I’ve started recording my lang-8 entries so I get practice speaking my sentences out loud. Yesterday I made my first of these podcasts — uploading it as a youtube video so that people can...
I was looking for the ending “다던데” on google today and came across a wonderful document with a whole bunch of Korean grammatical endings with example sentences made available by the Unive...
I met a 형 that has befriended me here and as we were eating pizza in a small Arabic shop his wife told me how to make 무김치 here in Israel. (A lot of the ingredients for kimchi are hard to get here in ...
One of my students wrote me about her English test coming up. She wrote “*쌤을 바서라두 해야하는데. . .” I was completely unfamiliar with this grammatical/idiomatic construction — but fortunat...
I found a very 50,000 frequency word list based for Hebrew that has been very helpful for filling in gaps in my Hebrew vocabulary. I would love if there was something like this for Korean. Has anyone...
This is the first girl’s monologue I’ve done. I watched when it first came out two years ago, but it really stuck in my head. I’ve clipped it and uploaded it on youtube. This monolo...
I’ve put up the first four episodes of 남녀탐구생활 with transcripts. These are also all linked over at the Treasure Chest. 남녀탐구생활 소개팅 편 1회 남녀탐구생활 2화 목욕탕편 남녀탐구생활 3화 동성친구모임 편 남녀탐구생활 4화 헬스장편 I’m ...
It’s the magical turn of a phrase. . . you know the ones that cause people to stop and listen. They’re idioms, slang, 유행어 (trendy words). . . proverbs that are used often, and just plain ...
Writing in a diary in a foreign language is very good for your language skills. . . but how does one go about it? When I first started writing Korean diary entries I put them online and asked visitor...
In Korea I worked at a village elementary school. Usually the kids were very sweet and behaved excellently. . . but there were always those times few and far between when one (or sometimes a couple) ...
It’s the first Korean drama I ever saw. . . a few months after I came to Korea. As such it holds a special place in my heart. I still remember standing in the drama center in Chuncheon, watchin...
I’ve benefited so much from using audio with Anki for Hebrew that I’ve decided to try to slowly transform my Korean Anki deck into a deck that also has audio recordings with each sentence...
Ask a Korean had an interesting post a while ago. . . but what struck me most was the last paragraph. He writes: Which brings us to the Expat’s last question: “Do I have to become fluent in ord...
I tend to look at the road ahead. . . the challenges to overcome and the things left to learn and master. Sometimes it’s helpful to look behind as well and see some of the mountains behind me. ...
What are some of the magic words in Korean? I started thinking about magic words here. Perhaps my most favorite are the 호칭어[呼稱語]. What are 호칭어? Words used to call someone.. Most (or perhaps all) of t...
Of course all words are magical. However, some words are more magical than others. All words can convey meaning and emotion and sway your listener sometimes. Magic words you can do this much more oft...
When I started learning Korean I didn’t keep a blog. The first few months I didn’t even keep a journal. After seven months I started to keep a journal in a Google Docs document so that I ...
The last month or so I haven’t been as regular writing my Korean diary entries as I would like. Perhaps one reason for that is that I’ve had a hard time getting on a good schedule in any ...
I found a neat way to study Webtoons. Webtoons is a bunch of Naver comic strips that come out online every day . . . and they archive all the old episodes as well so you can start at the beginning of...
This grammatical dictionaryseems rather useful. . . I want to start reading the different articles right now for grammatical constructions I haven’t heard or or am not clear about. I’m no...
The night before yesterday I had a dream one of my sisters was speaking Korean. . . and using a grammatical construction I had heard lots of times but wasn’t sure how to use myself. . .but upon...
I was able to collect three monologues while I was in Korea from three dramas I liked. Unfortunately, it seems two of the post’s links to the audio don’t work. I want to fix that as well ...
When I first started studying Korean, I used Korean online dictionaries exclusively, either Daum or Naver or my cellphone dictionary. Later on, figuring I needed a portable dictionary (and also to su...
My screen for my laptop needed to be replaced so for the last few days I haven’t had a computer to work with. This has made it hard to keep up diary posts on Lang-8 I was doing pretty regularly...
I found some lovely Korean pop songs that recently came out — I’ve been really missing watching these with my children I taught. I’m trying to memorize both of them so I can sing th...
I’m very sorry to all of you readers of my blog. I haven’t updated it as much as I planned. . . primarily because the last few months I’ve had quite a few changes in my life. I no l...
I came across a wonderful new blog looking at TTMIK links today — Korean Word a Day. Not only does are interesting words posted daily but the blogger also includes news articles with word list...
I translated a letter from school to parents for a friend today. It was only a page long, but rather discouragingly I had to look up more than 20 words to understand it all. Part of that is probably ...
The last few months I’ve been studying Korean a bunch but not writing about it very much. I found new language helpers to meet with every week for talking practice — but the amount of hou...
Yesterday (besides worrying about the TOPIK 고급 test) I ordered a 64gb ipod touch. I’ve been thinking of getting one for a while and when the new one came out I finally decided to take the leap....
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