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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Total words: 202

I’m trying to speed up my efforts in learning Korean, because I’m getting impatient with being stuck in the intermediate level.
Right now (if anyone’s interested) I find that reading helps me most to acquire more words and grammar. But it was a little tricky to find an adequate book.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Total words: 569

kwandongbrian

The EFL Geek a.k.a 왕음치 ( 王音癡) described a new KSL class online and I am in the process of giving it a try. Koreanclass101 is growing and currently has ‘newbie lessons’, beginner lessons and a little more (the audioblog seems geared toward stronger Korean ability). The site offers free podcasts and additional paid material. When you sign up, you get a free week of access to the premium material, including transcripts and review.

I am about to game the system. I don’t recommend this, but I will soon sign up with a second email address (doesn’t everyone have a handful of email accounts these days?) for a further week of free access to the full service. My trivial excuses are: 1) I’m doing this for you -helping give you a better account of the services offered, and 2) I was busy that week - it was a bad time to explore the content.

A more serious reason is that I have not yet found my true level in the material offered. Again, I was busy. Perhaps a level test is needed (is ‘level test’ a Konglish term -it rolls naturally off my tongue but I’m not sure). I would even accept a sort of eye test: “Can you read and understand this line?” “How about this line?” There’s not much point in cheating on a level test, after all.

I don’t mind, and probably need, review. I am not a ‘newbie’ but, well, false beginners are always hard to place.

Anyway, the podcasts are clear and stand alone well. The documentation prints out in good format, but I don’t really like PDF files. I would prefer a simple ‘.txt’ file that I could store in my phone’s ebook folder and read while listening on the bus. That would be handier than paper in my situation.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Total words: 117

王音癡

It’s been ages since I updated the blogroll here. I’m sure there are a couple of dead or outdated links. I’m planning to fix that in the near future. If you have a blog or resource that you think belongs on the blogroll here, please leave a comment with a link and I’ll review the site and most likely add it if it is remotely related to learning Korean or languages in general.
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Also if there are any more readers who would like to join the ranks of (semi)-regular bloggers on 한국어 연습장, register, let me know your id and I’ll change your permissions.

I’ve also added a new poll, so come on down and vote.

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Total words: 81

王音癡

Korean Class 101 is a podcast along the lines of JapanesePod101 and ChinesePod. Over a year ago I started work on a Korean podcast but due to a number of factors it never came to be. This Korean podcast looks to be almost exactly what I wanted to do.

You can see my original post on Korean podcast here and the recent comment that alerted me to a completed, live and running version of the podcast. HOpe it helps someone out.

Posted by 王音癡 on Monday Oct 8, 2007 at 08:06 PM in In the classroom | Podcast | Internet Resources |
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