aren't in school, they stay home all day.  It's too cold/dangerous to play outside, so they are stuck watching TV, or maybe going to the computer lab.  For many of them, that is their day! I'm sorry there isn't much else to report.  I hope to get a new video made with some of them this week, and have it up for the next post.  I could get them to make a... Show more

Earlier this week we announced the launch of the Hanja Vocabulary feature in our PDF's. Today, we are glad to announce the much anticipated release of a new premium features which is sure to take your speaking skills to new heights. Pronunciation Practice To address speaking practice, we have integrated a state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills. This feature is available to all active Premium subscribers in the Line-By-Line Audio Transcript page for each lesson in the Learning Center (see screen shot below): We hope you enjoy this new premium features and as always please let us know what you think. Team... Show more

Hi everyone! What kind of thoughts does the word "January" bring to your mind? These are the first things that come to my mind. Please share with me what January means to you !

I've spent the past week wondering what to write about for today's blog entry. I don't want to start writing about specific groups or even specific genres for another couple of weeks, so I was wondering for most of the week what I could write about. It's one of those things where there's just so much to write about that you end up not knowing what to write at all because you don't even know where to start I have that problem a lot XD But when I signed on today, I found that a couple of artists that I like have released digital singles, and so in that I have found my topic for today :D Digital singles - tracks that you can legally download from the artist's/label's website - are something that certainly aren't exclusive to the... Show more