Exploration of the Korean Culture

Over the past few weeks I've done a lot of exploring the Korean culture. While it could be informative to tell you all what exactly I've learned, I think I'll point you in the direction I went and then you can just learn on your own:)

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/

^ This, ladies and gentlemen, is where it's at.

Eat Your Kimchi is both a blog and YouTube channel. The hosts, Simon and Martina, are a Canadian couple who have been living in South Korea since 2008. They make blog posts and videos about their lives and Korean culture (language too). They've provided hours of entertainment for me and I've learned a lot along the way. I've found that, for me, learning a language is just as much learning the language as it is learning the culture; they go hand in hand. So, finding this resource is awesome and I advise you all to check it out!

Below are a couple cartoons of Simon and Martina from their website:

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A lot of what I've been doing lately as it pertains to the Korean language has been vocab. I am on the introductions and people and family section of the Living Language program. I think a majority of what I will accomplish during my 20-time experience will be learning vocab.

I've found that I definitely took for granted just how much vocab I already knew when going into Spanish 1 freshman year. I mean, all of elementary school and part of middle school was spent building up and ingraining basic Spanish vocab into my brain. So in Spanish 1 grammar started to be introduced and we began to form our own sentences. That's sort of what I had expected going into 20-time.

Yeah, that's not the case.

Learning Korean, I'm starting from ground level; I have no prior years of knowledge to help. So as much as I want to get into grammar and start forming my own sentences, I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
Vocab first. Patience is key.

Now it's my favorite part of the post... Song of the Week!
This time around it is 'Exodus' by EXO. They released a new album over spring break so I thought it was appropriate to include a song from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3tZDMrR9I


Thank you for checking out my blog!
Lauren