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| GoldFibre Diglot Senior Member Kuwait koreaninkuwait.com Joined 5983 days ago 467 posts - 472 votes  Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 369 of 532 30 March 2009 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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TAC 2009 Day 89
I read a funny article today here, and understood or extrapolated the meaning of everything written. I also understood the context from previously following the WBC and from my friends talking about the Korean-Japanese rivalry in figure skating. The criteria for putting "Speaks" on your language profile in this forum is that you can read 80% of a newspaper and hold regular conversations on any topic. I'm getting quite close to that even though I have some weak points and certainly wouldn't consider myself close to fluent. Maybe I'll test myself with a newspaper every so often to see if I can qualify for "Speaks: Korean" on my profile. 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 370 of 532 30 March 2009 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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TAC 2009 Day 89
I finally finished going through volume 1 of 케로로. I ended up with about 700 new words which averages out to 4 per page. I wonder how many words I will pick up in the next volume. It will be interesting to see the difference. Best new card: 지구가 파괴되면 반다이 工場도 사라져 버릴 거야! Edited by GoldFibre on 31 March 2009 at 12:24am 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 371 of 532 31 March 2009 at 10:07am | IP Logged | |||||
It's a lot of work, but you will feel great once you finish. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| caleb Newbie United States Joined 5782 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 372 of 532 31 March 2009 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks. Not to high-jack your journal or anything, but I'm through just over 400 of them by the end of today. Almost a third of the book, so that feels good. Of course, it will take a while to have any real mastery of them. 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 373 of 532 31 March 2009 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Nine Month Status Update
Today is nine months since I started studying Korean. Below is a breakdown of how I see my status. Reading: I can read books like Harry Potter easily and understand everything that is going on, though I still miss a lot of individual words. I also understand the majority of Keroro, which feels like a much higher level. Listening: My listening has come a long way. I pick up all the words and phrases that I know, and am used to the patterns of both informal and formal Korean. This past month was definitely a turning point for my listening. Speaking: I consider myself conversational. I don't always speak naturally, but I am quickly learning to present my thoughts in the different packaging that is required by Korean. I can speak generally about any topic, though I have to explain around words I may not know. Writing: I'm horrible at writing. If you read my writing you would think I just began studying Korean and I don't even know the basics. For whatever reason my comprehension and speaking skills don't translate naturally into proper writing. This is the least of my priorities though, and I probably won't focus on it for quite a while. The past month my major gains were in listening and speaking. However, I think I've started a good method for me to take in and retain a lot of vocabulary. In the week or so that it took to plow through Keroro I learned at a far faster rate than I had been before and also deepened my Hanja knowledge a great deal. My goal is still to understand the news, but I think its best to take an indirect route since this is working so well. There are also some "soft" things that I have been doing for Korean, but don't talk about much. One is that I often visualize myself in some fun situation where I would use Korean and play it out in my mind. This I find more engaging than attempting to change my "inner monologue" to Korean. The setting of the situation necessitates that I would speak in Korean, so I don't feel like I'm forcing myself to do something. The other thing I have been doing is not surfing this site and many other English sites that take up my time. In fact, I have no idea if anyone else has been keeping a log on this site for the past month, because I don't even see the topic lists. Anyway, here are some things that I want to do eventually in my Korean studies: * Broaden my base of familiar Hanja out to 6000+ * Perfect the Korean version of business correspondence * Increase my repertoire of songs for the inevitable karaoke sessions * Be able to distinguish and imitate various dialects and accents * Do some kind of public speaking None of these is particularly pressing now, but down the road I would love to get to them. The next month I want to focus on vocabulary, while maintaining my steady progress in speaking. I intend to blow up my new vocabulary with my current reading method and then reinforce the words through all my passive listening time. 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 374 of 532 31 March 2009 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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TAC 2009 Day 90
I started in Keroro volume 4, and there are fewer unknown words so far. Best sentence: 아키 씨, 今年 팬티는 역시 뱀무늬... 이상한 것도 많네... 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 375 of 532 01 April 2009 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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TAC 2009 Day 91
Kept going in Keroro volume 4, this time running into a lot more unknown words per page. I was also proud that I picked up on a Dragonball Z reference in the comic. Best sentence: 쳇 도깨비로 취임하자마자 수난을 當하는군. 그래도 고거 맛있네. Edited by GoldFibre on 01 April 2009 at 11:19pm 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 376 of 532 02 April 2009 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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TAC 2009 Day 92
StarCraft party tonight. Haven't played in about nine years. Watched some matches on YouTube to prepare. Gonna get destroyed. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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