EPTNow I'm from Nottingham, a city famous for its (relative to European standards) high gun crime and a man who stole stuff and gave to people who hadn't earn't it... But wore green tights so it was okay because anyone who's that confident deserves respect. But I study in Wales, Bangor, a city famous for... not even being a city but a town, and not a very big one at that. Part of studying education in wales involves learning rudimentary Welsh. A horrible language which I don't much care for and apparently neither does anyone else in Wales who's election doesn't count on it.
Whilst here I met a guy who had 7 wives and 7 wives with 7 cats... well I met a guy who was one of 7 siblings anyhow; His older sister also studied Primary Ed at Bangor before teaching in Korea for a year. The deal is essentially a paid for flight to and from Korea, paid accommodation and transport to and from school and 2.2 million Korean Won per month (as well as a few other perks).
Now Korea has fascinated me since I got involved in StarCraft and I've often wanted to there to experience the beauty it has to offer. This seems like a brilliant thing to do, it does not require me to know the slightest amount of Korean, I need only be an English speaking graduate. However I want more than that, since learning minimal welsh with some ease, I've wanted to learn a language which isn't dead. To feel less like the arrogant Englishman on holiday. The guy who just speaks louder because, lets face it, all these tanned people speak English. It's the biggest and bestest in the world. I don't want to be that guy. But I also don't want to learn a language which doesn't engage me, who's culture doesn't speak to me, who's people don't fascinate me. So it ain't gonna be French...*
All of this basically means that I am interested in learning how to speak. 나는 한국어를 공부한다.
The best I can offer so far.
I want to know how some of the Korean learners and speakers on TeamLiquid learnt, how they found best worked for them as a means of memorization. I bought myself the basic koreanclass101.com subscription to see how I went for a month. I'm enjoying it at the moment and find it very helpful in its bitesized fashion.
I'm looking for all and any tips. From people fluent to those who are in my boat. Any help would be much appreciated.
* I have much respect for the French, their complete disregard for bodily hygiene speaks to me in ways you can't possibly imagine.
