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| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes  Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 121 of 532 05 October 2008 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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Current goal:
* Work through Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader Progress: * readings 5-7 * 7 / 24 readings 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 122 of 532 06 October 2008 at 12:39am | IP Logged |
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Current goal:
* Work through Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader Progress: * readings 8, 9 * 9 / 24 readings As a side note, for the first time, in my dream last night I had an intelligible conversation in Korean. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 123 of 532 07 October 2008 at 12:44am | IP Logged |
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* Work through Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader Progress: * reading 10 / 24 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 124 of 532 08 October 2008 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
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* Work through Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader Progress: * reading 11, 12 / 24 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 125 of 532 09 October 2008 at 1:11am | IP Logged |
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The reader has gotten me a bit overloaded with new vocabulary, so the second half will wait until I've gone through more grammar texts.
Current goal: *Work through Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2 (lessons 8-15) Progress: * Lesson 8 / 15 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 126 of 532 11 October 2008 at 7:36am | IP Logged |
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Korean Three Month Review
It has been three months since I got serious about studying Korean. This is a review of my progress and a look forward at the next three months. When my studies began, I knew mostly survival phrases and the basic sentence structure. Since then, my Korean has improved quite a bit, although there were some let-downs as well. Accomplishments: * Good understanding of grammar structures * Solid passive vocabulary base (around 2,000 words?) * Dramatically faster reading of hangul * Learned the meanings of more than 2,000 Chinese characters and the readings of about 200 hanja * Collected the basic learning materials for my environment (dictionaries, readers, and textbooks) Let-downs: * Listening ability has not improved much * Limited exposure to Korean media * Rarely thinking in Korean * Somewhat low returns relative to time investment Below are several goals for the end of the next three month period and a list of changes to my study methods to help achieve those goals. Goals: * Understand young adult novels (i.e. Harry Potter) with minimal effort * Improve listening to a point where I can reliably transcribe sentences * Improve speaking ability to a natural level on simple topical conversations (weather, sports, food, etc.) * Switch from Korean-English to Korean-Korean dictionaries Changes: * Significantly reduce the use of textbooks and other non-native material * Build up a media library of DVDs, novels, and comics * Add a transcription step during listening * Begin regular conversation sessions with a native speaker I feel that these goals are ambitious, but they are certainly achievable with the right motivation and tactics. Thank you to everyone who has posted encouragement on this thread, and best of luck to all the other language-learners out there! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 127 of 532 12 October 2008 at 1:06am | IP Logged |
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In line with my new goals and methods, I have changed my current goal.
Current goal: * Learn the lyrics to 20 Korean songs Progress: * Learned 소녀시대- Kissing You * Total 1 / 20 songs To learn the lyrics, I first attempted to transcribe them myself. Second I read a true transcription while listening to the song several times. After that I looked up the words I didn't know and listened/read a few more times. Then I attempted to transcribe again. I repeated this process until I felt I sufficiently understood the entire song. This song was much faster than I realized at first. The next few should be a bit slower. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| polikaru Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6152 days ago 206 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Dutch | Message 128 of 532 12 October 2008 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
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I'm glad this is going well.
Polikaru 1 person has voted this message useful |
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