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Hello there Teamliquid users, nice to meet you all!
I am excited to tell myself that I will start learning Korean. Not by any course or school, just using the internet. I will be focusing on the talking before going any deeper. It would mean the world to me if I could have a mail-friend to send messages with. Maybe I will encounter any Koreans that will help me who knows. I will do my best but not rush anything!
I know right now, two words and that is annyeong and annyeonghaseyo which means hello and hello in formal version. I love Korea and their people; it's about time I start to learn the language. Swedish and English is starting to get a bit boring!
 
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I'm doing the same thing, msg me if you wanna know anything or need help
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Best of luck to you. If I might make a suggestion. Find someone to teach you the Korean alphabet and to help with pronounciation rather than rely on romanized translations. It will help a lot especially with East Asian languages where the romanized pronunciation is not always intuitive.
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glhf.
Ok i edited my original message as being a dick on someones blog serves no purpose but .. yeah ok fuck it will keep it edited.
Sorry for taking up space on your blog but let's face it, the bump makes it worth it anyways.
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Calgary25980 Posts
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im gonna post in this thread for now. i would like to learn mandarin. i speak english and cantonese, but can barely read traditional chinese. if anyone would like to tutor me free, send me a pm. that would be greatly appreciated
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Do you guys know of anyone who's been successful at learning a language this way? It seems almost impossible to me.
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On April 05 2013 11:47 nbaker wrote:
Do you guys know of anyone who's been successful at learning a language this way? It seems almost impossible to me.
I feel like the purchase of a good textbook is almost essential to really understanding how things work with a language. I'm essentially using 3-4 different things to help me learn Korean(TTMIK, a textbook/workbook combo, a reference book, and I may add on Rosetta for extra practice when I understand the grammar a little bit better.)
You can learn a decent deal online but I feel that if you're serious, just online isn't going to get you very far. Especially with a less spoken language like Korean.
Edit:
The book I use is: http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Korean-Second-Edition-Ross/dp/080483976X/ref=pd_sim_b_4
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
feel free to message me, I'm learning Korean as well. Level 3 according to TOPIK.
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On April 05 2013 08:44 Chill wrote:
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Best reply so far. Don't waste your time grinding through boring grammar problems out of some lame textbook. By far the best way to learn is by actually speaking the language. Free online resources like TTMIK, Memrise, Anki etc is all you'll need to use to study, but if you only study and don't speak you're wasting your time.
Feel free to message me as well.
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On April 05 2013 11:47 nbaker wrote:
Do you guys know of anyone who's been successful at learning a language this way? It seems almost impossible to me.
Definitely, but you probably need some experience in how to learn languages effectively. Basically, immersion is key, and without a classroom, you're not even getting that rudimentary immersion. So you need to create that immersion yourself. Listen to korean radio, watch korean TV programs, read korean books. In the start you can't do it because you don't understand, but that's not really important, the important aspect is to force yourself to listen to and process korean regularly. This is how kids learn, and as much as possible, you want to mimic that.
Obviously that isn't enough unless you take it to ridiculous extremes, so you probably want to either get a textbook or two, or find really solid online resources. Then get an SRS program, I would recommend Anki, and use it to memorize words and grammatical constructs.
After that, it's all about time and dedication.
Here's an example, this dude is pretty extreme though and most people will not have success doing it like he did it: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/
He pretty much learned Japanese by himself in a very short time using like 90% pure immersion.
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seemile.com
the video classes on there are quite well done imo. Should give you a decent basic understanding of the language.
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Thank you. It means a lot to get these great replies.
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TL Learn Korean Thread has some resources.
Apart from that, dont listen to people how they learned a language. Each person is different - you have to find out yourself what works best for you. So especially at the beginning try out different things.
On April 05 2013 15:28 Tobberoth wrote:
Then get an SRS program, I would recommend Anki, and use it to memorize words and grammatical constructs.
While I use Anki myself today I probably would start with Memrise. Or memrise for vocab and Anki for grammar.
It was really slowing down my personal progress since I had to add new words manually (and those stupid spelling errors^^).
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