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I was searching for some grammar stuff and stumbled upon this Korean textbook (e-book) designed specifically for self-studying!

It’s from EPS (the employment permit system), which has their own Korean proficiency exam for foreign workers. The EPS-TOPIK is much different from the regular TOPIK, but this textbook seems like a really great resource! It starts with Hangul and then covers a whole bunch of grammar patterns while also teaching cultural stuff. There’s a lot of industry-related vocabulary and phrases because it’s designed for migrant workers in Korea, but even if those sections aren’t personally relevant, the grammar is still useful!

(I also think a lot of people don’t realize/forget that the majority of foreigners who live in Korea aren’t teaching English or working white collar office jobs; they are working in industrial factories and agriculture, often in shitty conditions. This textbook gives a glimpse into the hiring process and the kinds of situations migrant workers need to prepare for.)

Also it’s free!

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~더니

~더니 has no English equivalent so it’s tricky to explainㅜㅜ It basically indicates that you’ve observed/noticed/experienced something in the past.

~더니

*not used with 1st-person tense *can be used with either verbs or adjectives 

1. cause and result

요즘 눈이 많이 오더니 아무도 언니가 엄마한테 선물로 새 외투를 받았어. 언니가 운동을 열심히 하더니 식욕이 왕성해졌어. 민주가 아까 약을 먹더니 지금은 좀 괜찮아졌네요. 걔가 계속 노름을 하더니 결국 가산을 탕진하고 말았어.

2. showing difference/changes from time passing

아침에는 춥더니 낮에는 덥네요. 어제는 비가 오더니 오늘은 하늘이 맑네. 걔가 작년에는 좀 뚱뚱하더니 지금은 날씬해졌어. 예린이가 아까까지만 해도 공부하고 있더니 지금은 노네.

~았/었더니

*can only be used with verbs

1st clause is your own action, 2nd clause is the (observed) result

커피를 마셨더니 집중이 더 잘 돼. 어제 하루 종일 걸었더니 다리가 너무 아파. 공부를 열심히 했더니 성적이 좀 올랐어요. 밥을 너무 많이 먹었더니 배가 진짜 터질 것 같다.

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- take an ebook in your target language that you wanna read - convert epub to txt - copy txt into unique wordlist maker (http://caerphoto.com/uwc/) - remove words in the list you already know - maybe focus on keeping the high frequency new words - make this list into flashcard deck badda bing badda boom

I did this with my Turkish copy of Animal Farm and pulled 212 new words for my Quizlet deck

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Yesterday I finished my last trial lesson at Say speaking. This is a Korean learning platform that offers lessons that are taught by elderly and retired native Koreans with all different backgrounds. I had been struggling to find a Korean teacher for speaking on italki that I liked so I decided to give this program a try. And I absolutely love it. I paid for a three lesson trial at a discounted price due to a promotion they were running and this opened up the ability for me to take any lessons they offered across all 6 levels(I completed one lesson in levels 3,4, and 5) , as well as buisness Korean or pronunciation classes. The curriculum for each level is set and it’s theme based discussion with vocab and three grammar points taught. Each lesson is a full 55 minutes long. When you first sign up you can take a test to see what level, as well as download a pdf that shows what grammar is taught in each lesson of each level. You can also decide how much Korean your teacher uses in the lesson (I use 100% Korean). The thing I really liked it every teacher adds their own specialties to the premade curriculum. I specifically chose a teacher who incorporates news articles, poetry, etc into our lessons so after we cover the vocab and grammar we either go over a news article or piece of poetry and she helps me learn more vocab & phrases , or we discuss the meaning of the poetry. But there are some teachers who really love hanja, or history etc and they include these in their lessons. I love that the curriculum is set because I can prepare before hand and make notes of additional grammar or vocab I want to practice in our convo , plus I don’t have to worry about what we will talk about the whole hour. We don’t do any writing which is perfectly ok because I can use the theme of our classes and write essays to be checked by my writing italki teacher or sites like langcorrect for extra practice. I also got 40 dollar credit for completing my trail lessons ! It is a bit expensive for my non working student budget. BUT it is incredibly worth it in my opinion and in my current season of life. Plus everything I’ve learned has stuck so far. They have many packages and options as well. I currently plan to continue doing speaking lessons here. I absolutely love my teacher (Suzi Choi) and it works for me. Since I didn’t see anyone else ever review this in studygram community. So I figured I would because I think it can be a really good option for others as well

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saw this breakdown of the new hsk vocab and thought y’all would like to see it (there’s a link to a higher res photo in the comments of this post)

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Korean resources I’ve found useful lately

TTMIK Level listening dialogues - these are available for free on Youtube, although I believe you need a TTMIK account if you want the transcript on their website. They are short dialogue videos, one for each level of the TTMIK course, involving the vocab and grammar from the appropriate level. I don’t even follow the TTMIK course or books, but these dialogues are a good way to test roughly where you are in your comprehension skills, ranging from beginner to advanced.

TTMIK Iyagi podcast - these are available on Spotify, and each one is usually less than 10 minutes. This is intermediate content; the topics are fairly simple, but the hosts talk naturally and casually to each other at varying speeds and make jokes. Topics include travel, food, family, history etc. Great for picking up common conversational phrases and testing your listening skills.

LingQ - this is a paid membership site but is one of the best things I’ve chosen to do lately. It only costs about as much as any streaming service, and I think its best for bridging the gap between late beginner to early intermediate and beyond. The site is a wealth of content including audio clips, tons of mini stories, song lyric translations etc on every kind of topic. You can study multiple languages, and you progress with points by collecting new vocab that gets added to a flashcard deck that you can revise. ALSO someone has put the transcripts for TTMIK Iyagi podcasts on LingQ, so you can read the whole dialogue while listening and click words to explore meaning and add them to your deck (as well as lots of other TTMIK content and stuff from textbooks!)

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Korean Language Book Resources

Just to put this out there for the people studying Korean, but can’t afford or doesn’t want to buy the books for your studies. I’ll be putting my files here.

TTMIK BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS

↪ Become a Hangeul Master Learn to Read and Write Korean Characters

↪ TTMIK Level 1

↪ TTMIK Level 1 Workbook

↪ TTMIK Level 2

↪ TTMIK Level 2 Workbook

↪ Real-Life Korean Conversations for Beginners

↪ Easy Korean Reading For Beginners

↪ Korean Verbs Guide

↪ Talk To Me in Korean: Aesops Fables

↪ Korean Q&A Sentence Patterns

If you have any language book requests, send me a submission! On a side note, I also have the Korean version of the Harry Potter franchise, if you want a document, send me a submission!

TO BE UPDATED…

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Chinese websites 🇨🇳[MASTERPOST]

Last time when I posted the list with my fav websites where you can practice reading in Chinese, so many of you liked it and shared it! I appreciate it so much… and decided to make something extra, add more websites I found useful during Chinese learning process. 

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Reading in Chinese  

♡ Mandarin Bean (news in Chinese, HSK 1-6) 

♡ Chinese Reading Practice (stories, essays, legends, chengyu stories)  

♡ The Chairman’s Bao (news in Chinese, HSK 1-6) 

♡ HSK Reading (and more articles!) 

♡ My Chinese Reading (stories, scientific, business/politics, history etc)  

♡ BBC News in Chinese (for more advanced learners) 

♡ + Baidu Baike (something like Chinese wikipedia) 

Grammar and HSK websites

♡ Chinese Grammar Wiki (saved my as… I mean my life MANY times) 

♡ HSK Online (perfect place to test yourself, learn new words and gain a lot of knowledge how HSK looks like) 

Online courses 

♡ Courses on edX  

♡ Courses on Coursera (recommend these courses created by Peking University) 

Online Dictionaries 

♡ MDBG ♡ Yellow Bridge 

♡ Pleco (APP) ♡ Bohan (for 🇵🇱 ppl) 

YouTubers 

Teachers: 

♡ ShuoShuo Chinese 

♡ Mandarin Corner 

♡ Chinese Zero To Hero 

♡ Everyday Chinese  

♡ Learning Chinese through Stories 

♡ Daily Zhongwen 

♡ HSK Test Preparation and Practice  

♡ SyS Mandarin 

Chinese vloggers

♡ Elena Lin 

♡ Nuria Ma 

♡ Liziqi 

♡ WenWei 

Foreigners in/about China 

♡ Blondie in China

♡ Jen Tomski 

♡ Weronika Truszczyńska (Polish vlogger, her shoots are incredible; there are English subs) 

♡ Ychina 

Studygrams 

thomreads  ~ clickystudies ~ ramenstudie ~ smarttokki ~  study_with_danai  ~ chineselanguagestudygram  ~ gaojian_studygram ~ lindiebotes ~ languagehungry ~ nuomi_languages ~ hannahlanguagestudyjourney  ~ tingtingstudies ~ stellathepolyglot ~ lisslearns ~ studynotepad ~ pilot_polyglot ~ geiko4 ~ aentastic_  ~ ssikmk ~ aussieinasia ~ merukaru ~ language.wanderlust ~

Online Bookstores 

♡ Purple Culture 

♡ Sinolingua 

♡ ChinaBooks 

♡ Mandarin Companion 

Where you can watch Chinese drama/movies/cartoons? 

♡ YouTube (try to type the Chinese title, high possibilities it will show up! fe. THEY have quite a lot of dramas ;>  

♡ iQIYi 

♡ Netflix -> Taiwan on Netflix  + Movies from Mainland China on Netflix 

♡ Little Fox Chinese

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Zhang Huan (Chinese, b. 1965), Northward, 2020. Incense ash on linen, 90 x 100 cm.

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Writing a job application in French!

Monsieur / Madame – dear sir / madam

Aux principaux concernes – to whom it may concern

Je souhaite poser ma candidature pour le poste de... – I would like to apply for the position of…

Je travaille actuellement pour… – I currently work for…

Je suis diplômé / diplômée en… – I am a graduate in…

Mes qualités principales sont… – my strengths are…

Mon domaine d'expertise est… – my area of expertise is…

Ma langue maternelle est… – My first language is…

Mais je parle aussi… – but I also speak…

J'ai une connaissance pratique de… – I have a working knowledge of…

Je suis un utilisateur confirmé de… – I am an experienced user of…

Je suis disponible pour un entretien le... – I am available for an interview on…

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur / Madame – Yours sincerely,

Capacité de communication – communication skills

Capacité de créativité – creative skills

Capacité d'encadrement – management skills

Capacité à résoudre les problemes – problem solving skills

Capacité à prendre la parole en public – public speaking skills

Compétences en organisation – organisational skills

Motivé / motivée - motivated

Travailleur / travailleuse – hardworking

Un CV – A CV

Une lettre de motivation – A cover letter

Une candidature à un emploi – A job application

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Since COVID I’ve noticed more Korean teachers posting lessons on Youtube. A lot of them have criminally low views so I thought I would provide some links as I think they would be useful to many of you. 

While the lessons are mostly in Korean please don’t be put off. The teachers speak slowly and clearly so even low intermediate learners should have no problem understanding :)

아임달imdal Korean teacher

Grammar and vocab videos both TOPIK specific and more everyday content. Beginner through to high intermediate level.  I really like all of the videos I have watched. In some of her videos she sets ‘homework’ and asks viewers to post in in the comments and she will personally mark it for you! 

현명한 선택,知好樂

Mainly intermediate level grammar comparison videos (ie, what is the difference between similar grammar points). She takes requests from viewers.

10분한국어 10min Korean

As the channel name suggests most of her videos are around 10 minutes long. Predominately intermediate and advanced grammar lessons but she also has videos on hanja. 

베이직 코리안 basic Korean

Beginner content from reading and pronouncing hangul through to basic grammar. Videos are in Korean but have English subtitles. 

PARKSSEAM OK-KOREAN

Intermediate level. It seems like she goes through a whole textbook in her videos. There are also TOPIK writing videos. 

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품사 - Parts of Speech

Since my post from yesterday, I got a lot of requests to do more linguistic terms. I don’t think this is a comprehensive list, so if there’s any that you know that aren’t here, put it in the chat! Enjoy <3

♡ 자음 – consonant

ex. ㄱ, ㄷ, ㄴ, ㅅ, ㅇ

♡ 모음 – vowel

ex. 아, 어, 이, 애

Hangul [ x || x ]

♡ 초성 – word-initial consonant

ex. ㅂ in 볶음

♡ 중성 – word-medial consonant

ex. ㄲ/ㅇ in 볶음

♡ 종성/받침 - word-final consonant (받침 literally means “support”)

ex. ㅁ in 볶음

♡ 글자 – letter

♡ 발음(하다) – pronunciation (to pronounce)

ex. 볶음 -> 보끔

♡ 예사소리/평음 – plain consonant (lit. ordinary sound/peaceful note)

ex. ㄱ, ㅂ, ㄷ, ㅅ, ㅈ

♡ 된소리/경음 – tense consonant (lit. Fortis sound/hard note)

ex. ㄲ, ㅃ, ㄸ, ㅆ, ㅉ

♡ 거센소리/격음 – aspirated consonant (lit. rough sound); 거센 from 거세다 (to be rough/violent)

ex. ㅋ, ㅍ, ㅌ, ㅊ

✿ 한국어를 배우는 외국인들은 된소리와 거센소리의 발음을 어려워한다. Foreigners learning Korean have a difficult time pronouncing tense and aspirated sounds.✿

♡ 복합어 – compound

ex. 물고기 (물 “water” + 고리 “meat”), 남자친구 (남자 “boy/man” + 친구 “friend”)

♡ 파생어 – derivative

ex. -관 (building – from 館); 영화 “movie” + -관 = 영화관 “theatre (lit. movie building)”

♡ 접두사 – prefix

ex. 되- (similar to “re-” prefix in English); 되- + 들다 “to enter” = 되들다 “to reenter”

♡ 접미사 – suffix

ex. -님 (polite title for someone older/you don’t know); 기사 “driver” + -님 = polite form to address the driver

♡ 어간 – stem

ex. 먹 from 먹다

♡ 어미 – ending

ex. -고 있다 (progressive tense); 먹다 + -고 있다 = 먹고 있다 “to be eating”

♡ 속어 – slang expression

♡ 숙어 – idiomatic expression

♡ 반의어 – antonym

♡ 유의어 – synonym

♡ 어원 – origin / etymology

♡ 예문 – example

♡ 용언 – a conjugated verb

More Parts of Speech - Related to the Sentence

♡ 병사 – noun

ex. 연필 “pencil”, 사람, “person”, 중국 “China”

♡ 대명사 – pronoun

ex. 나 “I/me (informal)”

♡ 수사 – numeral [go here]

♡ 동사 – verb [x || x || x]

자동사 – intransitive verb (cannot take a direct object)

타동사 – transitive verb (must take a direct object)

♡ 형용사 – adjective

ex. 예쁘다 “to be pretty”, 슬프다 “to be sad”

♡ 관형사 – determiner

ex. 이 “this”, 그 “that”, 저 “that over there”

♡ 부사 – adverb

ex. 나중에 “late”, 천천히 “slowly”

♡ 조사 – particle/postposition

ex. 은/는, 이/가, 을/를, 도, 에/에서

♡ 감탄사 – interjection

ex. 우와! “wow”, 아야 “ouch”, 대박 “amazing”, 헐 “omg”, 뭐라고?/뭐? “what?”

♡ 문법 – grammar

♡ 시제 – tense

ex. 과거 (시제) “past”, 현재 (시제) “present”, 미래 (시제) “future”

♡ 인칭 – person

ex. 1(일)인칭 (단수) “first person (singular)”, 3(삼)인칭 (복수) “third person (plural)”

♡ 구(문) – phrase [x || x || x || x]

♡ 절 – clause

♡ 문장 – sentence

♡ 주어 – subject

♡ 서술어 – predicate

♡ 목적어 – object

직접 목적어 – direct object

간접 목적어 – indirect object’

Hope this helped! Happy Learning :) 

~ SK101

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25/09/2020

Vocab and writing review. I studied a bit of HSK before this.

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Hi everyone! I just finished the 100 Days Of Languages challenge and I wanted to do something new afterwards, so I came up with a challenge of my own! I’m calling this the Checkerboard Challenge because it’s an 8x8 grid. Along the top there are eight language-related skills, and on the side there are eight modes of learning, so each box contains a way to study a particular skill using a particular mode. I wanted to do that because exposing yourself to the same information in different contexts is so helpful for learning and I wanted to apply that to how I study Portuguese. The result is a list of 64 different ways to study languages, 71 if you include the alternate options listed below, each one versatile enough to be repeated as often as you want using different topics or resources and hopefully interesting and useful for your learning.

Ways To Use This Challenge

Complete all of the challenges on the table, in whatever order you want.

Choose a particular skill you’d like to work on. Complete all of the challenges in that column.

Choose a particular method of learning that works well for you. Complete all of the challenges in that row.

Use dice or a random number generator to pick a challenge to do every day, and see how long it takes you to get bingo or connect four or something.

Choose whichever of the challenges sound useful to you and incorporate them into your regular studying routine.

There’s no obligation to post anything you make; even when I say to record yourself doing something, that can just be for your own future reference. (It’s recommended for the collaborative tasks that focus on creating resources that would be useful to other learners or interacting on social media, but even then you can just write the posts/comments and not post them if you prefer) However, I would love to see anything you do want to share, or any updates on your progress, so you can post anything like that with the tag “checkerboard challenge” which is also where I will be posting the tasks I complete.

The tasks are listed below, with more detail than what would fit in the boxes.

Reading

(Visual) Read a comic book, comic strip, or webcomic in your target language. Depending on your skill level and  the amount of time you have, you can choose anything from a single strip of a  newspaper comic to a full-length graphic novel

(Auditory) Read along with a chapter of an audiobook, or another piece of writing with accompanying audio. Some language learning websites have articles with recordings of native speakers  reading them. If you want, or if you can’t find anything else, you could even  use a song and its lyrics.

(Hands-On) Option 1: Play a video game in your target language. This can be a computer or console game, or an app on your phone or even a  little browser game. Check the language options on games you already have to  see if your target language is available, or if not, many free games have lots of language options. / Option 2: Read and follow a recipe or another  set  of instructions, such as an art/craft tutorial, the rules to a board or card game, a DIY project or a magic trick.

(Logical) Solve  riddles or logic puzzles in your target language. (Alternate:  Read a short mystery story such as a minute mystery (or something longer if  you prefer) and see if you can solve it before the characters do.)

(Collaborative) Talk by text chat with someone else learning your target language, or a native speaker learning your language.

(Read/Write) Read an article or a chapter of a book  (or the whole thing) in your target language. It can be about any topic, and can be a children’s or adult’s book depending on your skill level and preference.

(Personal) Find and read a translation of a piece of writing that’s important to you, such as your favorite book as a kid that you feel nostalgic for, or a poem  that resonates with you.

(Creative) Read story in your target language and illustrate what happens. The quality of the drawing isn’t important unless you want it to be; the important thing is to help you process what you’re reading.

Writing

(Visual) Choose a photo, either at random from a generator or by choice on a website like Unsplash, and describe it in as much detail as  you can. Your description can focus just on describing visible details in the image, or you can make up contexts for and stories around the things you see, whichever you prefer. (Alternate: Do this with a physical object nearby instead of a photo.)

(Auditory) Try writing simple poems, focusing on the auditory features of what you’re writing such as rhyme and rhythm. You can use a rhyme dictionary to expand your vocabulary in an interesting  way while you’re working on this. It’s not necessary to worry too much about  the artistic quality of the poems unless you want to.

(Hands-On) Write instructions for how to do something you know how to do, such as recipe, a life skill, a game  or sport, an art of craft project, or even your method of language learning.

(Logical) Create a persuasive piece of writing that logically argues a point. It doesn’t have to be about a serious or controversial topic. For example, you can defend your prediction for the next season of your favorite show, or what would happen if some fantasy or sci-fi concept were real (maybe a good  way to practice the conditional tense if you’re studying a language that has one), or why your best friend is awesome.

(Collaborative) Use  a language learning social media app like HelloTalk. Comment on posts and  make your own.

(Read/Write) Write a summary of something you’ve read in your target language. You can either read in your native language and summarize in your target language, or do both parts in your target language.

(Personal) Write a journal entry in your target language, talking about how your day or week has been or what you are thinking and feeling. (Alternate: Write about one of your memories.)

(Creative) Write a small story in your target language. It can be about whatever you want, and it doesn’t have to be very long or detailed. You can (option 1) write it as prose, which could be better to practice description and narration or to focus on a particular verb tense, or in (option 2) a script style which could be better to practice conversational language.

Listening

(Visual) Watch a video with narration that describes it, such as a nature documentary, an instructional  video such as a cooking video, or a video reviewing something.

(Auditory) Find an online stream of a radio station. Pay attention to both the music and what the announcers say.

(Hands-On) Watch a video demonstrating a craft project, recipe or other task and follow the instructions.

(Logical) Watch or listen to a mystery story and try to solve it before the characters do. This can be a whole movie or novel-length audiobook if you want, but it doesn’t have to be; even an  episode of something like Scooby Doo should work.

(Collaborative) Exchange audio with someone else learning your target language, or a native speaker learning your language.

(Read/Write) Watch a video or listen to a piece of audio and take notes on what you learn.

(Personal) Watch a dub of a piece of media you are familiar with, such as your favorite childhood movie.

(Creative) Option 1: Listen to a story or other piece of audio and  illustrate it. / Option 2: Listen to a song and make up a new verse.

Speaking

(Visual) Make a video of yourself showing something and talking about it, for  example a tour of your home or neighborhood, a review of something, or a video about your pet.

(Auditory) Listen to a piece of audio and try to repeat what you hear. You don’t have to pause  after every word and repeat it, it’s probably better to go at least sentence  by sentence or with parts even longer so you can keep things in context.

(Hands-On) Explain to someone, or record yourself explaining, how to do something, possibly while demonstrating.

(Logical) Record  yourself explaining, and possibly demonstrating, how something works, such as a science concept.

(Collaborative) Record yourself explaining a concept you’re learning, like a grammar topic or how to use a particular word.

(Read/Write) Read out loud and record yourself.

(Personal) Make a recording of yourself talking about something that’s important to you  or a memory or anecdote you have. (Alternate: Make a vlog entry (even if you don’t have a vlog to put it on) talking about your day.)

(Creative) Record yourself telling a story, or tell one in person to someone.

Vocabulary (Most of these, with the exception of the first two, can be done with any vocabulary list you want.)

(Visual) Choose a page from a visual dictionary to study. One way you can do this is by studying the words and then covering  the labels with sticky notes or whiting them out on a copy and trying to fill in the blanks.

(Auditory) Choose  a song in your target language, and look up and study any unfamiliar words in it.

(Hands-On) Option 1: Use your vocabulary list as a scavenger hunt list. This works well if you have a lot of nouns and adjectives on the list. For everyday household items, you can look for the literal items on the list, while if they’re more obscure you can look for pictures or other representations of them. / Option 2: Act out the words on your list. This works well for verbs and adverbs, as well as more abstract  nouns or adjectives like emotions. You can record video of yourself doing this and later look back at the video to try to guess the words.

(Logical) Option 1: Make a crossword puzzle using your vocab list. If you write the words and clues, there are tools online that will build the puzzle itself for you, or you can do that by hand on graph paper if you prefer. You can either wait a while and then solve your own puzzle to see how much you remember, or give it to another language learner to solve an ask them to make one for you to solve. / Option 2: Look into the etymological history of the words to find out why they mean what they mean and whether they have any connections to words in your own language.

(Collaborative) Create a vocab list post around a theme, including words you are studying as well as any related words you already know. Include any resources that you think  would be useful to someone using the list, such as sample sentences, pictures, or whatever else you want.

(Read/Write) Try to write a small story or other piece of writing using as many of your vocab words as you can.

(Personal) Write  a sentence about what you think of each thing on your vocabulary list.

(Creative) Try to write an interesting sentence using each word on your vocabulary list. (Alternate: Illustrate each word on your vocabulary list. You can do this on index cards if you want, to make illustrated flash cards.)

Grammar

(Visual) Create a color or shape coded system to classify a concept like verb tenses or noun gender. For example, you can read  through a piece of text and highlight all of the verbs using a different color for each tense, or you can make flash cards with your vocabulary words and mark them with different symbols depending on the gender.

(Auditory) Grammar is a common topic for educational songs. Find a one intended for kids who speak your target language.

(Hands-On) Using words on sticky notes or index cards, build sentences that demonstrate grammatical concepts. If you have access to some of those little word magnets in your target language, those would probably work great for this, but if not (and I know I don’t) you can write various words, affixes, etc. on index cards or sticky notes, or use your existing flashcards if you have them.

(Logical) Create a table, chart, or diagram of a grammatical concept you’re studying.

(Collaborative) Write a post explaining a grammar topic you are learning.

(Read/Write) Read through a text, to find (and maybe highlight, circle, etc.) examples of a grammatical concept, then write more examples.

(Personal) Write about a part of your life that corresponds to the grammar topic you are studying. For example, for the future  tense, you can write about your plans or hopes.

(Creative) Write a small story relying on the grammatical concept you’re studying.

Pronunciation

(Visual) Look up diagrams of how to pronounce sounds you struggle with. These can be found as images or in an animated form in YouTube videos, and usually show what your tongue, teeth, etc. are supposed to be doing when you pronounce the sound.

(Auditory) Find a recording of a native speaker, record yourself saying the same thing, and listen for differences.

(Hands-On) Try to pronounce some tongue twisters or other pronunciation-based challenges.

(Logical) Try  learning the linguistic names of sounds you work with, and look into how they  compare to other sounds. Wikipedia has articles about the different sounds that can exist in languages and tables showing how they are used in various languages.

(Collaborative) Record yourself reading something that contains sounds you struggle with and post it for feedback, possibly on an app like HelloTalk.

(Read/Write) Look  at the written IPA pronunciations (these can be found on Wiktionary) of words you learn and look up what the symbols mean.

(Personal) Sing along to songs you like in the language, especially (for the personal category) nostalgic ones or ones meaningful to you.

(Creative) Write a tongue twister using words that are difficult for you to pronounce and practice saying it.

Cultural Context

(Visual) Explore a museum website in your target language. The museum should be located somewhere where your target language is spoken, but it up to you whether you want to look at an art museum, a science or history museum, or something else. Look at the exhibits and read the descriptions.

(Auditory) Create a playlist with traditional, classic and modern songs in various genres that either were invented in or popular in a place where your target language is spoken. Ideally using resources in your  target language, learn about the songs and genres.

(Hands-On) Using  resources in your target language, learn how to do or make something from a culture that speaks it. For example, you can look up a recipe, a tutorial for a dance style, the rules to a game, or how to make an art or craft project. (Make sure the thing you pick is being openly shared by  members of the culture it came from.)

(Logical) In your target language, learn about a scientist / inventor / etc. from somewhere the language is  spoken. Learn about their work, with explanations of what they invented or discovered, and if you want, find out other information about their life too.

(Collaborative) Comment  on or otherwise interact with the blog/YouTube channel/etc. of a native speaker,  after you read or watch it, of course. (You don’t need to receive a reply to check off this box, because that part is not under your control.)

(Read/Write) Try reading a significant work of (children’s or adult) literature in your target language.

(Personal) Learn about something relevant to your job/hobby from where your target language is spoken, using resources in the language.

(Creative) Read  about artistic or literary themes,  movements or eras where the language is spoken, and  create something (it can be something  simple) using those concepts.

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Linguistics Terms in Chinese

*Common terms found in textbooks, on tests, etc. that no one has ever taught me explicitly; will update periodically through reblogs－please share if you know other ones!!

语法 －grammar

生词 － vocabulary

口语 －speaking 

写字 －writing 

阅读 －reading 

跨文化交际 － cross-cultural communication 

汉字 － characters 

拼音 － pinyin 

偏胖 － character radicals (e.g. 口袋的口）

名词 －noun

动词 －verb

副词 － adverb 

状语 －adverb phrase

量词 －measure word

连词 －conjunction 

句子 －sentence 

主语 － subject of a sentence 

分句 － sentence clause 

注释 －explanatory notes 

不同点 －differences 

对话 － dialogue