Comments on: Intensive Listening

By: Anno

Anno — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:16:34 +0000

Gav, where is this Super Juniors Kiss the Radio podcast?

By: Gav

Gav — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:23:18 +0000

Haha, wow, I have never noticed that drop down box before… I must have some kind of spot blindness.

By: GoldFibre

GoldFibre — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:37:40 +0000

There is a post categories drop down box on the left, but maybe it isn’t clear what it is for and a direct link would be better.

I’ve seen that podcast listed before, but haven’t listened to it yet, so I’ll check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Gav

Gav — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:29:45 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Have you thought about putting a tab on the side where the articles can be posted together? Otherwise, if someone happens upon your blog a month from now they will never find this as part of the normal blog, and that would be a shame.

Also can I recommend Super Juniors Kiss the Radio podcast. It is filled with music, laughter and nonsense. If you HAD to listen to a podcast without understanding it would be a good one to listen to.

By: GoldFibre

GoldFibre — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:28:23 +0000

Well hopefully you can find something in Arabic that can keep your attention!

Good luck with your studies.

By: fey

fey — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:21:36 +0000

I love the weather girl idea! Unfortunately I haven’t found that many attractive Arabic-speaking male newscasters yet… guess I’ve just got to keep looking .

I don’t study Korean, but this post has been really helpful for me.

By: GoldFibre

GoldFibre — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:48:17 +0000

@Warp3 Similar to your ripped variety show, ripping audio from shows or movies that have Korean subtitles has been helpful for me as well. I also used Quicktime Pro to cut out all the non-dialogue parts and make it more compact. It’s a good in-between to listen to before straight podcasts or radio.

@Max You’re welcome~

By: Warp3

Warp3 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:43:14 +0000

This was a very useful article for two reasons:

1) I’ve recently been running into the “I like listening to music, but I should be listening to podcasts instead” scenario very often, but I don’t understand all that much from either yet, so the music is far more fun. Fortunately, I do find the “judy” podcasts from http://blog.naver.com/ke2565 somewhat interesting even though I often have no clue what she is saying. I think this is partly because she speaks very clearly, so I can pick out many more words and phrases from her podcasts than from most others. Also I have an MP3 that I ripped from a Korean variety show (that I’ve watched a ton of times; I still don’t know everything they are saying, but the visual clues help a lot with context), so that one is both fun and useful to listen to (because my mind flashes back to the fun visual context while listening).

2) I now have to check out this “watching the weather in Korean” thing. I’d never really thought of that is an immersion source before.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:55:04 +0000

You did it! Yay!
Seriously, thanks a bunch, man!

By: GoldFibre

GoldFibre — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:59:21 +0000

It’s a funny sound effect that might happen after a “startling” revelation. You’ll see it on a show like 무한도전 every now and then. In English we might say “dun dun duuun.”