Sooo... Hello and welcome! I am a KGSP (Korean Government Scholarship Program) student who came to Korea in August of 2018 and am currently in the middle of doing a Language Program at Duksung International Language Center (you can find more about it here). For anyone who doesn't know what KGSP is, you can find … Continue reading KGSP life
TOPIK II listening section
For this section there is not a lot of advice I can give. It is the first section in the exam and it's important to concentrate from the start. Losing your concentration in the beginning can do some serious damage. The May TOPIK results already came out before I was able to finish writing this … Continue reading TOPIK II listening section
TOPIK II reading section: 23-31
Questions 23 and 24: Both of the questions are connected to one (a bit longer) paragraph of text. It is usually a piece from a novel or a story so the language used is much less professional and carries more emotion. Which brings us to question 23. Unlike the question 24 which is only to … Continue reading TOPIK II reading section: 23-31
TOPIK II reading section: 16-22
Honestly this is taking so much longer than I was expecting... ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Questions 16-18 These are fill in the blank type of questions where you decide on which of the options fits in the space in the given text. They are supposedly fairly low on the difficulty scale because there is not a lot of … Continue reading TOPIK II reading section: 16-22
Connecting clauses in Korean
Conjectures are a whole separate type of words and there is a lot of them in any language. They are used to connect 2 clauses so that there's a smoother transition and in some cases they can define the meaning. Question 19 in the reading section of the TOPIK II requires knowledge of these words. … Continue reading Connecting clauses in Korean
Idioms and proverbs
The 21st question in the reading section can be tricky because it uses idioms or proverbs. Sometimes just by translating the words literally you can guess what it means but sometimes I have no clue what's going on.... So here are some I've stumbled upon while studying: 손을 떼다 - to take one's hands off … Continue reading Idioms and proverbs
TOPIK II reading section: 11-15
Continuing where we left of with the TOPIK reading section... Questions 11 and 12 For questions like these there is no special trick to solve them. You either understand it or you don't. You don't have to understand EVERY SINGLE WORD as long as you get the idea. But vocabulary sure helps. There is a … Continue reading TOPIK II reading section: 11-15
TOPIK II reading section: 1-10
Finally getting down to the actual test. I decided to start from the reading section because that seems to be my best one. In the April 2019 TOPIK (63rd) I scored a total of 72/100 points on the reading section which means I got 36/50 questions right. Now, a lot of that must be luck … Continue reading TOPIK II reading section: 1-10
TOPIK II and time management
TOPIK (Test Of Proficiency In Korean) is an exam divided into 2 parts: TOPIK I and TOPIK II. By TOPIK I you can obtain levels 1 or 2 and by taking TOPIK II you can obtain levels 3-6. In a series of posts I will focus on the TOPIK II but I must first emphasize … Continue reading TOPIK II and time management
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