I finished my book, 가시고기, this morning and then wrote another language learning article. The first one was definitely better than this one since I felt more confident about the subject. Getting good at listening though is such an organic process that it’s hard to turn into instructions, and I am a little worried about misleading people. Still, I hope the tips I laid out will be useful, and what I wrote is exactly what I would tell myself if I could go back in time!
After writing the article I spent some time thinking about what I want to work on next. One of my ideas is to apply my strategy for Hanja to pure Korean verbs. That is, I would memorize a huge number of them by sorting them into groups that look or sound similar. There are a few practical problems with this though. 1) Collecting all the verbs 2) Sorting them properly 3) Giving them accurate, short definitions to memorize them with. Hanja already have these issues solved, but I don’t have a sure-fire way to do it with pure-Korean verbs. It needs a bit more thought before I dive in, and I might just want to finish the Hanja first…
Anyway, I hung out with friends in the evening and then started watching the news when I got home. Writing about watching the news made me want to check it out again, and I found in my new apartment the connection to YTN is good enough for streaming, so I watched a few clips before sleeping.
I really like the idea of grouping Korean-origin 동사 by similar roots, if that’s what you meant.
Actually, I’m not yet sure which roots are Korean and which are Chinese
By the way, your Twitter feed on the left-hand-side of this page isn’t updating.
Thanks, that Twitter plugin has broken a few times, but it should be working now.
I wanted to group the verbs that look similar, but have very different meanings because they are easily confused. One group might be: 구르다, 고르다, 기르다, 굴다, 등등