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| What level are you at in respect to the Korean Language? |
| Low beginner |
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14% |
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22% |
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| high beginner |
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35% |
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| low intermediate |
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10% |
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| intermediate |
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8% |
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| high intermediate |
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| advanced |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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 Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: How did you learn or How are you learning Korean? What level |
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| are you at? The wife and I learned to read from a guy in our building. Very nice young lad. We haven't taken any course but can get around just fine and understand basic Korean. I would say we are middle beginners...maybe close to high beginners. Everything else we learned through our students, friends, etc. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I clicked high beginner, but in reality I am probably low intermediate. I understand almost everything I understand in intermediate level books, but my listening is still not up to an intermediate level. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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I've done about 200 hours of courses at Seoul National University.
I think I'm a middle beginner. I can do the basic stuff like order pizza, get after service for my aircon, give and ask for directions, got the present, future and past tenses, and carry on a conversation with a new person for about 5-10 minutes if the topics aren't too hard.
In theory I have no problem with using different levels of speech but in practice I have problems... just stick to yo.
But the more I learn the less I know. |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| i put intermediate. i am about to start level 4 (out of 7 levels) of sogang's korean language program. i also do a lot of self-study. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| I clicked high beginner, but in reality I am probably low intermediate. I understand almost everything I understand in intermediate level books, but my listening is still not up to an intermediate level. |
I'd say pretty much the same for me. I made up some flyers to advertise for a language exchange, though, which I'm going to try to do every day and hopefully brush up my listening and reading. Just need to stop procrastinating and go post them!
By the way, here's a link, for anyone interested, to an online intermediate Korean course. It's pretty awesome.
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/korean/intermediate/
It has grammar explanations, recorded speech, and reading passages with new vocabular word definitions embedded into the reading. Really nice site.
Q. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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I picked middle-beginner. I know how to chit chit a bit about where I'm from, how long I've been here, what I'm doing, and what I like. I can use a few different grammatical forms and levels of "respect" but I struggle with simple things like past tense and comparative. My vocab is about 400 words, I guess.
I've learned by self-study over a period of 20 months or so. This is too slow for my liking, so I've recruited a college student to school me harshly for the next month, 3 times a week. Soon I'll be mouthing off more effectively to lewd taxi drivers and chatting with small children! Assa! |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Actually that site doesn't seem so hard for me either.
Just out of interest is anyone interested in forming a group to study for the KLPT. I would like to take one before I leave Korea and I'm far more motivated when I study with someone. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
Actually that site doesn't seem so hard for me either.
Just out of interest is anyone interested in forming a group to study for the KLPT. I would like to take one before I leave Korea and I'm far more motivated when I study with someone. |
Although, I would be interested in doing this, I just don't have the time. I spend a lot of my time studying Chinese, and I don't have a lot of free time left over. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't really care about taking the KLPT but I'm not against a study group. It would be fun to hang out with other foreigners and practise speaking with each other in Korean. We could have a no-English rule, and if anyone uses English they have to stand against the wall and hold their book over their head for 10 minutes while the other students laugh and point. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| I don't really care about taking the KLPT but I'm not against a study group. It would be fun to hang out with other foreigners and practise speaking with each other in Korean. We could have a no-English rule, and if anyone uses English they have to stand against the wall and hold their book over their head for 10 minutes while the other students laugh and point. |
Or they would buy us coffee! |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| I don't really care about taking the KLPT but I'm not against a study group. It would be fun to hang out with other foreigners and practise speaking with each other in Korean. We could have a no-English rule, and if anyone uses English they have to stand against the wall and hold their book over their head for 10 minutes while the other students laugh and point. |
I've started making more effort recently. Even though it's generally agreed I know more Korean than the average person who's been here for the same time, it's still not good enough. That's because I'm very lazy. Even when meeting longer-timers, it's always been rare that I've met a foreigner whose Korean is better than mine. Don't mean to boast at all. Some people just absorb more quickly. Meeting folks like Qinella and Billybrobby has made me wanna study more. The girl I want to go out with encourages me to speak Korean more as well; says she doesn't want to learn English. Korean opens doors, big time!
I didn't want to flatter myself, so I clicked lower intermediate. For me, 'lower intermediate' constitutes:
-many polite phrases for chit-chat (not sure how many, but stuff that's a bit above beginner level - like 'you decide' and 'it's noisy here');
-being able to direct a taxi driver perfectly;
-knowledge of both sets of numbers, but especially the sino-Chinese thingie which is far more useful (can say any big number at will);
-days of the week;
-knowledge of how to express time (4 months ago, in 3 weeks' time, for 9 months, this year);
-knowledge of adjectives (from easy ones to more difficult ones like 'arrogant', 'patriotic', 'strange', 'selfish', 'enough', 'impossible', 'the same');
-verbs like 'remember?', 'talk', 'pretend';
-you know what your major is in Korean;
-you know breakfast, lunch, dinner;
-you know colors;
I don't want to say I'm intermediate because to me intermediate means someone whose Korean is very good, can say almost anything save for the difficult. I'm nowhere near that stage. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| I don't really care about taking the KLPT but I'm not against a study group. It would be fun to hang out with other foreigners and practise speaking with each other in Korean. We could have a no-English rule, and if anyone uses English they have to stand against the wall and hold their book over their head for 10 minutes while the other students laugh and point. |
Good idea! |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| thebum wrote: |
| i put intermediate. i am about to start level 4 (out of 7 levels) of sogang's korean language program. i also do a lot of self-study. |
I put intermediate and I finished Sogang's program at level 7.
I guess it's all in perception. . . |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
Actually that site doesn't seem so hard for me either.
Just out of interest is anyone interested in forming a group to study for the KLPT. I would like to take one before I leave Korea and I'm far more motivated when I study with someone. |
Whats involved with the KLPT? Ive heard of it but never really looked into it..
As for my level? I dunno...My reading, writing and listening are good...but my speaking is not so great..Mainly becuase I turn into a weirdo shy freak when i speak in korean..No clue why... |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| thebum wrote: |
| i put intermediate. i am about to start level 4 (out of 7 levels) of sogang's korean language program. i also do a lot of self-study. |
I put intermediate and I finished Sogang's program at level 7.
I guess it's all in perception. . . |
or ability? |
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