News & Updates #11: What have you been up to?

For the past two months, I’ve been too idle when it comes to updating this blog and also studying Korean. I’ve been too hooked with other stuff that I neglected this space for a long time. So to make up for my inactivity, I decided to make this post and list down things that have been going on for the past months.

First off, KoreaNthusiast. Since I took this twitter account for granted for the past two months, I will be posting three new words each day for the month of November to catch up. You may have noticed that I already placed three new words for this day. I also started reading Integrated Korean so the words that will show up at KoreaNthusiast will mostly be at the beginner’s level and will coincide to the words that I will be learning.

Next, I recently joined a community built by our dear friend Hyunwoo Sun. Learn Korean now has 100+ members. It would be great to have you in the family.

So what are you waiting for? Join now!

Learn Korean is a community website for everyone who wants to learn Korean, make friends and practice Korean together! ^^ – Hyunwoo

Third, I started reading Integrated Korean Beginning 1 and I’m planning to post my answers in the exercises at the end of each lessons here. The book doesn’t have any answer key and I’m not studying at a school or with a teacher so I don’t know if my answers are right or wrong so your comments and corrections would really help me learn a lot more.

Lastly, I changed the Detour page in a more organized way since the old one is really messed up. I also added new links to other Korean Learners like me. Let’s us all welcome ChocoKorea, Jeannie and Kat to the family!

Leap.Fly.Soar.

I just made a new blog. I know I have a lot of blogs already but I just tried out making a blog at Cyworld. I’ve already made a minihompy so I decided to make a Korean blog too. Here’s a screenshot of the said blog:

It’s just plain. I don’t know how to add cute layouts. I think I need to buy them first.

What I like about this blog is I can have four blogs at the same time. I can have a personal blog (diary), I can also have my language blog, a photoblog and a videoblog. Cool right?

Visit Leap.Fly.Soar now!

Oh, you can also leave me a message there. How? Click Guestbook. On the first box that says ‘이름’, type your name. Type a password at the next box. The password will be used if in case you want to delete or edit your message. Next, place a link to your blog or site, you can just leave it as is if you don’t have any. And then type in your message. Then click 학인 to post the message. Oh another message popped-up? Just click ok. Hope to see your message there.

Advance Happy Hangeul Day!

I just learned from Hyunwoo ssi that this coming Friday, October 9th, Koreans will be celebrating Hangeul Day (한글날).

Anyways, if you want to join the celebration watch this video.

해피 한글날 여러분!

P.S. I’m not really sure how Koreans greet each other on 한글날 I just assumed it’s “Happy Hangeul Day” in Korean of course.

Won a subscription!

Yay! After a month of waiting. The result for the contest is finally up and I found out that I won in Innovative Language’s contest.

I won a subscription at KoreanClass101.Com just by following them on Twitter. Though I really hadn’t won a 1-year premium subscription, it’s okay ’cause it’s worth the wait and what more can I ask for, I’ve won a contest. Yipee! It’s in my to achieve list, and I have won like two or three contests already.

Anyway, KC101 and the other language sites by Innovative Language has this promo–25% off all subscriptions. It’s their way of saying “Thank you!” to all their subscribers. The promo runs until September 12, 2009 at 11:59 EST.

So what are you waiting for? Subscribe now!

New Korean Books!

I’m sorry I haven’t been updating this site much lately. I also forgot to update KoreaNthusiast. I will try to post the words later today.

I just want to share that I just received the books I ordered at Barnes and Noble.

It was suggested by a dear friend from Hangukdrama, Shanna. She suggested the KLEAR (Korean Language Education and Research Center) Series. I got six books–three textbooks and three workbooks, from beginner 1 to intermediate 1.

If you also want to buy the said books, I suggest you buy it in Barnes and Noble. They have this promo on textbooks where you can buy them at a member’s only discounted price. That means 10% off  of the online price.

If you may ask how much I got the books, I got them for only $86.77 which is a good price for six books. The books are also shipped for free. So it’s really a happy day for me.

I will be posting the photos of the books and workbooks later on. See you in a while. XD

Here are the books!

Integrated Korean Textbooks

Integrated Korean Workbooks