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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 14 25 May 2011 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's fine, except that the first post was 3 days ago, not 2 months ago... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Lugh Diglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 5410 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Korean | Message 10 of 14 25 May 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Day III
1) Learn A Level Words: 1087/1087 As mentioned in the previous post in the previous post, I finished this first - and short - sub-objective. There were slightly more than a hundred words but I already knew quite a lot of them. As I do not like starting from zero, I also did a few words of category B. 2) Learn A Level Words: 20/2111 Arekkusu: Indeed, you definitely have a point but sadly I definitely need to catch up with my vocabulary (which is seriously lacking) and that is why it is so much much based on input. I will however try to change that with discussions in addition to some shadowing as well if I appear to like it. (I'll think more about it tomorrow) Warp3: Did you actually know that there the KEV6000 offers a MP3 version of its book? (Well it's more like the sad monologue of a woman forced to read a list of word in korean only) But I'm sure it can be useful for shadowing purposes or just getting used to the sounds. [This resource is actually accessible to all) Available here: KEV 6000 MP3 [Edit] PurGlossa: I started just three days ago so... The only clear change so far is that now I actually have an idea of what to do and where to go for the coming few days. Edited by Lugh on 26 May 2011 at 7:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PurGlossa Newbie China Joined 4931 days ago 7 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 11 of 14 26 May 2011 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Doh I think I had too many windows open and I looked at a date on a different thread. Sorry for the confusion =-/ hehe Lugh, sounds like a good plan, I'll keep checking back to see how your progress goes! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5526 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 12 of 14 27 May 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I saw the "MP3 free download" note on the cover of the book, but hadn't checked it out yet. Thanks for the reminder. SKV actually includes an audio CD, but I haven't really checked that out yet either. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Lugh Diglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 5410 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Korean | Message 13 of 14 29 May 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Day IV
Sadly, I was not able to do any active learning this Thursday as I was suffering of a typical case of Work Overload and Sleep Deprivation. I still was able to have some passive hours done though. Day V Did vocabulary revisions and learned some more. 2) Learn A Level Words: 60/2111. This new session combined to the previous comments actually gave me some perspective on KEV6000. I will be dropping it. Why ? Well, there are a few reasons for that. Shortly, while the format is enjoyable (transportable, with 6000 written on it), some words are just not relevant to my studies (forsythia, really? I never used that word in English... Or even in French for that matter!) and there are too many mistakes when it comes to the meaning. Even though it is expected, it does not make it enjoyable. (But what can you expect when this work was - I guess, I have no proof - just translated from a Korean-Chinese list to a Korean-English one... Yes, the "author" is actually a Chinese teacher, not a English one, living and teaching in Beijing...) Day VI Focused on passive understanding both oral and written with some active talking on the side. Actively watched: City Hunter episodes 1/2 plus Lie to Me 5. Read Children's book: "아낌없이 주는나무" a fairly depressing story in my opinion... Question: How can a parent read that to his/her kid ? It's just such a hard truth to hear that I wonder if it is really meant for the kids and not for the adult narrating it. Talked in Korean to a native for a few minutes. I am still trying to find a way of improving my active oral skills, sadly my vocabulary is seriously lacking compared to my grammar. Therefore I really need to improve it a lot... But... How? (I'll try to come up with something before next time) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5526 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 14 of 14 30 May 2011 at 3:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I had the same reaction when that word came up (and actually had to look it up in English to verify what kind of plant/tree that was first). I reacted that way to "persimmon" as well, but I later actually did come across that word again on an episode of T-ara's Dreamgirls when they were talking about a juice served on airlines (made from persimmons and mandarin oranges, if I recall correctly). Based on that, I wonder if those words are simply used more often in Korean than their counterparts in other languages (either because those items are simply more commonly found in Korea or because they are used frequently in idioms, proverbs, etc.). The proper names (cities, tourist attractions, etc.), I've just blindly skipped over, though, as I'd rather just pick them up as needed later.
I haven't starting watching series this yet, but plan to do so.
As annoying as it is, the KEV6000 list does work well for this, which is why I'm working through it myself. The other way I've been boosting my vocabulary is simply writing down words I see frequently on TV (variety shows are good for this since they plaster words on-screen constantly) and learning those. Often those words aren't even in the 6000 essential words list, yet they appear constantly on TV and are thus very useful to learn. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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