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 Thursday December 07 2006

Reflective Language Learner

Earlier today I recieved an email from a reader of my Korean learning group blog telling me about their blog.

hi, my name is ***** and i recently started a blog about learning cantonese. I was born in seoul and am half korean so there will be lots of stuff on korean also. anyways, i’m fascinated by languages and a lot of my entries are just my whole take on the language learning process. in any case, i hope you take a look. the address is http://houhousihk.blogspot.com/

I took a look and liked it so far. It is always interesting to read about anothers experience learning a foreign language. I in particular enjoyed Things I wish I Knew Before and Language Proficiency Tests and Why They Suck I agree that they suck, but not necessarily for the same reasons as the author. Anyhow go give 好好食 a read and see what you think.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Dec 7, 2006 at 08:04 PM
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