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my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!

as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.

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Sentence Mining

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Linked above is the thing I’m making in Notion to help me and hopefully other people find videos that they can sentence mine easily.

If you don’t know what sentence mining is you can watch a video about it here.

Since I’m kind of on my own with this here. I figured I might as well try to help other people like me.

People who want to learn Korean, but can’t seem to talk to people no matter how hard they try. Getting started can be difficult, but as long as you keep trying, fluency is inevitable in my mind.

To me, humans are hard wired to figure out ways to communicate with each other.

We’re social animals. Communication is what we do. No matter how hard it gets we will always find a way to communicate. No language barrier will ever be too great to overcome. Success is inevitable as long as you never give up. Never forget that.

#langblr #language #korean langblr #language learning #한국어 #studyblr #Anki #migaku #sentence mining

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Korean Word of the Day

대신에

Instead

#is it queue dough?

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Migaku, Vivaldi and the Agony of Sentence Mining

I've been sentencing mining with quite a bit of difficulty for a few months and I finally figured out what was causing my issues.

Basically the Vivaldi browser has a feature that I loved to use while sentence mining that would eventually break Migaku almost every single time.

This feature is called web panels. I added Papago and Naver Dictionary to it since it incredibly easy to double check the meaning of the words I was mining. I have no experience with programming so I can't explain why this happens exactly, but my current theory is the web panels act like a different tab. Which is fine normally, but if you have recording turned on in Migaku it automatically turns off sometimes when I use the web panels.

When that happens I get a bit frustrated and turn recording back on. However if I use the web panels too much Migaku eventually stops being able to generate Anki cards. Unfortunately I haven't been able to fix the problem besides quitting sentence mining for the rest of the day.

So my advice is this:

Do NOT use web panels in Vivaldi while sentence mining with Migaku. Open your dictionary in a separate tab instead.

Please keep in mind that I use the legacy version of Migaku. (Which the devs have basically abandoned.)

#langblr #korean langblr #language learning #language #vivaldi browser #migaku #sentence mining

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Korean Word of the Day

고치다

To fix something

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I’ve heard this word a lot and had no idea what it meant. This helps me out a lot. Thank you!

Korean Word of the Day

꼭

Tightly

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My favourite part of learning a language related to your mother tongue (or to an L2 you’re fluent in) is the confidence with which you get things wrong

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some people think im weird because i love czech and czech hat-letters so much. but ask yourself.... where would the world be without weird people or things?

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Hello language learners!

Have you tried Librivox?

It's a website that has public domain audio books in TONS (47 to be exact) of languages! (my followers, yes, it has Finnish too!)

You can find loads of free books on there! I recommend it a lot!

For Finnish books, I noticed they even have Seitsemän Veljestä which is a must-read for every Finnish student.

Here's a link:

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that feeling when you write a fckn essay of a letter on slowly to someone in your target language and even though oftentimes you have to dumb your wording down because you don't know that many idiomatic expressions yet you still get your point across and can discuss complex topics and Actually Communicate with someone. that feeling

#I hope I can experience this feeling too one day

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Cute iPhone games that you can play in Korean!

I’ve been studying for a little while and recently decided to start playing some mobile games in Korean. I have links to both Idol related and not Idol related iPhone games, so you have a little more variety!

👾 Non-Kpop 👾

Campfire Cafe

Cats&Soup

🎶 Kpop 🎶

SuperStar ATEEZ

STARWAY ATEEZ

Rhythm Hive

BTS Island: In the SEOM

If anyone knows about more apps feel free to let me know and I’ll try to add them!

Getting Things Set Up

When you open the app you’ll probably notice that these games are most likely in English or whichever language your phone is in. There are two ways to change this. You can either change the language settings in the app itself or go into your phone’s settings and change them there.

This isn’t limited to just games though. You can also change the language of multiple apps without changing the language that your phone is in.

For example:

My phone is primarily in English except for YouTube and two games that I play. This makes things a lot less stressful for me since nothing that I might need in an emergency is in anything other than English. Making life a little easier.

#langblr #language #korean langblr #한국어 #language learning #kpop

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swollen hundred

Proto-Indo-European (the ancestor of languages like English, Spanish, German, Hindi, Irish, etc.) didn’t have a word for 1,000.

That’s not too surprising though—most small nomadic communities in history didn’t have to count very high.

So how did early Germanic speakers talk about 1,000?

They combined teu- ‘to swell’ with hund ‘hundred’ to mean ‘swollen hundred’.

That word teus-hund eventually became thousand in Modern English!

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Non-native English speakers are always like "I have to Google so many English words to make sure I'm using them right" as though native English speakers aren't doing the same thing on a daily basis. This language is just Like This.

#I used to google words to check if I spelled them right #There are times when I want to use really old words #so I usually try to double check what their meaning is because I probably learned them when I was a kid #My native language is full of trolls and sometimes that gets people into trouble

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after seeing so many language courses that require subscription or any sort of payment i really started to appreciate icelandic online website bc it has 6 icelandic courses from complete beginner to advanced all completely free. and as someone who actually tried it for 3 months i can say that they're great as well. we really need more of this

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Anyone have any resources for Icelandic? This is the most beautiful sounding language I’ve ever heard in my life and I want to learn it one day!

I’m still trying to reach a conversational level in Korean, so it might be a while before I start learning another language. However I’ve become a bit of a language nerd over the past few years of studying on my own. I haven’t been able to find another language as interesting to me as Korean is until now.

It’s absolutely incredible!

#langblr #language #Icelandic #icelandic language #language learning

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More Korean Sentence Pattern! 🌳 PS: Learn Korean with the best FREE online resources, just click here https://www.koreanclass101.com/learn-with-pdf?src=tumblr_infographic_sentence_pattern_tree_070423