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jonpurdy
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Rosetta Stone, in combination with classes and other textbooks, is decent. You can sit there absorbing and figuring out vocabulary almost passively.
I don't think any one study source is super useful unless combined with other sources. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| jonpurdy wrote: |
Rosetta Stone, in combination with classes and other textbooks, is decent. You can sit there absorbing and figuring out vocabulary almost passively.
I don't think any one study source is super useful unless combined with other sources. |
yeah. get a k-gf. |
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jonpurdy
Joined: 08 Jan 2009
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Ramen wrote: |
| jonpurdy wrote: |
Rosetta Stone, in combination with classes and other textbooks, is decent. You can sit there absorbing and figuring out vocabulary almost passively.
I don't think any one study source is super useful unless combined with other sources. |
yeah. get a k-gf. |
For someone who can string together sentences and have basic conversation a K-gf (or bf) that doesn't speak English well is excellent for both conversation and writing practice (through constant text messaging).
Of course, don't do this if you're only doing it for the Korean practice  |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| jonpurdy wrote: |
| Ramen wrote: |
| jonpurdy wrote: |
Rosetta Stone, in combination with classes and other textbooks, is decent. You can sit there absorbing and figuring out vocabulary almost passively.
I don't think any one study source is super useful unless combined with other sources. |
yeah. get a k-gf. |
For someone who can string together sentences and have basic conversation a K-gf (or bf) that doesn't speak English well is excellent for both conversation and writing practice (through constant text messaging).
Of course, don't do this if you're only doing it for the Korean practice |
why not?  |
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Ed Provencher
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| The GANADA textbooks are full of practice sentences. The GANADA series also has workbooks with more practice sentences. Answers for the textbooks are on CDs and the answers for the workbooks are in the back pages. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| The GANADA textbooks are full of practice sentences. The GANADA series also has workbooks with more practice sentences. Answers for the textbooks are on CDs and the answers for the workbooks are in the back pages. |
I wouldn't recommend those. Every Korean I've shown them to has said that the practice sentences don't sound or read very naturally. |
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Ed Provencher
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| I wouldn't recommend those. Every Korean I've shown them to has said that the practice sentences don't sound or read very naturally. |
That's interesting. I've never been told that while studying with Koreans using the GANADA books. I don't doubt the assertion though.
Morrisonhotel, which level books were they looking at when they said that? I've finished levels 1-4 and plan to start level 5 after I take the TOPIK in July.
The GANADA books are the only ones I've studied thoroughly, so I can't give any other grammar book recommendations. |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:20 am Post subject: |
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i bought the yonsei books that someone recommended over the weekend (only 30,000 for practice book and textbook) and they are fantastic.
maybe not the best teaching material, but a really awesome reference. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| I wouldn't recommend those. Every Korean I've shown them to has said that the practice sentences don't sound or read very naturally. |
That's interesting. I've never been told that while studying with Koreans using the GANADA books. I don't doubt the assertion though.
Morrisonhotel, which level books were they looking at when they said that? I've finished levels 1-4 and plan to start level 5 after I take the TOPIK in July.
The GANADA books are the only ones I've studied thoroughly, so I can't give any other grammar book recommendations. |
I got through level 1 on my own. I then showed it to a few of the language exchanges I had. No one seemed to be impressed. I looked at level 2 with my Korean tutor when we were considering textbooks. She advised against buying it for the reasons I stated previously. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| furtakk wrote: |
i bought the yonsei books that someone recommended over the weekend (only 30,000 for practice book and textbook) and they are fantastic.
maybe not the best teaching material, but a really awesome reference. |
That would be me. The material is very good. The only issue I had with it is what I said previously. There are, as far as I can see, only 5 decent book series: Yonsei's, SNU's, Sogang's, the Darakwon series (for beginners), and the University of Hawaii's. If the OP is serious about studying Korean then he/she would go out and buy all of these. |
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bobbybigfoot
Joined: 05 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Learning Korean grammar |
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| When you're talking to a Korean in real life, you're not going to have the convenience of 4 options to choose from. |
lol so very true |
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