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| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4699 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 13 17 February 2012 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
BEFORE
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CONGRATULATIONS ! 
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| kerateo Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5644 days ago 112 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 13 17 February 2012 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Isn´t this known to be the worst Assimil course ever?
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| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4699 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 13 18 February 2012 at 8:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, that's what the legend says. Edited by Everything on 18 February 2012 at 3:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| flydream777 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6489 days ago 77 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: German, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Greek, Hungarian, Armenian, Irish, Italian | Message 4 of 13 18 February 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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So.... Whats the point of this thread? Are you saying that assimil shouldn't use any romanization? I foresee
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| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4699 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 13 18 February 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's what I'm trying to say.
As you can see, romanizations are bigger than the korean words. I'll not offend anyone by saying you must avoid romanizations and it's best to learn the korean alphabet. So, thanks to my upgrade, now I can focus on the korean words. I don't understand why Assimil still uses romanizations or such transcripts. It may have been useful 20 years ago but nowadays, it doesn't make sense. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| flydream777 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6489 days ago 77 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: German, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Greek, Hungarian, Armenian, Irish, Italian | Message 6 of 13 19 February 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still not following. I agree that it takes up a lot of room on the page, but how else would you learn Hangul?
You'd have to be constantly flipping back and forth to the alphabet part at the front of the book... Why 20 yrs ago but not today? Edit: haven't used Korean, but most assimil books start fading out the romanization like 50-75 lessons in. Did they skip that with Korean? Edited by flydream777 on 19 February 2012 at 2:07am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 7 of 13 19 February 2012 at 3:38am | IP Logged | ||
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In my opinion, romanization (especially in Korean, which has many sound pairs/triplets that simply do not romanize well) is a very unhealthy crutch and the faster you shed it the better. Some of the words I still have trouble spelling are ones that I mentally spelled using English lettering before I learned how the Korean spelling went (since I started with Pimsleur which insists on not including written dialogs as it "is contrary to the method").
I actively avoided romanization from the start in my Korean studies and I have zero regrets about it due to the payoffs it has brought (mostly notably in my 한글 reading and typing speed). In fact, a short while back I noticed that my reading and typing speed for romanized Korean was absolutely horrendous while my reading and typing speed for 한글 is not all that far off from English now. Since Korean media very rarely uses romanized text (and when it does it is almost always a proper noun), I'll gladly take that trade off. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4699 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 13 19 February 2012 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
Because today, all Assimil books come with audio files. Learning Hangul should be the first step in your learning plan and there is absolutely not necessary to use romanization. For example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOoZU6t2ek 1 person has voted this message useful |
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