The Study – Page 2 – The Lunar Treehouse

Korean Youtube Channels: My Personal Recommendations

August 8, 2021August 27, 2022

It really is a blessing to be learning languages in 2020. There are interesting, entertaining videos in all sorts of languages on Youtube, and never has it been this easy to access native content in our target languages. The tricky part is finding the ones that suit our needs. This is especially true for intermediate learners, who find themselves in a position where they’ve outgrown the boring textbook dialogues, but are not yet advanced enough to understand content targeted at native speakers without some help.

흰: A Tribute to All Things White

July 8, 2021April 8, 2024

Han Kang has been one of my favourite authors since I first read her novel on the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, Human Acts, two years ago. A harrowing, painfully poignant tale about those whose lives were shattered, or as she put it in this book, irreversibly altered by the tragedy; people who had at one time […]

Hanja for Beginners: Places & All Things Spatial

April 13, 2021October 27, 2021

This article is part 2 of a series called Hanja for Beginners, where I attempt to explain some of the most commonly used hanja in Korean and how they’re used. If you haven’t seen part 1, here’s a link. Today, we’ll be looking at 10 hanja characters, all of which are tied to the theme of […]

Dealing with Imposter Syndrome as a Non-Native Language Tutor

March 30, 2021August 27, 2022

More specifically, as a non-native Korean tutor. It’s been around two years since I started teaching Korean, but less than a year since I started doing one on one lessons. Before that, I taught at a local Korean language school, where I was put in charge of small classes of beginners and lower intermediate students. […]

Hanja for Beginners: People, Dimensions & Modifiers

March 1, 2021October 27, 2021

Hi! Welcome to Hanja for Beginners – a series where I attempt to cover some of the most commonly used hanja in Korean and explain how they’re used. The idea for this series came to me during a lesson with one of my students, who’s currently preparing for TOPIK II. We noticed that as we […]

Bullet Journaling in Korean

February 6, 2021August 27, 2022

I love bullet journaling. I’ve always had the habit of planning things out ahead, even before I discovered bujo – I loved filling up my diary planners with to-do lists, ideas for future projects, and random thoughts that I found worthy of noting down. Ever since I started learning languages, however, I’ve been trying to […]