I’m off to Korea next week. And the thing that’s helping me the most with my Korean is …. Lost!

Eventhough I did Korean at Uni in Tae Kwon Do lessons, it was from a guy with the broadest Yorkshire accent possible. Hence I could never really vision it in my head as to how it should sound. For example one trick to learning French or Italian is to really, really ham up the accent in the most exaggerated cartoony way. It really works. You can even try it with Japanese, just pretend you are Mr Miyagi talking to “Daniel San”!

But with Korean I’ve never had a role model to base myself on, until now.

This week every time I hear a new phrase I imagine Sun or Jin shouting it out! Add in a few “Jack”s, “Michael”s and “Walt”s here and there and it makes learning Korean almost as exciting as Season Two of the best TV programme in years!