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She/Her, 30-something that overthinks it. Learning 🇰🇷🇹🇼. I like all things biology, weird stuff, shapenote, and humanism. A darn yellow composite Taiwanese American.
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I love Naver dictionary, I really do. It often gives excellent context through hundreds of real world (and not) examples sentences...And I still have not a clue what 엿먹다 means based on looking at these. Guessing it's vulgar? Loool

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Screenshot of four example sentences in Naver dictionary for 엿먹다 with English translations. Can you show me two fingers? 너 나에게 엿먹으라고(손짓) 보여줄래? Bollocks to the little Hitlers, son. 아들아, 꼬마 히틀러들에게 엿먹으라그랭 Allow me to count the ways in which I suck. 내가 엿먹을 수 있는 상황들을 따져볼께요. I am not the one who asked you to kiss my ass. 너에게 엿 먹으라고 한 사람은 내가 아냐.
February 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
Finished Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (English Translation by Antonia Lloyd Jones). This was a surprisingly fun, if very morbid, read, but the fact that the deaths in the novel are narrated by such a richly imagined, witchy main character is pretty entrancing. 💙📚

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Cover of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
February 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
More Naver dictionary strange example sentence shenanigans.

Wish there were links to the sources of these odd ones...

#learnKorean #langsky
Screenshot of example sentence from Naver Dictionary. Transcript: Cannibalism was rife and some women offered sexual favours in return for food. 식인 풍습이 성행했고 몇몇 여성들은 음식의 대가로 동침을 허락했다.
December 24, 2024 at 1:06 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
Thanks for this enlightening example sentence, Naver dict.

#learnKorean #langsky
Example sentence from Naver dictionary. Transcription: Adult female human beings are called women. 여성은 성인 여자를 일컫는다.
December 21, 2024 at 4:37 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
Lol. 8 repetitions still only 50% chance of recall at 3 months out. Woof.
Excerpt out of Paul Nation's 2014 Paper, How much input do you need to learn the most frequent 9,000 words? Transcript: Even though repetition is a very important factor, it is still only one of many factors, and as a result there is no particular minimum number of repetitions that ensures learning. For reading, Vidal (2011) found the greatest increase in learning between two and three repetitions. Webb (2007a, 2007b) found at least 10 repetitions were needed to develop something approaching rich knowledge, but Webb used 10 different tests for each word measuring orthography, association, grammatical functions, syntax, and meaning and form, both receptively and productively, thus requiring a fairly high standard of knowledge. Waring and Takaki (2003) found that at least eight repetitions of a word in a graded reader were needed to have a 50% chance of remembering the word three months later. Recognition after three months is a tough measure, and the scores on the immediate posttest were higher. In this study, the moderately safe goal of 12 repetitions is taken as the minimum. This fits with Vidal (2011) and Webb (2007a, 2007b), but according to Waring and Takaki (2003) and Brown, Waring, and Donkaewbua (2008) may be a bit too few. Twelve repetitions, however, are enough to allow the opportunity for several dictionary look-ups, several unassisted retrievals, and an opportunity to meet each word in a wide variety of contexts. It is also hoped that learning through written input will be supported to some degree by learning through spoken input, learning through output, deliberate learning, and fluency development, and so a high standard of learning from input alone is not necessary. Setting too low a number of repetitions would bias the study towards favouring the input position.
December 20, 2024 at 6:26 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
Came across this interesting table from a Paul Nation 2014 paper. I read 18 books in Korean this year, but many of them were 만화 에세이 books so I think my corpus size is probably smaller. Anyway...

책 94 권 읽자! 단어 9천 개 알아야지, 송아야 ㅋㅋㅋ

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Table 1 from Nation, I.S.P. (2014). How much input do you need to learn the most frequent 9,000 words? Reading in a Foreign Language, 26(2), 1-16. Table summarizes the number of novels a person would have to read to gain exposure to words 2000-9000 at least 12 times. To reach the last 1000 of 9000, one would need to read 25 novels in English which are listed below the table.
December 20, 2024 at 5:53 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
Stray thoughts on Alexei Navalny's memoir Patriot. It is absolutely worth a read for its close look at what an authoritarian oligarch state costs the people of a country and offers, perhaps, lessons in how to be immutable in spirit while adaptable in the face of terrible and daunting systems.

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Book cover of Alexei Navalny's memoir Patriot. On a dark background, half of Navalny's face covers the left side of the cover. In white all caps sans serif text, "Alexei Nalvany," underneath in orange text of the same style and size, "Patriot," and beneath in smaller white all caps font, "A Memoir."
December 11, 2024 at 3:38 AM
biosoch.bsky.social
After nearly five years as a consistent Duolingo user, it’s finally enshittified to the point where I’m dropping it from my language learning routines.

I think it’s not bad for getting through A1 in a lot of languages - good for testing effect for very basics and first two hundred or so vocab +
Duolingo streak thumbnail. White background with orange and green text on the left side and a cartoon orange flame in the right.
December 5, 2024 at 8:43 PM
biosoch.bsky.social
A pretty great story in two tweets.
July 26, 2024 at 3:55 AM