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| Youngbin Diglot Newbie Korea, South youngbinlee.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5222 days ago 24 posts - 30 votes Speaks: Korean*, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 1 01 June 2011 at 6:44am | IP Logged |
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After reading many people's learning logs, I finally decided to start my own learning
log. I'm Korean who is into learning different languages, well, obviously. I have been studying English, Japanese and Spanish in chronological order. Just like any other ordinary Koreans, I've met this new foreign language called English when I was in a middle school. I've been studying English even since. I've never had a chance to go abroad to study English. However, I've got interested in English and other foreign languages when I was in college. So I've tried many different things to improve my English such as watching massive TV shows, reading books and communicating with real people. I consider myself fairly fluent in English. But there is always room for improvement, and my primary goal is to refine the outputs, speaking and writing. To do that, not only I need to practice speaking and writing, also I need to read and listen. I don't consider particularly studying English is something I should do as a goal of this year. This is now a part of my life. I enjoy many things through English, TV, movies, books, podcasts, and etc. Having said that, probably I might not write something about English as often as other two relatively newer languages I'd like to focus. Whoa, that was long. I'd keep this simpler. Japanese. It's been a little more than 3 years since I started learning Japanese. As a Korean, Japanese is one of the easiest languages that Korean people can learn. Maybe only one language that Korean can truly relate to. *Sigh* Considering a way shorter time I put into Japanese compared to English, my Japanese speaking is not bad. The biggest problem that I have, probably just like everybody else who is studying Japanese, is Kanji, it means reading! These days, I'm more focusing on reading. Of course, improving speaking skill shouldn't be abandoned. I mainly use LingQ as a tool for this purpose. After a couple of weeks of reading at LingQ, I'm already feeling much more confident in recognizing many Kanjis. Spanish. Okay. I should admit that 2011 is the second year of my Spanish and I absolutely do NOT feel like it. My Spanish sounds like someone who only studies Spanish a couple of weeks. Greetings. Introduction. Present tense for every situation. Main focus is to enhance my vocabulary! Right now, I'm reviewing something called "Spanish Top 2000 words" I'm not really a big fan of SRSing word only cards, but it seems the fastest way to cover the basics. I am also trying to read easy articles at LingQ and listen to some podcasts for beginners such as coffee break Spanish. Fortunately, I have a Mexican friend who wants to study Korean. I'm going to do some language exchange with him, which I don't have any clue how to proceed yet. I'm planning to leave my language learning log here at least once a week to keep myself motivated. Any comments are going to be appreciated. :) Thanks! Edited by Youngbin on 01 June 2011 at 6:53am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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