Let's Learn Korean - plodding along

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I’m still plodding along on my Korean classes. I’m really enjoying the classes at Sogang and highly recommend them to anyone wanting to study in a classroom. I am however having trouble motivating myself to continue posting, in Korean, here. This is possibly due to lack of feedback and other participants. When I first started this blog in November 2004 posting was very heavy by multiple users for about 3-4 months, but now action is very slim.

I have added a new category to the links section on the sidebar: Korean in a Classroom. Here you will find links to various schools around Korea where you can study Korean - oddly enough in a classroom. Curreently I have only added two links - one for Sogang (of course) and another for Ewha. If you are an author on this blog and want to add a link just log in and post to the Links blog - be sure to choose the correct category on the category tab. If you are not an author you can leave a comment here, in the forum, or send me an email.

Currently in class we have started learning reported speech - ....다고 했어요 ...다고 해요 ... ㄴ/는 다가 했어요 ...ㄹ거 라거 했어요 and I can see how this will allow me to say much more than I have been before this. Next week is the mid-term exam, which I am not worried about. Not because I think I am super at Korean, but rather because I’m not actually concerned with grades. If I can feel improvement in my Korean then I am happy with my progress and this is supported by views on the order of acquisition for second languages. I will of course study before hand, but next week that will be a little difficult as my wife will be in Daegu the whole week for business and I will have to watch my daughter in the evening - that means no free time.

Posted by 王音癡 on Wednesday Jan 11, 2006 in META | |

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트랙백:

Good to hear that you’re sticking with it. Do you find your real-life comprehension and speaking ability improving?

Posted by 강미 on Wednesday Jan 11, 2006 at 08:43 PM
강미,
Yes - real-life ability has definitely improved. This week is the first week I’ve encountered grammar that I didn’t already know and use, but every thing prior to this has helped me improve my accuracy and solidified my foundation.

When are you going to start blogging again? I thought your site was ready to roll.

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호랑이 굴에들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

Posted by 王音癡 on Wednesday Jan 11, 2006 at 09:30 PM
I expect to start up again within the first quarter, but I need to wait until the MySQL upgrade happens.

Posted by 강미 on Thursday Jan 12, 2006 at 07:27 AM
Looks like they did the upgrade…never checked the status of it.

Now I have to work through some EE/hosting/database issues….....

Posted by 강미 on Thursday Jan 12, 2006 at 07:32 AM