#learning korean

(Languages taken from the top 10 foreign languages learned on Duolingo in 2024.)

I would like to bring your attention to two fundraisers that are near and dear to my heart.

@elhamhamdan-gaza is a young woman trying to survive in Gaza with her family. She was a top student at university until October 2023, when she and her family were displaced from their home in Khan Younis and forced to flee to Rafah. After the invasion in Rafah, they returned to their home in Khan Younis only to find it burned. They had no choice but to live in it. Elham and her family desperately need funds for blankets and clothes, because winter is here and nights in Gaza are very cold right now.

Elham's campaign is very low on funds! So far they have only been able to raise £594 and they desperately need more support. Please donate to them if you are able, and share this post and campaign with as many people as you can.

This campaign was verified by the Butterfly Effect Project (instagram) and is number 1180 on their spreadsheet, which you can access through the link on their instagram profile.

You can contribute to Elham's campaign by clicking on the link below:

Secondly, @drdarine is a young woman who is a medical student in Gaza. Despite being displaced and suffering hardships we can only imagine, Darine is continuing her studies and helping out others in the refugee camps and shelters in southern Gaza. Her family consists of seven people, one of them being my friend @dawoudi who is selflessly and unfailingly helping many other families in Gaza by verifying their fundraisers and promoting them on Tumblr. Everyday I see more campaigns added that he has verified, providing an important service to the many families in Gaza that need our help.

Darine's family has been fundraising since February, which is almost ten months! Despite that, they have only been able to raise $5,765, 19% of their goal. Progress on their campaign is extremely slow, often needing to wait multiple days for another donation to come in. We can do better than that.

This campaign was vetted by @gazavetters, and is number 15 on their spreadsheet, which you can find in the pinned post on their profile.

You can contribute to Darine's campaign by clicking on the link below:

Please support these fundraisers! Thank you!

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Happy Seollal & Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🧨🍚🔥🐎

It’s a free language learning app called Lingo Legend, and I’m honestly a bit surprised by how much I’m enjoying it.

It’s basically just a vocab game where you’re a farmhand. The game is split between working on your farm and going on adventures.

You can choose what theme of vocab — though it doesn’t seem to be possible to put in your own — and set the pace you wish to play. There’s a daily energy limit, which you can refill by watching ads but there are no ad interruptions.

Supported languages are:

French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Dutch, German, Italian and Portuguese.

Maybe I’m just late to the party and everyone already knows about it but I rarely see it talked about.

More info on the KSI website here. They have 10-week semester courses for different levels, ranging from Beginner to Advanced, special reading and writing courses for advanced learners, and an introductory 5-week course where you just learn to read and write Hangeul.

I started learning Korean last year with them, and five semesters in (and coming closer to 3급), I SWEAR by these classes.

The teachers are changing each semester, so it takes some time to grow accustomed to the new teaching style, but all the teachers I had are absolute cuties that I learn a lot from. The program has a lot of grammar and requires quite a lot of self-study in addition to the classes, but to me, it works perfectly.

(they also have all the courses in the self-learning format, so if you want, you can just do the exercises, watch videos, and go through books without the live classes)

You may ask why am I tagging this post as ATEEZ. Well, that's because these courses quite literally made me an Atiny.

At the first lessons of my first ever course the teacher often asked us why we decided to learn Korean.

And for me, it was complicated, because I've long been interested in Korean arthouse films, so there was always this inerest. And then I watched Squid Game season 2, and that was my "wait a minute, I really love how this language sounds"-moment.

And then I impulsively made a New Year resolution to start a new language, so here I was.

The thing is, we only spoke Korean from the very beginning, so all of it would be hard to explain using the words I knew at the time. So I decided to come up with a fake reason, that being K-pop. <- just one word! perfectly realistic to say!

It seemed all of my groupmates but me were into K-pop, while I didn't know much about it. Saying I'm into BTS or Seventeen was not an option, because there were Armys and Carats in my group, and I baselessly feared of them exposing me in some way.

I went on a Youtube spree, looking for a group I could mention in passing. ATEEZ seemed like an okay choice, so I got to work. I learned their names just in case; watched one music video (Ice on My Teeth! I didn't like it at all - but then, for some reason, revisited it in a week); sat through an episode of a variety show marveling who even watches this; arbitrarily picked a bias (Seonghwa, still in my bias line).

I'm new to Tumblr and I created this account to dive more into the cultural aspects and language of humans, hoping to meet an awesome buddy/penpal to help with the study process so we can both help motivate each other and learn!

I have always loved learning new stuff, as a lot of things in this world have intrigued me.

The languages I'm currently learning are the following listed to priority:

Currently Studying:

🇩🇪 1. German (3+ years, around A~B).

🇯🇵 2. Japanese (off and on).

🇫🇷 3. French (beginner!).

On Hold:

🇨🇳 Chinese.

🇪🇸 Spanish.

🤟 ASL (American Sign Language).

Haven't Started:

🇧🇷 Portuguese (Brazillian).

🇷🇺 Russian.

🇰🇷 Korean.

✨️ Latin.

Might Want to Learn:

🇸🇪🇫🇮 Scandinavian Languages.

🇦🇪 Arabic.

🇮🇩 Indonesian.

🇺🇦 Ukranian.

If you thought, "hey, these languages align with the one(s) I'm studying right now!", then feel free to send me a message! *Even if It's non-language related, feel free to send me a message about culture, music, your interests, etcetera!

Things to keep in mind:

I don't study everyday, I study only when I want to. Though ofcourse once you've sent a message, I'll try to reply as fast as I can.

I'm very bad with grammar (e; Japanese), so I naturally lean more towards a language's vocabulairy first. We can still learn grammar, It's just something to keep in mind.

I'm a casual and slow learner, I take my time to learn a language.