I’m having fun writing in Korean. Whether it’s lang-8 entries, fan letters, random tweets, or me2day updates, I’m really enjoying the fact that I can construct a decent sentence without laboring over it for a long time. In fact, I LOVE that Korean grammar allows me to write longer sentences that would sound like absoluteContinue reading “Beware the dictionary”
Tag Archives: Korean
Korean reality shows
As if being hooked to Korean dramas wasn’t bad enough, lately I’ve also found myself addicted to Korean reality-variety shows. SIGH. It all started with watching CNBLUE’s Jung Yonghwa and SNSD’s Seohyun on 우리 결혼했어요 (We Got Married). I didn’t expect to be hooked but, well, I was barely one episode in and theContinue reading “Korean reality shows”
Lang-8
As always, I’ve been trying to find more outlets to use Korean and Japanese and recently I started using Lang-8 for that very purpose. Lang-8 is a social networking site for language learners where you can basically maintain a blog in the language you are attempting to learn. Native speakers can then correct your entries andContinue reading “Lang-8”
Diminutives
Yesterday, I finished watching Devil Beside You – which, quite possibly, might be the last Taiwanese drama I’ll ever watch. For reasons I won’t go into here. Heh. Anyway, I watched DBY with little to no knowledge of Chinese, other than basic “A is B”-type sentences so I was intrigued by the way the charactersContinue reading “Diminutives”
How I learned 한글
Rote memorization would probably be the simplest way of learning a new alphabet. Take some flashcards, write the character on the front, sound on the back, and then drill yourself until it’s branded into your memory. I tried this with the Japanese syllabaries and it worked. I tried it with Hangeul and failed miserably. NoContinue reading “How I learned 한글”
Why Korean?
That’s a question I get a lot these days, especially at graduate school interviews. Why Korean? I have no family ties to Korea, I don’t live in a place populated by a lot of Koreans (and those who are Korean prefer to communicate in English), and I don’t plan on visiting or living in KoreaContinue reading “Why Korean?”
