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Feeling positive about Korean negatives
Cryptic title, huh? Well, since I started reading the TTMIK News articles I’ve encountered quite a few semi-advanced negative Korean words, so I’ve been meaning to dig into the matter of how to construct these negations in Korean. And what better way than writing a blog post about it? ^^ Most negations in English are simply constructed by…
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My Korean week
So…. Easter break is officially over, and I’m back at work (currently spending my coffee break writing this post feeling that I deserve a break given that I was teaching the earliest class of the day right after a week of vacation).^^ It has been one of my most productive weeks (Korean-wise) in a very long…
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Say it twice
In my attempt to read Anne of Green Gables in Korean I’ve suddenly become exposed to words, I have never encountered before when reading textbooks or any of TTMIK’s excellent material. I’m talking about specific Korean words for describing objects, actions, or just anything really. What makes these words fun is that they are essentially composed of one…
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Recreational Korean (… or how to study when you’re actually not)
Since the upcoming week means Easter break for a Uni employee like myself, I now have plenty of time for studying Korean. I’ve already gone overboard in listening to TTMIK grammar podcasts, reading the last chapter in my Intermediate reader, reading and shadowing news articles, and cramming vocabulary on Memrise. Hey, this was supposed to be vacation, but…
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제 이름은 김소희…
I met with my language partner today and somehow we ended up talking about Korean names. I told her that I had gotten better at telling whether a Korean name belongs to a man or a woman but that I still make mistakes from time to time. That led us to the pronunciation of my…
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Bye bye, subtitles!
I’ve been waiting for this day for… well, ever since I started studying Korean – so that’s 8 months! I am finally able to press a nice little button on my iPad that turns off the subtitles on my Korean dramas. Well, technically I’ve been able to do this all along, but at least now I…
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The law of large (Korean) numbers…
When I’m not living out my inner (Korean speaking) polyglot on this blog, I’m actually working as an economist specializing in policy evaluation. Over the past few weeks I’ve learned lots of valuable vocabulary from my TTMIK News subscription that has made it so much easier to explain in Korean what I do for a living.…
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The challenges of Korean intonation
Yesterday I met with my awesome language partner for two hours. I had told her that I still considered my speaking skills my biggest weakness (well, essay writing too but we have to start somewhere), and she suggested that we warmed up my Korean vocal chords by reading an Iyagi lesson out loud. The lesson…
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If something is worth doing…
Growing up I remember hearing quite often from both my parents and my teachers that “if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing properly”. I believed this statement for many years and tried my best to live by it. As a result I’ve always been a perfectionist afraid of losing face. What if someone found…
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Grammar post: Turning nouns into adjectives
I thought is was about time I wrote a real Korean-learning post. Today, I chosen to write a brief grammar entry on how to turn Korean nouns into adjectives and adverbs. Like in English, where we turn nouns into adjectives by adding e.g. -al /-able as in nature –> natural or love –> lovable, Korean, too,…
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