Monthly Archives: June 2010

Day three of my second attempt at learning Korean. Our library at LingQ is growing slowly. I have read “Who is She” parts one and two, saved words and listened to them about 3-4 times each. The other collection loaded into our library was not real… Continue reading →

A ramble about my previous attempt at Korean and how I plan to proceed now that we have Korean at LingQ. Continue reading →

Although I have launched my Korean challenge, and hope to achieve some degree of fluency by December, I cannot get away from listening to Russian and Portuguese. The former because I find Russian fascinating, for the language and for the political… Continue reading →

Here is a video about a proposal to have a reality series on Oprah Winfrey. Contestants would be put in a situation where they have to learn the language and culture of place they do not know. You can vote for the proposal if you like the idea. Continue reading →

Korean {as it is} is a great website devoted to learning Korean. LingQ is a language learning community and platform, offering 11 languages, now that we have just added Korean. These two sites are working together to create a learning environment … Continue reading →

I am charging ahead in Korean. I love the challenge of deciphering a language. Even though I studied some Korean 4 or 5 years ago, when I attack a difficult text today, just about every word has to be looked up. I don’t mind. Even after I look up … Continue reading →

This is our first Korean content. I cannot wait to get started. This sounds like just the kind of interesting personal content that I will happily listen to many times to get a sense of Korean, and then read, and save words and phrases from. Thank… Continue reading →

My wife and I had to attend a wedding in Slave Lake, Alberta. We were busy and had a great time. Amongst other memories, we caught 4 pickerel and 1 pike in about 20 minutes of fishing around 10 at night ( full daylight), cleaned the fish and cut i… Continue reading →

LingQ launched Korean yesterday. To this point there has been no content provided to the library. Given how many people wanted Korean, and the pressure for us to get going with it, I have to say I am disappointed. I hope some of the Korean keeners… Continue reading →

I occasionally tune into the teachers’ forum sponsored by the National Institute for Literacy. My comments are regularly disallowed by the moderator. Here is the latest example. My comments in italics. The subject is the need for intercultural tra… Continue reading →