This should be the last for Pre-Advance 1, since this was the test. I won’t go into a lot of detail, but generally, it was easy. It was easy, and doable, from me who has not been studying and reviewing Anki much. Listening was easy and I could catch most things. Oral was easy too in that nothing was conversation or question and answer. Yes, I still made mistakes that I know I did. I forgot words that I should not have forgotten if I had properly revised. And I found myself forgetting conjugatio...

Today was a marathon of posts (6 in total) and this is the last. With this I will be caught up but who knows for how long before I fall behind again and I still have homework. Part of my purpose for grinding this out first is also for the sake of revision before I attempt the revision worksheet that is the homework. (This was possible only because of the rain and I did not go out.) When the teacher mentioned a revision lesson the previous week, I thought it would be like before, going through t...

This was the lesson that at the end of the class, the teacher informed us that the test would be in two weeks. The best part is that she would not be around and it would be another teacher administering the test (yes, that includes oral, and it will be recorded so she can view it). Great. We finished the last 2 grammar points in the handout. We also went through the video script. This time, the video script wasn’t separate, but was stapled together with the handout, making the notes extra thic...

We started by going through the vocabulary on the first page of the Chapter 2 handout. My scrap notes for this lesson were also unsure and forgot what we had covered in the previous lesson. (The only way I can actually write these posts is actually because I have some notes, though they may be missing information.) We also went to look at the textbook (vocabulary section, p. 46 only) to talk about bad habits. This was an activity of sorts too in the handout. Then, we covered the first two gramm...

We finished up Chapter 1 in the textbook. There was also a video script for Chapter 1 in the new set of notes that I received (along with the revision sheet, and notes for Chapters 2 and 3). We started with the video script, with the usual practising after. One of the items was a song (we didn’t have to practise that). After that, we moved to the textbook, picking up at the Listening and Speaking portion and finishing Chapter 1. We started on the vocabulary for Chapter 2 but I believe we did no...

We covered the rest of the grammar points in the handout, and then started on the book. Not everything was gone through in detail, we skipped the first part which was vocab, and went to grammar review. We covered the two speaking dialogues. The main thing would probably be the grammar points. Grammar 3A Chapter 1 2. V-아야겠다/어야겠다 This is used to show the speaker’s strong determination of doing something which they think should be done. It is a combination of the 아야/어야/해야 (should do something...

I started this note the day after the original lesson but never finished it. And I have 6 lessons after this to cover until today. The next lesson is the pre-advanced test. I have decided to include the date for my own sanity. However, I am uncertain about keeping this format in future. I think using Obsidian may be better, but I have been neglecting that too. Once I settle these and make sense of things, I will decide how things will go. Actually, this post should have been also pretty short (...

We started the lesson with the guessing game. We were supposed to write 5 sentences using the 서술체 form that we learnt in the last lesson that I did not do. We finished up the 2B book. There is not really much to talk about. The culture note was a poem. Then we had to write a poem as homework, which was the task on that page. The teacher sent us 2 other sample poems. I tried my best with this one. There was no new pronunciation topic. Instead, there was a passage with certain words underlin...

This post is a short one, because there’s no new grammar points (all were covered the previous lesson). What we did was mostly a review of those points by doing the activities in the textbook. We started with Quizlet, 2 rounds. I had checked after that lesson but there was no new deck. However, it was added by some point. (There was a 3 week break between Lesson 106 and Lesson 107, just that I procrastinated on that post until Lesson 107, and then a week after that.) We finished up the handout...

Super long overdue post from last year. I decided I better get this in before my next lesson (108). Fortunately, the next lesson does not have much new content but was a lot of revision out of the textbook. Which was necessary given the 3 weeks break between lessons 106 and 107. Started with the Self Check for Chapter 17 before starting on Chapter 18. Covered all 3 grammar points for the chapter. The third is the most important, in fact, the main grammatical concept that we will see again in th...

This lesson does not have a lot to write for the post. It feels strange to have so much speaking activities again and slowing down the pace to what was normal in the past. My wifi was acting up at the start of this lesson. Fortunately, it was just the wifi and not the internet, and plugging in a LAN cable worked. If not, I kept having things freeze on me every minute at the start of the lesson. In the textbook, we started with p. 232 which was an activity to describe the picture, serving as a ...

This lesson, we covered the last two grammar points in Chapter 17. We started with Quizlet, then covered the textbook, skipping p. 184 (the first grammar point) and going to the second on p. 185.1) Then we did Speaking 1, before going to the handout to cover the grammar points. Grammar 3. ‘ㅎ’ 불규칙 Some adjectives that end in the final consonant ‘ㅎ’ have an irregular conjugation. Mostly, these are adjectives for colours. This applies to some adjectives that end in the final consonant ‘ㅎ’. Som...

This is two weeks overdue. This was the first lesson at the new timing and the class size effectively. It started with self-intro (as I expected). Seems like even on the other side, most people did not prepare anything. I had a few sentences that I wrote but I ended up not using most of it, but instead kept it simple. We went through the first two grammar points in Chapter 17, then did textbook for the vocab. It is such a leisurely pace, I am shocked, but even then, I think it is exactly what ...

Test week. Wow, is this only Lesson 8? This is insane, it is twice the usual speed. Normally each level has 2 terms of 8 lessons each. Next week, we have lesson at the new timing, joining another class. Not sure if the meeting ID will change. Also, I hope I receive the materials this week because I don’t have any materials for the upcoming chapters. I realised that the teacher did not mark or return the homework I sent the previous week just before class. She did mark the one I did this past we...

This will be a short post. Nothing new to cover today as it was a pure revision lesson. We even ended early, and the teacher said we will be given a discount on the next invoice (which will be sometime next year, since we—or at least I—just paid for a new term this past week, which lasts until the end of January). We covered the Self-Check section in the textbook. Next, we covered the first page of the revision sheet (which is vocab), and did Quizlet Live on the word sets. For Chapters 13 and...

Test is in two weeks. We finished Chapter 16 this lesson, and next lesson will be revision. After the test, the lesson time will change, which means we are merging with the other class. I hope the class does not end up becoming too big… We started this lesson with Quizlet Live. This was really fortunate for me (because that means I can guess as it is MCQ) rather than having to answer individually. Of course this was the word deck (this is never done with the sentence deck). The winner was not s...

We started with the Quizlet sentence deck for Chapter 15, each one taking turns to answer. We went to the textbook after that to do Speaking 1, then Speaking 2, as well as Listening. We skipped Culture Note, but did go through Pronunciation, but that was not really anything new. The vocab is all for the new chapter, Chapter 16. I am concerned that a test is coming soon, because the revision sheet is for Chapter 13–16… I don’t think we would skip 2 tests in a row… right? Pronunciation This i...

I was around 2 minutes late trying to scan my homework for the previous week, and when I joined, they were going through the chapter 14 sentence Quizlet deck. We jumped right into chapter 15 after that, so nothing on the Culture Note or Pronunciation topic for chapter 14. We completed the handout, and also part of the textbook (just the vocab portions). As a side note, I have been experimenting with Obsidian once again since I bought publish. I think the way to link things up is very useful fo...

We started with Quizlet review. It was a real review, where each of us took turns to translate into Korean the words from the chapter 14 Quizlet word set. I had revised that morning, but it was still hard. I am very far behind on Anki, so I have not seen the new cards outside of the Quizlet review that I did. Then, we finished off the rest of the handout, which had the last three grammar points for the chapter. For the textbook, we got as far as the Listening section. Reading and Writing is fo...

While digging out the chapter 14 notes before the start of the lesson, I realised for this set from chapter 13 to 16 notes, with the revision from 13 to 16... there are no video scripts. This lesson we finished up with chapter 13, did a Quizlet review of chapter 13 vocab (good thing I revised), and then started on chapter 14. We finished the first grammar point in chapter 14. Culture Note The culture note was about traditional Korean houses. I felt it was not too long ago that we talked about...

This is the start of a new term. There is also a new student who joined. She’s French, from France… I initially thought she was a student as she did look pretty young, but she said she was working here if I heard her correctly. The teacher said she had learned Korean back in France before. So I would guess she came over recently? Or only recently decided to pick up Korean again. Went through the entire handout for chapter 13 and covered all the grammar points. Even had time for the textbook an...

There is no test for Intermediate 3. We found out somewhere in the middle of the lesson, after we had completed Chapter 12 and were moving into the revision paper. This means that this is the last lesson for Intermediate 3. It also explains why I received the cert for this level together with the next set of notes in this past week. It turns out that… we have indeed been speeding through the chapters (averaging 2 lessons per chapter instead of 2.5). I certainly noticed it somewhat (quite hard ...

We started on Chapter 12, and went through the entire handout. This covered all the grammar points. We also reviewed the Quizlet sentence deck. Originally, there should be a test after Chapter 12, so I figured the test would be in about 2 weeks from today (i.e. 3 lessons after this one, since I am writing this a week late), but… well, I will talk about that in Lesson 94’s post. Grammar 1. A-아/어 보이다 This is used to express one’s guess or judgment about something based on its appearance. Lite...

So it turns out that someone else in the class asked about the video script. There isn’t one for Chapter 11 (I searched for it after I wrote the post for the last lesson but before class began). In the end, we covered the video script for Chapter 10. Then, we finished up with the textbook, including Culture Note and Pronunciation, which I will cover. Next week, we will start on Chapter 12, which is also the last chapter before the next test. 😱 If that takes 2 weeks and another week for revisio...

Oops, this is overdue, but… I am still writing it before the next lesson. We went through entire handout for Chapter 11, then we went through the Quizlet sentence deck for this chapter together (with Korean and English on one side, then the second round was to translate from English to Korean). Finally, we covered the first 2 pages of Chapter 11 in the textbook. For Chapter 10, I think we really missed the video script? I wonder if the next lesson we will begin with the video script for Chapt...

This will be a short post since we spent almost the entire lesson in the textbook. There was one last page in the handout but it appears to be a speaking activity; we finished all the grammar last week. I wonder if the teacher forgot about the video script sheet since usually that comes after the handout. But today, we started with Quizlet sentence set (the usual, which is each one of us takes turns to translate one sentence). Then, we started with the textbook from the beginning all the way t...

We started the lesson doing Quizlet Live. At the start of the lesson, there were only 3 of us in the class. After the first round, the girl who went to Korea not too long ago joined the class, but did not join the second (and last) round. The first round was to pick the Korean word from the English definition, and the second was the opposite. I had difficulty in the first round since I did not revise Quizlet separately before the lesson (I was rushing 3 weeks’ worth of homework… don’t ask). I m...

We finished up Chapter 9 (and the 2A book), and started on Chapter 10. Culture Note This was about the special phone numbers in Korea. 120 is the one you call in Seoul when you want to know what are the other numbers to call 119 is for the fire department/ambulance 112 is for the police 114 is to find out the phone number of a particular business/shop 131 is for the weather 1330 is a travel hotline, and is what the short write-up covers Pronunciation We went through this very quickly, pro...

We went through the Quizlet word set for Chapter 9 as a group. Then, we finished up the last grammar point in the handout, did the video script, and then went to the textbook (p. 204–209) The video script for this chapter had 2 songs apart from just having regular dialogues. Not a long post, because most of the time was spent doing the speaking exercises in the textbook. Grammar 4. N밖에 This is used to express the only thing or option available, with no possibility of anything else. It mean...

Started the lesson going through the common mistakes for the test. This time, it was going through only the oral components. I checked my score after the lesson (even though the teacher had sent the report earlier in the day), and it turned out that I scored full marks for listening, which was surprising. I had guessed at least 1–2 of them. We started on Chapter 9, which is the last chapter of the SNU 2A textbook. We covered the vocabulary and first 3 grammar points in the handout. Then, we we...

Test week, so this will just be my ramblings about my thoughts about the test. Made stupid mistakes again, but I do not think I will do too badly. But we shall know for sure next week. Listening I think one student came in after the first question, so the teacher replayed it. Then from then on, each question was played twice before moving on to the next question. This was different from before, where we would hear everything once through and then the second time would be another round through...

We completed the outstanding items in the textbook, then the rest of the lesson was focused on revision. Class also ended 6 minutes early. This is the first time this has ever happened. I thought the teacher was going to use the time to ask us extra oral questions and I was kind of relieved that was not the case… but depending on how you look at it, it may actually be worse. The revision sheet had vocab on the first page. After the vocab, we did Quizlet Live revision on the word sets (indiv...

We started this lesson with reviewing the Quizlet set for Chapter 8 (sentence). At the start of the class, it was just 3 of us who were present. Each one of us took turns to answer. After that, it was to the video script sheet, and then to the textbook. For the video script, we only went through the dialogue, did not do any speaking for that portion. We also listened to part of a song, 너 그럴 때면. While trying to find that video, I discovered it is a really old song, released in 1998. I guess o...

This is now two weeks overdue, since I got caught up with work and being on course the last two weeks. We finished up the rest of the vocabulary for Chapter 8 (last week, we stopped at number 20), and then completed the entire handout. That’s right, we went through all 4 grammar points. Grammar 1. A/V-겠- It is used to indicate the speaker’s supposition or conjecture based on the current situation or condition that the speaker is in. This is frequently used when you sympathise with anothe...

We started with the video script for Chapter 8. Then, we did revision on Quizlet for the sentence set. Each person took turns to answer (translate) one card from English to Korean. It’s actually pretty clear by how the rest answered that they didn’t study the set. I have added (since 2 weeks ago?) a Quizlet revision to do before the lesson each week, so it’s an extra thing apart from Anki. After that, we went to the textbook. Started on page 166 (the fourth grammar point, V-다가). I think the...

We started the lesson going through the Quizlet (word) deck together as revision. Not one by one, and not using Quizlet Live. After that, we started with the textbook, from the start of the chapter (p. 158) to just before the third grammar point (p. 164) that had not yet been covered. Then, we completed the rest of the handout, finishing up with the last 2 grammar points for this chapter. Grammar 3. V-(으)려면 This is used to indicate intention and is followed by a clause regarding the condi...

We started the lesson reviewing the Quizlet sentence set for Chapter 6. We each took turns to answer (translate the English sentence to Korean). Fortunately, I remembered to review before the lesson. Since it seems like Quizlet is becoming more actively reviewed, I‘ve added a Quizlet review task to do before my lesson each week. Culture Note We didn’t read the passage in class. It is about the Korea post, the postal service. The only thing discussed was the logo. The logo is of a swallow in fl...

We started the lesson diving straight into the last two grammar points for this chapter. Then, we reviewed the Quizlet sentence deck (in full this time), before looking at the video script. Finally, we finished up with the textbook. We got all the way to the Speaking and Listening page (p. 147), but only did the first (preparation) section without the listening yet. This is the last lesson of the term, which is also the last lesson for my friend. Grammar 4. V-(으)면 되다 This is used to explai...

We started with Quizlet, individual teams, 2 rounds. From English definition, pick the Korean word. Surprisingly, I won both without much effort, which is probably because of the absentee this week. The university student girl did better the second week for the last chapter, but the first week, the one who won all the rounds was the student who was absent. We did the second grammar points for Chapter 6. After covering the second grammar point, we did the textbook from the start of Chapter 6 (p....

We started the lesson with Quizlet again. 3 rounds this week. The first 2 rounds were individual, and the last was group (pairs). There were only 4 students in the class for this lesson, so it was 2 v 2. For all 3 rounds, it was picking the Korean given the English definition. The newest student (the girl) won the first 2 rounds. I was in a team with my friend and we won the last round by a bit. Last week it was the older lady (not that old mind) that won both rounds. The teacher seemed to h...

We started this lesson with Quizlet, after the teacher asked the student who went to Korea last week on a few things about her situation there. Quizlet was individual (no groups), 2 rounds: Given English word, select Korean definition Given Korean word, select English definition Then, we finished the last grammar point for this chapter. Compared to the ones from the previous lesson, this one was considerably easier. After that, it was the video script (this is what the teacher calls it, so...

I think I’ll use the actual lesson number from now on instead of trying to follow the term A & B system, so this is Lesson 1. And stop with the titles, unless I have a really good one for that week. I got back the test results a day before this lesson. I did not check the marks until the day itself. It was okay, better than the Beginner 4 train wreck. But it turns out my definition of a “train wreck” is nothing as bad as my friend’s. After this lesson, my friend told me this was his last ...

This test was one that, compared to the last ones, I definitely did not study much for.1 But maybe it could be that my previous method of studying that was inefficient. That is, aside from the usual Anki review. That involved looking through the textbook grammar points, is what I didn't schedule this round due to work. I also only scheduled Quizlet for the second week before the test (usually I start 2 weeks before the test since that's when I'm made aware a test is coming up), not all the way ...

Today's lesson was finishing up the textbook and then doing the revision. Apart from the usual revision sheet there was an additional Particle Summary handout that did a comparison of 은/는 and 이/가. We did the usual revision sheet first. It's refreshing to finally write this while everything is still fresh. There's no new homework and I've submitted the work due last week plus the backlog of Chapter 3 work (apart from the writing which I've not done yet... still). From the way the teacher talked ...

We completed the third and last grammar point for this lesson in the handout. After completing the handout, we did the video sheet, and then the textbook. For the video sheet, we did not do breakout rooms to read the dialogue this time. I also think we only heard the audio and did not view the accompanying video. (It's clearly from the same sources as the video sheets from previous chapters, so I'm sure there's a video.) For the textbook, we stopped just before Speaking 2. So we covered Speaki...

The publishing of this post was slightly delayed since Listed was down again the same day (after I'd published the post for Lesson 69). It was also down when I was writing Lesson 69's post. We ended chapter 3 by finishing up in the textbook (Listening & Speaking, Culture Note, Pronunciation), then started on Chapter 4. For the Chapter 4 vocab, there was some additional pointers on the verbs related to wearing items, which I've included in the notes next to the respective verbs. This chapt...

I had thought that I'd have time yesterday (since it was Good Friday) to complete the backlog of posts, but, that didn't happen. I was too tired. (I've actually not handed in the homework for this lesson and the previous lesson. I've already completed the previous lesson's, but this lesson's includes the writing assignment which I'm not done with yet. I thought to hand in all the Chapter 3 together but... eh, at this point... I'm kind of thinking it's too late...)1 In the week between Lesson 68...

Due to some life events and work, I'm writing this after Lesson 70, so my memory is a bit hazy. Grammar 1. V-아/어 보다 This is used to express that the subject has tried or experienced something. Recall V-아/어 보세요, which was used to suggest or recommend that someone try a certain action. This is basically the "generic version", the basic form of that. 보다 can be conjugated with any sentence ending that we have learnt. such as 볼 거예요, 보고 싶어요, etc. For the conjugation of the actual verb (the a...

In this lesson1, we covered the rest of Chapter 2 in the textbook, then the video supplement handout. Finally, we started on Chapter 3 (vocab only). The lesson ended slightly over time, about 4 minutes over. We started with Quizlet, in particular the sentences for Chapter 2. Initially, before all the students had joined the Zoom call, we were taking turns to translate each card from English to Korean. Later on, we kind of did it together. I realise I'm not very good at this so clearly I have no...

Started with Quizlet, first individual since we were 5 in a class... not that Quizlet can't make teams with uneven numbers. But then the last student joined the class before the end and we did the second round in groups of 3. We finished up the handout (covering the last 3 gramma points), and then started on chapter 2 in the textbook. For the last grammar point, we played a game of 20 questions (스무고개, literally "20 hills"). As in the last lesson, which also had many speaking activities with ...

A new student joined the class, but because two were absent, we only had 4 students (including me). Ended up having to introduce myself, which was quite terrible because I'm bad at it. We finished up chapter 1 and started on chapter 2. For chapter 1, there was Speaking 2, Listening, Culture Note, Pronunciation, and Self-Check left. Culture Note The culture note was about names, specifically Korean names. Usually they are 3 characters, with the first being the family name. It's pretty much th...

This is a short post, and yet I did not sit down to write it until now, a week after the lesson. (It's the second day of the Lunar New Year, which is a public holiday, so there's no lesson today.) Given the pace last lesson, I thought we'd finish the chapter this week. But as I mentioned, there was an additional sheet this time. It turns out that they were dialogues taken from different shows, and related to the first chapter. The longest was only 3 lines. Those on the first page were all rela...

We got back the test via KakaoTalk before the lesson. It's been a week but I've been busy so I've not sat down to look at it. This post is also more than a week late. It's fortunate that there's no class this week due to CNY, so I can get a breather. The lesson started with going through common mistakes, but it wasn't a lot, so I would conclude that I did much worse on the listening component than the rest. In this lesson, we started by looking at the topics in the 2A textbook. Then, we covere...

This was harder than I thought it would be. I'm also very certain this will be the test I do the most poorly on so far. I'm not looking forward to next week. Honestly I wasn't happy with myself after the test. Before the test, I finally went through some of the homework for these chapters. Seeing the dumb mistakes I made right before the test probably did affect my confidence too. (My fault for not checking the homework earlier, I'll admit that.) I was anxious in the days leading up to the te...

We went through the self-check in the textbook, then the revision notes. The first part was vocab, and we made use of Quizlet Live (individual teams, no groups). For the exercises, the notable thing to revise is describing different people based on what they wear and some characteristics (height, hair length), perhaps even their actions. The teacher did say this would be in the speaking test. (It was a written exercise in the revision sheet.) To say that someone has long hair, you can say: ...

In this lesson, we finished Chapter 16. I was actually surprised by the speed at which the teacher went through the lesson at the end. When I joined the class, the teacher was having the make-up session with the 2 newest students which did not attend last week. Usually, the make-up session is 30 minutes long and it's before the usual lesson time, but that was when classes were still in person... maybe the other students who missed class just never wanted to take up this offer after we transition...

A lesson after a two-week break is always a tiny bit nerve-wrecking for me. There were only 4 of us this lesson; both of the newer students didn't attend. The newest student had informed the teacher, but the other one had not. It seems that the girl is staying in our class since she was in the lesson. We started out with vocabulary revision using Quizlet Live. The first 2 rounds were in groups (pairs), while the last 2 were individual. Naturally, that meant that there was some additional revi...

I have a love-hate relationship with the lessons where we start a new chapter. On one hand, it's positive because it feels like progress, and usually learning vocabulary means there's less speaking. On the other hand, less speaking means I'm allowed to stay within my comfort zone. New vocabulary also means that I have extra work to do that week in importing everything to Anki. The Quizlet importer Anki extension with audio support makes it easier on me, as I don't need to get the audio from For...

This is one week overdue. Unfortunately. I think quite a fair bit of my spare time has been eaten by Advent of Code. This year it seems my colleagues are more on the ball about it and I'm compelled to keep up, though I've already fallen behind somewhat. At any rate, I do not have any Korean class this coming week (after Christmas). I think last year I was also having some kind of backlog of posts around this time of year. It's strange because I don't think I'm particularly busy... but somehow ti...

It's been one year since I first started posting on this blog. 🎉 I cannot believe how fast time flies. I didn't expect to keep going week after week (not exactly, but close enough I guess) for a year. I might eventually try to tidy up my notes for my own sanity and better organise things (or organise them another way) and bring back my original blog that was less informal, but it's still too early to say. This is late (by my standards, after the weekend means its late) because I was still clear...

This is way overdue, but due to last week being a busy week at work and things spilling over into the weekend (personal work as well as work at work), this was pushed back... and things are a bit better this week but still... Even up until now I've not done the homework for this week, which isn't great at all, given that the lesson is in 2 days and my personal deadline is usually Thursday... so... I'd have to get to it, but writing assignments take longer. I thought to get this post out first b...

The youngest girl in our class was 30 minutes late for this lesson. I don't know if she is the youngest anymore, with the new male student who said he was a university student. It depends on which year he was in. We started with Quizlet, a deck that I'd not added to Anki because I didn't know it existed and I'd not thought to check the decks when they were added. Actually, I don't recall seeing an email about them being added. I know Quizlet changed their UI a bit too. So the deck was basically...

We went through the mistakes for the test at the start. This was significantly shorter than in the past, so I take it to mean that everyone else did very well. I did better than expected again. There was one question which I thought I had gotten wrong but it turned out that my answer was correct... so it's a bit scary but now it's 3 tests where I've only been penalised for the essay/oral components and I'm just going to keep pressuring myself... But that's for another time to worry about. I thi...

I really, really don't want to write about the test. For various reasons I definitely don't think I am proud of how I did this, regardless of the actual result. It's very likely that it'll still be a relatively high score. I should be happy in terms of my studying efforts, in that I actually studied from an earlier date, but still. I don't feel good right now about myself. I didn't have enough time to check through my answers, let alone review the essay at the end. Except it wasn't an essay, it...

Today's lesson was a revision lesson, so there is nothing really new and this will be a relatively short post. Here's what we did: Went through the revision handout page 1 (vocab) Did Quizlet Live first in pairs (2 vs 2) and then individually. Chapters 10 and 11 were in pairs and 12 was individually. For each chapter, it's 3 times, first 2 is English and you select the Korean, the last one is definition, from English you select the Korean. Went through revision handout page 2 (grammar) Went t...

I think I’ll use the actual lesson number from now on instead of trying to follow the term A & B system, so this is Lesson 1. And stop with the titles, unless I have a really good one for that week. I got back the test results a day before this lesson. I did not check the marks until the day itself. It was okay, better than the Beginner 4 train wreck. But it turns out my definition of a “train wreck” is nothing as bad as my friend’s. After this lesson, my friend told me this was his last ...

My sense that my grasp of the language was slipping was true, though I'd ignored it for longer than I'd like to admit. We did the Quizlet this lesson and boy, oh, boy, it was fantastic in showing me all the gaps in my knowledge. The problem is due to the way I added all the new Memrise-imported decks straight into my main "Everything" deck. That ended up with those cards being prioritised over the Korean cards that I had added, usually in a subdeck when I'm doing that chapter, before being mer...

The class today had only 3 of us students. The student with the same Korean name as the other Korean teacher, my friend, and I. She was late, so when the lesson started it was just my friend and I. At the end of the class, the teacher said that the other newer student will be tranferring to the Wednesday class, and that this student also can't attend every Saturday, so I think she's transferring to another class. I am not sure but the way the teacher said goodbye makes me think that the class is...

I received the notes for chapters 13-15, including a revision sheet for the test which will be after chapter 13, and the answer sheet for the test. The next test is from chapters 9-13. Given that typically it's about 3 weeks to complete a chapter, I should expect the test in about a month. Time really flies, doesn't it? Today's lesson was mostly on finishing up chapter 12 in the textbook, since in the last lesson we'd already covered the grammar in the handout. So we did the speaking, listening...

I was almost 10 minutes late to the lesson because of, basically, technical difficulties. For some reason, the password for the Zoom meeting was "wrong". It kept telling me I typed the wrong password. Initially I thought I'd remembered it wrong. Then I thought it was the wrong keyboard (since I use Colemak, but switch to the Korean one to type in my Korean name, though usually it switches back). But after trying so many times, I really suspect something went wrong somewhere. I not only used t...

We started the lesson with going through the different responses that we had to do for the homework, which was giving advice based on one of 4 scenarios. Turns out that I was overthinking because the other students submitted pretty short answers. Mine wasn't very long either, but had a few more sentences. Then we revised the vocab for Chapter 12. The teacher had a Zoom virtual background today, and though she was at the school (she turned off the background later when we did the revision with t...

Note: I realised today that the footnote linking on Listed is broken after making an edit to Lesson 42. This seems to affect even older posts, so I don't think it's something that is only affecting new posts. Ah, well. A delayed post, one student didn't attend. The one whose English name I still don't know, but whose Korean name is that of the previous teacher. It's unfortunately been too long since the lesson for me to remember the contents. So this is with reference. We mostly completed the ...

This lesson was a bit different. The teacher used her iPad instead of her laptop, because apparently the battery stopped charging that morning. She had used it for a physical in-person class in the morning (which also explains why she's now at the school every week), and then the message about the battery needing to be charged came up even though it was plugged in. This meant that we had no breakout rooms, and there was no listening to the audio files. There was no interactive textbook stuff (I...

Started the lesson going through the common mistakes for the test. This time, it was going through only the oral components. I checked my score after the lesson (even though the teacher had sent the report earlier in the day), and it turned out that I scored full marks for listening, which was surprising. I had guessed at least 1–2 of them. We started on Chapter 9, which is the last chapter of the SNU 2A textbook. We covered the vocabulary and first 3 grammar points in the handout. Then, we we...

It's a new term but there's no one who left or joined. The teacher was in school today, so I wonder if she will be there from now on, since this breaks the pattern. This lesson was on 15 August, which is also Korea's National Liberation Day. Since it's a public holiday that falls on a Saturday, the teacher asked us if we get Monday off when Saturday is a public holiday. We said that it depends on the company that you work for. (I'm not sure if it's more of a converation starter than her not re...

Wow, it's lesson 40 already. I didn't even realise it was the last lesson of the term, since the teacher didn't mention it. I guess everyone is continuing on to the next term. The girl with the name as the previous teacher did not attend the lesson. The observable pattern still holds, that our teacher was at the school during this week's lesson, so it really looks like alternate weeks. I wonder if they are doing some form of split team ops. We did some revision of last week, doing the activiti...

We spent the first 10 minutes or so of the class going through the common mistakes. Then we started on Chapter 10. The teacher only sent us the test report at the end of the lesson, and like before, only the writing component (sentences and essay) were graded. The rest are in the report. I lost marks in speaking and writing, so in the end it was still pretty high. I managed to end up with full marks for listening despite the apprehension I was feeling last week. My friend didn't come for cla...

I figured I should write this before I forget the details. I'd like to think I won't forget but of course my memory will just fade. There was one student (the person who typically sits in a dark room) who wasn't present for the test. The test was conducted online, so around 10 minutes before the lesson, the teacher sent via KakaoTalk the test paper to everyone individually. For some reason I thought it was going to be sent via email, so I had also prepared to log in. It's quite fortunate I c...

TIL for Korean. The Grammar Extension at the back of the textbook is a treasure trove of information. I was supposed to post this yesterday but I forgot, so I added in even more last minute stuff from my morning revision. I'll do a separate post later for the test. 19 July Looking at the conjuation tables on Wiktionary, I realised that for contrast, 지만 is formal non-polite. I have no idea what I was thinking about the casual vs informal distinction. There shouldn't be one (though I mused a...

There is a test next week. I think everyone in class was kind of shocked when the teacher made the announcement. I knew it was coming; it had to be the case. When the new textbook arrived, there were handouts for Chapter 9, but there was also the revision sheet for Chapters 6-9. When I saw it, I knew that there had to be a test because there was a similar one for Chapters 1-5. I had also remarked this to my friend just the week before (on Zoom, of course, I don't really meet him otherwise)......

We continued with the handout for the third grammar point. There were many speaking exercises done in pairs. Since we had 5 students (the person whom I said had the same Korean name as the previous teacher wasn't here today), for some of the activities, one lucky student had to do it with the teacher. (I did it only the first time, the rest I was paired with the youngest girl in class, also someone from my previous group.) We finished the Chapter 9 handout and most of the things in the textbook...

First, an explanation... ... that no one asked for. (If anyone is actually reading this for the Korean content then skip ahead to the next section.) I tried to write this post last week, but evidently could not, because apart from a link to a relevant How to Study Korean webpage, this was what was in it: I can't do this now sorry ;( I've had Lesson 36 earlier today. This past week was insane for a number of reasons. I spent most of my Sunday afternoon and evening after church (livestream...

We finished up with the first textbook (1A) within the first 15 minutes, which was just the pronunciation and the self-check sections. For the new textbook we went through the contents for an overview of what we will be covering in the 1B book. Finally, there's a vocab quiz next week. I think it would be quite challenging, as there has to be some conversion of sentences done for the honorific speech. I hope the Quizlet deck gets assigned soon before I start putting in my own cards into Anki.....

This came up in my German class today, it's about agreement or (Kongurenz auf Deutsch). It's what happens when you have two subjects, joined in a "koordinativ" way. (I'm not sure what is the correct way to translate this, and what are the correct concepts in English.) Examples include using: und sowohl... als auch weder... noch If you have 1st person and 2nd person, then it's 1st person plural: Ich und du gehen... (=Wir gehen) If you have 2nd and 3rd person, it can be either 2nd perso...

It's the same 6 people in this new term. At least for now. We are still having the lessons online until at least the end of July. Since the lockdown measures have eased, there was a poll to ask whether we'd want to have lessons at the school after June, but I chose (and apparently so did the majority) to have the classes online. I think apart from the commute taking time, it's the whole having to go out and being on public transport for an extended period, plus you still have to wear a mask a...

We started the lesson with using Quizlet for revision. This is the first time since... well, the beginning of this term. It was still the groups competition (2 groups of 3), but since it's individual effort in that sense, it depended on your teammates. The first round I was paired with 2 people from my previous class (including my friend) and we won. The second round we also won, but this was a different group, with one person from my previous class (the same as in the first round, but not my fr...

We spent the first hour finishing up chapter 7, and the last half an hour going through the vocabulary for chapter 8. I realised after a week of Zoom meetings this past week (I had a couple of workshops for work), how amazing this teacher is at using Zoom. She switches seamlessly between screen share and then stop sharing, to share different files on different software (some are in MS Word, others are in Adobe Acrobat). The way she uses the annotation tools (okay, yes, that's not exclusive to Z...

We are finishing Chapter 7 next week since we covered the last grammar point. That's really fast. The lesson started with revision of last week's grammar, so with the help of the physical flash cards with pictures on one side and the verb on the other, we had to conjugate for both 지만 and then 습니다/ㅂ니다. There were a few variants. With the verb's infinitive shown or the picture side (which is harder), and we had to do both the present tense and the past tense. We also went through the textbook fo...

Today was an intense grammar lesson, covering 2 more grammar points after our word quiz. What was more interesting was that I found out from my friend, the guy who is still taking the class with me, that our previous teacher actually quit teaching at the school. Or, well, she quit at one point, but now she's back. Or maybe she never left (because of the Covid situation), I don't know. My friend thinks she may be teaching part-time. Her last day was the day of our last lesson before the break, ...

It started with the teacher messaging us on KakaoTalk about the weather (as it was raining) a day after the lesson we had on the weather. Then she asked us what we are going to do today. I said I was studying and then exercising. I still have not replied to her follow-up question one day later on what I am studying (and I thought she asked what kind of exercise) I do because I forgot. (This post was meant to be posted yesterday when this happened but I forgot as well.) I feel like I was somewh...

We finished chapter 6 and started on chapter 7 today. For chapter 6, all that was left was really the pronunciation, and then the self-check. There will be a word (vocab) quiz next week. Perhaps it means that the vocab quiz will always be one week after we start a new chapter? So today's post will have a lot of the vocabulary, from the chapter 7 list. We also covered the first grammar point, and it's interesting because this cleared up a question I had while doing exercises on Duolingo. (This ...

This post is really late because I've not finished my homework yet and for some reason I thought I should get the homework done first, since that's what I usually do after class. This week's assignment is taking longer because there is a writing component that involves creating a fake advertisement to sell some second-hand stuff. Me being me, I decide to try to make it legitimate and that means tons of research before I will get that part of it done. So, I decided that I should at least get this...

This lesson was also conducted over Zoom. We had another student join today, so there is a total of 7 students (including me) in the class. 3 of them are from the same class that I used to be in, and the other 3 are not. It seems that this third new person knows the other 2. It's a guy, so at least my friend isn't the only guy in the class any more, but I don't think it really bothered him (the way it bothered the other guy that used to be in our class until he disappeared just around Christma...

The Korean teacher initiated a chat about what we are doing now since it's a public holiday (Labour Day) today. Some new vocab: Korean English Notes 공휴일 public holiday 저는 두 번 봤어요. I watched it twice. Context was a movie. 당연하지요 of course Context was that the teacher commented that we were all at home (모두 집에 있어요), and this was the reply, given that we are pretty much in a lockdown. 대단해요 great; amazing 하나 더 있어요. There's one more. 구텐탁 Hello; Good day/afternoon (German) Guten Tag ...

Naturally since the country is in a state of partial lockdown, we can't go physically for class. This learning from home arrangement is good for me since, as I've said, it's an hour's journey each way for me otherwise. I've not left the house for something like... since 5 April. I don't buy groceries, it's messed up that my parents do it since they are vulnerable, but somehow that's the arrangment in my house. And with the new restrictions, it's just my dad since he's the main driver in our hou...

Why Should You Keep Learning? Some 1400 new neurons are born every day in your hippocampus. This neural birth rate doesn't decline very much with age, but unless your brain continues to encounter new experiences (e.g. by learning something new), your new neurons will die off before they can mature and hook into your exisitng larger neural network. New neurons allow us to distinguish between similar experiences and store them as distinct memories. This means that we need to help new neurons sur...

This is the last part on the Korean alphabet (at least for now). There's much more that can be said especially when looking at the history and its design, but I'll leave that for another time in the (far) future. Since vowels is a separate topic, I split this into its own post from Part 2 which covers the consonants. In Part 1, the 10 basic vowels were introduced. The Korean alphabet has a total of 21 vowels today, so we will look at the remaining 11. There are two classes of vowels: monophth...

An overdue post on the Korean alphabet with reference to Week 1 of First Step Korean. When King Sejong created the consonants, there were originally 17 consonants - but 3 have fallen out of use, leaving 14 that are still used today. Usually, the total number of letters in the Korean alphabet is given as 40, with 19 consonants and 21 vowels. These extra 5 (19 - 14 = 5) consonants are the 5 tense double consonants (ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅉ ㅆ). As for the vowels, there are 11 complex vowelels that are formed by...

Passion and Work There is often a kind of tension between what we want to do (our internal desires, what we think of as our passions) and what the world has to offer in terms of opportunities (external circumstances). We have to be careful not to fall into The Passion Trap, which is where we develop ourselves extensively in one skill (which usually comes out of our passions) without considering its value to the market (and hence whether you can get a job). This is made worse by friends and te...

I'm on Week 3 of First Step Korean and it's quite interesting because I'm learning new things (I honestly have no idea why I could possibly think otherwise... there's always things to learn, especially in language). Our textbook has not gone into the family topic yet, so I've learnt a lot of new words related to family. Also, this course introduced the first 10 native Korean numbers first, for counting the number of siblings that you have. (No Sino-Korean numbers in sight yet.) There are dif...

This is about the Korean Alphabet, I guess about the history and how the letters were formed and whatever else I find interesting. The Korean alphabet (Hangeul) was created in 1443 by King Sejong (referred to as King Sejong the Great - he is highly respected). I've actually found it pretty fascinating ever since I realised that the consonants reflected the shape of the tongue in the mouth (in the case for ㄱ, ㄴ) when making that consonant sound. I think it's genius, and it also helped me to rem...

The Value of a Poor Memory We tend to discount certain attributes of ours as "bad". Last week, we saw the racecar vs hiker brain - we tend to value the racecar brain for its speed, but don't realise that it has its disadvantages too. We also think that having a poor memory is bad. But like how the hiker brain has its advantages (such as not jumping to wrong conclusions too quickly), a poor memory also has a valuable side. Research has shown (and this was covered in LHTL I believe) that the pr...

Notes from the MOOC Mindshift. I've read the book some time ago. I'd also started the course some time ago but never finished it, but since Coursera is offering free online learning (that is, the certs) for selected courses due to Covid-19, I decided to give this another go. Mindshift You can do more and be more than you think. Aptitude tests (and your internal feelings) only reflect that you are good at at this point in time. But you can change - due to your brain changing (forming new con...

Today (and probably last week) should be considered as Beginner 2A, as evidenced by the pop quiz that we got today. But more on that surprise test later. (The teacher calls it a test, same as the big test from 2 weeks ago, but these are always only written - in the sense of short questions - and last no more than 15 minutes.) Erica didn't come, apparently she was busy last week and this week as well. I hope she's all right, and it's not because she's sick. I know that she was sick a couple of w...

Test Results We got back the test today, and everyone did very well. We all scored more than 90 out of 100. This is apparently quite high (I guess comparing with their past classes, at least according to the teacher). The teacher commented that when she was marking our tests she didn't believe it because we were saying it was hard and stressing out about it. To my utter surprise, I got full marks for oral. Actually, I got full marks for everything except writing, which I lost 0.5 marks on, so ...

The cards for chapter 6 were released today. Since we were on chapter 5 for so long, I forgot the extra effort required to import all the Quizlet cards into Anki. I do this because I want the spaced repetition for memorising the vocab. The deck (well, the Quizlet term is "set") is private to certain classes, so I first make a copy that is public and then import it using the Anki add-on. Then I delete the public set. Next, I add my custom tags since eventually I will throw all the notes/cards ...

The Test I'll do a rundown of the different sections of the test and how they were carried out, and some of my own notes for how I tackled it, and how to prepare better for a next test (for the sections where I feel this is necessary). There were essentially 4 parts to the test, if you think about it in that way. The teacher had said it was reading, writing, listening, speaking. All right, it's kind of like that. But I'll split it into five sections. We were first given the main test paper. T...

While browsing the Language Learners forum, someone posted something that led me to this site - Talk to Me in Korean. I didn't listen to any of their Soundcloud lessons, but I've started to read through the content and it's a good grammar revision for my upcoming test. I learnt that 이, 그, 저 can be attached before any noun to say "this [noun]"/"that [noun]", so for example 이 커피 means "this coffee". Plus, I learnt a new expression for expressing desires: -고 싶어요. (I want to...) You remove the 다...

I had this idea the day before (after my lesson) to randomly generate a date, and then have some TTS software to speak it, and then test myself on how how well I can hear the dates from that. I found out about the Web Speech API, and got something working yesterday, done in React. I started with React JS but converted it to TypeScript because I'm more comfortable with that. I used Create React App, which is definitely overkill. I really don't need all those extra dependencies... What I made ha...

Today was a revision lesson. We did not use the textbook. There was a new 4-page handout, where the vocab for the 5 chapters was on the first page, the grammar on the second, and the last 2 pages are for this week's homework. Again, the test is reading, writing, pronunciation and listening. I guess pronunciation is better than oral, or maybe it will be both. I don't know. But there will be dates involved, we will have to read dates out. The writing component sounds like it's an essay, so not a ...

1. And, With When do you use 같이 (together), and how do you use it in a sentence? I was looking for example sentences on Tatoeba. I know that to indicate doing something "with a friend" is 친구하고 . Example: 친구하고 먹었어요. (I ate with a friend.) But we first learnt that 하고 means "and" for connecting nouns. And the formal version of 하고 is 와/과 (depending on whether there is a Batchim; this is the one with the "inverse" rule). I looked at Tatoeba and on the first page of results saw this sentence: 친구와...

It occurred to me today that the Korean textbook doesn't have a map (of Korea)... or that we didn't cover it in class. I did a quick look at the book and there's no map at the front or end of the textbook. It is possible it is hidden somewhere... I know the French textbook that I had definitely had a world map because it was showing France and the French territories, basically la francophonie. (This is the textbook I can check, because I still have the very first textbook as I've never managed...

This lesson was finishing up chapter 5 in the book. We had finished the handout last week, and the homework handout was completed as part of the previous lesson's homework. This week's homework is a writing assignment - 3 journal entries: 1 weekday, 1 for Saturday and 1 for Sunday. We covered the textbook, starting on p. 135 with the listening activity and until the end of the chapter. It's like déjà vu, you know, the listening activity which was to hear the dates and mark it out on the calenda...

Found out yesterday after a visit to the language learners forum (which I don't regularly go to) that Podclub.ch shut down last year, after having the last episodes aired in September. At the end of the year in December, everything was removed from the site. Officially, the last 30 episodes of each? podcast are on Soundcloud for the different podcasts, but that's it. The efforts to download individual podcasts seem to have stalled on the forums, so there's no central repo that has all the audio...

I was revising on Anki and 알다 came up. It means to know, and I wondered if there is a difference between to know (knowledge/learnt information) and to know (people/things) in Korean. In the other languages I've learnt, I know this distinction exists. I first encountered it in French with connaître (people) and savoir (knowledge). Italian has conoscere and sapere. German has kennen and wissen. Then I thought about Mandarin Chinese, and I realise it has that distinction too, 认识 (people) and 知道 (...

This is the final grammar point for this chapter, which is chapter 5. We finished the handout. Next lesson, we will finish up the chapter, and then the following lesson will be a revision lesson from chapters 1-5. Then after that is the test. The test will have writing, reading, listening, and oral. The oral component will be done in pairs. I guess that gives a hint to me on what to expect. But yeah, it's Beginner 1, like the teacher says, so it isn't too hard. We also had a surprise quiz toda...

Audrey didn't come for this lesson either, and the teacher said she couldn't make it, but I still think she may be trying to (less subtly) transfer... (I saw the teacher that Audrey said she preferred, who is also the one in-charge, talk to our teacher... saw because they spoke in Korean and obviously I didn't understand any part of that exchange except for Audrey's name.) We learnt the past tense in this lesson. We also had the quiz, but not at the start. We first went through the dates/days o...

Audrey didn't come for this lesson. I think she might be switching to the Wednesday class... even though it's 2 weeks behind. It's a hypothesis for now, but it will be more obvious in the next few weeks. We spent about the first half of the class finishing up chapter 4, and then starting on chapter 5. We will be learning the past tense in chapter 5, and then after chapter 5, there will be a test. There is also a vocab quiz in the next lesson on the temporal adverbs (pretty much that's what the...

For this final lesson, everyone was here, all 7 of us. I got to talk to 2 of my classmates on the way back, which I documented in the post before this. The new person who joined has 4 (after this, 3) lessons more, so it seems like the school allows people to join in in the middle and count the term from there. I guess that having a fixed 8-lesson cycle for payment is more straightforward. I was feeling vaguely irritated this class as I didn't have my pencil case and had to borrow a pen from a ...

Some of my thoughts (that were originally) about commitment and self-studying, even when you are taking a language course from a school. I'll get the post for the last lesson done soon, but my head hurts, and I've been feeling sapped of energy since Friday. It was pretty bad yesterday. I don't think I am sick (at least not in the usual you-have-a-cough/cold/flu sense), but I did get an MC for yesterday. Today, I'd decided to work from home, since, anyway, I didn't think anyone will want me to s...

This is my farewell to Lingvist. I received an email from Lingvist yesterday, saying that they had sent an email 3 weeks prior announcing changes in 2020. No surprise that the changes were that they were doing away with the free tier entirely. I had seen this coming, even back in 2015 when it was still a new app, its UI much less refined. I first used it to revise my French vocabulary, the only course they had. This tool was too good, too polished, to be able to sustain itself if it remained ...

The 7th lesson of the term. This lesson was where I paid my fees for the next term (another 8 lessons). I got the reminder and invoice on the 6th lesson. The final lesson will be 2 weeks from now, because of Chinese New Year next week. I did some calculations. If I intend to continue until I finish the intermediate syllabus, it will easily be another 2 and a half years at minimum. The estimate is 1 year for beginner, and 1.5 years for intermediate. I've just about finished only the first set of...

In this lesson, we finished chapter 3, and started on chapter 4 in the last half an hour. We continued practising making sentences about what you are doing (오늘/지금 뭐 해요?) - both today and right now. Naturally, all of our answers to 지금 뭐 해요? ("What are you doing right now?") was some variant of 한국어 학교에서 한국어를 배워요. (I'm learning Korean at the Korean language school.) Some omitted the location (like I did), but others included it, with the actual name of the school. As for what I'm doing after (그리고...

Since this was always meant to be a language blog, and not just a Korean language blog, and I had to do some German homework (a writing assignment-turned-presentation that spawned out of some stuff I mentioned to my teacher after my last class), here's something I wrote about subscription services and why I generally don't pay for them. The mention of Netflix, Spotify, and Audible is something specific to the conversation that we had, as they were explicitly mentioned. There's probably some mi...

I have decided to add the lesson number within the course to the title for this and all future posts. This will make it easier to keep track of in future. I don't imagine I'd stop taking the lessons for a while. I'll continue to increment each lesson by 1 still for each post. I'm currently on the second set of 8 lessons, which is Beginner 1A. Before this, the first 8 lessons were classified as Foundation. In this lesson, there was a test on the conjugation for the verbs and their meanings. Las...

I forgot to include this in the post for the last lesson. We did a gift exchange for Christmas and so apart from wishing each other a Merry Christmas, we also did a New Year greeting. (The next time we will see each other is in the new year.) "Merry Christmas" is... Merry Christmas: 메리 크리스마스. To wish someone the best for the new year: 새해 복 많이 받으세요! Bonus (German, since my teacher made me say this the day before for my German lesson): (Ich wunsche dir) einen guten Rutsch ins 2020! Literally, ...

There was no lesson this week because of Christmas and New Year's, but since I was a post behind, I still have something to post. Plus, this also serves as revision. This lesson was where we learnt two main things: Conjugation for the informal polite present tense Direct object marker Conjugation (Informal Polite Present Tense) The teacher emphasised how this is the most important thing for the entire Beginner level. I'm not sure if she meant the entire Beginner level, as in the set of ...

I lost my 140+ days (at most) Memrise streak today. Today I was greeted with a 0-day streak on half of the courses I usually do (it's only 8 now). Initially I thought I had forgotten, because of all the events yesterday. Having to go to the hospital early in the morning, and afterwards, the work (post-)Christmas party... which I also ended up leaving early to go to the hospital for another visit. Then I remembered that I did finish it, early in the morning, while waiting at the cafe in the hosp...

Merry Christmas! Since I've a day off on Christmas Eve too, I figured I should finish this post. Now, this is for a lesson that was more than a week ago... In which I learn that the verb for "to work part time" in Korean (아르바이트하다) comes from the German Arbeit, which simply means "work". We started on Chapter 3 of the book. It's the Seoul National University book. Basically this lesson was an introduction to other verbs (apart from "to be" and "to have" which was covered before). Lots of verbs...

I don't know, felt like writing some non-technical (not really technical per se) stuff, so this is partially more reflective. Or more like a regular journal. Really a text dump of my rambling thoughts. For Korean, I started to learn it because I had two friends mention that they were going to take a Korean class in September. It was an arbitrary statement about signing up that one made to another at a gathering, that it was the last day to sign up for a discounted price. I went home and immedia...

This is overdue because there was some resistance on my part to list out everything. Here's some vocabulary from the first 10 lessons. There's more, but I doubt there is point documenting them here, since I already have them as cards in Anki. The only point for documenting is to see the weekly progress, and this is a dump of 10 lessons' worth. Vocabulary Words Countries, Languages, Nationalities Korean English 나라 country 지도 map 한국 Korea 한국어 Korean (language) 한국 사람 Korean (pers...

I've been learning Korean for 3 months, and I thought it would be good to document my progress. But first, I should write down what I've gone through so far, so that in future I can just build on it. It's always interesting to see how my language learning process changes from language to language. Part of it has to do with the language itself, and part of it has to do with the methods that I use, and perhaps, it might also be me. I hope I did not make any typos; I'm still not used to typing wi...