On January 07 2015 06:42 QuickStriker wrote: 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.
I feel like isn't really necessary since you learn a lot about the way people think through the language already. although it does help. But I haven't reached that level with a foreign language besides English.
I found this site and it helped me with learning basic Korean,
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.
I'll be attending Korea University for a whole year. Will probably be doing ESPORTS stuff on the side to complement my exchange.
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.
I'll be attending Korea University for a whole year. Will probably be doing ESPORTS stuff on the side to complement my exchange.
Let me know when you get there, I'm currtenly doing pretty much the same, but at Seoul National University.
Hey guys! With the help of the site listed above: http://www.howtostudykorean.com/ I have been slowly trying to learn some Korean.
Considering the fact that Fish is now an official server, I'm deeply interested in trying to get some games in on there, and using it as a tool to both get better at StarCraft and learn some Korean! I've started using Anki, and been looking up various words that I figure I'd see on Bnet, but considering the fact that starting out in any new language is very overwhelming, my progress has been terrible.
I haven't actually played a game on the server yet, because I've heard there are certain rules to adhere too, and I'm so rusty at BW that I don't want to get destroyed just yet, but I intend to ladder on it regularly as the summer progresses, especially as Remastered comes out. Considering how constant the Korean Afreeca streams are, and how entrenched the SC community is in Korea, perhaps we shall see lots of people picking up Korean! So with that, I'm bumping this thread.
Korean is very fun to learn but it seems impossible to understand slang unless you are friends with a few native speakers.
Whenever I open an afreeca stream nowadays I also pay attention to the chat window but there's too many abbreviations and slang. I also haven't found an easy way to look up korean slang/abbreviations online. A decade ago or more, or even now, I found/find it very easy to look up English slang terms and abbreviations. Does anyone know of something like Urban dictionary for Korean :D
I think that's a matter of perspective. For example, I don't think you'll find stuff like FD, FFE, TBLS, SBG, KTY in regular places unless you know where to look already. And yeah learning slang is really kinda hard when you don't converse a lot with native speakers. I think difficulty with learning abbreviations and slang is always attached to learning any language in general, we just tend to be biased to the languages we already know so you think it's simpler.
On May 19 2017 23:25 B-royal wrote: Korean is very fun to learn but it seems impossible to understand slang unless you are friends with a few native speakers.
Whenever I open an afreeca stream nowadays I also pay attention to the chat window but there's too many abbreviations and slang. I also haven't found an easy way to look up korean slang/abbreviations online. A decade ago or more, or even now, I found/find it very easy to look up English slang terms and abbreviations. Does anyone know of something like Urban dictionary for Korean :D
Read through Mizu’s phonetic Korean guides they were very good and I seem to have the hang of it so thank you for those, might try learn some basic Korean now.
I'm amazed at how slow it is to memorize words and such in Korean. I can generally sound out and phonetically go through words, but dedicating them to memory is a lot harder than any words with a romantic script. Anki has been valuable, of course, but I need to redo my deck. I've had better luck with associating words with pictures than to a direct English Translation, so perhaps I'll be doing that.
On a similar note, does anyone know how to have Anki cards where you type in the answer? I saw how you do it in general, but it doesn't seem to work very well for Korean, does anyone have a solution?
I've been learning korean for 1.5 years now. Read and practice the "Howtostudykorean" lessons. Put all vocabulary words of the lessons in Anki, also add any additional words you want to remember and practice your deck daily.
Finally meet koreans, best and fastest way to learn. Keep at it and you will succeed!
I've been learning korean for half a year now. My strategy so far has been to practice a little using smartphone apps every day. Progress is slow, but I've managed to make it a daily routine that I never break, which is good. I haven't learned much grammar, but my vocabulary is growing. So far it's mostly been memrise and 'learn korean' (the latter has good sections on grammar but has annoying ads), and I'm waiting for duolingo's course to release. Are there any other good ones out there?
My Korean is so fucking behind right now since I left Korea. Waiting for Duolingo to support Korean in a few weeks time then I'll probably pick it back up.
I did a lot of self-study with the immersion of living in Korea for about 5.5 years. Wasnt that good but better than most other foreigners I met living there...
Since moving back to Canada in 2015 Ive felt my level drop pretty quick. But went to Seoul last year and I was happy how quickly it came back speaking with my wife's family.
I dont know how a lot of you folks study without living in Korea. The immersion helped so much. Constantly surrounded by it...
If I wasnt mostly studying for job-related stuff I would love to start studying again ㅜㅜ
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, years over years to learn Korean is not that funny for me.
