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 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 5 03 June 2014 at 5:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know where this topic really belongs to, so I just picked one that seemed most
appropriate to me. For the past few years, I have been wondering why there isn't a language learning community based in Korea. There seem to be no offline communities (or even if there is one, signs of its existence haven't been visible to me), and online communities are redundant, full of trolls or focused on a single language. So I have decided to take the initiative. A couple of days ago I posted an entry on my university's online community, asking if there is anyone also interested in language learning and language systems in general. To my surprise, there were many positive responses, which prompted me to think, "Hey, if there are so many of us, why don't I start an offline Polyglots' Club for all those in Korea?" Which is exactly what I did next. Now we have our own (closed) Facebook group, a Kakaotalk chatroom and a first offline meeting scheduled for late July or early August. The only problem is that I have no experience setting up a community, let alone a polyglots' club. :( Since our linguistic backgrounds are different, we couldn't conduct a study session, and as there are not many members to start with, breaking up into conversational groups wouldn't be very feasible either.. I wonder, is there anybody here who has gathered up and organised a polyglot's gathering? I know there have been polyglots conferences, but I'm talking about a group with regular meetings, probably once every week or two. All suggestions are welcome. I would love to hear words of wisdom coming from first- hand experience. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| michaelyus Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4567 days ago 53 posts - 87 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Italian, French, Cantonese, Korean, Catalan, Vietnamese, Lingala, Spanish Studies: Hokkien | Message 2 of 5 03 June 2014 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, no personal experience from me, but:
Wasn't Language Cast started in Korea? There's even a YouTube video about it. Edited by michaelyus on 03 June 2014 at 2:13pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 05 June 2014 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Ok, didn't know this existed, but perhaps I should have made myself more clear.. I haven't been able to find any "Korean-language-based" language community, and perhaps the reason why I didn't come across languagecast before is because I have only been searching in Korean, which they don't seems to use all that often. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this club I'm starting will turn out to be an offline and Korean version of HTLAL, where polyglots and potential polyglots can inspire each other to see more serious aspects of language learning rather than just seeking conversation partners for language exchange, for which there are countless number of websites on the web. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4634 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 15 June 2014 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, to be honest I actually wonder why you would make a korean-language-based community
if it is for polyglots. Wouldn't it be more attractive in English so that you could reach a bigger audience? (not that I dislike the idea of a full korean based community). Btw, if you'll have already started this by august, please say it. I'll be going to Korea and it'd be a pity to miss something like that ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 16 June 2014 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
Well, because (fortunately) in other parts of the world, not all polyglot hopefuls are primarily interested in English. Although I completely agree that English is one of the most important languages in the international community, I do not think that that should be a barrier to fostering one's interest for languages in general. There might be people out there who could have done far better had their first foreign language been Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin or Esperanto, and I don't think it's fair that lack of English steals away the diverse world of language learning from them. Plus, it occurred to me that high-quality content on languages and learning techniques are seldom available in Korean. I want to tear down that linguistic wall, so that in the future, people of my heritage will have more to rely on than a couple of text books that are designed to sell and not teach. And please let me know when you are coming down to Korea. I hope it's not during my travel to Vladivstok... :) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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