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[Corporal]

Are you guys saying that watching Let's Speak Korean on Arirang TV isn't going to cut it?

[seoulmon]

[kangnamdragon]

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[dogbert]

[marista99]

Some of you say you took Korean classes. Where did you find these classes? Do the schools advertise? I'd love to find a Korean class in the Incheon or Gimpo area, but I just don't know where to look. I think if I had some formal education in grammar and structure, my solo studying would be much more effective.

[just because]

[tomato]

Thanks, Beaver!

I didn't get very far with the suggestion for Oxford's Language Learning Strategies. I looked it up on the Amazon site and found that it costs $90. I looked for Websites about that book on the Yahoo search engine. I found a summary of the book, but I didn't get very much out of it. On the Questia site, I looked up some of the sources listed in the bibliography, but they didn't have any of them.

I think I'll have better luck with Brown's Strategies for Success. It is reasonably priced on the Amazon site, so I ordered a copy.

[the_beaver]

[tomato]

Hello again, Beaver!

I got Strategies for Success in the mail, but I wasn't very impressed.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130413925/qid=1093101330/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-2576068-1850451

Thanks anyway.

[the_beaver]

[Mashimaro]

Tomato,
Just going on the little written korean I saw of yours I would offer this advice.
Forget about the ultra polite form verb endings for the time being.
Concentrate on the-�� form for now and later when you feel comfortable move onto �ݸ� with your friends

There are some awful korean textbooks out there. I wouldn't study from everything that constantly used -�Դϴ�/���ϴ� from the first chapter.

Watch 'Lets speak korean' on tv if you don't already. You can learn alot of expressions that koreans actually use! As you know a lot of textbook korean is not used much by koreans.

Study from Sogang's website, that will teach you the most important grammar. Sounds like you know alot of grammar already, but again the sogang site teaches useful language and you can practise your reading and listening. I've never heard a bad word said about the sogang site.

Sorry if I've underestimated your abilities, if this info is not helpful to you it may be to others.

[Yaya]

[some waygug-in]

I've never heard a bad word said about the sogang site.

[/quote]

Well, now you have. I am not complaining about what is on the site, more about what is lacking.

It moves WAY too fast introducing new grammatical structures without adequate practice on previously introduced concepts.

Perhaps the only saving graces of the course are that it is offered free on-line and that because it is on-line, you can repeat lessons over and over.

They should have done a lot more vocabulary work (in my opinion) and had a lot more questions in the question and answer sections. They seem to assume that minimal practice is all that is needed.


There are some mistakes in the grammar sections as well, so in the early days, I wondered if I could trust anything at all on the site.

I still have yet to make it past lesson 5 of the second level.

[matthewwoodford]

To some waygugin: if it seems like they're going too fast it's because it's hard. Like you said, you're free to keep going over and over it until you've internalised it.

Going too fast...Now we know how Korean students feel and why they continue to make basic mistakes in English despite years of study. Not that we all didn't know that already. One day, it may sink in that rushing through books is no way to learn.

[Mashimaro]