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CaptPorridge · Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Location: Saudi Arabia

Yeah I hear you, and the last thing I'd want to do is scare this guy off something good,
Yeah cult survivors are there , but more imortantly trained psychologists and experts in this field.

This sounds awefully sus to me, and to others
The feeling I get was that he was lied to, to get him to the interview
2 years of study at a university....and a week later he's not even sure its a uni and the study could be 4 years of 96 hour weeks.
Is the proffessor really a proffessor? Is she really a she?

He asked for advice and I think if it is some kind of cultic group, then the advice of these guys is what he needs most.

mithridates · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:11 am Post subject:

Well, after a lot of looking around, it seems that I don't have to go all the way to Daejon. I checked around in Seoul and there are some two or three places that teach the same thing. They aren't free, but they might as well be - 120 000W a year for 4 hours a week, 15 hours a week during university breaks. Also, those two other places I found give credit for the study which is quite funny (can anyone guess why it's funny?)
The reason they're so cheap is because the gov't funds most of it; the reason why is the same as the explanation the professor gave me - people that know this stuff are few and far in between, and quite needed.
I've already started learning it (the content) and plan to register at one of those places soon. Nice to know that I don't have to leave Seoul to study this literature, because it's quite good stuff. I think I can memorize it all with minimal help from a teacher, and then we'll see what happens.
Thanks for all your input, everybody.
Very Happy

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Congratulations mithridates. Good choice.. seems to have worked out quite well.

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:39 am Post subject:

CaptPorridge · Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Location: Saudi Arabia

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CaptPorridge · Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Location: Saudi Arabia

Hey Mr Mithy,

Oh man i am sooo curious.....what did the universities have to say about the Daejon group??? Did you work out if they were legit???
answer swiftly and surely, and I will be pleased,
refuse and I will feel rejected, again..... Crying or Very sad

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

M, I take it that if you're already up to 5000 hanja that your spoken Korean is pretty damn fluent. I salute you, it seems so few westerns ever acheive that. I'm on the path too. May I ask how you go there, as in how many hours of study per week did you do? I study regularly but have a bit a of inherent laziness to deal with, I know I could be doing more hours, I just have other things I'm also into, like making music. How many hours a day/week did you put into it?

mithridates · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:17 am Post subject:

The other universities just said that the place was a really good place to learn Chinese lit if you were willing to put the effort in. It's quite hardcore but mostly self-study at the same time, so it takes a lot of personal motivation.
It's funny that you mentioned music because I learned about half of the Korean I know through it. I started out in 1998 learning Japanese back in Canada as an outlet to escape from my office temp work, went to Japan and became fluent in Japanese later on. After all that work on a difficult language I thought that I would have had enough of studying by the time I mastered Japanse, but I was wrong - it's become quite the addiction. That's when Korean came in because Korea's close to Kyushu and I had found out some time before how closely related the two languages are. I would say I put in...four hours a day? I can't just study all day; I need to work and see friends and so on as well. The minumum amount of study I do in a day is about two hours, and two weeks before a big test I usually do 6-8 hours a day if I can handle it.

Mashimaro · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location

mithridates · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:12 am Post subject:

All right. ^^

First, find some music you can stand listening to repeatedly. Make sure it has the lyrics.
Also, make sure you understand Korean grammar well enough that you can decipher most sentences with the aid of a dictionary.
Then, pick a song you like and listen to it a few times. Write down whatever you hear, as musc as possible. You should reach a point where you can't pick out any more words, and that's when you stop the CD, take out the lyrics, and pretend that you're reading a book or newspaper article. Go over everything, don't skip any parts if possible, and make notes of parts that seem a bit vague or ones that you just can't understand. Ask a friend or teacher/tutor about those.
Once you have deciphered all the lyrics, take a moment and think about the meaning of the song. It's easy to get so bogged down in deciphering grammar that you forget the whole point of the song. By that time you should have the whole thing embedded in your mind to a certain extent, so then listen to the song some five or more times while following along with your finger.
You have now succeeded in putting some 3-4 minutes of fluent Korean into your head! Repeat.

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matthewwoodford · Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: Location, location, location.

So Mithridates since this thread started back in 2003, does that mean you have now memorised reams of obscure Confucian texts? And have credit towards a degree or professorship? Perhaps you are now in a position to make some informed comment as to what Confucianism is actually all about - apart from the stuff we've all heard about age, hierarchy, and conservatism.