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Learning Korean through study and Starcraft

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ionize
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Ireland399 Posts
December 05 2011 15:42 GMT
#1
I'm a language addict. I learnt English on my own (though I had it in school for years and years, but who cares) and picked up Japanese as study in University. As I wrote here I would like to get more into Korean SC:BW. The VOD archives are huge, but I have a big problem with understanding shit.

On December 03 2011 20:07 ionize wrote:
My biggest problem right now with watchin the Korean VODs is the language barrier and my lack of knowledge in SC:BW. To be honest I get bored pretty quick when I watch the screen for 5 minutes and don't get an idea what's going on. :-(

That's just my whine...

This way I thought it's time to change something about it. I learnt an East-Asian language for three years and I can pick up another one.

I really like to learn new languages. My approach is to learn the alphabet first (Hangul then) and start picking up a basic set of sentences (about ~500 is ok), which are actually translated. From there on I will do sentence-mining and implement the usage of Monolingual dictionaries.

As I like to get into the Korean SC:BW pro-scene I have a ton of resources to listen to and pick out sentences. And I bet I will find a lot of nice Korean websites to start reading (once I am past learning Hangul actually).

My method is vastly based on the AJATT (All Japanese all the time) method, which I highly recommend for any language learner.

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I just love video games, what's your excuse?
Stratos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Czech Republic6104 Posts
December 05 2011 15:48 GMT
#2
Seems like you could make some use of this site: http://talktomeinkorean.com/
Otherwise gl & hf. Korean is a beautiful language.
En Taro Violet
Kiett
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States7639 Posts
December 05 2011 16:22 GMT
#3
Haha, I find your reason for wanting to learn rather amusing, as it's a thousand times easier to gain knowledge about the game itself than it is to learn a whole new language. But I'm never one to discourage multilingual ambitions, so good luck! 잘 해봐요~ ^^
Writer:o
surfinbird1
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany999 Posts
December 05 2011 16:28 GMT
#4
Maybe this will help you. I especially recommend the part where he talks about how he learned college level English in two years (here). And it's a nice, informative blog anyway.
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ionize
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Ireland399 Posts
December 05 2011 17:43 GMT
#5
@Kiett It's not about knowledge of the game tbh. To me it's about combining two things I like to do a) follow the pro-scene and b) learn a language. With SC:BW's huge archives I have a good resource of listening material as well.

Thanks Stratos and surfinbird1 for the links. :-)
I just love video games, what's your excuse?
mtvacuum
Profile Joined January 2010
United States979 Posts
December 05 2011 17:48 GMT
#6
i'm learning korean right now and i'd say koreanclass101 and talktomeinkorean are two really helpful sites. They both have an abundance of short, audio lessons that range from beginner to advanced so you just basically listen to all of them in order. I have 11gb of that stuff on my ipod and now instead of listening to music, I use that time to listen to the korean lessons.
Powdercake
Profile Joined November 2011
United States19 Posts
December 05 2011 17:49 GMT
#7
I'm actually doing the same thing. I'm signed up to start taking Korean classes at my university next semester with the purpose of being able to understand Korean commentators, haha! Good luck!
ionize
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Ireland399 Posts
December 05 2011 17:58 GMT
#8
Thanks to you two. :-)

@mtvacuum I got myself the book which is used in Korean classes at our University. But I think I will not go by it lesson for lesson and skip between everything I find and this.
I just love video games, what's your excuse?
RBKeys
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada196 Posts
December 05 2011 19:03 GMT
#9
On December 06 2011 00:48 Stratos wrote:
Seems like you could make some use of this site: http://talktomeinkorean.com/
Otherwise gl & hf. Korean is a beautiful language.


I was going to post this ha ha. It's a great resource. What helps is if you can find Korean friends as well.
Thanks for the break :D
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-05 22:01:22
December 05 2011 22:01 GMT
#10
Did you learn Hangul yet?

Check out my blog series!

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=238526
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
Chaosvuistje
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands2581 Posts
December 05 2011 22:11 GMT
#11
I have some basic korean articles at my blog: http://raa-media.nl/blog/starcraft2/

Although the series is hardly even worthy of being close to the Korean Terminology thread here on TL, it should eventually get better when I find time ._. .

If you really want to commit to Korean I can definitely recommend the book Korean grammar for international learners. Saved me with the endings a ton, would only go about buying that once you are reasonably okayish at understanding the grammar and sentencestructure though.
kainzero
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States5211 Posts
December 05 2011 23:02 GMT
#12
On December 06 2011 00:42 ionize wrote:
My method is vastly based on the AJATT (All Japanese all the time) method, which I highly recommend for any language learner.

did you learn japanese/english through that method?
i feel like ajatt is flawed in so many ways.
ionize
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Ireland399 Posts
December 06 2011 11:30 GMT
#13
@kainzero Not really. I learnt English mainly through watching a lot of movies and reading 99% of the stuff that interested me (web, books etc.) in English. Before I did that I had four years of English in school (I started in grade 8 with self-learning). And with Japanese, I learnt it three years in various classes at University (basic, intermediate, advanced classes, text analysis, translation etc.) and picked up a lot of the stuff that I read on AJATT and something I remembered was good when I learnt English.

And tbh AJATT seems to have it's flaws, but if you could keep at it for 1.5 to 3 years straight you would be near native level.
I just love video games, what's your excuse?
TheKwas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Iceland372 Posts
December 06 2011 14:32 GMT
#14
A simple warning: Korean Brood War Commentators talk really, really fast. Much faster than their English counterparts. not quite auctioneer fast, but an analogy could be made. Don't let that discourage you of course, just I suggest molding an interest in Korean Movies or TV first if you find it too difficult.
Phyrigian
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
New Zealand1332 Posts
December 07 2011 19:02 GMT
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