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❤️🍷👫 8 date ideas to spend a romantic day with that special someone!!! February is all about #LOVE in #KOREAN!!! You’ll also love to learn Korean with us here 👉 https://www.koreanclass101.com/?src=tumblr_love_020818
I still can’t use verbs in korean, but these sound (like, as the proununciation) super cute.
how to feel good about yourself when school is kicking your ass.
School’s tough, and when you’re getting hours of study and homework dumped on you every class, it’s easy to feel swamped, and it’s even worse when you feel like you’re not making progress anywhere else either. These things have seriously helped me with my mental and physical well-being, hopefully they can help you too!
1. Get the Forest App. It’s $3 on the app-store, and trust me its $3 well spent. i use this app pretty much whenever I shouldn’t be using my phone. in class, studying, working out, not only does it make sure i stay off my phone, it feels really good to look back on all the time I’ve spent focused throughout the week.
2. If you’re gonna waste time, do it properly. Limit the time you spend scrolling social media to 10 minutes. I can’t count how many times I’ve been on Instagram explore page and suddenly an hour has gone past. This makes you feel crap. If you’re gonna waste time, do it in a way that can be measured. watch a tv show, ted talk, or youtube. make a social media post. It’ll make you feel like you’re spending your time doing something and that’s good in it’s own way.
3. Clean your room. Feeling ridiculously overwhelmed? Clean your room. I don’t care how much work you need to do, or how soon it’s due. If you’re stressed you wont get anything worthwhile done. So clean your room, make your bed, vacuum the floor. It’ll calm you down and make you feel better about yourself. I promise.
4. Leave the junk food to the weekends. I know, everybody says it. But if you’re eating crap 24/7, it’s going to drag you down. I hate the idea of diets, they’re designed for failure and then you feel even worse, but trying to avoid junk from monday to friday helps a lot with your general perception of yourself.
5. Work out. Another cliche! But they’re cliche’s because they work. I don’t care how often you work out or how much you do, just make sure you do it regularly and do enough to feel tired but good about yourself after woulds. it makes a difference. trust me.
6. Do a skin care routine & use face masks If you dont have a skin care routine, you need one. Not a fancy one by any means (some of us are uni students, I know) just a cetaphill cleanser and moisturiser day and night (with any creams / other products you may use) does the trick. It helps maintain routine and feel refreshed. Facemasks will help you feel like a self care goddess, even if they’re $2.
7. Burn candles & paint your nails Get a few cheap candels (just make sure they wont give you a headache) and burn them whilst you listen to music and paint your nails, its incredibly relaxing and makes you feel like you’re really taking care of yourself.
8. Have a hobby Last one! Learn something completely outside of school. Cooking, art, writing, photography, even if you suck, find something you enjoy and do it, you need a break from everything around you.
These things have honestly helped turn my esteem and habits around these past years, it wont happen over night but just remembering to do these things every now and then will help you feel better, I promise.
teaching yourself a language
i’ve gotten questions multiple times about how to start learning swedish and how to go about when starting learning a new language, so i thought i’d make a masterpost about it. obviously learning differs from person to person, especially with languages, but this is what i do to study french, and what i’ve found best works for me
apps to get started:
if you know nothing about a language a good place to get started is with basic words and basic grammar. there are a lot of apps / websites to choose from, some of the most popular are
Duolingo, has the benefit of being free, and has 27 languages to choose from. with Duolingo you start with the basics of “hello”, “my name is” “i am” and it gradually gets harder the better you get. make sure you don’t only use it as an app though, because then you’ll miss the grammar explanations available on the website
Babbel, unlike Duolingo Babbel isn’t free, and Babbel only has 14 languages to choose from. starts off similar to Duolingo but with Babbel you get more detailed grammar explanations and you don’t fall into the trap of having to learn long lists of words relating to one very specific subject before learning basic grammar, as you do with Duolingo. In Babbel you can also choose the courses that feel relevant to you, and don’t have to clear a certain course to move on to the next one
Memrise, works similarly to the two above. there is a free version but you have to pay to get to PRO level
this type of course is a great foundation for learning a language, and almost vital when first starting out (if you’re learning on your own), but make sure it’s not your only source, and that you’re continuously talking to native speakers, reading, watching movies, listening to the radio and so on to get a grip on what the language is like when spoken naturally
hearing the language:
watching tv and movies
when watching tv and movies you could either do it in two different ways, with different benefits
with subtitles (in language spoken), the benefit with this is that you can read a word or sentence and directly see how it’s pronounced, and vice versa. the downside is that this way easily draws attention away from the speech, it’s easy to get carried away focusing on the subtitles
without subtitles, the benefit with this is that you have to really focus on what is being said and how it’s pronounced, and you learn to understand the language spoken, rather than just written as in the subtitles
watching documentaries
watching documentaries is a great way to learn how to understand the language spoken. the language used is natural and not simplified for people trying to learn it, but it has a naturally slow tempo which makes it easy to keep up with
listening to the radio
even if you don’t understand a single word of what is being said when starting, listening to the radio is always a great way to pick up pronunciation. after a while as you get better you’ll start recognizing words and sentences, and you start understanding more and more. listening to the radio is also good as you get to hear how native speakers actually talk, including slang, idioms, buffer noises and other things
listening to music
listening to music works in the same way as listening to the radio, but is often a lot more fun! you learn the pronunciation and can sing along. disney songs are usually quite simple and offer written lyrics, so i’d say that’s a good way to start!
reading:
reading is one of the most important things to do when learning a language, and has the added benefit of learning about the culture of the language if you read literature from that country (which i recommend you do). i recommend starting with children’s books and cartoons and then moving on to more advanced literature the better you get. you can go about reading in your target language in two ways
reading continuously without pausing and trying to understand the words you don’t know based on the context. it’s also good to go back and reread, if you do this chances are you’ll pick up things that you didn’t understand the first time
pausing and looking up every word you don’t recognize. doing this won’t really increase your ability to read in your target language, but it can be a good way to build up a vocabulary
writing:
writing a diary
writing in your target language is a good way to learn to think in your target language and to use it naturally. i write a diary in french every day, and it’s been incredibly rewarding! but make sure this isn’t your only source, as that could make your language sound quite alien and unnatural. i made a more detailed post about the benefits of writing a diary in your target language which you can find here x
chatting online
chatting with native speakers online is a good complement to writing a diary. it has the same effects of learning to think in the language and using it daily, but when chatting with someone else you’ll be corrected, which stops you from developing bad and unnatural habits in your target language. you’ll also see how the native speakers use the language and which formulations they use. there are two apps, that i know about, designed to let you talk to native speakers
HelloTalk
Tandem
they both work pretty much the same, you enter your native language and other languages that you may speak fluently, and which language you’d like to learn. then you’ll be matched with people who want to learn your language and who speaks the language that you want to learn
talking:
talking is the most essential, and hardest part of learning a language. i practice talking by repeating words from Duolingo and Babbel and reading out loud from books. if you’re using Tandem or HelloTalk you can also video chat and send audio messages back and forth. there’s always the classic way of practicing by talking in the shower or with your pet! the best way to learn how to speak in your target language though would be to go to the country where the language is spoken
i think the most important thing to think about when starting a new language is to emerge yourself in it as much as you possibly can, and making the language a natural part of your day
i hope this post was helpful! if anyone has some other tips, feel free to put them in the comments or in the reblogs, good luck!
The most beautiful thing I’ve seen in all my Korean language learning.
*saw on pinterest*
THANK U, PERSON WHO MADE THIS
100days of languages: Day 4
My chosen prompt for today is: Learn 3 swear words.
Is it obvious, that i am procastrinating on grammar? Anyway, i looked up korean swearing, and while there were some noice phrases, i decided to stick with the basics.
Also, i no longer really need to look at my cheat-cheat for hangul to read it. YAY!
년 - bitch /nyeon/
놈 - bastard /nom/
좆 - dick /joj/ but the website said it was /jot/, i am really not sure
Langblr 25 challenge: 1
I am doing this for italian, since i still can’t say any grammatically correct sentence in korean. (Neither in italian, but at least i know what a correct sentence would look like)
My chosen prompt for today is: Write a little bit about yourself - name, gender, age, where you live
Mi chiamo Lilla, e sono una studentessa ungerese. Ho 16 anni. Sono basso (160 centimetri) e chiuso, ma ho molti amici. Non sono molto sportivo, ma, mi piacono nuotare e il calcio. Io supporto AS Roma e Ferencváros. (Le mie squadre non sono le migliore, ma loro hanno i bravissimi sostenitori!)
Abito vicino a Budapest, in una piccola città. Lo non é molto interessante. Lo ha una zoo, niente altri interessanti punti.
Ho un cane, si chiama Molli. Lei é grande, grasso, e puzzolente, ma non voglio scambiare lo per niente.
100 days of languages: Day3
My chosen prompt for today is: Watch a movie/episode from a series subbed or dubbed in your target language.
I always wanted to get into kdramas (yep, i am learning korean, but have never watched any korean show, ever), so for today, i chose the promising looking “My Girlfriend is a Gumiho“, to take a small look at the style of these kind of series.
IT IS SO QUIRKY AND SWEET: Over the top in a charming way. I like it, but i only had time to get halway through the first ep.
But maybe a period drama or the one with the military would have been more my taste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Understanding anything is currently above my level, but i at least now know that koreans too, have nine-tailed fox legends.
And oh, i watched it with subs.
Random words i think i’ve caught:
구미호 - Nine-tailed fox /gumiho/
아이스크림 - Ice-cream /aiseukeulim/
소고기 - Beef /sogogi/
Doing listening exercises
100 days of languages: Day 2
My chosen prompt for today is: Learn 15 new words
Extra: 한국어 - korean
This marks day 3 of me learning korean. I still know exactly zero grammar, but i feel a bit more confident in my hangul (i finally learned what the alpahebt’s name is! yay), and duolingo taught me some new words. I used this amazing website to type in the words, and checked the proununciation using google translate.
너ㅣ - yes /neoi/
빵 - (a) bread /bbang/ but may be /ppang/
사과 - (an) apple /sagwa/
학교 - (a) school /haggyo/
집 - (a) house /jib/
장소 - place /jangso/ but this one might actually be 창소 /changso/
음식이 - food/(a) meal /eumsigi/
아이 - child /ai/
보드카 - vodka /bodeuka/ (CUTEST WORD, I LOVE IT. IM GONNA CALL VODKA BODÓKA FROM NOW ON)
저는 - I (am) /jeoneun/
동물이 - (an) animal /dongmoli/
아닙니다 - am not /anibnida/
사람 - person /salam/
맡은 일 - a thing /mateunil/
집을 - home/house /jibeul/
Langblr 25 challenge!
Most langblrs are here because we’re desperate to learn more, and many of us (especially those who are self-teaching) have limited opportunities to write in their target language and get feedback on it. So this challenge is intended to help fix that a little.
I have collected a list of 25 topics to write about. The topics are picked so that anyone can do them; you can write a few simple sentences, or you can aim to advanced language use. Whichever you use is up to you. I really want to encourage people to write in their target language, and to get feedback from native or advanced speakers of it.
If you have a particular area you would like correction or help on, then just include this as a note at the end of the text.
TIPS - 1. Spread them out a bit. Don’t try to do multiple a day, or even one every day; take your time, and think on the feedback you get. 2. You can do as many or as few of these as you like, just tell us which one you have picked at the top of your text, and then write your stuff. 3. Tag it ‘langblr25’ so that we can find them easily - it makes it easier to help each other mark them.
IMPORTANT - the only way this can work is if people will correct each others, so please, please do try to help other people out and PLEASE be kind in your corrections.
THE TOPICS -
1. A little bit about yourself - name, gender, age, where you live 2. Something about your family 3. An activity you enjoy doing and why 4. An activity you do not like doing and why 5. Describe an outfit you wear often, and why you like it 6. Describe a sport you did in school, include the uniform you wore. 7. Draw a really simple map and then write instructions on how to navigate it (left, right, crossroads, forwards, stop, etc) and include a picture of the map. 8. A book you like and why 9. Write a fake email and pretend you are booking a room in a city in a country where your target language is spoken. 10. Think of a place you like and describe the landscape. 11. Do you have any pets? Describe them. If you don’t, tell us about a pet you would like and why. 12. Tell us about a place you would like to go, and why. 13. Tell us about your house of bedroom or garden (or all three on separate days) 14. Do you enjoy studying? Tell us why or why not. 15. Write about any subject you wish. 16. Tell us about a stuffed toy you have/had. 17. Pick a random flower and describe it. 18. What kind of job do you want, and why? 19. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money? 20. Talk about a habit you have. 21. Give some advice (on any subject) in your target language. 22. Pick up the book closest to you, and translate the first paragraph (remember to include the name and author for copyright rules) 23. Your ideal sleeping situation - time, light, type of bed, place, sounds, etc 24. Tell us about some food and/or drink you like. 25. Tell us why you are learning this language in the first place.
I understand that lots of people don’t like to give out real personal information, so feel free to make stuff up for those types of questions.
Gotta do this for italian. I have vocab, but can’t, for the love of god, make sentences happen.
100days of languages: Day 1
My chosen prompt for today is: Learn 5 new words.
I literally started learning korean yesterday, so i really need me some vocab. I learned these using duolingo, so i can only hope for their correctness. The biggest challenge though, was typing these in. (I FREAKINg love the korean alphabet, but it is not really sutiable for the internet) I also tried writing out what i think they are proununced as.
노래 - song /dorae/
여자 - (a) woman /yeoja/
남자들 - (a) man /namjadeul/
연필 - (a) pencil /yeonpil/
책 - (a) book /chaeg/
