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Language tag
First of all thank you to fellow polyglot and awesome blogger Maria from Dedidated Polyglot for tagging me in this language tag. I’ll get right to answering the questions and hope you may find this post interesting. What would you consider your native language? Danish is my native language. It’s the language spoken in my…
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The power of reading (in Korean)
I recently finished my first book in Korean, and I’m now over halfway through my second one. I’ve really come to enjoy my Korean reading time, and I love the satisfaction that comes from seeing a newly learned word in a new context and immediately understanding it. In fact reading in your target language when…
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Improve your Korean skills with TTMIK’s “Real-life conversations”
First of all, happy new year everyone! And don’t worry, I actually do know what date it is today. Though not really celebrated in the West, today marks the first day of the new year according to the lunar calendar. As of today we are now in the year of the monkey, and these days all Koreans…
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The story of my Korean notebook
I always carry a notebook with me. Always! As a language learner it is probably one of my most important tools. I used to write several pages in my notebook every single day, meticulously filling the blank pages with new words, sentences, or grammar patterns. However, as I took out my notebook yesterday to prepare a…
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Frequently asked Korean questions
I’m so happy that a lot of you guys are commenting on my blog posts and sending me emails. I’ve received a lot of questions over the past few months, so I thought it was time to do a Q&A post since many of these questions are of more general interest. When and why did you start learning…
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Finishing my first book in Korean
While I’ve swallowed countless Korean textbooks I actually cannot believe that it would take me this long to finish my first real book written entirely in Korean. I’ve wanted to for such a long time and I’ve even started reading Korean books only to feel discouraged with the slow pace and the many unknown words.…
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Emphasizing in Korean
Whenever you speak a language you know well, you will usually put a lot of emphasis on certain sentences to make things sound more natural. For example the sentence “I don’t know anything about this” is less strong than “I don’t know anything about this at all“. Other words or phrases in English, which may be…
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Korean “self-respect”?
All Korean learners should be well aware of the many different levels of formality in the Korean language. There’s a big difference in how you say things depending on who you speak to or who you speak about. In fact, I have previously written a whole blog post about this particular Korean concept called 앞존법. In…
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My weekend drama binge: Kill me, Heal me
After having seen “My love from the star”/별에서 온 그대 more times than I care to count, I finally thought that it was time to start watching something else. A couple of weeks ago I started watching “Secret love affair”/ 밀회 but had to give up half-way because the plot was just too… well, weird.…
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Specialized Korean vocabulary: Micro-economics
Since I’ll start teaching microeconomics from next week, I thought I might as well combine business and pleasure while I prepare my lectures. I therefore went on Naver and searched for 경제원론 (Principles of economics). I came across a set of lecture slides from Sogang University and quickly started reading. There were SO many new words…
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