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The big challenge in language learning is not pronunciation, nor grammar, it is learning the words. Want to make a breakthrough in your language? Learn with LingQ. Choose from thousands of lessons: http://www.lingq.com/ Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

Listening comprehension is, to me, the key skill, and one that takes time to acquire. Want to make a breakthrough in your language? Learn with LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/ Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ Read the 4-week Korean Challenge summary: http://blog.thelinguist.com/

How can we prevent feeling overburdened, or burned out when we try to learn a language? Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

Patience is a virtue in many spheres, and especially when we want to learn another language. Don't fight the language, let it become your friend. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

Le Coréen sans peine or Assimil for Korean. Some thoughts. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/ Timelines: 0:10 Language learning makes you a better husband. 1:43 Very few people reach C1-C2 level. 3:00 How I went about Assimil Korean. 6:10 My opinion about Luca Lampariello’s claim on Assimil. 8:46 Assimil is worth of 2 hours of listening and text. 10:29 Useless phonetic romanization for Korean. Visit https://www.LingQ.com My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve Follow the new LingQ channel: https://goo.gl/WVnzRS Follow "Steve's Cafe" channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/SteveKaufmann

You will be better able to learn a foreign language, if you find a way to enjoy it. That way you will spend the time necessary for success. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

What advice do I have for Nina who wants to be able to have meaningful conversations in a language after 6 months of study? Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

Language mining means going through texts and digging, saving words and phrases, and then tagging them for later review. This will help these patterns become part of our sense of the language. It is very effective. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

Some days you have to push yourself to keep going. You don't notice the improvement but if you keep going the improvement is there, and every now and then you notice. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

It has been about a year. I feel that I am making progress. The biggest problem is still words, when it comes to understanding what people say. Here is the video of our last discussion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o80iRtruro Here is the rough transcript of today's discussion. Hello, it has been a while since we last spoke. Yes about a year ago. JuHyun, you are at university in Finland, right, learning English and Finnish. What is your major? International business. What percent of students are international students and where are they from? 20% are international students, from Lebanon, Mexico, Africa and many countries I started my 90 day challenge for Korean, others at LingQ are doing the challenge in other languages. I am doing the challenge in Finnish. I am doing lots of listening and reading, the most interest material is from Chosun Ilbo where I learn not only the language but learn about domestic and international political issues, economic issues etc, in Korea. Can you read Finnish newspapers. Yes a little. Do you import them to LingQ. No I don't read them on the Internet. How long will you stay? Till 2016. How often do you get back to Korea? I have only been once. I want to travel in Europe, to Sweden. Latvia, Riga and St. Petersburg are near and very interesting especially in June. You will be fluent in Finnish by 2016. Not many Koreans are fluent in Finnish. Not many Finns are fluent in Korean. I have a friend who is studying Korean because of K-pop. Songs and drama. Korean drama is still too difficult for me, maybe in a month or two. I hope to talk to you again. I will record our discussions as a record of my progress. OK. Bye. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/

A great day, but limited progress in Korean, but I bought some material from Talk to me in Korean. Follow me on my diary: http://yearinthelife.thelinguist.com/ and my blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ Take the 90-Day Challenge at LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/