Last month, I told my Korean teacher about staying up really late to finish an assignment for an online YA fantasy writing course I was taking, and she semi-jokingly suggested that I should try writing a novel in Korean. Now, I don't think this is something I'll ever do or even be interested in doing -- [...]
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First ever Korean class
So after many months of not really studying Korean (despite what it looks like on my blog, I rarely pick up a textbook and study. Almost everything I write about comes from random one-off things I read in Korean.) I decided what I really needed was external motivation to take my skill to the next level. SO! I [...]
Language Tag
Well, this is fun! Riccardo of Kaito Monogatari tagged me in this language learning questionnaire. Of all the people I know studying Japanese, Riccardo is the most prolific reader of Japanese literature that I know of. I hope I can be just as good some day. Anyway, thanks for tagging me, Riccardo! I'm always happy to talk about myself [...]
Blogging resolutions for 2016
I'm not a fan of New Year's resolutions, mainly because I think people can and should resolve to improve themselves throughout the year. (Besides, most people end up giving up on their resolutions mere weeks into the year, so why set yourself up for failure?) Dividing up time into years and such is a human construct [...]
World Connections
Yes, yes, I know - and you do too if you been following me on Twitter or Instagram - I got back from Japan a whole week ago so where be all the Japan posts?!? All in good time, friends. I'm not even done writing about Korea from a whole year ago. Spoiler alert: I only [...]
@urimal365
If you're at the advanced-intermediate-ish level in Korean have a Twitter account, make sure you're following @urimal365, if you're not already! This is the official twitter account of The National Institute of the Korean Language (국립국어원), where they answer several questions on a daily basis about everything and anything related to the language - grammar, usage, spacing, [...]
5 Tips on taking on another foreign language
As I forge onward in my Japanese studies and toy with the idea of dabbling in Italian again (I studied Italian for a couple months long before getting into Korean), unsurprisingly, I find myself faced with road blocks. It's not an easy task self-studying one language and it seems counterproductive to study seven or eight at the same time, [...]
The “F” word
Oh, you all know the one I'm talking about. As language learners, I think we've all thought about fluency at one point or another. It's to be expected. For many people, fluency is the ultimate end goal of their language studies, often driven by external motivation (e.g. wanting to watch TV shows without subtitles, understand [...]
