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Darkness
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:06 am Post subject: Rosetta Stone Program - To Learn Korean |
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Stupid program, it teaches you Korean, but it only shows you a picture to explain what the word is, no english word for it!!
WTF?!?!?!
I mean some are obvious, but others I dont really know..... |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Look for patterns. It's an excellent program, the most effective. It's a major crutch to bridge the meaning between languages. A direct grasp of the meaning pictorally is by far superior. Don't give up so quickly. You'll note the patterns, and by then the meanings and sounds will be far mor deeply rooted. The people who created the program knew what they were doing.
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info. I'd been thinking off and on about buying that program, but the $200 price made me wait. Glad I did! |
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Kenny Kimchee
Joined: 12 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info. I'd been thinking off and on about buying that program, but the $200 price made me wait. Glad I did! |
You can get it on www.demonoid.com I downloaded it the other day but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. There are also 30-some episodes of the "Let's Learn Korean" TV show over on youtube; just search for Korean Language Lessons. |
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Darkness
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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If anyone wants a copy of this program just pm me
I'll keep playing with it a bit more, maybe it is a good program I just wish I knew the english word for the korean word I was learning... |
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Darkness - I did the same thing. I ordered a Korean/English dictionary thinking if I looked up the english word for hello - it would say the (have to do it phonetically!) ahn yon ha say-o. But I got symbols that meant absolutely nothing. Right now...total waste of money! |
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Darkness
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Well if I can look up the word I'm learning then learn to say it,it will be ok...
I was just hoping they would have the english built in, so I knew what i was saying... |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I have the Rosetta Stone for Hindi and it's excellent. I've had classroom Hindi, too, and I think it would be much harder if I started as a complete beginner with the Rosetta Stone. It is an outstanding program in general, try giving it some more time. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| ella wrote: |
| I have the Rosetta Stone for Hindi and it's excellent.. |
I have the one for French and Japanese... both are excellent as well. Much easier than studying from a book. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| trinity24651 wrote: |
| Darkness - I did the same thing. I ordered a Korean/English dictionary thinking if I looked up the english word for hello - it would say the (have to do it phonetically!) ahn yon ha say-o. But I got symbols that meant absolutely nothing. Right now...total waste of money! |
ummmm...you thought wrong. an english/xxx dictionary means exactly that. English and the other language (not a romanization of that language, as you must be thinking) maybe you could take an hour of your time to learn the Korean alphabet? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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I just bought the program, and yep, it was pricey, but it's much more interesting than studying from a book.
Here are some of the benefits:
-greater sense of accomplishment comes from figuring things out
-built-in review
-variety of formats to review vocabulary strengthens memory and sustains attention to combat boredom
-no English necessary
-pronunciation and rhythm from native speakers
So far, the only drawback is that I can't seem to get the "speaking" section working for me. The microphone starts automatically but doesn't stop when I've spoken, and I don't know how to shut it off. Also, I don't think my pronunciation is that bad, but I'm burying that needle in the red zone.
Perhaps if I hadn't already studied on my own (and couldn't read Hangul) the learning curve would be a bit steep and discouraging. However, it's been great for me, sick of textbooks, living far from classes, and wanting to see some improvement. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Kenny Kimchee wrote: |
| ajuma wrote: |
| Thanks for the info. I'd been thinking off and on about buying that program, but the $200 price made me wait. Glad I did! |
You can get it on www.demonoid.com I downloaded it the other day but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. There are also 30-some episodes of the "Let's Learn Korean" TV show over on youtube; just search for Korean Language Lessons. |
I wouldn't mind downloading those.
Using them at my own pace. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Omkara wrote: |
| Look for patterns. It's an excellent program, the most effective. It's a major crutch to bridge the meaning between languages. A direct grasp of the meaning pictorally is by far superior. Don't give up so quickly. You'll note the patterns, and by then the meanings and sounds will be far mor deeply rooted. The people who created the program knew what they were doing. |
Just wondering, but what level did you get to through the program, and in which language? I'm curious because I checked out some Rosetta Stone demo lessons in languages I've studied before, and while the Spanish and German courses seemed alright, there were a lot of problems with the Asian languages. In the Korean course, for example, a lot of the vocabulary is directly translated word for word from English, making it sound pretty unnatural to me, and it seemed like no attention was paid to things like register - politeness, honourifics, etc. The Vietnamese course didn't appear to even start to address incredibly important things like the pronoun system. Overall I got the impression that the whole thing is based around shoehorning all languages into a system that is only truly effective for languages similar to English. It occured to me that anyone trying to learn non-European languages through the program might find the realities of the languages quite different to how the languages are presented in the software. I could be wrong however.
So is it any good for asian languages beyond the basics? |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| trinity24651 wrote: |
| Darkness - I did the same thing. I ordered a Korean/English dictionary thinking if I looked up the english word for hello - it would say the (have to do it phonetically!) ahn yon ha say-o. But I got symbols that meant absolutely nothing. Right now...total waste of money! |
OK, you need to get over this "symbols that meant absolutely nothing" BS quickly if you're actually trying to learn Korean.
You can learn Hangul in a matter of hours.
Sit down, learn Hangul.
As soon as you do, you will understand why Romanization sucks.
Besides, you sound ignorant every time you say the symbols mean nothing. The "symbols" mean everything! |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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I get this program and ALL the language modules FOR FREE!!~!
That was one of the fringe benefits of having an AKO account...hehehhehehehehehe |
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