maybe I am getting somewhere in Korean. . . . of the five people I asked what a new word today meant, three had never heard the word before. . . kk

It was in the dictionary definition of a lot simpler, more commonly used word. . . you'd think that the definition would contain somewhat easier words than the word it is defining. . . . but now I don't feel as bad for sometimes having a hard time understanding the Korean-Korean dictionary.

I had fun translating Edward Snowden's Christmas message a few days ago into Korean. I find translating from English to Korean the most difficult of language tasks, but also rewarding because it gi...
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Yesterday I went through some of the Catch the Wave videos and made a list of new expressions that I came across. It's kind of annoying having to listen to the whole video to get the expression and...
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Having fun learning Korean. . .

This is what my Korean Anki input looked like today (for some of today at least.) One of the nice things about Penguin Loves Mev is that a lot of the comic strips have English renderings on the sid...
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Transcript: 오늘 중으로 아주 깨끗하게 싹 청소해 놓으시게. 흠~ 어, 여,여길 혼자 다 해요? 아, 정말 혼자 하겠냐? 부르셨습니까? 이거 드시게. 예? 어이, 두 제자분들. 내 말 잘 들으시게. 학생님께서는 수업 땡땡이치시고, 선생님께서는 출결 체크도 안 하고 눈감아주셨으니 두 분 다 벌 좀 받으셔야겠습니다. 선생님께서는 학생님한테 다 떠...
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More free Korean reading materials = Happy Shanna Has anyone noticed a brand new Korean resource in Naver? :D Asides from its popular webtoons, NHN has launched the web novel section in early 2013!...
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The last several months I've been finding all kinds of fun and interesting facebook pages in Korean to subscribe to. A lot of these I found by browsing the pages my Korean friends liked. Most of th...
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good ideas for listening practice -- https://www.youtube.com/watch…

http://www.everydaylanguagelearner.com In this post I give a few simple tasks you can do to work on your listening skills in a new language. If you are looki...
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pretty fascinating

Korean netizens are amazed at the extent to which South Korea appears to have changed since these photos were taken by a foreign visitor in the early 1960s.
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My my Korean was voted as the least sexiest languages. . .

Oooh la la!
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Nomadic Matt

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” - Greg Anderson

A few weeks ago I emailed one of the guys in charge of the Koreans in Turkey website asking where in Istanbul it was possible to get 배추 (Chinese or Nappa cabbage). He emailed back right away saying...
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I’ve been continuing to think about why we Korean language learners (and definitely some much more than others) face trouble with speaking Korean to other Koreans. Reader choronghi shared a l...
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