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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6554 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 25 of 30 10 February 2011 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
Do they have Korean subtitles too? That would be key for most learners. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| russellballard Tetraglot Newbie China Joined 5138 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese | Message 26 of 30 10 February 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I've never watched the korean ones to be honest, I would assume no since korean is phonetic and lacks the regional
discrepancies that necessitates subtitles on chinese TV most of the time. Though there has to be some website out there with korean subtitles for the hearing impaired 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ponape Pentaglot Groupie Spain Joined 5966 days ago 42 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Greek, Basque, Swahili, Tagalog, Arabic (classical), Quechua, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi | Message 27 of 30 10 February 2011 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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My favourite materials so far are "Basic Korean" and "Intermediate Korean" by Routledge (I didn't check is somebody has mentioned them before). You need to learn Hangul well because no transliterations are given (only the Korean alphabet). But I really liked those two books. Edited by Ponape on 10 February 2011 at 10:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Balliballi Groupie Korea, SouthRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4696 days ago 70 posts - 115 votes Studies: Korean | Message 28 of 30 21 January 2012 at 4:07am | IP Logged | ||
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"Korean Grammar in Use" has an excellent CD. If you want to slow it down, you can do so on your Android smart phone or use Audacity (I use a mac so I don't know about PCs).
Also the Essential series has got many mp3s. There is the Essential Everyday Korean and the Essential Business Korean. The books are really quite good but not really for beginners. I like how they give the literal translations with the word order the same as in Korean as well as the tidied more colloquial translations under the Hangeul sentence. Then there are online mp3s you can buy from Audiobooks and Amazon. Just search for them and you will find them. You can download free samples too I think. I bought a set of them but haven't listened to them yet. Another thing that you can do is pay a Korean person to read some Korean sentences from a book. You record them speaking and you practise later on with the recordings. The advantage of this is that you can choose the material you want them to read. I chose stuff that had already been translated so I knew what they were saying in Korean. Also, I could ask the person to read at the pace I wanted them to or slow them down when they were reading too fast. I plan to do a lot more of this later when I get stuck into speaking. I was just paying $10 an hour for the person (I was living in Korea back then so that was why the fee was cheap - there were a lot of people who were eager to do this job) and in the hour, a lot of reading out aloud can be done. You might have to pay more if you live outside of Korea and it might be hard to find a Korean person who is willing to do this. There are many books for beginners learning Korean conversation that have CDs. The problem is that they all have the same topics - going shopping, greeting a friend, answering the phone - it gets boring after a while. That's why I got people to read material I chose. I could select all kinds of reading material. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6342 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes | Message 29 of 30 28 January 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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It would be hard but I still think watching shows in Korean IS the way to build good listening skills and improves pronounication. Also, repetitive occurrence of new words and terms will reinforce memorization of vocabulary. Of course, since we are dealing with lively materials you can be sure words you learn are current and not out-dated as in books and DVDs. Also, people also need to keep in mind that watching natives do things subconsciouly helps us better understand their culture of seeing and doing things.
What I did in the past was to record conversation in shows and run through by a few koreans to discover things that I could not hear and understand well. In the process I start coming through a lot more slangs and interesting words that you could hardly find in contemporary study materials. To be able to add a bit of that in your own conversation with koreans usually elicits smiles and occasional laughters, since they really don't expect a foreigner to have that sort of insider's info. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6441 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 30 of 30 02 February 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged | ||
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The "Integrated Korean" series is decent. On par with or better than "Elementary Korean." I will go so far as to say those two are the best materials I have ever used or seen.
I agree that Teach Yourself Korean is worthless. Colloquial Korean was just as bad if not worse. Edited by IronFist on 02 February 2012 at 2:30am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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