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[proustme]

Is there a website or book I can turn to for the most statistically common verbs and words used in the Korean language?

I find it hard to jump start my Korean. I always get caught up in how to say something correctly, but what I really need to learn is words, words, words, and more words. Then I can be functional and more effective to a better extent.

I was blown away recently by one of my students who regularly sits back in the classroom and avoids much of the pairwork activity I try to get him involved in. BUT he was able to communicate with me at the ATM machine the other day. I was trying to print off my latest transactions on the ATM machine. He didn't speak much English, but he said "what is your intention?"

I then explained to him what I wanted to do. He helped me out quickly, and I was on my way. He probably memorized the word 'intention' from one of the hundreds of words he had studied at my school.

I'm looking for a Korean resource website or book that has just the base forms of verbs and vocabulary. Broken Korean is better than no Korean, to my mind.

[Daegudavid]

진짜 - Korean girls say this on average ten times per minute.

[jsk]

Another one I hear all the time: 짜증나

[Dude Ranch]

Very good question. Tim Ferriss, the guy who wrote the four hour work week book says you should learn the top 100 words in any language as a starter. His book is amazing too (although it has nothing to do with this, it is just entertaining)

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/20/learning-language/

an interesting article. I wish we could find a list like this for korean

[blackjack]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Korean_200

[Slowmotion]

[crossmr]

There is a list for English called "Basic English" it is 800 words. This list was made quite a few years ago and supposedly you can say about 90% of what you want to say in English using these words (doesn't include technical vocabulary, days of the week, numbers, etc)

I'd really like to find something like that for Korean. The problem with these though is that they're just for speaking. While they'll help you listen a little bit, when it comes down to it, we can't control what the other person says, and it requires us learning far more vocabulary if we want to improve listening skill.

[The evil penguin]

Most common korean word: WWWwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeyyyoooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOo?

Although winner up for the word most repeated in a sentence when communicating over the phone with somebody who has dialled the wrong number: Yoboseyo.

As in "Hello". "Yoboseyo?". "Yes? Hello?" "Yoboseyo?". "I'm sorry, you've dialled the wrong number" "Yoboseyo?" "Yes, wrong number. Try again" "Yoboseyo?" "Oh ok, I will play too" "Yoboseyo?" "yoboseyo?" "Yoboseyo?" "Yoboseyo?" "Yoboseyo?" "Yoboseyo?".....and so on for 5 minutes......

[Lynns]

This little handbook is available at Kyobo and other local bookstores. It lists the 6000 most common words, divided into three classes depending on frequency of use. There are approx. 1,000 A words, 2,000 B words, and 3,000 C words.

http://hanbooks.com/koesvo60forf.html

[roadwork]

[redaxe]

[quote="blackjack"]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Korean_200

[Epicurus]

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