Sunday 14 June 2009

Korea Folk Tales from the Korea Society

I found these 4 podcasts of Korean folktales that are available throught the koreasociety.org

I think the folktales are common or popular enough in Korea and the narrative is through english. I am sure you will agree there are universal themes between korean and western tales.

4 downloads are specifically devotes to the tales. These are available on itunes or can be accessed directly on the Korea Society site.

The podcasts can also be accessed directly via the following links,

A, B, C, and D.

Happy listening


Tuesday 5 May 2009

TOPIK 파이팅!!!


온을 한국에서 책이 받았어요, "Complete Guide to the TOPIK".  책은 안 비싸요 - 16,000원 이에요, 그러지만 우님은 (postage) 너무 비쌌어요!   

The book says the next TOPIK exam will be Sat 19 September.  If so, I aim to be in better shape for the rematch!  It will still be tough, but entering the exam is a good incentive to study.

Here's a good website with lots of practical information about TOPIK






Sunday 3 May 2009

AZNV.TV


Hi. Just wanted to say that by signing up to aznv.tv you can access a large number of Korean TV Shows and Movies online. A number of these have subtitles also.

Sunday 26 April 2009

 I think we all need to step up to the mark and show them what we're made of in the korean writing competition. 

When I found out about the parallel korean translation competition, i did think of the enclosed picture, so I'm hoping there might be hope for me, to get a couple of points on the board.

Anyone else taking part?

Thursday 16 April 2009

노래를 부릅시다!



Enjoy the beauty of hangul with this easy to follow sing-a-long!
(click it to watch)

Two new vocabulary items somehow closely related to the TOPIK test:

마주치다  To crash    타다  To burn      


Saturday 4 April 2009

오늘은 한국어를공부하였습니까?






안녕하십니까? 주말이 재미 있습니까?



This week I've been trying to get to KCC for an hour or two each day, and had the dubious pleasure of seeing the Korean 'First Lady' on Tuesday. Slowly plodding through the Reading and Writing books, going over the old lessons. One difference between the books and our lessons, is that the books are mainly in the polite formal register - hence the title and opening sentence written (hopefully without too many errors) in the polite formal interrogative. This, I think, will be good training for the TOPIK exam.

Thursday 2 April 2009

Sat at work bored? Then focus on grammar

I've found the online version of the wiki-books Korean tutorials, it's quite grammar focussed but there are a few sections which have some vocabulary lists. If you are sat at home or work and haven't got your books with you then this is a good place to get some extra vocab. 

Enjoy!

Wednesday 1 April 2009

TOPIK Topic 1 - 자기소개

This section references the online wikibook; might be worth reading it again to remember.

I copied this out of the back of the listening book, probably worth listening over and over and learning. For introductions, we just have the basic grammar and a small amount of vocabulary. However, for writing we are likely to be asked to do a self introductions, which we can all discuss what needs to be added to our introductions.

1. 
(사회자는 전체적으로 밝고 경괘한 목소리로 힘있게 말한다.)
A (여사회자): 오늘 쾨즈 쇼의 손님을 소개하겠습니다. 어서 나와 주십시오. (등장하는 음악 소리).
A (여사회자): (경쾌한 목소리로) 어서 오십시오. 자기소개를 부탁드립니다. 
B (피에르): 안녕하세요? 저는 피에르입니다.직업은 의사이고 프랑스에서 솼습니다.
A (여사회자): 네, 피에르 씨. 겅말 반갑습니다.

2.
A (여사회자): 다음 분 나와 주십시다. (등장하는 음악 소리)
B (아사코): 안녕하세요? 아사코입니다. 일본에서 왔습니다. 만나서 반갑습니다.
A (여사회자): 네, 아사코 씨. 지금 무슨 일을 하세요?
B (아사코): 한생입니다.
A (여사회자): 네, 반갑습니다.

3.
A (여사회자): 네, 그럼 오늘의 마지막 무입을 하세요. (등장하는 음악 소리)
B (톰): 안녕하십니까? 톰이라고 합니다. 
A (여사회자): 무슨 일을 하십니까?
B (톰): 중학교 선생입니다.
A (여사회사): 아, 네, 선생님이십니까? 감사합니다.

Vocab and self introductions below...

Online Dictionaries

Anyone found anything better than the zKorean dictionary online? There must be something out there which is a little better than this and doesn't demand premium payments for relatively straightforward things. 


Tuesday 31 March 2009

Korean Online Radio Stations

I'm currently looking for 'working' online radio stations in Korean for people to practise their listening skills. I'll keep this updated.

Topic 1 Exam questions! What do they all mean!

I don't really know what they mean, so let's find out:

<보기> 와 가이 그림을 보고 (    ) 에 알맞은 갓을 고리십시오. (각 3점) 


<보기> 와 같이 밑줄 친 부분과 반대되는 뜻을 가진 것을 고르십시오.


와 같이 밑줄 친 부운의 의미와 비슷한 것을 고르십시오. 


보기 와 같이 밑줄 친 부분과 반대되는 뜻을 가진 것을 고르십시.


보기 와 같이 밑줄 친 것과 의미가 같은 것을 고르십시오


보기 와 같이 ( )에 알맞은 것을 고르십시오.


보기 와 같이 밑줄 친 부분이 틀린 것을 고르십시오


다음을 읽고 물음에 답하십시오


보기 와 같이 빈칸에 알맞은 것을 고르십시오

Vocabulary-a-Day

If anyone is looking for a great place to learn some vocabulary every day (10 a day) and have something to listen to on your ipod, then try wordshowers. It's pretty good and has MP3s to download. I actually found a version of these pre-downloaded and most of the vocab from the site in an excel file, so give me a shout if you want it.