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Drew345
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| I like trying the old TOPIK exams which are all posted online. There are made in levels, so you can study at your level or push yourself. And since you have them on the computer, you can cut and paste what you don't know right from the test to an online dictionary really easy. |
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itiswhatitis
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
Great advice here:
http://language101.com/learn-any-language/finding-time/
Also, don't look for cost effective ways. (Or at least don't scrimp and be stingy I mean.) Spend money. It's worth it. Trust me. The Korean language takes thousands of hours to learn. Your time is precious. You want to make good progress as efficiently as possible. Otherwise you could end up wasting a boatload of time and still sucking at the Korean language. (I am describing myself here.) Get a tutor and pay the tutor. That is the best way to get good. The overwhelming majority of Westerners never get past the beginner level. (Korean is a HARD language.) Become one of those rare few who do.
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These are the absolute worse classes I have ever been to. (Have you been there?) They are free but they are a total waste of time. The teacher talks the whole time (in Korean) writing little to nothing on the board and using no visuals. The class is completely teacher centered and the students can't understand what the teacher is saying. The teacher does a 50 minute monologue in Korea, thinking the exposure will help us absorb the language. (No visuals are used, no body language is used, language is not graded, and language is not slowed down. How did that place find such bad teachers?) Each class I attended had less and less students until almost none remained, then I quit going. |
Score!!!!
I went through this exact process. Pay a GOOD tutor. Time is money and your time is too valuable to be wasted. |
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Talk to me in korean.com |
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premiummince
Joined: 23 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| marsavalanche wrote: |
| buy a book and study it |
I've gotta agree with this. Most people who say they wanna learn Korean don't actually study it. You've gotta put in a lot of hours of study... heaps... Then if you cared a bit, you'd ask people at work, or in the library or the people serving your coffee, some kakao friend. |
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