You say to-mae-to, I'll say to-ma-to.

Yesterday I went for lunch with my new friend, Staci. She is very nice and we had a very good time. She is eager to practice her English and even more eager to help me with my Korean. She says that she has to sweat over her speaking now, but soon she will make our conversations all in Korean and then it will be me who has to sweat. I don't think it will be soon, but I look forward to a day when I can converse in a new language, even if only conversing like a child. Some Korean words are easier to learn then others, for example, tomato is tomato with a slight Korean accent on it. I like words like that. Jeremy and I sometimes try to get away with only speaking English by putting a "u" on the end of words and hoping someone understands. When we were shopping for camp cookware it was easy enough to find a gas stove, it was gasu burner. I'm really bad at getting pronunciation. I find that their b's and p's sound the same often and their g's and c's and ch's. Staci spells things out for me and it helps a lot. That is why I am trying to learn the characters for the language, then it won't have to be translated to English spelling.