Study methods
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Studying Korean grammar
A while ago I bought the intermediate version of Korean Grammar in Use. I admit that this wonderful book has spent too much time just sitting in my bookshelf looking new and shiny. I therefore recently made a pact with myself to study two new grammar points every day. They’re not all “new” to me…
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(Dramatic) progress
I’ve been studying harder than usual this week and am really starting to notice a difference in my Korean skills. Strange how the time you put into studying something is so strongly correlated with your learning outcome. ^^ I’ve specifically noted improvement in three areas: speaking, reading, and vocabulary. As I mentioned in my previous post,…
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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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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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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…
Sofie to Korea 