Language Lessons by @msalexwp . Art by the lovely @lalunavinoalafragua (on tumblr & ao3). Typeset and design by me. 📸
Hi Sarah, why don’t you do more msalexwp binds? Um, because I love them sm and need an idea to do them justice. But when artwork with a certain red pencil kept coming across my feed, I became obsessed and knew it was a match made in heaven with this fic. When I tell you I AGONIZED over which art to do with which chapter, taking very high brow notes as to what, ahem, activities were happening. I cannot show you the full majesty of this typeset because it would get taken dooooown. (If you are chill go to the last slide on my ig post and see the quick flip thru).
Anywho, once I had permission from the lovely laluna I became fixated with the idea of these being photographs, capturing the various moments in time. And thus the scrapbook/photobook vibe bind was born.
Everyone simply must read this fic if you have not, and please go give @lalunavinoalafragua some lovin’!!
-> These are some free resources I used or heard about a lot to learn Korean and what they include, there's probably way more! I'll make more parts in the future. There's also ratings and pesonal notes about each one, but again they're 'personal' so it might not be the same for everyone! That's why you should always try it yourself first.
-> These resources are or were fully free when I used them, if anything changed and they're no longer free I do not take any responsibility for possible accidental purchases, I recommend to always check first before processing with it.
Here we go:
GoodJobKorean — Full free Hangul Course, 12 Lessons, Videos (with pronunciation, etc) + Pdf Practice sheets (with some vocabulary) + Quizes to see if you understood each lesson.
Rating: 100/10 I tried and loved it, easy to understand and explained nicely. Really useful for beginners learning hangul!
A/N: You may have to rebuy it after a month (not sure because I finished it in less then a month and never logged back in) but It's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again)
GoldenKeyKorean: Free Hangul course, pronunciation + 2H long master course (advanced and basic levels) with 2 pdf books
Rating: I personally did not try this one, but I'm pretty sure it's fully free (at least that's what I've seen), but he often does limited editions/limited time special free courses so it's better to check if the offer is still active and follow his instagram for future updates and courses.
Now Korean Class: Fully free 9 Korean courses with different levels (1-9) with multiple videos for each, explains sentence structures, grammar, counters, numbers, and way more.
Rating: 100/10, It really is free, multiple levels, sooo many different things to learn I absolutely loved it!!
A/N: You just have to rebuy it after a month but I'm pretty sure it's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again). I recently lost acess to it, idk why I think my phone is lagging... It tells me something went wrong to try again later, lol, just in case some content changed etc I wouldn't know.
Koldoristudy: 3 different Free Korean PDF study sheets, 1 Hangul, 1 Vocabulary and 1 winter study, includes Grammar, stroke order guides and syllable blocks,
Rating: 10/10 Loved it, I thought it would be just some pdf files to boringly write hangul/words but It's actually way more! it explains grammar and some useful language rules!
Talk to me in korean: Multiple free podcasts on different platforms + PDF with grammar and vocabulary explained for different levels of learners, 7 days free trial with possible cancelation
Rating: 9/10 It's really good, I'm just not a big fan of podcasts as I have a short attention spawn LOL. I personally didn't try the 7-days free trial but they do have LOTS of different lessons and videos that seem to be amazing and useful.
A/N: personally I find their website really confusing, to make things easier you can try things like just typing "Talk To me In korean (Pdf level _)" on google and the first link should be the free pdf file, etc etc.
Loescen Learn Korean Website: Free Interactive web-based learning, important vocabulary, pronunciation beginner to intermediate level, basic conversation courses and dialogues
Rating: 8/10, so good!! It surprised me, I just wish it went more in deep about things like sentence structures and grammar instead of blindly learning dialogue lines or words without breaking them into steps for deeper understanding of the language.
A/N: works for other languages too!!
Live Lingua: Multiple free ebooks and audio files lessons, grammar, vocabulary, hangul, etc, beginner to advanced,
Rating: 9/10 Covers up a lot of different things like I said, grammar, vocabulary, etc etc, but AGAIN each course covers many subjects and it quickly feels heavy and too long/complicated/takes too much time (personally for me, as an individual with ADHD)
How to study korean: LOTS of grammar and vocabulary, beginners to advanced, multiple lessons, linked YT videos to reinforce lessons, PDFs, etc
Rating: 100/10 explains really well, SO MUCH STUFF, different levels, it's really awesome! Lessons are available in multiple languages and not just English!! However again I find it a bit intimidating as it really has LOTS of things to learn which make it seem hard and heavy...
A/N: Personally I find the website complicated to navigate 😭 just type "how to study korean lesson _" for easier access if you want and It should be the top results
Udemy TOPIK grammar through 100 patters: TOPIK vocabulary, grammar and conversations, 100 grammatical patters koreans use a lot
Rating: 8/10 really good, well explained, but again personally it feels pretty heavy and long, videos in Korean with English subtitles, however there are no English subtitles for "example sentences" which sucks, you need to know some basic vocabulary to really understand the example sentences used there.
Tomi Korean: Free PDF with 430 basic korean vocabulary (words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc) with audio files, free PDF Worksheet for hangul learning
Rating: 8/0 Love it, really nice for useful vocabulary but you'll have to willingly study the words cause the pdf only makes you write it once and it's really just Korean-English translations, but it has images so its good for visual learners too! Personally I also found it takes a lot of storage to download everything lol.
A/N: I did not check the hangul worksheet as I can already write and read hangul but little personal opinion/tip; I think GoodJobKorean is the best option to learn Hangul here, specially compared to this one. Yes I did not try this Hangul Worksheet but I believe GoodJobKorean offers more variated content and help (videos, quizes, etc) than what a PDF sheet has to offer, that's my opinion.
That's all so far!
Many of these courses have social media accounts where they post different content and tricks to learn, I'll be making a post about those in the future too!!
If anything changed since I first used these resources or if there's any misinformation in this post, please let me know!
I made two of these for friends as a gift. The fic is pure perfection (Wolfstar/Jily). I wanted it to look like a notebook that Sirius doodled on. It has the main fic followed by the B-Sides.
Amazing art below by @willywat, @spookeart, @constancezin, @t.h.tat (ig), @sothisart, and @lunopal
Htv - htvront
Book cloth - Hollander’s Verona
If you notice a mistake, no you didn’t. 🤭
*** permission to use art was obtained. Some artists gave permission a while back and have since left the fandom (I am so slow at binding….). Amazing artists and completely understandable considering where we are now.
This fanart is inspired by a scene from Language Lessons by MsAlexWP:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
“Sirius woke slowly. It was one of those cool, crisp, perfect-for-sleeping mornings when the window was open and the bedroom air was cold, but it was wonderfully warm and cozy under the covers. He nuzzled deeper into his pillow and pressed his body against the warm expanse of bare skin behind him, wrapping his fingers over the wide hand that curved around his hip bone, even as his body and mind were still fuzzy with sleep. He didn’t want to leave the warmth of this bed, ever; he just wanted to stay suspended in this half-dream softness all day, every day.
He kept his eyes closed, ready to drift back to sleep—fuck work, fuck school, fuck anything that wasn’t in this bed—when he felt warm kisses drift sweetly across his bare shoulders. They were soft and slow, as though the lips giving them weren’t quite awake, either. […]
“Good morning,” Remus rasped sleepily into Sirius’s ear before kissing down the back of his neck and nosing at the silky strands of hair that fell over his shoulders.”
This fic is marked as explicit, I decided to make this art a bit less nsfw (I don’t know if that worked;))
Niccy is in Garrus’s secure hold, dangling over three inches of fresh snowfall, his mandibles wide, mouth tight.
“It’s ok buddy,” Garrus soothes.
Niccy kicks and trills. He’s cocooned in four warm, thick layers. His scarf covers his mouth and nose, his beanie is pulled low. Two pairs of socks. But turians don’t like the cold.
Garrus inches him down, and as soon as Niccy’s tiny boot touches the powdery snow he tenses. “Shit!” he says with startled eyes.
Jane laughs.
Garrus gasps, then scowls. “He learned that from you.”
“Me? No he didn’t.”
“I don’t curse in English, mela.”
all my shakarian language lessons are posted on ao3
Fun fact 'Grian' means sun in Scottish. So. Have fun with that.
It also is spelt 'ghrian', so more funny misspelt names
:)
Also in Past Life Pearl, Grian and Gem are teamed up so The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars (because Gemini) or crystals (because Gem. Which ever way you want to look at it.) Celestial Trio my beloved And please give me credit if you use this for fanfics or art. :)
learning japanese update: i’ve been practicing writing down sentences and trying to understand the sentence structure. linguistically, japanese and turkish have similarities, so i can say that it’s been going well and i’m having sooo much fun!!
