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| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6609 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 1 of 14 01 January 2011 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last year for my Korean, my goals were to read the Korean translation of the Quran, review the Ganada grammar
books, learn more Hanjas, and improve my vocabulary through reading Korean news articles. So far, I've managed to review the Intermediate 1 book as well as the Beginner 2 grammar book. I've given up on reading any kind of religious text in Korean and will not attempt until I am 100% comfortable reading Korean newspaper articles. I am slowly improving on the Hanjas. I have found that grouping vocabulary notecards by Hanja roots has helped me somewhat on the hanjas. (I've put the pure Korean words into a separate notebook instead of notecards.) Goals for 2011: * Review the Intermediate 2 and Advanced 1 and 2 grammar books. (The Ganada series has 6 volumes.) * Read through Book 1 from Kim Il Sung's biography. While these don't appear to be very big goals, the Ganada grammar concepts are very important for learning to speak Korean properly. And Kim Il Sung's biography is very dense reading, so getting through Book 1 will be a very big accomplishment in itself. So far I have read through the first 3 chapters from Book 1. One thing that helps in reading these kinds of texts is to actually print out all the chapters and read them on real paper. Reading one page at a time and then listening to the audio portion for that page is a good way to help build listening skills for this language. Here are all the books from his biography online. http://www.chongryon.com/k/mc/index.html# The audio for the books can be found here. http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/audio/main.php Later on, I will post some replies on this thread detailing some of the progress I've made with vocabulary from the book. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6609 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 2 of 14 09 January 2011 at 3:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Time for me to start writing progress reports on this task.
Yesterday, I finished reading Chapter 4 from 세기와 더부러 제1권. Later on, I will go to archive.org and read the English translation of the chapter to help me decipher some of the difficult words. Meanwhile, I have been doing a review of Chapter 2, "아버지와 조선국민회" A brief list of some useful words/expressions from that chapter: 철 - sense, maturity 문자 그대로 - literally, to the letter 염두에 두다 - bear in mind 입신양명 - rising in the world and gaining fame 공감 - meet for the first time, can also mean to share the same feelings 부조 - father and grandfather (forefathers) 문벌 - illiteracy 구척장신 - giant person 망신창이가 되다 - be thoroughly wounded, beaten 사생결단하다 - risk life/death There were a few Korean words specific to the PyeongAn dialect, 밥바리 - rice plate 사적관 - museum 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6609 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 3 of 14 21 January 2011 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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1/20/11
Today, I got finished reviewing Chapter 3 from the first book of Kim Il Sung's biography. Here's a short list of words/expressions from the chapter: 낭독: recite 노도: plume/billows 거치장스럽다: be cumbersome 뜀박질: run 육탄: throwing one's body at the enemy 육박전: hand to hand battle 안중에 두지 않다: Think/care nothing of 좌지우지하다: firmly control 무마하다: cover up 학령전: preschool period 알륵 / 알력: friction/conflict 방방곡곡: every nook and cranny 고루하다: be outdated/old fashioned Below are the grammar concepts I took notes on from the Ganada Intermediate 2 book: ~기로 - used to express a standard by which something is being judged, usually used to express superlatives. ~ㄹ 뻔하다 - to almost have something bad happen ~고 해서 ~는 바람에 - to have an unexpected event happen (used to make excuses) ~에 한해서 - express a limit (within a certain object or number) ~ㄴ다니까요 ~게 - colloquial form of 도록 ~기에 - On the basis of (what the speaker knows/thinks/feel/etc.) 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 4 of 14 22 January 2011 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Interesting. The only usage of ~기로 that I'd learned thus far was: V+기로 하다 = to decide to V, to plan to V 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| externals Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6148 days ago 5 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, Korean* Studies: French | Message 5 of 14 25 January 2011 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey,
Best of luck to you with your endeavor into Korean. Just one thing that raises my concern is if Kim Il Sung's bio is written in North Korean style of writing rather than South, as there is a minor difference in certain ways of speech and writing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5091 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 6 of 14 25 January 2011 at 9:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Are you by any chance Muslim by the way?
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| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6609 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 7 of 14 25 January 2011 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't worry too much about the differences between the dialects. In the literary Korean, the most noticeable
difference between the South and the North are small spelling differences such as 탱크 vs. 땅크, 농구 vs. 롱구. But as far as understanding spoken Korean goes, I've found that reading Korean literature only helps up to a certain point, regardless of which texts I'm reading. I do try to watch Korean movies and K-dramas from time to time. On the question of religion, I don't belong to any particular religion but I do read religious texts nonetheless. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6609 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 8 of 14 29 January 2011 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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1/29/11
Earlier this week, the power went out for 2 days. After the electricity came back on, I printed off the English translation for chapters 4 and 5 in order to be prepared for any more electric outages in the winter. Here's some vocabulary from Chapter 4: 서운하다 - be hurt, sad 요시찰인 - a person under surveillance or blacklisted 형기 - prison term 산간벽지 - backwoods 아연하다 - be taken aback 천진하다 - be naive 보퉁이 - bundle 조마조마하다 -be afraid, nervous 달구지 -ox cart 초신 - straw shoes 우글우글하다 - swarm with ~행세 - pretend to be, pose as 촉수 - tentacle 채벌 - cutting down a tree 벌목 -logging 삐라 - leaflet, flyer 주구 -hunting dog, informant 처단 - punishment 누설 - leak, reveal 음산하다 -be dreary, gloomy 참형 -harsh punishment 백곡 - a white flower, cotton 뜨내기군 - worker who does odd jobs 유랑 -wander 동분서주하다 - be busy with 분해 -take apart, disassemble 발구 - sleigh 혈안이 되어 - desperately do something 목재소 - sawmill 풍금 - reed organ 도강 - crossing a river/border 포승 - rope used to tie criminals 궁리하다 - seriously think about 혀를치다 - give a tongue lashing 뇌관 - detonator Here's a few words from the PyeongAn dialect used in the chapter: 배지게 - belly throw (used in wrestling) 도막궁이 - a makeshift boat 마가을 - late fall 소조 - club, organization 무데기 - pile, heap 지하족 - work shoes Here are some grammar notes from the Ganada book: ~ㄴ 다는 말이다 - Used to confirm or reiterate what someone said ~려던 참이다 - The speaker was about to do something ~ㄹ래요? - Used to ask the other person to decide on an action ~ㄴ다는 게 - The speaker accidently let something happen ~고 말았어요 - An unexpected bad result happened ~커녕 - Speaker disagrees with what the other person said. ~같으면 - An if statement based on something that didn't happen ~ㄹ게요 - Used to reassure the other person that the speaker will do something 웬 - ~지 그래요? - Speaker doesn't like what the other person is doing. ~ㄴ/는 데다가 - ~ㄴ/는 법이다 - Edited by skeeterses on 29 January 2011 at 10:48pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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