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Oh god not another "Learning Korean"-blog, yeah well, i'm making one anyway!
Alright, so yesterday i started to go through the hangul alphabet, i can't remember why but i did, and i realized it was pretty easy, basically just stacking consonants with vowels. Am i right in thinking that i basically just try to expand my vocabulary in order to learn Korean from now? i know Japanese and from what i've been told the grammar is pretty much the same as with Korean, Subject/Object marking particles, SOV word order etc.
The way i became "good" at Japanese was mainly through talking to Japanese friends in Japanese all the time, living in Japan, posting in Japanese on facebook so other people that studied Japanese with me could join in and my Japanese friends would post and tell me if something was wrong etc. I studied Japanese at Uni. but i'm not the kind of person that learns a language through classes but through immersion, reading books, watching movies/TV, playing games in said language. The problem now though is that i don't have any Korean friends i can talk to and i don't live in Korea so the whole "immersion"-thing might be kind of hard.
If there are any other people out there that picked up Korean, i'm pretty sure there are a few, how did you go about in learning Korean and has it worked out for you? do you wish you tried another approach? Any tips on where to go from now would be helpful!
I copypasted some Korean words just to make it look like a proper "learning korean!!!!!"-blog post!
다치다
며느리
묘지
비키니
고추
구토
기타
Thanks!
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Only thing I can say is once you get a little into it you could skype with Sang Ho and Alive and try to talk to them in Korean. They love to skype with fans. Just check out their twitters.
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For me, how I learnt Korean was by reading language books, listening to more music and watching more drama with subtitles? Over some time, you get used to the nuances of it. While the grammer for Japanese and Korean may be similar, but there are actually exact words to use if you want that meaning, so you probably have to memorise it? (no 2 way about it I'm afraid, an example will be of you wanting to do something.) Speaking to koreans will be useful for you to learn how to actually use it as well, thankfully for me i have a couple of close friends who are Korean.
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if your a university graduate with no job atm, take a year away and live in korea to teach english 
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I'm not really at the level we're i'll be able to chat up SangHo and Alive lol, but i'll look into it in the future.
I'm also planning on checking out a couple of Korean movies/series, but i gotta say, i really dislike the usual dramas, it was the same with Japanese dramas.
On August 16 2011 20:03 OptimusYale wrote:if your a university graduate with no job atm, take a year away and live in korea to teach english
You know, i have honestly thought about it, but last time i looked it up most places required you to be a native English speaker, which i'm not 
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The way to approach Korean is to approach, just like you said, like learning any other language.
My Korean got extremely horrible after I went to the United States to the point that I could not carry out basic conversation skills with my parents.
So here's how I went about to solve the issue:
1) Watch Korean Dramas. (I was so into Coffee Prince when I was in high school that I watched every episode 3 times with English subtitles on. It helps to listen actively though, and not passively. Watch to not just enjoy but to learn).
2) Play some Korean games. Games like Maple Story where you are forced to constantly read Korean. Playing English Maple Story and then playing Korean Maple Story where the instructions / story lines are the same helps with the translations.
3) Use every moment to say something in Korean. Whether it's in front of your friends or just anywhere in general, think in the language, and not just speak it.
Also your words in Korean at the bottom are:
To get hurt
Wife
Grave
Bikini
Pepper (or Penis, depends in context )
vomiting
Guitar
화이팅~
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Thanks for the advice, UTL_Unlimited!
I especially like #3 because i was doing that with English all the time and these days every single thought in my head is in English and not Swedish, pretty weird, but it helped a lot!
And lol at those words, what an odd selection! :S
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you should be fine teaching english;o
almost every swedish person ive met or spoken to has had a grasp on the english language better than some english people ^^
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lol nice, more people learning Korean~
By the way, the second word on your randomly-selected-list is not wife (which would be 아내). It's daughter-in-law. Do not confuse... or suffer the consequences xD
Also, what an excellent suggestion from UTL to play MapleStory hehehe check out our thread in the Sports & Games section!
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speak as much konglish as you can to yourself.
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On August 16 2011 21:37 krndandaman wrote:
the thing with korean though, is that it's very easy to learn the basics but after that there are nearly no resources to learn korean other than immersion. other languages have tons of books and materials to learn from but korean? not much at all.
foreigners can never really get good at korean unless they use the immersion technique like you described. there is just not enough resources to learn korean without some form of immersion.
UTL_Unlimited's methods are good.
Honestly, i'm fine with that and i kind of prefer it to be that way, because at a certain point books don't do anything for me anymore. Like when i was a kid and started learning English, as soon as i knew the fundamentals i could just watch movies, read books, play games etc. and pick up words and just start to form my own sentences just using the basics and fundamentals that i learned in the beginning.
For now i would like to find some guide or something that goes through the basics of forming a sentence, like "let's write My name is" etc. and then branch out from there.
Thanks for the tips so far, guys!
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Calgary25993 Posts
On August 16 2011 19:43 grobo wrote:
The way i became "good" at Japanese was mainly through ... living in Japan
That's basically it. You'll never become good at Korean if you don't live in Korea unless you are The Chosen One or something.
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On August 17 2011 00:05 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2011 19:43 grobo wrote:
The way i became "good" at Japanese was mainly through ... living in Japan That's basically it. You'll never become good at Korean if you don't live in Korea unless you are The Chosen One or something.
Yeah, i was afraid of that =/
With Japanese it was okay because we had like 20-30 exchange students from Japan each year and i got to know everyone really well, so i could talk to them everyday which helped a lot. We have zero connections with Korean universities so that is sadly not an option.
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What a coincidence.  I've been keeping my own Korean blog up as well for a while... I will definitely check out this blog when you update it.
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Calgary25993 Posts
On August 17 2011 00:36 grobo wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2011 00:05 Chill wrote:On August 16 2011 19:43 grobo wrote:
The way i became "good" at Japanese was mainly through ... living in Japan That's basically it. You'll never become good at Korean if you don't live in Korea unless you are The Chosen One or something. Yeah, i was afraid of that =/ With Japanese it was okay because we had like 20-30 exchange students from Japan each year and i got to know everyone really well, so i could talk to them everyday which helped a lot. We have zero connections with Korean universities so that is sadly not an option.
Just trust me. I have a ton of foreign Korean friends and a Korean girlfriend and I suck ass at Korean. You can learn it but you'll never get good unless you live there
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On August 17 2011 04:55 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2011 00:36 grobo wrote:On August 17 2011 00:05 Chill wrote:On August 16 2011 19:43 grobo wrote:
The way i became "good" at Japanese was mainly through ... living in Japan That's basically it. You'll never become good at Korean if you don't live in Korea unless you are The Chosen One or something. Yeah, i was afraid of that =/ With Japanese it was okay because we had like 20-30 exchange students from Japan each year and i got to know everyone really well, so i could talk to them everyday which helped a lot. We have zero connections with Korean universities so that is sadly not an option. Just trust me. I have a ton of foreign Korean friends and a Korean girlfriend and I suck ass at Korean. You can learn it but you'll never get good unless you live there
Hmm yeah i guess you're right, even if you for example have a girlfriend that's fluent in the language you want to learn you automatically go back to communicating with each other in the language you're most comfortable with. My girlfriend is Japanese but that hasn't really had a huge impact on me learning Japanese. Also, i would hate to pursue anything if i knew i could never achieve what i really wanted with it.
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