"I see you" ? Hi! I watched a video of a Youtuber that plays videogames. When he figures out how to do certain step to complete a custom stage (created by someone else, let's say "James"), he sometimes says "I see you, James. I see you". What does it mean? (Is it somehow related with Jonh Cena? I don't follow Mr. Cena, but it's very popular here and I know that he has something to do with the "you can't see me" phrase.)

Quick question: Tagging people on italki? Hi! I have seen that some people tag other people's names inside comments, how do you this? Thanks :)

Question about pronunciation of 읽다 vs 읽어여 Hi! I have listened that 읽다 sounds similar to "ikda" with the "r/l" sound silent, but that 읽어여 sounds like "ilgoyo" with an "r/l" sound. Is there a rule that tells when one consonant of a double consonant part is silent in certain words and not in others, or the pronunciation of the double consonants changes depending of each particular word? Thank you! :)

Tips for reading a book in a different language?

Hi!

I am a Spanish native speaker and know some English (but I'm far from being fluent). I recently started to read and enjoy books in my language ("better late than never"), and I though that I could also do the same thing with English books. I bought three books written in English, the longest one being the novel 'Cloud Atlas'; I have found this book in particular to be very hard to read for me, because the first chapter is written in "old?" English so there are a lot of words and expressions that I don't know; trying to guess the meaning from context is complicated in some paragraphs (I did watch the movie so I know in general how the "story" goes, but even with that background I feel lost in some entire paragraphs). The other 2 books that I have are shorter and seem to be far easier than 'Cloud Atlas', but I'm sure that I will face unknown words.

My main question is: when you are reading in a different language, do you stop the reading when you encounter a word/expression that you don't know (even if you try to guess the meaning from the context), or do you finish the paragraph/chapter skipping the unknown words and then re-read the whole thing after searching for the meaning of the things you didn't know?

Thanks for reading and have an excellent day :)

¡Saludos!

¿Grupo de estudio de Coreano?

¡Hola!

Estoy empezando a estudiar coreano (diría que llevo entre 2 y 3 semanas). Mi nivel es super básico: sólo sé leer hangeul y algunas expresiones básicas. He usado italki un par de ocasiones para preguntar cosas sencillas, y he recibido respuesta fantástica y rápidamente, por lo que no sé si crear un grupo de estudio básico sería provechoso. ¿Qué opinas? Si estás interesado podría crear un grupo en Telegram; si gente con mucho conocimiento también se une nos podrían ayudar bastante, pero si sólo somos estudiantes principiantes yo creo que aún así podría funcionar (aunque la verdad no sé cuánto podríamos avanzar).

¿Qué opinas? :)

¡Saludos!

Telegram study group for Korean learners?

Hi!

So, I have started to study Korean like 2-3 weeks ago, and with new grammar comes new questions (and new vocabulary). I have used italki for a couple of questions and I have received fast and awesome answers from native speakers, so I am not sure if creating a basic level study group would be helpful. Up until now I could say that I can read hangeul (although I still have problems pronounciating some liaisons) and say hello and some other basic expressions. And that's it haha. I don't know if it would be a great idea to create a Korean study group in Telegram (because of my poor level), but if you are interested I can start creating one in these days. I'm usually busy from Monday to Thursday so I try to study hard from Friday to Sunday. If some advanced level learners or even natives join, it would be awesome that they can clear us up some questions for beginners like me, but if we are all beginners I think it might work also (but honestly I don't know how much we could improve).

So, tell me what you think :)

Thanks for your attention! :)

How to say "I watch TV in my house"? Hi! First of all, I am a total beginner in Korean language. I am practicing the use of "에서" as a location marker, and according to the lesson I can use it to indicate a place where an action is taking place. So I wanted to 'create' an example by myself and though about this sentence: "I watch TV in my house" My attempt to translate this sentence was: "TV 짚에서 봐요." Another friend that is also learning told me that (1) I need the particle "-를" after TV and (2) the phrase, even with "-를", is not natural. As we are both learning I am not sure about almost anything, so I though that a native speaker or an advanced learner could helps us with this. As I mentioned, my point was to practice "에서", so if this example is completely wrong with "에서", can you give us a correct example? 감사합니다 :)

Can I choose a Korean name? Hi! Sorry for the silly question :( I have seen that some Asian persons have their Asian, original names but they say that we call them like a Hispanic name; I have always been shy to ask them the reason (because I think it could be rude for them if I ask that) (even now I'm not sure to clic "Send question"), so I don't know if they picked their Hispanic names that they like the most, or if it's the closest romanization of their Asian names, or even if the Mexican goverment somehow assigned them their "Hispanic" names in order to fill official documents. So my question is: Can I choose a Korean name for me? Or I should use the hangul-ization of my name? 감사합니다 :) and sorry if I offended you, it's a culture thing that I completely ignore :(

¿Cómo hacer efectivo un grupo de estudios en whatsapp?

¡Hola!

Unos compañeros de un grupo de FB y yo tenemos la idea de hacer en whatsapp un grupo de estudio de un idioma en particular. Sin embargo, no tengo una idea clara de cómo debe funcionar un grupo de idiomas (me imagino a varios miembros no participando activamente, otros hablando de cosas culturales del país objetivo pero hablando en español (por ende no practicando del todo el idioma objetivo), y otros con un nivel demasiado avanzado).

Si has tenido experiencia estudiando en grupos así, ¿me podrías dar algunas sugerencias para hacerlo más efectivo? ¿Cuáles son las ventajas y desventajas que has notado estudiando así? ¿Has utilizado alguna otra herramienta 'grupal' distinta de whatsapp e italki?

¡Muchas gracias!