Speaking Korean
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Pronunciation practice: K-drama soundtracks
Here’s a quick post about a super efficient way to improve your Korean pronunciation. When I first started speaking Korean sentences I felt as if my tongue was going to break or at least get permanently twisted. A great (and fun) way to overcome this initial tongue paralysis is singing along to your favorite Korean…
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How to build Korean speaking confidence
About a month ago I took advantage of one of TTMIK’s sales and bought two e-books each containing 10 episodes of their latest feature, TTMIK Story Time. The concept is very simple; one of the teachers speaks into a camera about something related to everyday life such as walks in the park, birthdays, shopping, and hairstyles…
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No English, please
After having seen a super cool TED talk with two guys setting out to learn 4 (four!) languages in 1 (one!) year by using absolutely no English I was really intrigued. They succeeded in reaching a decent conversation level in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean in just one year by sticking to the strict but…
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Going Korean in Canada
I’m currently in Montreal for an economics conference. While I have been to the U.S. on many occasions this is my first time in Canada and so far I feel that I flown 8 hours only to go to France 🙂 I really like it here but while I expected the province of Quebec to…
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Speaking practice
Yesterday my language partner had to cancel our meeting, so I didn’t get to practice any real Korean conversation. However, I was pretty determined not to let that stop me from practicing my speaking, so when I got home I spent the time I was supposed to have spent on our meeting reading a veeeeery…
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A chance to speak Korean…
How often do you get a chance to speak Korean? Not often if you live in Denmark. Although the Danish universities attract a fair number of foreign students every year, the Korean students are few and far between. Nonetheless, yesterday as I was teaching statistics (which I do as a temporary part time job) I…
Sofie to Korea 