Study methods
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Korean subtitles – a real language booster
I wrote in my previous blog post that I had started watching the much-hyped drama 별에서 온 그대. I’m now halfway into it, and I am amazed on so many levels. I simply just love the story, the characters, and the chemistry. I had known of this drama for a while, but somehow the idea of a non-aging…
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On my own… But everyday I’m learning
Okay, maybe my situation is not as hopeless as Éponine’s in Les Misérables (Yes, I’m a huge theater/musical fan), but I couldn’t resist using some of the lyrics from “On my own” to introduce this post. Today, my über-awesome language partner left for a two-week trip around Europe so for the time being I’m on…
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Inspiration for getting the most out of your language exchange
Depending on your goals and the time you have available there may be several ways to have a productive language exchange. Since I’m currently meeting my LP several times a week I thought I’d share with you guys how we go about our meetings. First of all, we have decided to designate one day a…
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Korean drama update
The weekend finally rolled around once again. Although I can’t say it has been a long week, I have been looking forward to Friday as this would be the day where I could finally watch two brand new episodes of Yong Pal. It’s been a few episodes since I turned off the subtitles, and I…
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Language learning: Self-studying vs. classes
I’m sure all of you out there who are studying Korean on your own have heard this sentence more than once: “You’re learning Korean? Alone? Is that even possible?” I have personally encountered this more times than I can possibly count and constantly having to defend myself, assuring the other person that self-studying a language is…
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Mindful Korean learning
Heavily inspired by a tweet from Jeremy (founder of Motivate Korean), I got to thinking about how I go about my language learning and how I may improve my learning approach. On an average day I start out early in the morning so that I am able to study Korean for 1-1.5 hours before heading off to work. I…
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News in Korean
I have long been a fan of TTMIK’s News in Korean, and since my reading comprehension and vocabulary have expanded dramatically after six months of use, I’ve gradually started to embrace “real” news in Korean as an additional learning source. For the past couple of weeks I have made a habit of reading a Naver…
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Rewind and repeat
I’ve been listening to 세바시 talks almost non-stop for the past few days. Sometimes I listen to the same one 3-4 times in a row, just to see how much more I can understand compared to the first time. Even though I don’t understand it all I actually do understand quite a bit, and I cannot…
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Korean building blocks
In my quest to improve my conversational skills in general and my narrative skills in particular, I have laid off all the grammar and vocab cramming for the time being. Instead I have been listening, reading, and speaking like crazy. For listening I’ve found the most amazing resource on youtube. If you type in 세바시 you will be…
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Meeting my LP and finishing my drama
Yesterday, I met my language partner for a very interesting session about political systems. In three weeks we’ll have an election to the parliament, so the topic was motivated by all the political campaigns in the Danish media and all the mug shots of politicians and their slogans currently hanging from every lamp post in…
Sofie to Korea 