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On October 04 2014 06:09 sabas123 wrote:
bumping this thread,
Recently started learning hangul and was wondering if there where other people to share experiances.
Hangul is a pretty nice system so it wont take you too long to learn it all. In one of the earlier chapters of this textbook theres a chapter dedicated to Hangul it has a lot of exercises that use Hangul without having to know any Korean words (since Hangul should be the first thing you learn anyway). I'd recommend the PDF but the audio isnt as necessary.
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/korean/my-korean-1/
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Ugh, so I'm currently doing Intermediate/Korean 2B at university. Not even thinking of doing Advanced/3A next year - been falling behind on my Korean. Don't know whether it's just my lack of practice or my language talent is shite. I have a 2x1000자 composition due Friday and I'm dreading I won't be able to fulfill the requirements for it.
Hopefully going on exchange to Korea next year will help solve some of my issues speaking/writing Korean frequently.
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whats a 자 composistion?
update on my korean so far, Started learning 5 words a day, I have to write them 5 times the first day, second day 4 times ect and with each day I will pick another 5 words to learn.
after doing this for 5 days I already learned 25 words:D
I will look into the think you posted tame, but so far I find talk to me in korean just to nice to switch
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A 자 is a character, they don't do "words" for Korean essays, they go characters.
For example, 안녕하세요 is 5 자.
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
I finished level 6 in the classroom, and have been doing free-lance translation work (Kor->Eng.) for the past few months. I'm currently preparing for the TOPIK exam, but pretty scared I won't do well. 
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Intermediate or Advanced TOPIK? My lecturer/tutor is encouraging us to try Intermediate but I know I'd flop it =/ I could do Beginner, but I don't really see the point in it right now.
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Yeah my teacher wants to go straight to Intermediate too. We tried some tests together, Intermediate is a lot harder than Beginner.
Took me a while to get used to everything that is REMOVED in the Advanced texts like the 서 in 아/어서, the ㄴ서 in 면서...
It's really disturbing at first, but I think if you try some test before hand, you'll get a good grasp of what they want.
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
intermediate and advanced were combined into one test, so intermediate / advanced take the same test, and you are graded according to your performance. but i need level 5
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On October 08 2014 06:23 Growiel wrote:
A 자 is a character, they don't do "words" for Korean essays, they go characters.
For example, 안녕하세요 is 5 자.
aaahhh thank you.
good luck with your test caucasian and gtr~!!!!!
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Learning a new language in general is difficult. It may help to test yourself by reading a sc2 article in korean to gauge your level, as in your speed, pronunciation, and level of vocabulary that you know.
Good luck on the topik!
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
it's the uncommon words that you would think are common that I always forget. like 웅크리다(to crouch) or 뒤척이다 (to toss and turn).
reading economic newspapers is easier than a childrens book for me... i really don't know how to learn a lot of these words that are rarely ever used unless you grew up with the language.
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Have you tried going through a bunch of those low level books and make flash cards of words you don't know? I don't think those words will be a make or break on your competency but if you have the time might as well get through them
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I want to learn more Korean. Do you recommend any apps? I have Memrise, which course do you recommend?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
it depends on your level, i make my own courses on memrise for words that I don't know. If you are a beginner / intermediate then the TOPIK courses / Ehwa aren't bad
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I am a beginner. I know basic basic words, but can't speak/understand simple sentences. Thanks for the suggestion TOPIK courses here I come...
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
remember to learn the grammar as well!
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Have to agree with CaucasianAsian, grammar is very very important in Korea, more so than in English.
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On October 06 2014 21:03 GTR wrote:
Hopefully going on exchange to Korea next year will help solve some of my issues speaking/writing Korean frequently.
Should do. How long are you there for? Even just going for a month helped my Korean jump in leaps and bounds.
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I feel everyone feel to neglect the most important factor when learning a new language that is not the language itself but the culture and society behind that language country.
Before you attempt to learn Korean to an advanced/master level, you have to understand why the society/culture/perception is like that to understand the proper context of the language.
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