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| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 9 of 29 30 June 2009 at 11:10am | IP Logged | ||
Hi Jiwon, Thanks for the good wishes. To be honest I'd be very very happy to achieve a half of what Goldfibre has managed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 10 of 29 30 June 2009 at 11:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Faced with entering a lot of entries into Anki I think I've decided to abandon using an SRS for now, I dont really enjoy the process of entering items, or the reviews either for that matter. I hope that simply seeing the most important items in context repeatedly will cement them into my memory instead.
I decided to read through Elementary Korean instead of TYS Korean, Elementary Korean has dialogs, reading passages, example sentences and translation exercises so it offers a fair bit of reading material. I'm up to chapter 8 of 15 so far ( the first 4 dont have a lot of content as they are aimed at pronunciation and learning Hangul ). I plan to work through Continuing Korean next as it follows on from Elementary Korean. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 11 of 29 01 July 2009 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Had a busy day today so only managed to cover 1 chapter of Elementary Korean, it's forward progress though and i had little time so I'm pleased anyway.
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| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 12 of 29 03 July 2009 at 11:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I managed to finish Elementary Korean now and am started on Continuing Korean. I have though modified my method and am now concentrating on reading and understanding just the example sentences. I'm finding this introduces just a little new vocabulary but is definitely improving my grammar understanding greatly. I'll go back and read everything else later when it represents material that is only just above my level. I don't want things to be too hard as I want to stay positive and not risk getting fed up because I tackled something too hard through misguided stubborness.
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| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 13 of 29 04 July 2009 at 11:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I returned to plan somewhat today and started the first of the Yonsei series of readers, so far I covered the first 20 of 40 lessons from 처음 배우는 from the 한국어 읽기 series.
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| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 14 of 29 05 July 2009 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Had a good day today. Actually I haven't studied at all but I've just got back from church where a friend donated a pile of 20 children's books to help me in my learning. They look like they are just at the right level for me too, just a little hard but not painfully so.
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| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 15 of 29 07 July 2009 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've had another rethink to my approach, I'm going to add the sentence method in to supplement the reading program. In fact I'm concentrating on the sentence method for a short while to get my grammar up to spec by mining my way through Elementary Korean and Continuing Korean which both have plenty of decent sentences to drive the basic grammar home. I'm going at it hard for now, already I've worked through Elementary korean to Chapter 9 adding around 50 sentences a day but once through these books I'll drop my target for new sentences back to around 10-15 a day.
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| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6265 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 16 of 29 09 July 2009 at 10:44am | IP Logged | ||
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The sentence method is going ok so far, I am definitely learning from it. I mined about 300 sentences from the first 12 chapters of Elementary Korean and have them all entered into Anki. I think adding sentences at this rate is too intense though so I'm going to target 15 a day to get through the rest of the book, it's sequel and whatever material I look at next. I had a look at AJATT and saw that Khazumoto himself only actually managed 7500 in 18 months which is about 14 a day, I think I also need to be more descriminating in deciding what sentences to include, the method I think I want to be an adjunct to the main reading program and there's a danger it can take over if you spend too much time typing Anki entries in.
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