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@epfks / epfks.tumblr.com

an english speaker trying to learn french and korean. let’s practice together yeah?
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BTS Album Masterlist

PROOF

Run BTS 달려라 방탄

For Youth

BE

02 내 방을 여행하는 법 Fly To My Room

07 Stay

MAP OF THE SOUL: 7

6 Interlude: Shadow | 1 | 2 | 3 |

7 Black Swan | 1 | 2 |

11 ON

16 Moon

19 Outro: Ego | 1 | 2 |

MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA

5 HOME | 1 | 2 |

LOVE YOURSELF 結 ANSWER

3 Serendipity | 1 | 2 | 3 |

6 Trivia 承: Love | 1 | 2 |

13 Epiphany | 1 | text from MV | 2 |

14 I’m Fine | 1 | 2 |

15 IDOL | 1 | 2 |

16 Answer: Love Myself | 1 | 2 |

LOVE YOURSELF 轉 TEAR

1 Singularity | 1 | 2 |

2 Fake Love | 1 | 2 |

3 전하지 못한 진심 (The Truth Untold) | 1 | 2 |

5 낙원 (Paradise) | 1 | 2 |

7 Magic Shop | 1 | 2 |

8 Airplane pt.2 | 1 | 2 |

10 So What | 1 | 2 |

11 Outro: Tear | RM | SUGA | J-Hope |

LOVE YOURSELF 承 HER

1 Serendipity | 1 | 2 | 3 |

2 DNA | 1 | 2 | 3 |

5 Pied Piper | 1 | 2 | 3 |

7 MIC Drop  | 1 | 2 | 3 |

9 Outro: Her

11 바다 (Sea) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

WINGS / YOU NEVER WALK ALONE

1 Intro : Boy Meets Evil

2 피 딴 눈물 (Blood Sweat & Tears)

4 Lie

5 Stigma | 1 | 2 |

7 Reflection

10 Lost | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

11 Cypher 4 | RM | J-Hope | SUGA |

12 Am I Wrong | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

13 21세기 소녀 | 1 | 2 | 3 |

14 둘! 셋! (그래도 좋은 날이 더 많기를) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

15 봄날 (Spring Day) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |

16 Not Today | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

17 Outro: Wings | 1 | 2 | 3 |

18 A Supplementary Story : You Never Walk Alone | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE 화양연화

1 Intro: 화양연화 (The Most Beautiful Moment in Life)

3 잡아줘 (Hold Me Tight)

5 Dope | 1 | 2 | 3 |

6 흥탄소년단 (Boyz with Fun)

7 Converse High

1 Nevermind | 1 | 2 |

2 Run | 1 | 2 | 3 |

3 Butterfly | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

4 Whalien 52 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

5 Ma City

6 뱁새 (Silver Spoon) | 1 | 2 |

+ Epilogue: Young Forever

DARK & WILD

2 Danger

4 힙합성애자 (Hip Hop Phile)

5 Let Me Know | 1 | 2 |

6 Rain | 1 | 2 | 3 |

SKOOL LUV AFFAIR

2 Boy in Luv | 1 | 2 | 3 |

4 어디에서 왔는지 (Where You From)

5 하루만 (Just One Day)

6 Tomorrow | 1 | 2 | 3 |

8 등골 브레이커 (Spine Breaker) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

O!RUL8,2?

2 N.O

8 진격의 방탄 (Attack on Bangtan)

2 COOL 4 SKOOL

1 Intro: 2 Cool 4 Skool

2 We Are Bulletproof Pt.2

4 No More Dream

6 좋아요

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contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

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Children's Books in Korean

I have uploaded my small collection of Korean children’s books in PDF form. Since I am just learning Korean I summarized a few of them based on the pictures, so please excuse some of the titles!  There are 4 types of PDF’s in each folder, full color editions of the book with pictures (title.pdf) or just the text of the book (titletext.pdf). There are also black and white editions for those who want to print them off to write on them for translating. I’ve also included a zip file for those who want all 4 files. 

Categorized based on difficulty** : 

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced(ish)

  • Pelé - (It’s a short biography)

Hope that these books will encourage and help those who are starting to learn Korean! 화이팅!!!!! **…in the realm of children’s books but I could totally be wrong!

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Anonymous asked:

Salut! I love your blog and I've learned a lot about French from it! If you have time, do you have any advice or tips on how to write a formal thank you letter in French? For example, greetings, endings, etc. In this case, I would like to thank someone for writing me a recommendation letter. Thank you so much (or merci beaucoup)!

Hello,

Thank you!

When it comes to greetings and endings, the most common thing is to open with Monsieur/Madame (no Cher/Chère, because you don’t know them, and not Monsieur X, because they know their own names), and end with En vous remerciant par avance, je vous prie d’agréer, Monsieur/Madame, mes salutations distinguées.

Which is bootlicking at its best, but that’s how we do it.

Hope this helps! x

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How to improve pronunciation

Salut! How would you recommend someone to improve their pronunciation in French if they don’t have access to a class/live in the country where French is spoken? I’m trying so hard but I struggle a lot with pronunciation but it’s so so important to me to be able to pronounce words properly and speak well because I love this language so much and it’s very important to me but I’m struggling a lot

You don’t have to live somewhere in particular or go to school to get any kind of skill. Practice and hard work will always be enough. Now :

Some resources :

Audiobook/ebook combo :

  • Le Petit Prince - Saint Exupéry AU / EB 
  • 1984 - George Orwell AU / EB 
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo AU / EB 
  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu AU / EB
  • The Call of Cthulhu - Lovecraft AU / EB 
  • Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll AU / EB 
  • L’Île mystérieuse - Jules Verne AU / EB 
  • The Bible AU / EB 
  • The Fellowship of the ring - J.R.R. Tolkien AU / EB 
  • Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen AU / EB 
  • Le Horla - Maupassant AU / EB 
  • Candide - Voltaire AU / EB 
  • The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe AU / EB 
  • Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde AU / EB 

Hope this helps! x 

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Korean Reading Practice - 동화로 배우는 한국어 제2단원 제1과 - 금덩이보다 소중한 것

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Korean Masterlist:

FROMIRELANDTOKOREA’S LESSON MASTERLIST

Seeing as I have a masterlist for ALL of my posts, including resources, books, etc (find it here) I wanted an organised lesson one! I hope this will help everyone! Updated: 10 March 2020

HANGUL/READING:

VOCABULARY:

Lesson 7: Hello, Thank You, Goodbye, Yes and No Lesson 8: I’m Sorry Lesson 9: Please, More, a Little Lesson 14: Native Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 16: Sino-Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 19: Days of the Week Lesson 20: Months Lesson 21: Body Parts Lesson 23: School Subjects Lesson 24: School Vocabulary Lesson 25: Family Lesson 42: Today, Tomorrow, Now etc. Lesson 58: Vegetables Lesson 59: Fruit Lesson 60: Emotions Lesson 61: Food and Drink Lesson 68: Sports Lesson 69: Places in Town Lesson 79: Animals  Lesson 80: Clothes  Lesson 84: Sickness Pt. 1 Lesson 85: Sickness Pt. 2 Lesson 86: Sickness Pt. 3 Lesson 93: Transportation Lesson 94: Halloween  Lesson 102: The House Lesson 103: Shopping Lesson 106: Dating, Love, Marriage Lesson 107: Random Vocabulary GRAMMAR: Lesson 10: It Is, What is It? Lesson 12: This Is, What is This? Lesson 13: This, That, It, Thing Lesson 26: Have/Don’t Have Lesson 17: 15 Useful Verbs Lesson 27: Present Tense Conjugation Lesson 28: Past Tense Conjugation Lesson 29-32: Future Tense 1 2 3 4 Future Tense Meanings and Examples 1 2 3 4 Lesson 33: How to Form Korean Sentences Lesson 34: Don’t + Verb Lesson 35: Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~은/는 + ~이/가 Lesson 36: Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~은/는 + ~이/가 Pt 2 Lesson 37: Object Marking Particle ~을/를 Lesson 38: Want To -고 싶어요 Lesson 39: Location Marking Particles ~어디, ~에, ~에서 Lesson 40: Negative Sentences Lesson 41: Negative Sentences with 하다 Lesson 43: Who? Lesson 44: Why, How, How much? Lesson 45: From - To - , From - Until - Lesson 46: Therefore, So Lesson 47:  And, With ~하고, ~(이)랑 Lesson 48:  But, However, ~그렇지만, ~그런데 Lesson 49:  To/From Someone Lesson 50: Plural Nouns Lesson 51: Telling Time Lesson 53: -지 마세요 (지마) Lesson 54: -(으)세요 Imperative Lesson 55: -아/어/여 주세요 Lesson 56: -도 Too, Also, As Well Lesson 57: -만 Only Lesson 62: Can, Cannot - (으)ㄹ 수 있다/없다 Lesson 63: Present/Past/Future Progressive Lesson 64: A bit, Really, Very, Not really, Not at all Lesson 65: Changing Nouns into Verbs -는 것  Lesson 66: Counters 개 + 명 Lesson 67: To Be Good/Bad At Lesson 70: Have to, Should, Must Lesson 71: Still, Not Yet Lesson 72: Already Lesson 73: (으)로 Lesson 74: If, In Case Lesson 75: Let’s Lesson 76: Pronouns + Possessive Pronouns Lesson 77:ㄹ/을 것: Lesson 78: Doable/Worth Doing Lesson 81: (으)ㅂ시다 Lesson 82: 처럼 Like Lesson 83: More….Than Lesson 87: 좋다 vs 좋아하다 Lesson 88: -ㄴ가 Lesson 89: 다, 더 - All, More Lesson 90: Behind, In Front of, Beside Lesson 91: Written Descriptive Form Adjectives Lesson 92: Before -ing Lesson 95: To be Similar to/The Same as -같다 Lesson 96: To Care/Not Care Pt.1 Lesson 97: To Care/Not Care Pt.2 Lesson 98: Connecting Verbs Lesson 99: Might, Perhaps, It’s Possible Lesson 100: To Want 원하다 Lesson 101: Korean Conjunctions Lesson 104: From A to B Lesson 108: Narrative Tense Lesson 109:  -지/-죠 Lesson 110:  -니 Lesson: 111: -ㅂ/습니까  Lesson 113: Shall I? Lesson 114: Agreeing/Disagreeing

PHRASES:

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Level 9 / Lesson 4: -았/었던

안녕 여러분! Welcome to this next Level 9 lesson! We’re going to learn about a structure that I got an ask about the other day, and it’s actually kind of a useful structure so I thought I’d make a full lesson on it! 시작해 볼까요?

First, let’s get a formula down:

  • [verb / adjective stem] + 았/었던 + [noun]  
  • Attach -았던 to stems whose last vowel isㅏ or ㅗ
  • Attach -었던 to stems whose last vowel is anything but ㅏ or ㅗ

Okay, let’s talk about its usage now! Essentially, -았/었던 is another way to describe nouns with verbs in the past tense. It’s pretty similar to attaching -ㄴ/은 to a verb stem, but it’s a little different. Let’s see how!

Using -았/었던

Let’s look at two sentences:

  1. 지난 주에 본 영화 다시 보고 싶어요. = I want to see the movie that I saw last week again.
  2. 지난 주에 봤던 영화 다시 보고 싶어요. = I want to see the movie that I saw last week again.

The first one uses -ㄴ/은 to mean “movie that I saw.” This is just the plain past tense way of describing a noun with an adjective. The second one, on the other hand, uses -았/었던 to do this. This gives the nuance that you already finished the movie and no longer are watching it, hence why you want to watch it again. Perhaps with the first sentence, maybe you fell asleep halfway through the movie and didn’t finish it and thus would like to. But with the second one, -았/었던 implies that you’ve finished the movie already. Hope that makes sense!!

You can also use these for adjectives (there are some examples below) to imply that while something was once [adjective], it no longer is.

Let’s see some more examples!!

  • 제가 했던 숙제를 선생님한테 줬어요. = I gave the homework I did to the teacher.
  • Implies that you completely finished the homework.
  • 어렸을 때 많이 읽었던 책은 낸시 드류라고 했어요. = The books I read a lot when I was young were called Nancy Drew.
  • You finished reading the entire Nancy Drew series and no longer do.
  • 기가 작았던 남자아이 갑자기 커졌어요. = The boy that was short suddenly grew.
  • The boy is no longer short, so you can use -았/었던.
  • 뉴욕시에서 코로나바이러스때문에 바빴던 거리가 이제는 텅 비어요. = Due to the coronavirus, the once-busy streets are now empty in New York City. 
  • The streets are empty compared to how they once were.

Using Just -던

It is indeed possible to only add -던 to verb stems (not so much adjective stems as this sounds unnatural according to howtostudykorean.com). Let’s see an example to demonstrate the difference between these two methods:

  1. 지난 주에 봤던 영화 다시 보고 싶어요. = I want to see the movie that I saw last week again.
  2. 어렸을 때 보던 영화 보고 싶어요. = I want to see the movie that I used to watch when I was young. 

I think the distinction between these two is pretty clear – the first one suggests an action that you completed in the past. The second one, just using -던, implies that you used to do something repeatedly. The first one just kind of means that you did it once and got it over with. Here’s another one:

  • (from koreantopic.com) 아까 보던 신문을 여기에 두었는데 혹시 못 보셨어요? = I put the newspapers I was reading earlier here, did you see it?

Here, -던 has a different usage. It implies that you were doing something in the past but have not yet completed it. In this example, you were reading the paper earlier but didn’t finish it, hence why you’re looking for it now. The action may not have ended in the past unlike with -았/었던. 

To Summarize

Here’s a chart that I hope summarizes this lesson well!

That’s about it for this lesson!! Hope it helped!

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(으)려고

in order to , with the intention to

밖에 일찍 나가려고 숙제를 빨리 했어요

i did my homework fast in order to go out early

그 뜻을 이해하려고 책을 두 번 읽었어요

i read the book twice in order to understand the meaning

you can use (으)려고 at the end of sentences to indicate you're just about to do something. it is usually used in response to a question

마트에 갔어요?

did you go to the store?

아니요, 지금 가려고요

no but i'm just about to go

(으)려고 노력하다

to try to..

노력하다 means to try, to put effort in something

한국어를 배우려고 노력하고 있어요

i'm trying to learn korean

그 친구를 매 주말 만나려고 노력해요

i try to meet this friend every weekend

(으)러

to go/come to a place in order to do something

친구를 만나러 왔어

i came to meet a friend

공부하러 학교에 가고 있어 

i’m going to school to study

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hello! I'm just starting out learning korean, and I'm a little confused about how the speech levels work. so I understand there's 존댓말 and 반말 but search results show there are seven speech levels of politeness and formality and it's a little confusing. do you maybe have any links to better understand which to use when, etc? thank u in advance!!

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Hello! I do have some clues as to how you can figure out the levels for yourself and I will link the resources that you can check out down below! 

For starters, you’re right; there are seven different levels of politeness / formality in Korean. You’re also right in saying that it is confusing! Generally, with beginners, it’s better to know what’s considered “formal” just by looking at the conjugation. For example, we can assume that something with “-ㅂ/습니다” at the end of the verb is considered formal. This is one of the highest levels of formalities. Or something without any formality marker (ie. lack of -요), we can assume it’s the lowest level of formalities. Below is a list of the formalities, and when to use them:

  1. 하소서체 ♡ Most formal speech to show the most respect ♡ Used to address royal family members ♡ Also often used in the Bible / scripture 
  2. 합쇼체 ♡ Respectful / polite form of speech ♡ Used for elders, strangers, customers, or in business settings ♡ Used for unbiased attitude
  3. 하오체 ♡ Outdated formal speech (usually in historical [사극] Korean dramas) ♡ Same rank or lower
  4. 하게체 ♡ Also relatively outdated but not uncommon ♡ Can be used by middle-aged adults to other adults (usually lower socially) ♡ Can be used by higher-ranked ppl on social ladder talking to people lower than them (Ex. CEO talking to a lower-level employee) 
  5. 해라체 ♡ Formal speech used for the same level or lower ♡ Even though there’s no added respect, it’s not considered disrespectful if you use it appropriately ♡ It’s not as common as 합쇼체, 해요체, 해체 though it’s still used frequently ♡ Necessary to know this level though as it’s used to quote people ♡ Also known as “plain form”
  6. 해요체 ♡ Informal but still polite speech ♡ This is the most common and natural speaking level in Korea ♡ 고마워 // 안녕하세 // 아니 ♡ Regardless of relative rank, this level can be used politely and respectfully
  7. 해체 ♡ The most informal / casual speech level

Here are examples of the formalities using the verb “사랑하다” - to love:

Even though 해라체 and 해체 are both considered “반말”, 해라체 is considered more formal (remember, “plain form”)

Next, how to use them is a little bit more difficult. I will link resources with each formality (with examples) so you can check it out for your own convenience as well:

  1. 하소서체
  2. 합쇼체
  3. 하오제
  4. 하게체
  5. 해라체
  6. 해요체
  7. 해체

Where I acquired the above resources, is a great website for Korean Language Learners. You can check it out here

I really really hope this helped in some way! I know that formalities are really difficult to grasp but once you get it, it becomes easier. Like I said above, it’s really easy to start recognizing which formality is used because of how the conjugation ending looks (you even have a bit of a hint inside the formality’s name itself). Formalities can look and sound different / confusing / difficult, but as long as you get the basics down, it becomes a lot easier with more practice. 

If you’re still confused, please shoot me a message and we can figure it out together! 

Happy Learning :) 

~ SK101

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Hi there! In this post I will explain when and how you should use French verb tenses. French has a lot of tenses and most of them may seem rather complicated, but once you get the hang of it they start making sense. I’ll try my best to explain everything as clearly as possible but if you have any questions or corrections after reading this post, please don’t hesitate to let me know!

Content:

  • La base/the basics
  • Les verbes irréguliers/irregular verbs
  • Participe présent/the present participle 
  • Participe passé/the past participle
  • Indicatif/indicative
  • Présent/present
  • Imparfait/past
  • Futur simple/future simple
  • Passé composé
  • Plus-que-parfait
  • Passé simple
  • Futur antérieur
  • Passé antérieur
  • Subjonctif/subjonctive 
  • Présent/present
  • Imparfait
  • Passé/past
  • Plus-que-parfait
  • Conditionnel/conditional 
  • Présent/present
  • Passé/past
  • Impératif présent/imperative present

La base

Regular French verbs are divided into three categories: 

(1) verbs ending on -er (2) verbs ending on -re (3) verbs ending on -ir

The verbs on -ir are further subcategorized into two groups, which follow different conjugation rules. I’ll explain this further when I get to the tenses themselves.

The root of a verb is the infinitive without the ending (so without -er, -re or -ir).

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I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

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DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

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Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

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LEARN KOREAN

For all you international kpop fans out there who’d like to learn Korean (for multiple reason I guess?), I have collected a large collection of online textbooks, websites, resources, and blogs that can help you achieve your goal!

online textbooks: [ all the downloads are pdfs, no .rar files! ] 

websites:

Apps: [ some may only be available for iphone or android and not both so bear with me ]

  • pop-popping korean (iOS + android)
  • tengugo hangul (iOS + android)
  • kdrama talk (iOS only) 
  • Neme Korean (iOS + android)
  • KORLINK by Talk to Me in Korean (iOS + android)
  • Learn Korean by Bravo Language (iOS + android)
  • Korean Flashcards (free on android only, $4.99 on iOS)
  • Learn Korean 6000 words (android only)
  • TOPIK One (iOS + android)
  • Dongsa (iOS + android)
  • POPYA animals & fruits + vegetables (iOS + android)

misc. resources:

blogs: [ most of these seem pretty active as far as i can tell ]

HAPPY STUDYING EVERYONE!!!

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This has some of the grammar concepts I’ve been struggling to find an explanation on. Thank you so much!!🌸

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