✿ hi! my name is Emma. welcome to my video diary where I share my experiences learning Korean and teaching English, my journey learning how to sew and certain ponderings that cross my mind :) thanks for coming along! ✿
Hi! That's a great question actually. If you're using graded readers, they usually come with an audio track that you can check with (or shadow after). If you're reading books/ other stories, maybe there could be an audiobook version floating around somewhere? I really just shadow podcasts regularly and hope that I do it enough to pick up the correct pronunciation and that it transfers to when I read other material. It might also be helpful to watch some videos on basic pronunciation rules in your target language and that way, you to catch yourself when you're practicing. Hope this helps!
@caddberrie great! Yeah, I started learning french and I found a playlist for french pronunciation and also some podalcasts with transcriptions. I'm gonna do some shadowing with that. Thanks for replying!
You are doing great! It is always a bit intimidating when you first start but so so worth it. One piece of advice that I learned forever ago and is now my most used piece of information: when you use a universal foot you can place the edge of the foot along the edge of the fabric to help you keep a straighter line. It really helps to have that visual guide. Bonus info; using the foot as a guide will always give you a 3/8 inch seem allowance or 9.5 mm (most universal feet are the same width). Always remember that sewing is supposed to fun! If you start getting frustrated don’t be afraid to take a break. I always choose to have a cup of tea and a cuddle with my dog before I try again. The learning process is long but extremely rewarding, good luck!
Thank you so much for the tips, they're very helpful actually! Having the foot edge as a visual guide makes a world of a difference - it's much easier to keep track of than the little marks on the plate below it. And thank you for the reminder about taking breaks and putting yourself in a good mood when you sew, I will definitely need to remind myself of that often 🌻It sounds like you've been sewing for a while and that you've got gotten so much out of it! I hope you find it even more rewarding as your sewing journey continues 🫶
I started sewing when I was 7, so over 52 years. I have to admit sewing became a happy addiction. I’ve even worked for two popular fashion companies before they moved their factories outside the US, I loved it! My Aunt was my initial teacher but I spent two weeks with my Grandmother who sews everything under the sun. What I loved about my grandma was she hand sews everything and it always looks like it was sewn on a sewing machine. I have a manual machine, computerized, overlock and a embroidery machine but I still have a real love for hand sewing. I can do it almost anywhere when I know I’ll have a little down time while waiting (doctors office, road trips,errands, even when I’m just chilling at a local park.) I’ve even reupholstered my couch and sofa chairs. Nice thing is sewing is a true skill that will always be in demand. I’m so excited for your sewing adventures! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oh wow thank you for sharing. It looks like your Aunt and Grandma taught you really early on, and to know that this skill that they helped you kickstart has brought so much value to your life, even decades later and still going strong, must be such a wonderful feeling. My grandma was a hand sewing champ as well (I remember it to be a big part of of her life while I was growing up). She could sew and knit, always taking garments apart and revamping them, and she could mend rips in fabric as though they never happened. I never did take the initiative to learn these skills from her before she passed, but now that I'm starting to learn how to sew, it kinda feels like I get to understand a bit more of her world :) Thank you for coming along on my journey 💫 and I hope you will continue to reap the fruits of your sewing skills, spread the inspiration, multiply the joy 🫶
I just discovered your channel, as I, too, am a beginner at sewing. I love how well you describe the distinct stitches and techniques you have learned in the past two months. I wish you the best along your sewing journey and look forward to seeing more from you soon <3!
Thanks for coming along and I'm glad you found those more technical segments useful! They're mostly things that I had questions for or was pretty confused about or intimidated by at first (like sewing with denim in general). And once I could wrap my mind round them a bit more, I try to present them in the way I understood it, so that it hopefully becomes a little bit more approachable for the next person. And of course, best of luck with your sewing journey as well 💛
Youre doing awesome! 2 months ago we saw pillowcases and tote bags and now you've created your own garment! I also tend to be a few numbers off when it comes to my sewing pieces together, you can walk your pattern pieces together to see if the measurements match, otherwise it just may be from cutting the fabric. So lovely to see people create things! keep up the good work. :)
Thank you so much! Bless RU-vid and the internet for providing all these resources and materials to learn from 😭 I think it must've been something with cutting the fabric, I probably altered some seam allowances and miscalculated there. It was funny how I cut 4 pieces to make the 1 sleeve and all of them ended up being very obviously different lengths 😆
this is sooo incredible. I love this video so much and looking forward to the next one!!! I personally am not into sewing but this made me alot more interested than I would have previously🫰🏻🫰🏻🫰🏻 Go you!!!!
thanks homie 💪💪 yeah honestly 6 months ago I never thought I'd be sewing, or make videos out of it at the same time, but life surprises you it seems :))
Your jacket turned out beautifully!! In the USA we do not have places so readily available that will make button holes, serge edges, or affix hardware. We have to do those tasks ourselves.
Thank you!! The faux overlock function on my sewing machine has worked great for other projects that call for lighter fabrics, but it didn't look like it was gonna hold the thicker denim together this time. Luckily, these types of services are very accesible and affordable here, and truth be told, I wasn't really aware of them either before this project 🫢
❤السترة جميلة جدا اتوقع ان تكون ماكنة الخياطة الخاصه بك يمكن انت تحتوي على غرزة الازرار ولكن يجب أن تستعملي المكبس بلاستيكي خاص بفتحه الازرار ابحثي عن انواع الغرز بها ووالكثير منها اعملي فديو يخص هذا الموضوع وهو نقش خيوط الماكنه انا ماكنة الخاصة بي تحتوي عليها رغم أنها رخيصة وصغيرة
Hi!! Thank you so much for the tips :) yes, my sewing machine does come with a button hole stitch that has come in very handy for some of my previous projects! The button-sewing function as well. As per your suggestion, I think I'll get the plastic press thing once I work with more buttons that can't be sewn. Or find buttons I can hammer like the ones at the shop, those also look fun.
I am honestly very excited to follow this series. Today, I just picked up a sewing machine that my grandma gave me, so following this series while starting my sewing adventure gets me pretty excited.
That sewing machine probably has all your grandma's wisdom and love stored in there, waiting for you to tap into it. Thanks for coming along with my sewing journey and I hope you'll find yours very rewarding and enriching as well!
This video fully convinced me to start sewing! So glad I found it! I’m always struggling with clothes, I’m 4’9 (142 cm) plus I got thick legs, 90% of jeans don’t fit me, they’re either too long, or fit too tight on my legs. I mostly wear shorts bc of how hard is it. 💖 I can crochet and knit, but for some reason sewing always look so hard and intimidating to me. You make it look fun, so I’ll give it a shot. Tysm!
Oh wow thanks for sharing! I think it's gonna be a game changer once you start being able to make clothes that fit you. Mindset wise (which is arguably the most important part), you probably already have the patience, creativity and attention to detail from crocheting and knitting so I think you're gonna do great with sewing too 💪 I'm so glad you're gonna start sewing!
I think I procrastinated for well over 2 years during which even when texting, I was pretty much doing guesswork of where all the keys were, until that kinda got frustrating. When I finally bit the bullet I started off with a big burst of typing practice (probably within a week?) (so that I could start to remember where all the keys were and that felt encouraging) and then slowed it down to just typing a passage a week, a comment here and there to still see progress. For me, I think it was the inital burst that looked daunting, but when I approached it with a 'maybe-just-10-minutes-today' mindset, it was a lot more manageable. When you feel like it maybe it's worth another shot!
You’re so disciplined. I just read books the latter way you mentioned at the end. IE I just read them and don’t study them. I’ve tried and will probably continue to try to retain vocabulary I look up through SRS but I completely agree with you that it feels like an exercise in futility. If those words aren’t coming up in your books or conversations then your brain wants to forget them and fighting that seems hopeless.
Yeah I think the brain's pretty smart for letting go of stuff it doesn't need, so I guess through all these little exercises, I'm 'making' it more appealing for my brain to 'need' all these words and concepts I'm learning (which is to present everything in context, otherwise you're just left with vocab that sits there, lonely in your brain, not part of any other bigger neural connection gang that gets created via context). Also each time I study with the same reading material again, I understand a bit more, which feels encouraging, and motivates me to keep doing it :)
Hì em cảm ơn chị ạ 😊 em cũng là đứa ham học ngoại ngữ, và cũng đi dạy ngoại ngữ nên có được nhiều cơ hội áp dụng thử cách này cách nọ với mấy em học sinh, rồi rút ra được phương pháp nào cảm thấy dễ ứng dụng thì up vid chia sẻ với mng ạ. Chúc chị học ngoại ngữ thật vui và hiệu quả ạ ^^ (mà vui thì chắc chắn sẽ hiệu quả)
Why don't you take an existing pillow case next time and trace it for size and add seam allowance? Or take apart an old worn out or stained pillow case if you have one and seam rip it to take apart and then you've got that pattern.
That's a great idea, thank you! I don't know why it didn't occur to me in the first place. My guess is the irrational anxiety to do everything to a T prevents you from thinking rationally (and arguably, find the easier approach). I'll keep these pointers in mind next time I make more pillowcases :)
Thank you for the video and for actually putting subtitles on the video! I am partially deaf and youtube's subtitles are really finicky (sometimes they are available, sometimes they aren't, sometimes they wont appear after an ad) T H A N K Y O U!!!❤
Oh wow I have never really considered that aspect before, but I'm glad you were able to enjoy the video with the subs and that the subs served more of a purpose than I was initially aware of. Thank you for your comment, I'll definitely keep that in mind as I put out more videos 💫💛
고마워요 🙏 I just practice by shadowing podcasts! I don't have a speaking partner either so using podcast shadowing is basically all the speaking/pronunciation practice I get :)) I go into detail about that process in this video if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JJcWV__C_SU.html
@@gygox3816 어머 격려해줘서 고마워요 🫶 공부할 것이 아직 많아요. 이영상에는 제가 그냥 책을 큰소리로 읽기 때문에 발음을 그렇게 할 수 있는데 실제에는 제 말하기 반응과 속도도 아직 느려서 앞으로 연습을 많이 해야겠다. 아무튼, 그 꿀팁들 재밌게 적용했으면 좋겠습니다!
Great ideas Emma. Though, I’m genuinely curious, how challenging was it for you to learn a non-latin alphabet? Moving away from ABCs is super hard for me 😂
I think Korean is arguably one of the easiest alphabets to learn to read (?) But the grammar and contextual nuance is the trickier part. Also when I don't have enough brain juice I look at non-latin alphabets and they genuinely just look like shapes 😆
This is fantastic! Made me think about how I improved my English. I’d grab books with audiobooks and listen to them loads, repeating each sentence to get the pronunciation right (listen-pause-repeat). By the way, big respect for being so humble about your level (you're higher than lower intermediate haha) - your Korean pronunciation? Seriously impressive!🎉
Repeating really is the way to go 💪Growing up I watched a decent amount of Disney classics, not too frequently, but afterwards my mom would give me the audio version of those movies to listen to, which I would play over and over again, just for fun. That prolly helped loads. Yaw also thanks for the support. I'm currently working my way through more 'formal' study material (textbooks, graded readers, etc.) and they're all currently at lower-intermediate level. I think I just really got away with the pronunciation and mimicking parts :))
I was trying my best to avoid having to memorize vocab lists by heart and this was the next best thing that worked for me 😆 Hope you have fun with it too!
I really like this method but i struggle to choose a podcast i would like to mimick:( The problem is that even though i like how Didi and other female speakers sound, that doesn't fit my natural manner of speaking and my low voice.I sound more like the combination of Seo Ye Ji and Han Ji Min from One spring night😅Maybe someone can recommend me a podcast with a low and "not cute" voice ?
You're comment just made me realize how the pitch of my voice changes a lot between languages :)) anyways, I found some lower-register podcasts here: 1. Fun Korean with Goguma: www.youtube.com/@funkoreangoguma/featured The designs are deceivingly cute but the host's voice is quite low and natural-sounding imo 2. Alpha Korean Class: www.youtube.com/@alphakoreanclass Hope this helps!
I try to include podcasts in my learning process even though I never knew how to get the most out of them but luckily I came across your video! Your method seems very effective I will definitely try that!
Thank you!! I think it's like reaping the benefits of repetition without the monotony of pure repetition because you get to practice a slightly different skill each time.
I usually go for podcasts in my target language. If there are certain situations I need to prepare for, then sometimes I'd throw Q and As and interviews (around that specific topic) into the mix as well. Essentially I just pick something to matches the style of speaking I want to work towards + the content I need to use.
Hey! I'm not sure I get your question so do correct me if I misunderstand. If you meant exactly what video I use then I've been studying with Didi's Korean Podcast, pretty consistently for the past 5 months now. The specific episode i showed in this video is Ep 19 on Korean surnames. Hope this answers your question XD
I was studing with 디디의 한국어 podcast for a long time, now I'm going to use this method, personally I would like to find a channel of a man's podcast to copy the style mans speakes but apparently there are more created for women.
Yeah there seem to be more podcasts created for women aren't there?I did a browse and there seems to be a couple new channels led by male hosts popping up quite recently though. They're a little on the shorter side, and atm there are only a few podcast videos per channel, but I still find them useful for shadowing practice. Or other types of content like vlogs or interviews could work as well. - TTMIK Korean vlogs with Seungwan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLgAJgYqIZk.html - Korean Eldo: www.youtube.com/@koreaneldo (brand new channel! You could probably even request what topics you'd like for the host to cover) - Korean House: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rMqP4GaMDk.html - Wall Street Korean: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Y1SyMkFFaU.html
Im glad you found it helpful! I'm currently using Jnotes on an Android tablet, but when I used to note-take on an iPad, I used Goodnotes5! I'd say the two are fairly similar.
Thanks for the encouragement 💫I think this might be my one-off French vid for a while until I need to use it again, but besides that, getting to learn (about) languages has been one of my favorite things to do for sure.
Im a Mandarin learner, but I thought it would be a good idea to see some of your methods, it was so cool hearing you talk about creating a mental image, I felt like trying to quickly translate into English in my head was too troublesome listening to a podcast in time so I was like "wait a minute using your imagination isn't that troublesome!" so when you talked about that mental image aspect its just really cool to hear other language learners talk about it.
Yess exactly!! Me too. I started off translating my target language into English but I felt like I had to ween off that habit to eventually just think in the target language, but like how do you even make your mind stop doing something hmm... so I tried using my imagination, like you said, and it's kind of like watching a movie in head instead :))
What works for me with practicing speaking foreign languages was: 1. Lots of listening and shadowing. You could do podcasts, audiobooks, interviews, take your pick! Whatever you find fun. This way you can absorb correct and natural grammar structures, expressions, without having to conjugate grammar in your head as much when you speak. I don't have a speaking partner for Korean and this is pretty much how I practice 😆 2. Change up your material to keep it exciting for you! Sometimes I expand my speaking vocab through reading stories, song lyrics, or even musical lyrics. 3. Vocab wise, you probably have a decent amount of nouns, verbs and adjectives already, and what's really going to help bring them all together is conjuctions and adverbs of frequency, time, quantity etc. They help express nuances in our speaking and it sounds more natural! I go a little more in depth into practicing speaking alone in my 'learning Korean through podcast' video and 'saving my French in 7 days' video. Maybe those might have something useful too :) Happy studying!!
Shadowing is really an effective way to improve pronunciation and intonation while learning foreign languages and now I am also doing this practice through DiDi‘s podcast ❤I totally agree with your opinions❤❤
Thank you so much Emma for the awesome tips! Your approach is spot on, and I'm totally vibing with it! Shadowing is such a killer way to level up language skills. Keep hustling! And seriously, your Korean pronunciation is on point!
Thank you so much for the encouragement!! I struggled with getting Korean pronunciation and flow to stick while self-studying, until I started shadowing! So now I'm gonna apply the same concept towards learning other languages as well. I just checked out your channel btw, really neat stuff for a variety of levels, especially for upper beginner - lower intermediate learns, for whom it is usually harder to find content. Subscribed!
