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[Korean Audio Blog] 한국어말하기대회 예선

[blog post written on Sat night] hahaha I can’t even remember the last time I did an audio blog, so I gave up numbering ><;; Just feel like recording something today, so just impromptu speech! Sorry if I’m incoherent! Tired. I still can’t make my mind where to upload my audio blogs MMMMM youtube? this

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Pronunciation Tips: Practicing the aegyo intonation

Hey! Don’t skip this post just because you are a guy! There are some things for you here too. I’ve been thinking about my own Korean pronunciation and how to improve it. And also thoughts about how to improve Korean pronunciation in general. One problem I noticed is that many people can’t get the Korean

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의성어 and 의태어: The basics

I don’t write social commentary. I write on language learning. I’ll stay a geeky language girl and write about learning Korean and Japanese. lol. What I do best. Now to my favorite topic: Korean Onomatopoeia!! Decided to dig through my blog and I realized that I’ve written a few articles on it. First article in

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[Korean Pronunciation Guide] 받침의 발음 Part 1

Taken from 표준어 규정 ->   제2부 표준 발음법 ->   제4장 받침의 발음 This is part of a running series of the rules and guide to the standard Korean pronunciation by the Korean government, known as the 표준어 규정. It’s readily available on various sites in Korean, but I have yet to come across an English

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Sounds of Korean: Where exceptions exceed regularities Part 1

Did a ‘revamp’ of the Korean language resources page. Hopefully it will be neater and accessible ^^ 3.5 years of learning Korean, and I still don’t have the confidence that I can pronounce everything correctly. There’s so many sound changes, some regular and some irregular and things are not as simple as they seem. That’s

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며칠? 몇 일?

Currently reading this book titled 인터넷에서 가장 많이 틀리는 한국어. It talks about the common mistakes that even Koreans make – in writing/speaking etc. It’s a great book for us Korean learners and it’s interesting to compare the kinds of mistakes we make. Sometimes, there are some mistakes that I’ll never make, but they may

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발음 규칙 (2) – Hanja beginning with ㄹ

I must be crazy. I have a phonetics final exam next tues and here I am, blogging about Korean phonology instead. >,< Now you know where my priorities lie.. Previously, I’ve blogged about how 한자 starting with ㄴ have different pronunciation and written rules depending on their positions in the word. Something similar is going

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