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20 Years of Learning Korean | The Truth No One Told Me

Thu, 2025-04-24 00:11

I started learning Korean in 2005, back before most people had high speed internet, and before YouTube was a thing. But that didn’t matter, because learning Korean just takes a lot of studying and a TON of practice, and I was able to do both of those and while living in Korea. So I compiled some of the most important things I’ve learned over the past 20 years into today’s newest video.

No Sunrise, No Problem

Sat, 2025-04-19 20:30

I woke up at 4:30 a.m.—not because I had to, but because some restless part of me still believes in fire. The kind that burns across the sky in brilliant pinks and oranges, the kind of sunrise that makes people stop dead in their tracks and remember, “Oh right… I’m alive, and I live on a goddamn planet spinning through space.”

Who is the Korean Onomatopoeia Master? | Son vs Dad

Thu, 2025-04-17 00:12

In the third episode of our quiz series I challenged my son Jeremy to an onomatopoeia challenge. This is something he might be better at than me, since kids learn onomatopoeia from children’s books a lot more than Korean learners (such as myself). But I’m also a teacher, so who knows? Actually I know, because I filmed the video with him.

What challenge should we do next?

~(으)나 마나 & ~봤자 “No Matter” | Live Stream Abridged

Wed, 2025-04-16 00:29

Both ~(으)나 마나 and ~봤자 are used to say that it “doesn’t matter” whether you do something or not, but the way they’re used is different. ~(으)나 마나 uses verb stems while ~봤자 uses a conjugated verb.