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TOPIK Level 5 in 1-1.5 Years! (Korean) | ||
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| Dixon Groupie Canada Joined 6061 days ago 54 posts - 74 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 18 02 February 2011 at 4:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for the grammar guide!
I went to a bookstore to look at TOPIK books and they all seemed like a waste of money. They had like 1-2 practice questions per page and a whole lot of blank space. I may as well just print out past tests and do those. Instead I picked up this little gem called Korean Essential Vocabulary 6000. It is a pocket sized book which organizes vocabulary into three sections: A, B, or C. A level vocabulary will get you past TOPIK 1-2, B level vocabulary should be sufficient for TOPIK 3-4, and C level vocabulary can get you to TOPIK 5-6, apparently. For words that have hanja, the hanja are listed in brackets. There is a free MP3 download online. The book was only 8,000 won at Kyobo. I'm not sure if I'm going to search for sentences for these words through Naver and then put sentences into Anki, or if I'll just create single word cards in Anki. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Dixon Groupie Canada Joined 6061 days ago 54 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* | Message 10 of 18 02 February 2011 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
Well then, I hope I have the integrity to study hours each day. I certainly will have the time--I just need to make use of it well. I only have a part time job teaching after school about 4 days a week. Hopefully the coming semester's schedule will be the same. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- I'll have to see what the deal is, but I may not have to take the actual TOPIK test. Immigration will probably give me a Korean placement test soon, and they will send me to a class in my area for free at whatever level they determine I'm at. I need to have about level 5 to get into the Korean Cultural Integration Program because the course is conducted entirely in Korean and covers issues like history, politics and immigration law, but maybe level 4 could be sufficient. So my real goal has to be to get into that course exactly 1 year from now. Beginning 6-7 months from now I'll probably start focusing my study on words and phrases relating to culture, history and law. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5545 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 11 of 18 02 February 2011 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | ||
You mean this? http://www.hanbooks.com/koesvo60forf.html Based on your description (especially the division of the vocab into sections and the included Hanja), I may have to order that book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dixon Groupie Canada Joined 6061 days ago 54 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* | Message 12 of 18 02 February 2011 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's the one. It's hard to gauge the actual size from the picture, but if you order it
you'll see it is clearly pocket sized. Take a look at the dimensions. Everything is organized alphabetically. But a word will have A, B, or C next to it. So you'll get pages mixed with A, B, and C words. I think I might use Naver dictionary to get example sentences for the words, then record my girlfriend's voice for the audio sentences in Anki. The problem is that I will have to progress very slowly if I'm going to get audio for all of them, because I see her on weekends only. However, work starts soon and I may be able to get my co-teachers to help me out with the recording as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5545 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 13 of 18 02 February 2011 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
Ahhh...I see. In some ways that is better, though, since you can use it like a mini dictionary (which is probably the intent). EDIT: Just to clarify, it is sorted in 한글 order (가나다...), not by romanization or by the English word, right? Edited by Warp3 on 02 February 2011 at 8:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dixon Groupie Canada Joined 6061 days ago 54 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 18 08 February 2011 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Warp3, correct. It is sorted in Hangeul word order. Beside the words are their ratings
and hanja and whatnot. I think its good because if you want to study vocabulary systematically you can still easily go through the book just learning the A words. Then the B words after you've made your way through once already. Then C. ------------------------------------------------------------ I found out I may only need about TOPIK Level 4 Korean. This makes the likelihood of meeting this challenge much more possible to meet. However, I believe in Parkinson's law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" so I was a little disappointed after hearing this as well. Going from maybe high level 2 to 4 in a year isn't as impressive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5545 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 15 of 18 08 February 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Then go for level 5 anyway, just to prove you can. ;)
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| Dixon Groupie Canada Joined 6061 days ago 54 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 18 17 February 2011 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well here's a surprise, I got placed in the level 5 program. The culture program.
I actually qualified for level 4 based on my placement test, which is the highest level within the Korean language portion. The fifth level is the cultural program. But my town is too small to have a level 4 class so I just got put in level 5. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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