Monthly Archive: September 2017
My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth by: Wendy E. Simmons Lexplorers rating: 8.5/10 Amazon.com average customer rating: 4.2/5 Continuing our series of Lexplorers reviews of “What Were They Thinking? travel...
I had heard a lot about Duolingo from other language learners who were using it to study a variety of languages. When I started the Couch to Korean Challenge, Duolingo did not offer Korean,...
There is an English idiom “to drink from the firehose,” which means to attempt to make some sense from an overwhelming quantity of information. This is a perfect metaphor for the past couple...
This phase of the Couch to Korean Challenge has been all about building vocabulary, and in the process I have explored and evaluated many different Korean vocabulary resources. In this post I will share...
Round Ireland With a Fridge by Tony Hawks Lexplorers rating: 7/10 Amazon.com average customer rating: 4.4/5 The Lexplorers summer reading list included a fairly diverse range of topics, from our usual linguistics and...
During this phase of the Couch to Korean Challenge, I have been focusing almost exclusively on vocabulary. Building vocabulary is the most important part of learning any new language. Unfortunately for me, Korean...