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| westen91 Newbie United States Joined 3355 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Studies: Korean | Message 1 of 5 18 February 2015 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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In the opinion of most of the members on this site what is the best approach to learning Korean?
Especially the structure of the language so that forming sentences feels more natural than just memorizing sentences and phrase. Also is there any material out there that covers Hanja Thanks for the help 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| michaelyus Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4352 days ago 53 posts - 87 votes  Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Italian, French, Cantonese, Korean, Catalan, Vietnamese, Lingala, Spanish Studies: Hokkien | Message 2 of 5 18 February 2015 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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For Hanja, I really like Naver's Hanja
Dictionary. Korean is SOV and heavily pre-modifying. I imagine it really would take a while to get used to describing all your relative clauses first before saying your main verb. But practise is key. One of the techniques that I found helped was akin to Chinese-ordered English: 한국어는 SOV이고 heavily pre-modifying습니다. 정말로 main verb을 말하기 전에 relative clauses을 first describe하는 거 get used(도록?) a while take은 거 같습니다. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6943 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 5 18 February 2015 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's a cliché around here, but the best approach to start learning any language depends on you.
It sounds though as if you're a bit more interested in understanding grammar or at least want to understand first the rules with a minimal amount of vocabulary so that you can see how parts of speech relate to each other and yield meaning. Perhaps reading a few sketches on grammar or notes on certain topics about Korean will be useful as a primer. Check out the following: Learner's notes on some aspects of Korean grammar Sketch of Korean Korean grammar (on Wikipedia) A less direct approach would be to consult the indices/table of contents of textbooks or online courses to learn about some aspect of grammar. The following are available for free. - Click Korean - Korean from Zero 1 (also available as a downloadable .pdf with .mp3s) - My Korean 1 - My Korean 2 --- I'm taking on the language relying on "Korean Made Easy for Beginners" whose combination of grammar explanations, dialogues/audio and exercises in each chapter is working best for me. I've tried over the past year "Korean from Zero", "Spoken World Korean", and "Living Language Korean" as my main resource but ultimately none could do it for me However, it's possible that at least one of them might eventually function better as a supplement or follow-up course to "Korean Made Easy for Beginners". 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Yrek Pentaglot Newbie Poland Joined 3374 days ago 34 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Polish*, Japanese, Korean, English, Mandarin Studies: Vietnamese Studies: Hungarian, Mongolian | Message 4 of 5 04 July 2015 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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As for start I reccomend
http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/korean/ It's quite good website, with many lessons. Some youtube channels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5r3WHrX4Z7peSYpDlgktGw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsgBUobNGksxIKTagZayKEw There is also a channel for KBS World, with lots of native material (KBS World is also available on TV, don't know how is it in USA, but in Poland we have them on Satellite TV) There are also free legal e-books on Korean from FSI, DLI etc, you can find them yojik website, and other websites. As for hanja, like others said you can find that on naver. The Sogang course also contains some hanja. I believe it's best to follow a course, they will teach you the grammar, relevant vocabulary and provide audio. Korean grammar is really different than English and most other languages. Edited by Yrek on 04 July 2015 at 3:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6384 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 5 05 July 2015 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
Sorry for being nitpicky, I know you mean the mainstream languages. Read the logs/posts of Evita and druckfehler, I find them fascinating and I'm not even learning Korean! Edited by Serpent on 05 July 2015 at 1:22am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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