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fruitcake
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Location: shinchon
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 Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: excellent (free) online Korean lessons |
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this is through Sogang University:
http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/
check it out. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Yes...I recommend it.....
No offence but it is very old news...been there for about 5 years but good of you to point it out... |
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Always Curious
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
Location: In the corner
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for this link, and I will put it to good use for studying the Korean language before I come here.
I have a Japanese friend in the UK, so would it be worth my while asking her to teach me some basic Japanese and would this get me very far in Korea? |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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here is an excellent search engine: www.google.com
I heard they're gonna have an IPO soon so watch out all you investors!
(yeah, sorry to be a smartass, but it is old news. but for anybody who hasn't heard of it, it's like a rite-of-passage for people who try to learn korean through the internet. great site.) |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| I have a Japanese friend in the UK, so would it be worth my while asking her to teach me some basic Japanese and would this get me very far in Korea? |
No. |
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banillaq
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| I didnt know about the site. THanks |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Always Curious wrote: |
Thanks for this link, and I will put it to good use for studying the Korean language before I come here.
I have a Japanese friend in the UK, so would it be worth my while asking her to teach me some basic Japanese and would this get me very far in Korea? |
It may well get you a long way into hot water depending on when and where you use it and who you're speaking to . Mind you, I've used it on several occasions - usually to scare the heck out of Japanese tourists...  |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| the saint wrote: |
| Always Curious wrote: |
Thanks for this link, and I will put it to good use for studying the Korean language before I come here.
I have a Japanese friend in the UK, so would it be worth my while asking her to teach me some basic Japanese and would this get me very far in Korea? |
It may well get you a long way into hot water depending on when and where you use it and who you're speaking to . Mind you, I've used it on several occasions - usually to scare the heck out of Japanese tourists... |
Some people don't like if you use a Japanese word. I had a co-worker (male) get upset when I said 됀�� was like miso. On the other hand plenty of Koreans have studied Japanese and in my experience are happy to meet someone else who has too. (Come to think of it, though, all such Koreans I know are women.) |
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Always Curious
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
Location: In the corner
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| It may well get you a long way into hot water depending on when and where you use it and who you're speaking to . Mind you, I've used it on several occasions - usually to scare the heck out of Japanese tourists... |
How about if I asked my friend to help me learn to read and write Japanese? Would that help me with Korean at all (ie I can read Italian, Spanish, German et al even though I don't understand it!) |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| How about if I asked my friend to help me learn to read and write Japanese? Would that help me with Korean at all (ie I can read Italian, Spanish, German et al even though I don't understand it!) |
While the grammar structures are similar and the vocabulary of both derive a huge amount of words from Chinese, the writing systems are totally different. Kind of like Polish and Russian, both Slavic languages but one uses the Roman alphabet and the other uses Cyrillic.
If you want to learn Korean, just go directly to Korean and skip Japanese. That's my advice anyway. |
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skookum
Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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| Always Curious wrote: |
| the saint wrote: |
| It may well get you a long way into hot water depending on when and where you use it and who you're speaking to . Mind you, I've used it on several occasions - usually to scare the heck out of Japanese tourists... |
How about if I asked my friend to help me learn to read and write Japanese? Would that help me with Korean at all (ie I can read Italian, Spanish, German et al even though I don't understand it!) |
Recently at a juk stall in Pusan's Gukje Market the ajumah spoke to me in Japanese, right off the bat. Now I am a Caucasian; don't know why she figured Japanese would work better than Korean - actually I am about equally good/bad in either language so didn't make any difference...
I studied Japanese many years ago and have forgotten a lot - it does help to some degree in understanding Korean grammar, and a few words are similar, but you might as well put your energy into studying the Korean alphabet and grammar before you come.
And the Korean alphabet is totally different from the Japanese four. And you'll learn it a lot faster. The 28 or so characters plus a few combination forms you can learn in days, the 2000+ Japanese kanji, plus the two kana syllablaries will take you years. You'd likely be outa here before you learned them all. |
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