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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4519 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1 of 8 13 September 2013 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey there folks,
As you all know I'm a pretty big collector of foreign language materials (see my language.com/forum/forum_posts.aspTID=30913&PN=1&get=last#"> log for details). However, Korean is on the list of language I am currently interested in (okay, that's a fairly large list, but who cares). However, Asian languages are languages I have no experience with at all (Hebrew I guess, but that's in another category). So I'd like to know what people here used to learn hangul and what basic textbooks are common for Korean. I know there's an Assimil, but I want to use something else for a change (I have plenty Assimils at home for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Malagasy that are unused and some more I have not entirely finished like my Hebrew or Romanian (only 2nd wave left). Possible source languages are Dutch, English and French. I guess Swedish is also okay. Edited by tarvos on 13 September 2013 at 12:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4016 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 2 of 8 13 September 2013 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Talktomeinkorean.com (This one is probably the best resource available. Their youtube
channel is also really good.) Koreanpod101.com dic.daum.com (dictionary) dic.naver.com (dictionary) Hangul could be learned fairly quickly on Youtube. Talk To Me in Korean has youtube videos that teach Hangul~ I don't really know about any popular grammar books. I wouldn't buy/use one if someone paid me though. There aren't a lot of good Korean resources. Most of them are super dry and not entirely accurate. I used Talk To Me In Korean for everything. They teach you a lot about grammar, colloquial expressions, slang, culture ect. Anything you could want to know, they have lessons for. They only thing they don't teach in more depth is grammar. This is the official frequency list for the top 5000 words. http://www.topikguide.com/2012/08/6000-most-common-korean-wo rds-1.html I wouldn't really study that list past the first 3000ish words though. Most of the words after that are pretty obsolete. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4519 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 8 13 September 2013 at 9:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't use frequency lists and I can handle
dry material. But thanks for the rest! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 이희선 Groupie Australia Joined 4781 days ago 56 posts - 97 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 8 13 September 2013 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Talk To Me in Korean is indeed great. Be careful of Koreanpod101 - sign up if you like your Korean learning
experience accompanied by a barrage of email ads. As for grammar, Yonsei University Press' "Korean Grammar for International Learners" is probably the most often recommended. In addition, Darakwon Press publishes a (so far) 2 book series of grammar that I found personally quite useful and not necessarily dry called "Korean Grammar in Use". And you can find many dry and academic books if you really want. Other popularly recommended Beginners books include Active Korean (Seoul National University Press); Elementary Korean by Ross King; Integrated Korean from the University of Hawaii Press; Korean Made Easy by Seung-eun Oh; Survival Korean by Stephen Revere, and the textbooks from various Language Institutes in Korea. I do caution those using institute books for self study. Some of the books are written to be integrated into a classroom experience, not as a self study book. Sogang University, Ewha University, Yonsei University, Seoul National University, and Ganada Korean Language Institute all publish books that are decent enough. Publishing houses that specialize in Korean as a Foreign Language material include Darakwon, Hollym, Munjin Media, and Language Plus. Here is an American website that lists many books with the pictures of the covers http://www.hanbooks.com/kolate1.html The internet has a wealth of Korean language information as well and I tend to refer to it as much as or more than books. For some reason people always recommend Sogang University's online program but I think its actually a bit poor in quality. But there are lots of nice blogs and wikis for grammar and phrases and the like. I don't necessarily endorse all these books or resources...these are just what are popular and/or common. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4016 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 6 of 8 16 September 2013 at 1:55am | IP Logged | ||
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There isn't really a lot out there for Korean vocabulary outside of the frequency list.
There really isn't a lot for Korean in general^^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5694 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 7 of 8 16 September 2013 at 3:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Highly recommend TalkToMeInKorean. I was disappointed by KoreanPod101 (KoreanClass101). Seemed like they "phoned in" a lot of the dialogs they came up with. Not nearly the same effort there as was/is with JapanesePod101.
Hippocrene's Beginning Korean is packed with content. Colloquial and Spoken World are also decent. Korean Grammar In Use is excellent. For textbooks, I like Sogang, Yonsei and Ewha, but as was said, they are not meant for self-study. The exercises do not come with answers and they don't have a lot of English in them (although at the earliest levels, enough to get by). However, they still come with a lot of sample sentences, short readings and dialogs so they are worth it to me. Even with the drawbacks, I love using these textbooks. But for someone brand new to Korean, I wouldn't recommend starting with one of them. At least not until you're comfortable with the Hangul and how the language sounds. (One warning with the textbooks, some of them also offer Japanese or Chinese as a base language, so if you do order one of them, make sure you get the English one.) As for how to learn Hangul, I honestly don't even remember how I learned it exactly. It's a logical system with not a lot of symbols to learn. It's pretty easy. For someone just starting out, I'd suggest learning the Hangul and start off listening to the TalkToMeInKorean lessons. Once you got a few levels into TTMIK, then start on either a self-study book or textbook. (Of course, just my suggestion and I'm still a beginner in Korean, so take that for what its worth). Edited by sabotai on 16 September 2013 at 3:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4519 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 8 of 8 16 September 2013 at 8:56am | IP Logged | ||
But I can learn vocabulary from genuine texts. I have the internet for that. All I need is the basics. I don't study vocab lists anyways. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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