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Finding One’s Heritage.

Congratulations to Alexis Bartlett on winning the GRAND PRIZE of the Mail Bag Contest II! We gave her 12 months of FREE Premium service for sharing a truly inspirational and touching story. Alexis grew up feeling a bit disconnected from her Korean heritage and through studying the language and the collaboration of the KoreanClass101 community she was able to discover more about her ancestry and become truly passionate about learning the language. This is what she wrote us: "I started learning Korean because it's a part of who I am. I was adopted to Sydney, Australia almost straight after I was born, in 1983. I grew up feeling like I wasn't interested in Korea - the language, culture... anything! But since I was a teenager, I... Show more

Mail Bag Stories – Learn Korean with Your Classmates!

Annyeonghaseyo listeners! Welcome to the new section of our blog, The Mail Bag. This is where we'll share stories from our listeners in the endeavors with Korean. We hope stories from fellow students can help motivate and inspire you to learn Korean or give you that extra needed push and renewed sense of strength when you think it's impossible to get become more proficient in Korean! This week we'd like to introduce you to the recent Mail Bag Story winner... Shanna Tan , age 19 from Singapore. Shanna had this to say about her studies: "Korean was not the first language I had in mind when I pondered over taking up a new language 2 years ago. Spanish was higher up my list of ‘languages interested in’ then. However,... Show more