You may have noticed that recently I’ve been showing off my Japanese skillz. Or maybe better put for some of y’all, my lack there of. ๐ Well what I haven’t done yet is show off my Korean.ย Did say I was gonna be learning both Japanese AND Korean didn’t I? So yeah here it finally is, my absolutely amazing Korean skillz. Not sure if you’re ready for them fam?
์๋ ํ์ธ์! ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตฌ์์ ๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ์ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. “์.” ๋ด๊ฐ Kpop์ ์ข์ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๋ ๋ฒ์ญ์์ด ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
ํ์ด์ ๋น์ด์ฃผ์ธ์!
[Hi! My name is Miguel. I recently started to learn Korean. “Why.” Because I like Kpop. I hope to be able to listen to Korean music without translation.
Wish me luck!]
…ok….so maybe I still can’t say much. But hey, before I couldn’t say/write anything so it’s still progress at least. riiight? ๐ At least I got base to build off of. Gotta focus on the positives sometimes.
It’s totally gonna take awhile, and a sh*t ton of work, but I promise to one day be able to do a full on k-pop review for you peeps in Korean! In fact I think that’s gonna be my main goal going forward. I recently did a sort of recommendation slash review in Japanese so I know it’s possible. Let’s see if I can do a super simple one within 3 months. ๐๐
I’ll keep you posted on my progress. See you peeps again soon. ๐
P.S. a sub goal of mine is gonna be to create a proper “in korean” self introduction for the “about me” section of my blog. Since this is mainly a “k-pop” blog it only seems fair to put up something on there.
I was using Drop app to help me learn some Korean but didn’t get far. I just don’t have the time! But I did get as far as learning some words for basic food and types of meals. That’s it though. My goal was to try and get the proper pronunciation so at least I could learn how to pronounce k-pop lyrics better and more efficiently when I read the romanticized versions. Having said that, it would be good for me to learn some Korean as our goal is to do a vacation in Asia in 2021. South Korea is one stop – main time will be in China (and I can speak Mandarin).
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Yeah not having the time will make it hard. Thats like one of the most key things you need. Lol but i think you can still do it. ๐ I recommend you continue. Learning only a word here and there may seem like nothing but it starts to add up.
Plus it helps you get a “feel” for the language. And when you do find some time to properly learn, you’ll be grateful to not have to start from the very beginning.
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I naturally picked up ‘one, two, three… (hana dul ses)’ from watching RUN BTS! episodes! And ‘Thank you (gomabseubnida)” but that was just from growing up here in Toronto and going to a lot of Korean/Japanese restaurants.
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P. S. I’m a really long way away but after Japanese and Korean I totally wanna learn Mandarin and Cantonese next.
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Good luck with your goal of creating an about me section written entirely in Korean. I have been learning for awhile now as well and I don’t even have that goal yet. Great post, happy studies.
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Many thanks๐
Good luck with your studies as well. About how long have you been studying?
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I have studied six months at the local Korean Cultural Center in LA and six months in S.K. I’m still considered Level 1 though.
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That’s pretty awesome though! So far all my language learning has been through self study. When I free up some time I hope to take some actual classes. don’t know when though. lol
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Yes, it can be time consuming to go to an actual class and then study. However, it’s great for meeting other S.K. (kpop/kdrama) fans.
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Best of luck, kwenzqoatl! I’d love to continue learning Korean some day so I’m excited to see where you go with it!
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It’s tricky since all my learning is through self study, however, I hope to one day be fluent!
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Wow that’s crazy! I need to have a teacher or something so I don’t procrastinate all the time so that’s really impressive
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์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ์ ์์นด์ ๋๋ค. Good job! I am learning too and well you were able to say a lot more than I can ๐ but every little step is a step in the right direction! ํ์ดํ !
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Thanks. ๐
How long have you been learning if you don’t mind me asking?
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Since September. But learning alone and rather unstructured totally shows
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I know the feeling. Even before I tried learning Korean I was already learning Japanese by myself. It’s tough trying to figure it out by yourself but eventually you find your own groove and start building momentum. Just keep on powering through. ๐
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Hi kwenzqoatl! I’m also learning Korean! Glad I found your blog! ์ ํ ์ ์์ด์! ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ฉด ๋ผ์. One thing I found really helped me was shadowing whatever ppl were saying in Korean dramas. I stop the video and follow the sentence. Then I write that down and remember what they said. That’s how I acquired my speaking skills. As for writing.. Please help. Dx
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wow what the hell. good job mate!! hope you succeed. this is a big goal to tackle but i know u can do it! ์ธ์!!
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