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nattylitewvu
Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Location: Suji
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 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:41 am Post subject: Best learn Korean APP for Itouch? |
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title basically says it all. I cant find a sort by best seller option for search results in the app store... so recommend something
I tried the trial version of the Declan flashcards.. but want to see what everyone recommends before i purchase a full version...... |
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been watching the Arirang "Let's Speak Korean" videos. Nice, 10 minute, bite-size practice. Convert them to ipod format and watch and learn. You can rip them from youtube or find a torrent somewhere. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| hanguker wrote: |
| I've been watching the Arirang "Let's Speak Korean" videos. Nice, 10 minute, bite-size practice. Convert them to ipod format and watch and learn. You can rip them from youtube or find a torrent somewhere. |
New ones or old ones?
I'd rather drive my head through a cement wall than watch the new ones.
For me, I originally got the Declan read/write korean a lot of years ago. For $16 it was worth it. I did a lot of grammar study on my own and through language exchange, so I've got a reasonably decent grasp on basic to low intermediate grammar.
I also picked up a book called "Easy Korean Grammar". Now on the touch, I looked at a lot of the free apps, but most weren't that great. Pointless romanization, and other not so good features.
I did grab "Flash cards" by r5 development. Great program. You make your own. You make them on your PC in a spreadsheet, upload them to their site and import them onto your touch.
I'm currently doing that book 6000 most common korean words. Its split into levels, A B and C. So I go through and type up each letters words at A level. Import them and study them when I've got them, I add the next one, until I finish A level, then I'll start over and do B level and finally C.
In about 2 weeks I've gotten down around 180 vocab (all the A level ㄱ and ㄴ words) I probably knew around 30% of them before I started.
It keeps track of your stats on cards and uses uhm...leitner (I think thats the name) boxes for your cards. You can set a threshold where if you get a card right so many times in a row with a certain percentage overall right (maybe you got it wrong 10 times before you got it right 10 times in a row, so only 50% successful) it'll start skipping the card.
You can either run the whole set or go in and individually run box levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_System
Oh, and better yet their website doesn't mangle korean letters. I had tried another program ($1 app) but when I transferred the cards from their website to my touch, the korean characters were all converted to ??? which made it pretty useless. This app was..uhm.. 1.99 or 2.99 but worth paying more. I actually got apple to give me a refund for the other app. |
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kellettp
Joined: 22 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:30 am Post subject: |
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Hey cross, would you happen to be using the Language PLUS version of the Korean 6000 most essential vocab? I am currently doing the same thing with this book and I find it to be so tedious to copy all the words one by one into a spreadsheet.
If we are using the same book, would you be interested in splitting up the work between us and exchanging spreadsheets? |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah I am. I'm only doing it by level though. I'm not copying over all vocab at once. So I'll actually make 3 passes through the book to get it all. except for ㄹ since all the words except for one are Konglish. I don't know how you're doing it, but if you are also copying them over by A, B, C I'll be happy to trade. I've already copied ㄱ ㄴ and ㄷ for A level. |
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kellettp
Joined: 22 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:11 am Post subject: |
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I am doing it the exact same way. However, since I knew 95% of the A level already I didn't copy any of them and went straight to level B. I have ㄱ-ㅁ of the B level already finished but I skipped the ones I knew. These would probably be useless to you. Though from now on, I will copy every word in the B & C levels.
Any suggestions on how we should split the remainder of what we both need? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Looking for decent Korean language learning apps from the istore seems like trying to find the light switch in Doom 3. It ain't there.... |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| kellettp wrote: |
I am doing it the exact same way. However, since I knew 95% of the A level already I didn't copy any of them and went straight to level B. I have ㄱ-ㅁ of the B level already finished but I skipped the ones I knew. These would probably be useless to you. Though from now on, I will copy every word in the B & C levels.
Any suggestions on how we should split the remainder of what we both need? |
Well you're pretty far ahead of me. I'm not sure how long it'd be until I typed up something useful for you. You are welcome to this though:
r5flashcardimport://18575
Its the first 23 Hanja from my new book I picked up on useful chinese characters for korean learners. The first character is the pronunciation the second part is the definition. The website says it'll be available until the 29th. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| Looking for decent Korean language learning apps from the istore seems like trying to find the light switch in Doom 3. It ain't there.... |
The best thing for me has been the Nexus Eng-Kor dictionary. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:04 am Post subject: |
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Just an update on this. I finally typed up all the level A words from the book. There seems to be a discrepancy though. They say there are 1087 words, after loading them all into the touch I've only got 924. Now in the first couple letters I did skip a couple of really obvious words.. but maybe 4 or 5 at the most, certainly not 170 words.
I added up the spreadsheets with a calc and it matches the card count in the program, so there wasn't any kind of import error. |
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