Conversation, writing, and reading were the most efficient study methods for my second and third languages, especially for retention and review!

윤슬 - the effect of sunlight or moonlight being reflected on ripples of water

Personally loved UPROOTED and found it very rereadable too. I haven't read other books that describe magic in quite that way, so I'm on the lookout for similar styles

Cette dernière semaine, j'ai participé à quelques conversations vocales pour pratiquer mon coréen. Chaque appel dure trois heures ou plus donc ça m'aidait bcp. Quelques conversations vocales étaient pour pratiquer le japonais mais parfois il y a des gens qui parlent le coréen aussi donc j'ai écouté

Cover art of Zero Sum Game by SL Huang

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Math and physics make up Cas Russell's non-fantasy superpower. It revived my interest in physics again, and seeing the author's background, the details are undeniably written by an expert.

You know what people used to say in 2017 after Park Geun-hye's impeachment:

Ewha students tried to save their school and ended up saving our whole country

Black and white photograph of a woman sitting on a pagoda-tiled roof. This is Eulmildae, the highest point of the city of Pyongyang during this time.

I'm translating a novel by Park Seolyeon on Kang Juryong, a labor union activist who staged this rooftop protest in Pyongyang during the Japanese occupation. She made the front pages of all the dailies. www.ildaro.com/9290

It's the men who need to get off our asses

Was asked to interview for a western media outlet and they were like "and has the impeachment vote awakened the women into political consciousness" and I was like ??? Women have always been the FOREFRONT of protest in Korea: Yoo Gwan Soon, stroller-pushing mothers in 2008, Ewha Women's Uni in 2016??

Not received, but I most often take notes in my TL (if I need more supplementary notes, I write those in my TL too, and then I use my first lang if it's really necessary)

Both langs I learned through school or as a self-studying heritage speaker. If it was a lang from scratch, I'd prob try from int

Also I had gotten 저주 토끼 because I learned that Anton Hur translated it. I knew it was gonna be fun for me! He translated 대도시의 사랑법 too, which I wrote my honors thesis on.

Hehe I'm only missing Whale among the physical books displayed, which feels great. I have both KR + ENG editions of 아몬드, 타워, 대도시의 사랑법, and 저주 토끼. 고래 has been on my list to buy and read since before the Booker announcement too, so I gotta work my way through the rest of these to get to it ☺️

I'm including current bc I'm really just focusing on these two:
— Korean (learning hanja only as a shortcut to figure out 한자어 without using a dictionary lol)
— French (standard)

Will learn in future:
— ASL
— MSA
— Maghrebi Arabic or Emirati Arabic (I count this as separate from MSA)
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Representation of a multilingual identity in wool - the description is in the content text.

A different kind of 'language portrait', asking students to use wool (a colour for each language). Shared anonymously, with permission: "I chose the blue to represent my English in my brain as it’s the language I think and dream in primarily. (1/3 🧵)

Mixed language message on side of building ‘beer triples the capacity to speak other languages’

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My main beef with Duolingo, aside from some of the wonkiness that was going on with some Asian language courses back when I tried them out, is how they fired real people just to replace them with AI. Language is at its core such a human thing...

Doing this in my TL just because

she/they
키는 작아서 다음 질문으로 넘어갈게요
심발: 구두가 가장 편하죠
토끼띠 🐇 | 쌍둥이자리
문신: 하고 싶고 생각해 둔 디자인이 있지만 언제 할지는 아직 몰라요
귀는 둘 다 한번만 뚫었어요
음료: 죄송하지만 소주, 제주 감귤주스, 모구모구, 윌 등등

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I used to, but if they take their studies seriously, then the results could be more important, especially if the initial reason fell away and was replaced by a new reason. "Wanting to be Korean" isn't a brilliant reason. It's ignorant and makes me uncomfortable.

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C'est vraiment prévisible mais la famille linguistique coreénique (?) The Koreanic language family

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That said, I hope the conservative party imprisons their National Assembly members at their hq every weekend until the next election or impeachment 💜 That’ll go down really well for everyone, especially said members

Rollercoaster of emotions right now. I absolutely despise Korean politics but I'm so proud of my people filling the streets and protesting on a freezing Saturday. Undoubtedly first of many long, cold days. 멀리서 응원합니다.

Talked to some protesters at length-- they told me they came out expecting impeachment to fail but that it was important to come out anyways and put pressure on the legislature. "See you next weekend, you bastards," one said.

Reports are coming in everywhere that cafés and restaurants around the National Assembly have received so many prepaid credits by anonymous citizen donors that they are *no longer accepting* prepaid orders.

Any protester at and around the National Assembly is encouraged to use these credits ☕️ ✊🏼

I felt seen as a heritage speaker who used to struggle learning my HL

Complete transparency: I picked up this novel in middle school not totally sure what I was walking into, and it made me grow up *a lot* about queerness and what it means. So ironic to see the me before this book, and the me after

Front cover of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Four award medallions line the right side.

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Wish I could quote repost whoever started this challenge, though I adjusted mine bc I love commentary (below)

Reading a non-YA novel in my target language was definitely the hardest thing I've done so far to work towards mastering my TL!

It was 대도시의 사랑법 by 박상영 작가님. Also @antonhur.com's translation LOVE IN THE BIG CITY is one of my favorite lit in translation books, been raving about it since 2022 🥰

I used to use Yeolpumta bc it had the cleanest format for me. But nowadays, I just speak or read in my languages daily.

I'm trying to use a habit tracker to mark the days I write, but honestly, I keep forgetting to track even if I remember to write 🤡

Anton wearing sunglasses and goofing off in a park in Sydney, Australia

As an actual Korean citizen and resident with a Korean legal education to boot, my perspective of Korean culture and politics tends to be… correct.

I post mostly about literature and working as a translator of books—I also travel A LOT for work. Here I am in Sydney, Australia.

That’s it for now ✨

Korea Expert here. I’ll explain what’s going on over there because the Orient can be confusing to Westerners. In Korea, there is a concept known as “the law.” (법) This is a set of rules which are enforced to encourage prosocial behavior and ensure stability which leaders aren’t allowed to break.

The Life-Changing Magic of the Rule of Law: The Korean Art of Decluttering and Impeaching

죄송하다 수차례 인사하는 계엄군! 국민을 지켜줘 감사합니다 YouTube video by 이슈카톡

Retreating soldier from failed National Assembly infiltration operation bowing several times in apology to a protester who then thanks him for doing the right thing by following the law and retreating, and shouts after him that we are all peers under democracy 🥹