Let's Learn Korean

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Why have I started a group blog for learning Korean? There are a number of reasons, but primarily I am starting it for myself. The original plan was to blog in a similar manner to Kangmi. Obviously writing about the classes I’m going to take starting in December, self-study, practical usage and encounters with Korean in daily life as well as any brain farts or epiphanys I have along the way.

However recently a few of the Korean blogs that I followed started writing about learning Korean and this got me to thinking that a group blog would be a great way to build a community and support one another in our quest for language acquisition. There is nothing like public accountability to help maintain momentum and motivation - part of why I wanted to blog alone inititially, but this is far better.

I have been asked exactly what type of blogging I want or expect here. My initial thoughts were reflective learning - difficulties encountered, successes, strategies and resources. Of course blogging in Korean to practice writing for an authentic audience. Hopefully comments will provide corrections, advice and encouragement. That is my initial vision, but like any plan or community things change and evolve so nothing here is written in stone and I am open to suggestions for new features. I have 2gb of space on my account and 150 gb of bandwidth so I have loads of room to expand. For now I want to start small and see the small successes.

When I changed my plan of this being a private journal I sent out emails to Joel, Gord, & Philip to see what they thought about the idea. They were the bloggers writing about learning Korean on their individual blogs. All three reported that at one time they had considered doing the exact same thing but had never gotten around to it and were indeed interested. Welcome aboard guys and thanks for the feedback.

Of course I do not want to limit contributors to only four (including myself) so if anyone would like to write about their experience as a Korean Language Learner you only need to do two things. Register and then leave a comment or send me an email so I can change your permissions. Then you will be good to go.

You may notice that some of the links and menu items are in Korean - well this is a Korean Language Acquisition blog afterall - don’t worry just mouse over and the English will appear.

Two more things. First, Korean native speakers are of course welcome to leave comments and encouragement - Posting is fine as well as long as it is directly related to teaching or learning Korean. And lastly, if you know anyone learning Korean feel free to invite them to join us as a lurker or a preferably as a poster. It doesn’t matter if you have blogged before or not - come on down and join us.

Posted by 王音癡 on Thursday Nov 11, 2004 in This blog | |

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Man, it is good to see you get serious with it. I am proud of you! I will follow the blog as it develops and post comments occasionally. All the best with it, dude!

Posted by Hamel on Saturday Nov 13, 2004 at 04:55 AM
이 웹사이트의 회원이 되고싶은대 허락해주세요.

주시면 앞으로 자주 듣겠어요.

고맙습니다

Posted by Noel Woodward on Saturday Nov 13, 2004 at 01:59 PM
재밌네요. 좋은 발상인 것 같습니다. 건투를 빕니다!

Posted by wooj on Monday Nov 15, 2004 at 06:51 AM
Thanks for the support guys. Looks like I’m going to have to invest in a new dictionary. It’s my site and I"m one of the weakest people around here. Well, at least I should get loads out of it.

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호랑이 굴에들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

Posted by 王音癡 on Monday Nov 15, 2004 at 01:45 PM
With all the great online resources in Yahoo Korea, Naver, and Daum (not to mention even better Korean ones) as long as you have the internet I don’t think you need to invest in another one.

Posted by ì œë¹„êµ° on Monday Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48 PM
이런 것 참 대단하시네요.... 제가 거의 일년반동안 한국말 배웠는데 개속 좋은 웹사이트를 찾고있었고 이젠 가장 좋은 사이트를 찾았어요. 방가요

Posted by hardworkwork on Wednesday Mar 15, 2006 at 08:00 PM
고맙습니다. 자주 오서세요.

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호랑이 굴에들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

Posted by 王音癡 on Wednesday Mar 15, 2006 at 09:08 PM