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| fangsryoga Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5219 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 6 26 July 2012 at 12:46am | IP Logged |
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Hey guys and gals,
I'm thinking of starting Korean in the near future and was hoping some of you might have some mixed script resources you highly recommend. I have a really strong background in Chinese and Japanese - about 7000 characters under my belt - and I feel using mixed scripts would be the most efficient way for me to learn to read Korean. While I found a mixed script deck with Anki, I would much prefer to use more natural materials like novels, newspaper, articles, etc.( NO textbook recommendations please! unless that's really all there is) to learn Korean, preferably published more recently than 1950. I used to think learning Chinese and Japanese was hard because of the characters, but now I'm starting to realize that Korean may be the language to kick me in the butt precisely because it makes limited use of Hanja. best regards, Will Edited by fangsryoga on 26 July 2012 at 3:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 2 of 6 26 July 2012 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
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7000 characters! Wow...
I think it might be difficult to find easy text with a lot of Hanja. Maybe you could try one of the books used to teach foreigners Hanja (for example "Korean Reader for Chinese Characters" published by the University of Hawaii)? That's a bit of a backwards approach, but I'm not sure if there are better options. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fangsryoga Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5219 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 6 26 July 2012 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the recommendation druckfehler!
I preiewed the book you mentioned on Amazon but it looks like it doesn't serve my purposes. I was hoping there might be some popular novels written exclusively with mixed-scripts,for instance, harry potter. But,I may be asking for too much. :( I'm more surprised and humbled by the fact that people on here learn Korean to such amazing levels without extensive use of characters. That takes dedication! 7000 characters is actually really easy if you take a systematic problem based approach. Edited by fangsryoga on 26 July 2012 at 3:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6619 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 4 of 6 26 July 2012 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
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Naver.com has an archive of old newspapers online. The Korean newspapers used the vertical mixed script until
around 1995 when they switched over to using mostly hangul and using the hanjas mainly for headlines and people/place names. Religious texts, and Korean books written before 1980 use quite a bit of hanjas. If you live in a big city, see what the Korean section of the library has. Also, while all those chinese characters will help you out on the high level vocabulary, Korean is not going to be a cakewalk by any means. In conversational Korean, listening can be difficult with consonants blending together and speakers sometimes slurring the words. Not to mention that there's so many different ways to say the same thing and some words that have many different contexts. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| fangsryoga Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5219 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 6 26 July 2012 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
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Muchiiisimas gracias!!!
this is exactly what I needed! Naver Library archives I found a link to the above website at this page koreanstudies.org, which also has some other pretty good resources. Thanks for the info about the books. I think they know what titles I'll be looking for now. And thanks for the heads up about pronunciation skeeterses. I completely agree that you should never underestimate the complexity of a language's pronunciation. I'll be sure to make my pronunciation as spot on as possible before I begin reading with my mind's ear. I don't plan on practicing speaking anytime soon, but good pronunciation is a must even if you're just going to be reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Vihelik Pentaglot Newbie Estonia Joined 4598 days ago 17 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Estonian*, Mandarin, English, Russian, Korean Studies: Tibetan, Spanish, French | Message 6 of 6 27 July 2012 at 5:01am | IP Logged |
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"Speaking Korean - Book III: A Guide to Chinese Characters" by Francis Y. T. Parks (published by Hollym International Corp.) is the best introductory mixed-script textbook for someone who already knows Chinese. There are 150 lessons, starting out with mixing just the basic characters into relatively simple Korean sentences. The lessons are admirably cumulative, building on previously learned characters, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. In other words, in addition to learning Chinese characters a novice learner of Korean will simultaneously acquire many formal grammatical patterns. "Speaking Korean IV" by the same author is an advanced textbook.
If you are, for any reason, unable to get any specialized textbooks, you could just get a good Korean dictionary (I like "Dong-A's Prime Korean-English Dictionary" (프라임韓英辭典), published by 동아출판사) and learn the Chinese character(s) for each new Korean word you learn in hangul; this is how I started before I discovered Parks's textbooks. Using the dictionary is, in fact, the only way to continue adding to your vocabulary once you are done with the basic textbooks. Knowing Chinese will be enormously helpful in learning mixed-script Korean because you, unlike learners without a similar background, will very soon be able to predict characters that represent syllables in the most frequent Sino-Korean words. Good luck, it's going to be fun! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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