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 …

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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]

[Tip] -기 vs -는 것 vs -음

There is a sea of explanations on these grammar points available on the internet. Some of them are a bit technical so I decided to use practical examples to illustrate their difference. -기 vs -는 것 Consider this situation: I am taking a walk with my wife, and she says "hold my hand". I reply …

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 …

Difference between 더니, 았/었더니 and other sentence conjugation patterns

After learning Korean for six years, one of the things that still not perfectly clear for me is the usage of 더니 and 았/었더니. I feel like I now know so much, yet at the same time it feels like grasping at sand and watching it flow through between my fingers. I've tried coming up …

Review of Fluent Forever

What is Fluent Forever? Fluent Forever is a language learning software for beginners based around two modules. The first is sound training module, and the second is a flash card module. The software has the following features A pre-built list of 625 wordsNovel use of pictures instead of translations in the flash card moduleA variety …

How good is Duolingo for Korean?

Reviewed as at September 2019. I've been using Duolingo for French for three months now and think it is a great learning tool. I was wondering how it fared for the Korean language, so I added Korean to my courses and sat the placement test. It granted me access to the top level, so I …

자 vs 자마자

I feel like there is so much confusion on how this is taught. I kind of vaguely understood what the difference was for years and years until only recently when I came across an example that cleared it up for me. First of all I'm just going to lay out some basic definitions of what …

Practical guide to creating a study plan

I started learning French a few months ago, on an ad-hoc basis. Mostly out of curiosity and enjoyment. After some time I realised I was spending time and energy each day into deciding what to learn rather than actually learning. So I decided to create a study plan. I never actually created any study plans …

How to say “lets have a look if we have rice”

우리 쌀 있나 보자. 있나 functions like 있는지 and they can both be used in this context here, but 있나 has a better nuance of speculation. 있는지 is a factual way of saying whether there is (or not) and comes off stiff in this context. Some other sentences following this grammar pattern could be: Shall …