Massiseo! Delicious Korean Learning

맛있어! [Massiseo!] means "delicious" in Korean. But this post is about something far tastier than food...

In my previous post I mentioned that I had found most of my Korean learning resources through Google searches, and it only recently occurred to me that I could simply stand on the shoulders of giants (and normal-sized folk) in stead. How? Social bookmarking. my weapon of choice: Delicious.

UPDATE: Some time after this blog project ended, the survival of Delicious became unlikely. This was a blessing in disguise, since it led me to www.diigo.com, a much more sophisticated social bookmarking service. The principle is the same, but there are far more options, as well as a mobile application call PowerNote which allows you to sync notes and photos from your mobile phone securely online. Even so, read on for the original post. 

There is more on the rationale behind Delicious in my language teaching blog, but for now let's see how it can help learners of Korean. A Delicious tag search for Korean led me to the wealth of sites bookmarked by other Delicious users. After adding my own bookmarks, I could also easily call up my own collection of bookmarks for Korean.

What makes Delicious stand out is the tagging function, which keeps things organized and searchable. For my own purposes, I love the annotation function, where I can keep notes on each site for later reference... my own and others'.

And that, in a word, is the beauty of social bookmarking: sharing our knowledge.

Massiseo!