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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.”

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• Read more about Brain Boost: Does Learning a New Language Really Make You Smarter?
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• Read more about Taejongsa Temple – 태종사 (Yeongdo-gu, Busan)
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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?

• Read more about Who is the Korean Onomatopoeia Master? | Son vs Dad
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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.

• Read more about ~(으)나 마나 & ~봤자 “No Matter” | Live Stream Abridged
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• Read more about Korean Letter Names – What to Call Each Hangeul Alphabet
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• Read more about Tongdosa Temple Changnyeong Propagation Center – 통도사 창녕포교당 (Changnyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do)
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• Read more about Sejinam Hermitage – 셰진암 (Geoje,Gyeongsangnam-do)
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• Read more about 지만 Grammar – How to Say “But” and “Although” in Korean
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I’ve now released a total of 12 cheat sheets for Korean, and they’re all completely free. These newest ones are for all of the most common Korean counters, and for common Korean colors. You can get these new ones, as well as all of the previous ones by clicking the links in the video description.

And that’s it for now! I would like to make more in the future too. Let me know if you have ideas you’d like to see for future cheat sheets.

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The form ~(으)며 isn’t commonly used (and you’ll likely never need it in your conversations), but it can be found in written texts and more formal uses. This form also becomes (이)며 when used with the verb 이다 after nouns.

• Read more about “And” ~(으)며 ~(이)며 | Live Class Abridged
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