[originally posted on mykoreannotebook] I thought it might be useful to others ^^ This is my first post here my name is Kay Yesterday I installed the Naver toolbar out of pure curiosity and now its staying with me ^^ Let me tell you why ~ First off it is actually really pretty to look… [Read more…]
April 9, 2012 by starxblinded
I’ve previously written a review for iriver’s D100 and here’s an update after a year The Good 1. Superb battery life I was originally using a Korean-English dictionary on my iphone, but it ate up so much battery my phone ended up being dead by mid-day if I studied long enough. This was what prompted… [Read more…]
April 5, 2012 by Amber Dorko Stopper
so — don’t shoot me, but i am NOT a big k-pop fan. at least not the girl group/boy group stuff i’ve seen around. BUT, i really like jang kiha and the faces. a friend in korea bought me two of their CDs — 별일 없이 산다 and the newer one, which i can’t find… [Read more…]
April 3, 2012 by mykoreancorner
I learned reading through comics. Books can really be expensive in our country so I didn’t get to have those colorful bedtime children storybooks when I was a kid. However comics are very cheap. My mom would read comics to me at bedtime – though most of the time, she would fall asleep after reading… [Read more…]
Its been about 2 months since I decided to learn Korean, my knowledge of Japanese has helped me lot in understanding the various aspects of Korean. Korean and Japanese have similar grammar say about 80% or more so I prefer making notes in Japanese as much as possible. I’m not using a dedicated textbook to… [Read more…]
March 27, 2012 by starxblinded
I have an insatiable appetite for textbooks (or actually just books in general) and I feel a sense of accomplishment whenever I finish one. I love looking at my bookshelf and mentally checking off books that I have completed :p But more often than not, I end up getting bored of my current textbook, resulting… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012 by mykoreancorner
I’m not very gifted when it comes to remembering words and grammar points from my textbooks. But I never had problems in recalling what Kim Sam Soon said when she confessed her love to Sam Shik in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, or what Kim Joo Won said to Gil Ra Im before they had their… [Read more…]
March 4, 2012 by zachsarette
Does your textbook keep you up at night? Do feel chronic back pain while reading? You might be suffering from what’s known as DTS. Also known as Dreadful Textbook Syndrom. You might even start to notice a few things whilst staring down those menacing pages of rules and regurgitations; Your head starts to ache. A… [Read more…]
March 3, 2012 by jakeunbyeol
This post is probably more for beginners, so sorry if it bores any of the more intermediate/advanced learners.^^; As someone who has trouble with learning vocab, unless I hear it over and over again, a method like this really helps! Something that sparks a lot of people’s interest in Korean (if it’s not dramas,) it’s… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012 by starxblinded
Transiting from a beginner to an intermediate learner, you start to crave for more reading materials that are different from what your textbooks are providing. Most people I know started learning Korean due to Kpop or Kdramas and their final target is to be able to understand and appreciate them without subtitles or translations. However,… [Read more…]
December 31, 2012 by sumin
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