Best Korean listening exercises

I was talking to a friend the other day who started learning Korean awhile ago and he mentioned he came across a series of listening exercises. Major blast from the past. I used those when I was learning and found them to be incredibly helpful, and free as well. Each video is a short conversation …

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Inviting Korean learners to Discord language exchange server

Back in November a friend I met on Hellotalk was talking about how conversations on Hellotalk don't seem to last very long, and that group conversations on Hellotalk tend to be messy with everyone bunched up in one channel. The conversation ended up going like this "maybe we should just create a Discord server and …

[Tip] 은/는데 vs 던데

I like to see 던데 as serving two purposes. 1) to soften what you're saying, and 2) tell the listener what you're saying is based on your recollection or experience. The two kind of go hand in hand. Lets look at a couple of examples. Example 1: Consider the two sentences 나 와인 싫은데나 와인 …

Grammar Series -(이)나, Part 3

Part 3 of the -(이)나 grammar series will cover the usage of indicating that something or someone includes all of the choices. To return to the series index click here. An understanding of Part 1 of this series is required for this lesson. When 나 is attached to a word in this usage that word becomes …

Korean household vocabulary quiz

Korean vocabulary test two

This is a Korean vocabulary test and will provide you with an estimate of how many words you know based on a sample test of 100 words. This is the second of two tests. You may wish to do the first test as well to improve the accuracy of your result, or you may come …

Korean vocabulary test

This is the first of two tests. You may wish to do the second test as well to improve the accuracy of your result, or you may come back to the second test later in time to reassess your level. [Link to second test]

Ranked list of resources for beginner French learners

I have been learning French for nine months and in this time I have tried a huge variety of resources, books, websites, programs and apps. I constantly tried different things because I was either not finding them helpful, or quickly outgrowing things (as you do as a beginner). The following will be a list of …