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thematrixiam
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: Learning Korean |
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What's the best way to go about doing this?
I heard there is a place to get free lessons ?
I work mornings 9 til about 430 so I can't do early lessons. but evenings are cool. I want to learn as much as possible. And this whole studying 1 or 2 days a week with a friend isn't cutting it. |
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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: Learning Korean |
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| thematrixiam wrote: |
What's the best way to go about doing this?
I heard there is a place to get free lessons ?
I work mornings 9 til about 430 so I can't do early lessons. but evenings are cool. I want to learn as much as possible. And this whole studying 1 or 2 days a week with a friend isn't cutting it. |
While you can certainly find ways to speed up your progress (I suggest koreanclass101.com), you will easily become discouraged if you aren't realistic. Koreans may have the belief that you can learn English in a few years but I think we all know that is not realistic. The same applies to learning Korean. |
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aka Dave
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Location: Down by the river
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| You might try the textbook Integrated Korean, Univ. of Hawaii press. There are a lot of mp3s for it online and it's generally pretty good. I just spent some time listening to the last dialogues of the 2nd volume and my brain hurts. One of the guys speaks a bit quickly. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: Re: Learning Korean |
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| thematrixiam wrote: |
What's the best way to go about doing this?
I heard there is a place to get free lessons ?
I work mornings 9 til about 430 so I can't do early lessons. but evenings are cool. I want to learn as much as possible. And this whole studying 1 or 2 days a week with a friend isn't cutting it. |
While you can certainly find ways to speed up your progress (I suggest koreanclass101.com), you will easily become discouraged if you aren't realistic. Koreans may have the belief that you can learn English in a few years but I think we all know that is not realistic. The same applies to learning Korean. |
When I taught in Mexico, my commercial school had developed a proven method which taught learners English from scratch well enough to score an average of 810 on the TOEIC after one year. Of course, lessons were five days per week for one and a half hours each. So it is possible if one applies oneself.
But in response to the OP, free lessons are offered at the Korean Foundation Cultural Center, but they are only once a week for two hours. |
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Join Me
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Learning Korean |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| Join Me wrote: |
| thematrixiam wrote: |
What's the best way to go about doing this?
I heard there is a place to get free lessons ?
I work mornings 9 til about 430 so I can't do early lessons. but evenings are cool. I want to learn as much as possible. And this whole studying 1 or 2 days a week with a friend isn't cutting it. |
While you can certainly find ways to speed up your progress (I suggest koreanclass101.com), you will easily become discouraged if you aren't realistic. Koreans may have the belief that you can learn English in a few years but I think we all know that is not realistic. The same applies to learning Korean. |
When I taught in Mexico, my commercial school had developed a proven method which taught learners English from scratch well enough to score an average of 810 on the TOEIC after one year. Of course, lessons were five days per week for one and a half hours each. So it is possible if one applies oneself.
But in response to the OP, free lessons are offered at the Korean Foundation Cultural Center, but they are only once a week for two hours. |
I will admit I have met one Korean that was able to learn English fairly well in one year. He is extremely smart and motivated however. For most people, this just isn't possible. For a motivated native speaker of Spanish to learn English enough to communicate well in a couple years is reasonable. The differences between English and Korean or Spanish and Korean are dramatically more different than the differences between Spanish and English though.
If you are determined, I think anyone can reach the intermediate level in Korean in two or three years. I have never been good at languages but I have studied Korean for an hour or so a day for 3 years and I can figure out how to put a sentence together to get just about anything done that I need to. My vocabulary and comprehension still need a lot of work though and I am not much of a conversationalist. |
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