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| mezzofanti Octoglot Senior Member Australia mezzoguild.com Joined 4739 days ago 51 posts - 112 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Egyptian), Irish, Arabic (Levantine) Studies: Korean, Georgian, French | Message 1 of 7 20 April 2012 at 10:46am | IP Logged |
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This is a question for experienced Korean learners/speakers.
I'm planning a short Korean intensive and just trying to get a list of quality resources together at the moment (websites and books). What are the best quality conversational books (with accompanying audio) that you've used? Is there any dialect variation in those websites or books that I should be aware of? Thanks very much! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5169 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 2 of 7 20 April 2012 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
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my answer is sogang Korean
a very well made course also http://study.korean.net/ Very hard to register, but quality content. not need to worry about dialects, the vast majority teaches South Korean, it's hard to find anything on North viariety. It's not like Vietnamese, where half of material teaches south and the other north dialect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 이희선 Groupie Australia Joined 4960 days ago 56 posts - 97 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 7 20 April 2012 at 3:03pm | IP Logged |
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I would agree that if you want to look at Conversations only, then Sogang is a decent place to start. They have a
lot of conversations per unit, and a CD. But alot of other Korean books have decent conversations with recordings, like Korean Made Easy, Ewha University's books, Ganada Korean, Active Korean, etc. I'm not sure if there is a single great book for learning Korean conversation. I learned in country so I didn't seek out any particular books for that skill. Also, I wouldn't use the Sogang (or any university program) book as my only resource - they are written for use in a classroom with a teacher who knows the method so it might be hard to utilize some of the content as a self- studier. But of course many self-studiers do still successfully integrate the textbooks into their learning repertoire. I like listening to the Talk to Me in Korean podcasts - they have an Iyagi (이야기) Series that is conversations, but maybe its not considered beginner. I think you will be hard-pressed to find Korean language learning material in a dialect other than the standard dialect. A large proportion of people in Korea live in Seoul and the surrounding area, and thus Korean learning material reflects that majority use of language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Kevin Hsu Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4729 days ago 60 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin*, Korean Studies: German | Message 4 of 7 21 April 2012 at 6:43am | IP Logged |
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Rather than a general advice that suits all levels, I think depending on what your
level is, different material may work better. If you've just started Korean or have no background whatsoever, I think instead of a specific source, you should listen to just about any sort of podcast/radio/audio from native Korean speakers that you can find online. I would prefer listening to something that is natural speed, because it would give you an idea of what the language actually sounds like in real life, exposure to native recordings also play a significant role in your own production of the language. You can pick up common short phrases and the "melody" of the language this way. If you're a somewhat intermediate like me, like 이희선 mentioned above, 이야기 lessons from talktomeinkorean.com are extremely helpful and serves as a huge boast to both your listening comprehension, and your own production. It's not really the best place to extract vocabulary however(there are some vocab, but not enough), because of the nature of their topics. Try not to depend on the PDFs too much, I think it's better to just concentrate completely on the spoken part because that's what you're eventually going to have to do when you do converse with a native speaker. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4859 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 5 of 7 21 April 2012 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
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As others have mentioned, virtually all resources are in the Seoul dialect. What you should be aware of is different levels of politeness and formality. I personally think courses that teach the formal -입니다 (-imnida) first are not as useful. The form you will use most in conversation is the polite, but less formal -요 (-yo) ending, so this might be something to watch out for.
As far as online resources go as a beginner I liked this course from Seoul University. Advantage: short conversations, with playful exercises built around them. Disadvantage: Can't be downloaded. The DLI course here looks very good and teaches the different politeness levels from the outset and includes many audio files. I haven't studied with this yet and have only glanced at the beginner level, so I can't say if it's easy to use without a teacher. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jtdotto Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5220 days ago 73 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, German | Message 6 of 7 30 April 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
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www.paradigmbusters.com
I have too many good things to say about this series to write here. Search my post history, you'll find a review I wrote. Or just take a look at the preview pages on the website itself. This method may not be the best method to instant conversational fluency, but to be honest I don't really know what is, and if indeed you want to speak Korean conversation fluently, I can think of no better resource. The way you use it (ie. memorizing sentences, practicing dialogues with Koreans, etc) is entirely up to you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Haksaeng Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6189 days ago 166 posts - 250 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 7 of 7 01 May 2012 at 2:47am | IP Logged |
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I bought one of the paradigm busters books, and just wanted to mention, the regular textbooks do not come with any audio. You need to buy the separate workbooks in order to get the audio component. And they're very expensive.
I think Talk To Me in Korean is the way to go for someone just starting out. They emphasize conversational, natural-sounding Korean, they're free, and they're more engaging than anything I've seen in book form. In fact, I'd say they're somewhat addictive, even the beginning level lessons. For complete beginners, the TTMIK site, in addition to offering their own lessons, also includes a link at the top of the TTMIK home page to take you to Korean Wiki Project, where you will find an absolutely brilliant series of lessons for learning the alphabet and its sounds, including audio, all completely free. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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