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Happy White Day!
While the rest of the world celebrates Pi Day today (3.14), Korean people celebrate White Day. This is a time for the Korean men to reciprocate for the gifts given to them by their girlfriends on Valentine’s Day exactly one month ago. Usually, Korean men present their girlfriends with candy or chocolate gifts on this…
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New language partner(s) – and my first compliment in Korean
“한국어 이렇게 잘 할 줄 몰랐어요” These encouraging words were uttered by my new language partner ^^ Yes, I finally managed to find a new language partner through facebook and yesterday was our first time to meet. She’s a super sweet Korean girl from Sogang University doing a one-semester exchange at the uni where I…
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The challenges of building vocabulary (…and how TTMIK once more saved the day)
In my recent book haul from www.heyeonni.com in Korea, I got two books on how to prepare for the TOPIK. While I’m still undecided about whether I should actually sign up for the test in October, I convinced myself that educating myself on the format of the TOPIK probably wouldn’t hurt. I soon realized that my supposedly “solid vocabulary”…
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Back to basics
Ever since I started learning Korean I’ve been learning lots of new vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures. Whenever, I felt that I had learned something I would always quickly progress to something new. On days when I had more time to study Korean, I would sometimes go through 3-4 grammar lessons and write 40-50 sentences. Too…
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My secret single behavior (and how it turned Korean)
Do you remember the episode of Sex and the City where the girls talk about their secret single behaviors (a behavioral pattern, which only emerges when they are completely and utterly alone)? This evening, my husband had to meet a friend for dinner and I had a little alone time, which happens almost never, as my husband works from…
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Korean motivation: 아직 할 줄 몰라요. 그런데 할 수 있어요.
The headline is taken from a sample sentence from Talk To Me In Korean grammar lessons. It roughly translates as “I don’t know yet how to do it, but I know I can do it.” It’s taken me quite a while to learn to live by those words, although I’ve always found them to be true.…
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Musings on the TOPIK, goal setting, and my most recent book haul…
As I’ve seen my Korean language skills develop, I’ve started gradually playing with the idea of signing up for the TOPIK. I’m convinced that I’d be able to pass the Basic level, so in order to give myself a real challenge I’m considering the Intermediate level. From what I read on other Korean learning blogs,…
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Korean beauty products (… and how you’ll never want to use anything else after you’ve tried’em!)
I promised you that this blog would include the occasional non-language related post. So here’s a piece on Korean beauty products – a strong passion of mine ^^ When I was in Seoul I was struck by how many cosmetics stores they had lined up along all the major shopping streets in central Seoul, Gangnam, and well……
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한국에 가고 싶어요 (I want to go to Korea)
Ever had the experience of feeling homesick for something that is not your home? Then you know exactly how I’m feeling at the moment. Lately I find myself longing for everything Korean, the food, the people, the streets and alleys, the atmosphere the Korean 정 (a special kind of Korean love – see video at the…
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Let’s play the shadow game!
Recently I’ve been struggling with my Korean listening skills. Whenever I would stumble across a Korean variety show on youtube or watch unsubbed interviews with K-stars I realized how much I lacked in terms of listening comprehension. Sigh… What to do? I realized that the problem wasn’t that I didn’t understand the words, as my…
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