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| CorruptingYouth Newbie United States webkohder.net Joined 5057 days ago 6 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 10 21 January 2011 at 7:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, I'm a newbie here. I already study Japanese at the intermediate level, so I have
experience with things like Chinese characters, SOV sentence structures, honorifics, etc. I want to pick up a little Korean now, mostly because reading some manhwa translated into English piqued my curiosity. I already am learning Hangul with a Smart.FM quizzer, but it's kind of rough that it doesn't sound stuff out for me. So where should I go/start for learning Korean? I'm checking out learnkorean.com right now. My major concern is pronunciation. I like Japanese because pronouncing it is so straight forward, and my ear is used to listening to it through anime. I know about dramas but am not crazy about them, unless someone wants to suggest to me one that's really funny and good! Okay, sorry for the ramble. Short version of this post: how should I start learning Korean? And how to get over my fear of sounding like a dunce when trying to pronounce it? Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 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 10 21 January 2011 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I like the Sogang university course (online, free).
They have some videos and sound files, although you should use Internet Explorer rather than Mozilla (some exercises may not work), I don't know about Google chrome though. The pronunciation is harder than Japanese, but nothing extreme, I think not too hard for English native speaker. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 5069 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 3 of 10 21 January 2011 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still a beginner in Korean myself, but one website I've come across that's free and seems good is Talk To Me In Korean. I've been through almost all of the Level 1 lessons on there and even after I stopped using that website for over a month and studied with other sources, I was able to go back and check how much I remembered and where I needed to pick up on lessons because they offer a free online workbook for each lesson.
If you click "Read and Write Hangul" on their front page, it'll take you to a Korean Wiki page. That page will teach you Hangul and it has a LOT of audio clips for you to practice pronunciation. I've known how to read Hangul for years and that page still helped me when I discovered it a few months ago. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Yurk Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5731 days ago 29 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Azerbaijani Studies: Modern Hebrew, Sign Language, Korean, Spanish, Indonesian, Irish Studies: French | Message 4 of 10 21 January 2011 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sogang's site is really helpful: http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/
In addition, http://www.koreanclass101.com/ is a great resource. Their membership isn't free, but all their podcasts are. I recommend going to the resources forum and digging for some of the Korean threads, as I know there's a bunch of them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| CorruptingYouth Newbie United States webkohder.net Joined 5057 days ago 6 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 10 23 January 2011 at 4:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey guys, thanks for the sites! I like the look of the Sogang website. The podcast site
looks like it's by the same people as the Japanese podcasts... eh, I'll leave it for a little later. I really do like seeing things in text before going through the spoken stuff. I also have Pimsleur audio in a few languages. I like their Japanese, but any thoughts on the Korean? Just curious. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Waegukin Newbie Korea, South Joined 5501 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 6 of 10 23 January 2011 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
I've listened to some of the Pimsleur Korean 2 and thought that it is mostly helpful for review or as an addition to another method and not a primary method, since some of the vocabulary are not the most commmon in spoken language and they tend to leave out many verb-endings that people use in everyday speech. However, this doesn't matter as much in the beginning stage, so considering that it is probably fine to use as a beginner...sorry that kind of went in a circle, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mithridates Newbie Korea, South pagef30.com Joined 5677 days ago 21 posts - 36 votes | Message 7 of 10 23 January 2011 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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You should learn Korean through Japanese. It makes more sense that way and will be a nice
way to confirm that your Japanese is up to par. I learned Korean while in Japan and was very glad to not have to use an English textbook. Using English to learn Korean if you know Japanese is like using Korean to learn French when you already know English. Unfortunately I can't think of anything off the top of my head besides the books I used in 2001 - Toushin Books. I'm sure there's a lot more out now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| CorruptingYouth Newbie United States webkohder.net Joined 5057 days ago 6 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 8 of 10 23 January 2011 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Mithridates, that sounds like a good idea if I was fluent in Japanese already, but I'm
really not. I've never tested, but from my study materials at Renshuu I believe I'm around a JLPT N4 level, which isn't really anything to brag about. But since I'm already studying another SOV language, I thought it was a good thing to mention. Also, it'd be nice to hear some similarities and differences between Japanese and Korean. I only use the Japanese Pimsleur to help with my listening skills, which are weak even in my native English. *lol* I miss words all the time in normal conversations. So I'd be using the Korean Pimsleur for the same reason, especially since I don't listen to Korean being spoken all the time like I do with Japanese. PS - I spent a lot of time with the Sogang site last night, and the parts where you click on the Hangul and listen to the syllables was very useful! I found I can study them by trying to guess how it will sound before clicking to hear it. Thanks again to the people who suggested it. Edited by CorruptingYouth on 23 January 2011 at 7:07pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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