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| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6098 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 3 27 May 2009 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
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I mentioned in a previous post that I'm tutoring a Korean middle school student in English (we live in the U.S. - his mother is here for school). In return for my tutoring English, his mother has agreed to teach me Korean. She is trained as a teacher (but not a Korean-language teacher), who taught English in South Korea.
I was wondering if any of you have any great advice for me? I know it's a great opportunity to have someone teach me, but what can I do to make the most of my time with her? I know I'll get at least this summer, but there's a good chance that her teaching might last for the entire school year. If you have advice specific to Korean, that would be beautiful. Edited by Principiante on 27 May 2009 at 5:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5623 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian | Message 2 of 3 30 May 2009 at 1:14pm | IP Logged |
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I recommend reading the articles at Language Impact.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6310 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 3 30 May 2009 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
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Unless you are working with a professional language teacher of the language you are trying to learn, your best bet is to choose a good self-study course, study the lessons whenever you can and then use the tutor as a sounding-board. He can answer any questions you have about the explanations or word usage (and there will always be questions), you can try out sentences on him, learn some modern words and generally practise what you learned in conversation.
If you have motivational problems, it may help you to agree with your tutor that you will study a certain amount of lessons or pages in-between meetings, and then review these with her. This may force you to find time to study. Edited by Sprachprofi on 30 May 2009 at 3:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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