How to Learn Korean with Ian of Korean Patch

Posted by LingQ on 04 Mar, 2022

So in Korean, there’s kind of a funny, like slang term that people use to talk about uh, foreigners who are really good at speaking Korean. So when you install the language pack for a piece of software or a video game or something, they usually call that the… which means Korean patch, or they’ll call it the … or something like that.

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Learning Japanese, Music and Japanese Culture: Interview with Nyk (ニックちゃんねる)

Posted by LingQ on 06 Aug, 2021

I actually didn’t have any specific interest in learning Japanese, per se, until I was faced with having to choose a second language elective when I entered high school and at my high school, they had French, German, Spanish, and Japanese as options for us. And as someone who at the time was not particularly interested in language, I figured out of those four  why not Japanese?

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Learn French Online with LingQ

Posted by LingQ on 18 Jun, 2021
Learn French Online with LingQ

LingQ was instrumental for my language learning. When I began studying French, I would do cold reads of various stories. I knew NOTHING except “merci”, “bonjour,” and that’s about it. I remember reading the stories and being clueless as to the vocabulary. Through these cold reads I began to assess the language. It’s something I often do with other languages. I did it with Italian and Portuguese, and after French, with Catalan, Norwegian, and Indonesian.

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