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Iceberg Tales - Iceberg Makes a Booboo
A word of advice for anyone learning (but haven’t yet mastered) a foreign language. Think twice before you try to say something clever in that language.
Not long after I arrived in Korea, I had a class that will always hold special memories for me. It was one of my favorite classes of all [...]
Iceberg Tales - Iceberg Speaks Chinese
Summer 2004. It was the first day of class at the hagwon* where I used to work and each new student - a mix of businesspeople, university students, and baek soo/jo** - took a turn sharing something interesting about themselves.
One girl in her early 20s, perhaps the fifth or sixth of about twelve students [...]