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Monday, September 10, 2007

Total words: 41

One of our readers/commenters has posted a question in the forums. I am highlighting it here since there is not much action in the forums. Go read his question 대분"><날아라 허둥구> 대분 and if you can help him, that would be great.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Total words: 78

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I recently signed up with Library Thing and have been cataloging my books. You can see more details about library thing at EFL Geek. I have, however finished with my Korean resources and there should be 19, as of February 13, 2007, appearing in the extended entry. if not, you should be able to see the complete collection here.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Total words: 197

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I’ve always told my Korean students that one of the best things for them to do is use a English Learners dictionary while lamenting the fact that there were no learners dictionaries available for Korean. I also guessed that there would very likely never be due to the limited market. However, I was wrong. A few weeks ago I came across a Korean learners dictionary, 한국어 학습 사전, but didn’t have enough money to pick it up.

Well today I finally purchased it. I think that it is quite useful and I particularly like that there is no English anywhere except on the cover. I’ve looked through the dictionary and found that I can understand many of the definitions that I checked, but not all - I’m still at a relatively low level considering my time in the country. The dictionary has some good features in the appendix including a list of important words. The last page I scanned has contact information in case you cannot find the dictionary near you. In the extended entry I’ve put thumbnails of several pages, click for bigger versions or you can look at the pdf (1.6mb). 35,000 won well spent.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Total words: 96

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German-speaking learners of Korean may be interested in a new blog (authored by Marcel Grünauer) that combines learning baduk with learning Korean called, appropriately enough, Baduk und Sprache.

hat tip to Kangmi.

In other news my daughter was sick all week and I couldn’t post here, do homework or much of anything Korean. I even missed a few classes as well. She’s fine now and tomorrow is the class field trip or 소풍. We are going to the 국민 음악원 near Nambu bus terminal. Will report, in Korean, on this tomorrow evening or on the weekend.

Posted by 王音癡 on Thursday Dec 21, 2006 at 08:57 PM in META | Resources | Internet Resources |
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Friday, May 19, 2006

Total words: 336

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A few weeks ago I wrote about Chinese Pod and lamented that there was no such resource for Korean language learners. Today I saw that Mark found another Chinese podcast. I left a comment to which he responded: EFL Geek, why don’t you and one of your Korean friends start one?

Well I’m nowhere near qualified to start a podcast for learners and unfortunately I don’t have any Korean friends I could call on for this. I am however willing to host the podcast, purchase a domain, design the site as well as provide training to podcasters on how to record their files and upload them to a site. The only thing is I need volunteers to design the podcasts and record them.

Recording is easy enough on your home PC and as mentioned I would be able to show you how to accomplish this if necessary. I’m also sure that once the podcast got off the ground we would have a large audience quickly. I’ve seen many threads on Daves Cafe and other expat boards expressing interest in learning Korean. Anyone willing to help out on the language end?

I have sent emails to several popular bloggers in Korea asking for support and hopefully this project will get off the ground.

update
Second Language Writing posts an article about The Future of Learning talks alot about ChinesePod which largely fits into my vision for this project. There is also a link to an article in the Guardian worth reading about Chinese Pod and Ken Carrol

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Total words: 51

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In November 2005 Gerry Bevers posted a list of Korean slang. I have reformatted it for printing and am making it available for download - I asked Gerry first and he had no issues with that.

Korean Slang MSword and Korean Slang PDF.

I’ve also added this to the download page.

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