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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5537 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 9 of 16 31 May 2013 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the forum and best of luck with your Korean studies! 화이팅!
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| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 10 of 16 12 June 2013 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
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Thanks!^^
So I've been doing pretty well with Korean lately. I looked up the Hangul lyrics to a new Korean song I've been listening to and was thrilled to find that I could understand the lyrics near perfectly even without the English translation. I've been doing to well with vocabulary lately. Learning it through articles/podcasts/songs/shows is so much better. I feel like I'm actually learning useful vocabulary and the fact that I can put the words into context is an incredible help. I decided to start writing in my diary in Korean. I've been journaling for years and have always had the dream to write in Korean only. Now that my vocabulary and confidence has improved a lot, I think this'll be a great step for me. It'll take me a crazy long time to write to any extent, but it'll be a comfortable way for me to practice and not have to worry about what other people will think of it. Strangely enough, one of my main motivations for studying Korean everyday is my excitement about moving onto Spanish. I'm looking forward to starting from scratch in a new language and being able to say that I actually speak three languages. Fun stuff~~ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 11 of 16 17 June 2013 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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So things have been going pretty well. Journalling in Korean is actually not as bad as
I thought. I've become more aware of my spelling issues so it's been pretty nice to work on those issues. My hand writing is atrocious. Haha. But hopefully that'll improve with time as well. I still can't find someone to practice Korean with. At least not in any real way. The conversations never seem to progress pass introductions. Nonetheless, I keep trying. I've been kind of cheating on Korean with Spanish. I been listening to some podcasts, investigating some grammar, so on and so forth. It's been so strange to be a beginner in a language all over again. I really want to read a full novel on Korean, but it's kind of hard finding them here. Either they're really expensive or the plot is bizarre. Learning Spanish will be so much easier. The libraries around here are so much more Spanish resources. Anyway, back to Korean...I really feel like I'm getting to a higher level. Thinking in Korean has become a lot easier too. I've been watching a lot of Korean television. (By a lot I mean 16 hours straight). I feel so much more connected to the language. Picking out words I don't understand has become a lot easier too. I'm even starting to recognize different dialects and their differences in pronunciation. Yay me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 12 of 16 21 June 2013 at 1:30am | IP Logged |
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So I've been using Talk To Me In Korean's Iyaki's for listening practice and extra
vocabulary. I was really frustrated with myself that I hadn't really been as interested in them. I realized a couple days ago that maybe I'm so bored because they aren't hard enough. Don't get me wrong, I learn from them, but they are pretty manageable for me. I generally only hear 5-15 new words, and can understand every syllable. So I downloaded some more advanced Lingq lessons. They're shorter, quicker, and have more difficult vocabulary. So, I decided to do two of those a day. I had been really bored going through the Korean drama scripts. Then I realized I had only been going through scripts of shows I had already seen. At first I thought my familiarity with the plots would help my comprehension, but now I realize that it just bores me. Being that I don't have enough patience for sticking through lessons that bore me, I decided to try using scripts from dramas I haven't seen. So I started with My Girlfriend is A Gumiho. I'm already having a much better time concentrating. I'm disappointed with my lack of consistency. I often get too bored to do everything I plan to do in one day. I get very easily side tracked. Particularly when I feel that I already understand something. So I think that if I give myself something more challenging, it'll make concentrating easier. Plus, Talk To Me In Korean's Iyaki's are too long...They end up boring me. They might have been more challenging for me a few months ago, but now it just feels monotonous. So the shorter, harder audio clips should be more fun. So now, my main goals during the day are finishing two Lingq lessons, one episode of My Girlfriend is A Gumiho, and learning all the new vocabulary from those. Which is a lot. But it's nice to have more of a challenge. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hanasea Diglot Newbie Korea, South agidark.tistory.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4191 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Korean*, EnglishC1 Studies: Japanese | Message 13 of 16 22 June 2013 at 4:38am | IP Logged |
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Well, I am a native Korean who lives in South Korea. I would like to help you a bit.
I can introduce some natural resource for Korean reading, I guess. You can buy some ebooks from internet bookstores. I usually use the Ridibooks ( http://ridibooks.com/pc/?home ) and Bookcube ( http://bookcube.com ) Also I have an Korean eink reader 'Crema' I bought it from Yes24 ( http://www.yes24.com/Main/eBook.aspx?CategoryNumber=017&Gcod e=000_002_017 ) Also you can buy that kind of eink device from varioua sources I guess. I think you can meet Korean people on the internet forum/cafe and keep in touch with them on regular basis. you can try to join in a internet cafe. I guess Naver cafe (http://cafe.naver.com) is most populer nowadays. I write my English writing on lang-8 ( http://lang-8.com ) and people correct me and I correct them. It is nice in there. I am not sure you already know them or not, but I hope it helps. 안녕하세요, 제 영어 글이 서툴러 오해를 살까봐 덧붙입니다. 그 정도 수준이면 굳이 초보자용 교재로 공부하지 않아도 되지 않을까요? 또한 이것저것 지루해서 금방 흥미를 잃는다면 아예 사람들이 글을 쓰는 데에서 함께 활동하는 건 어때요? 네이버 카페 같은 동호회에 활동해서 처음에는 지켜보다가 이것저것 글을 써볼 수도 있고요. 저는 영어 블로그를 몰래 쓰고 있는데... 티스토리/다음/네이버 같은 블로그 서비스에 한국어로 글을 쓰고 사람들과 천천히 교류하기 시작하는 것도 좋겠네요. lang-8 같은 사이트도 좋고요. (누군가 교정해 줄 수 있으니까요) 저는 전자책을 많이 읽는 편이에요. 크레마라는 전자책 기기를 사서 인터넷 서점(알라딘/예스24/반디앤루니스 등등)에서 직접 구입해서 읽기도 하고, 리디북스/북큐브에서 대여 서비스를 이용해서 빌려서 읽기도 합니다. 한글로 읽을만한게 부족하다면/책읽기를 좋아한다면 그렇게 해도 되고요. 그런데 쉽게 질린다면 그냥 인터넷 카페에서 활동하시는 게 낫지 않을까요. 그럼 공부 잘 하시길 :) Edited by hanasea on 22 June 2013 at 5:04am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 14 of 16 24 June 2013 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
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아!! 감사합니다~
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| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 15 of 16 27 June 2013 at 5:03am | IP Logged |
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So after doing some research, I decided my level of Korean is about at a B2. My
spelling is more at a B1-ish level, however. I would like to get my Korean to a C1 before I start learning Spanish. Is it just me, or does the difference between B2 and C1 seem more like a chasm?? I've been trying to stay super organized and give myself really concrete goals...but it just isn't working for me. No matter how nice my plan originally sounds, I end up trying and failing miserably. I'm never able to stick to any kind of schedule. It's not like I'm a bad student or anything (I get 4.0's in my worst classes) but this whole "finish this this day, to this all tomorrow" thing isn't working. It never worked for me. It's not like I'm lazy with my studying. I'll literally study all day. I just can't do it in any scheduled format. I think my goal will be to study four hours a day. I'll probably do more, being that my college semester doesn't start up for another couple of months. I think the only thing I'll make myself do everyday in write in Lang-8. That will be a bit challenging because I really can't think of very many topics to write about. Haha. I've also been trying to read random Wikipedia articles in Korean too. I'm hoping that reading will help improve my spelling (which is an atrocity.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 16 of 16 27 June 2013 at 10:28pm | IP Logged |
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I've been having tons of fun on Lang-8. After my posts are corrected, I've been revising
the grammar and spelling, and then looking up the grammar/spelling rules I misused. At first it was really hard to write anything at all, but now I'm finding it more fun. I might even write two posts today. If I only could think of a topic... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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