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When I moved to Korea in 2017 to teach English, I had no expectations for the role that experience would play in my life. If you had told 22-year-old me, struggling to say my address to a taxi driver in Korean, that 7 years later I would be doing a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and…
TOPIK II Korean Exam The Korean proficiency exam, called TOPIK, is broken up into two tests. TOPIK I is the beginner one and you can score a level 1 or level 2. TOPIK II is the intermediate/advanced exam and you can score a level 3-6. I took TOPIK I in January of last year…
May Update: Warm Weather and Good Vibes May has been a good one. I finally feel like I'm really past that weird funk I was in at the beginning of the school year and the strangeness of starting again has worn off. I'm still as busy as ever but exhausted after a long…
How I Study Korean: Part 2 This is an update from a post that I did a long time ago titled How I Study Korean. That post covered my entire journey from when I first started up until August of 2017. Since then a lot has changed in the way that I study, but…
Last Sunday I took the TOPIK I exam. TOPIK stands for test of proficiency in Korean and is split into two different exams. One is a beginner level exam, and next is for intermediate/advanced levels. TOPIK I covers levels 1 and 2 whereas TOPIK II tests for levels 3, 4, 5, and 6. So for the exam…
(Before we begin this topic I'd like to put a HUGE disclaimer here to say that this is by no means the way that you SHOULD study Korean or any language for that matter. This is simply what I am doing.) How I Study Korean I started studying Korean in October of 2015 so…
An Introverts Guide to Travel Hello my name is Devon and I am an introvert. My Myers Briggs personality type is INFP which basically means I'm an idealist puddle of sensitive mush. I'm quite shy and not great at being in big groups of people or being the center of attention. And I've decided to make a career…
Hours and Miles 