tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post7819612150677967843..comments2023-11-03T22:34:56.656+09:00Comments on I'm no Picasso: Formspring promise keeping.I'm no Picassohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516337555349888808noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-57675472190258157542010-06-28T19:24:35.330+09:002010-06-28T19:24:35.330+09:00Re: Learning Korean, I would either recommend chec...Re: Learning Korean, I would either recommend checking out the Sogang online courses, as someone else suggested, or doing the following:<br /><br />1) Learn basic Korean grammar for day-to-day speech (ex. 뭐뭐했어요, 뭐뭐하는데요, etc.)<br /><br />2) Once you know the basic tenses, buy a vocabulary book (I use a big book of vocab words from the Survival Korean series) and study a few words every day. If you have any benevolent Korean friends, ask them if the words you've picked out are normally used.<br /><br />3) Practice the words by writing them repeatedly, then practice making sentences with them or changing tenses (ex. 새우다 --> 새워요 --> 새웠어요 --> 어제밤 새웠으니까 피곤해요) <br /><br />4) Rinse and repeat.<br /><br />I also have my phone ready whenever I'm watching a TV program, and then I look up words in my dictionary and copy them down for future study. This is what I've been doing so far, and it's working pretty well. ^^penniesforposieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14939341110201892349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-17753225037705670362010-06-26T23:23:09.185+09:002010-06-26T23:23:09.185+09:00Re: learning Korean, use the University of Hawaii&...Re: learning Korean, use the University of Hawaii's Integrated Korean series. I have the Yonsei books, the SNU books, and have been using the Sogang books as well (and some other crappy ones that were recommended by a friend who clearly has no idea about how to learn a language). The UoH is, imo, superior to everything else on the market. Also most universities in the west that offer Korean as a subject use it. The whole series is quite expensive - you can pick up individual books on Amazon for about $25. It's still a long way from being perfect but it's better than the others, I think.<br /><br />Also, as recommended by a friend who is at a very high level, pick up a book on the Chinese roots of Korean words. It's helping a lot with my Korean and my Mandarin learning. I have a good one that I've lent to a friend and can't for the life of me remember the title of it. You can pick it up in Kyobo easily enough.MHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-32248543383224167522010-06-26T05:27:59.721+09:002010-06-26T05:27:59.721+09:00oh my
i didn't even ask the book question, but...oh my<br />i didn't even ask the book question, but thank you for letting us know about what the book?<br />i silently worry i will have to resort to reading things online/with a kindle once i'm over in korea because they just won't have any good english book stores.Sidneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04542243748036289309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-30648234384067625302010-06-25T23:02:39.505+09:002010-06-25T23:02:39.505+09:00So she's funnier than me?
Wakka wakka.So she's funnier than me?<br /><br />Wakka wakka.MikejGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499618417606590867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-489404989383831282010-06-25T22:50:47.115+09:002010-06-25T22:50:47.115+09:00On the question of "Do you know why most Kore...On the question of "Do you know why most Koreans have 3 names, but a few have only 2, or sometimes 4/5?"<br /><br />See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_nameTony C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16660141530413708829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-5217472270985148092010-06-25T19:29:02.487+09:002010-06-25T19:29:02.487+09:00As for Korean language books, I can recommend the ...As for Korean language books, I can recommend the Sogang University course books. They are fun, all the grammar is thoroughly explained, the vocabulary is really practical. The only thing is that I haven't seem them in any of the big bookstores. And they are quiet expensive (compared to the super cheap SNU books..)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21444271.post-22472907172064039562010-06-25T18:01:47.509+09:002010-06-25T18:01:47.509+09:00hahaha...if you are looking for a frog costume, I ...hahaha...if you are looking for a frog costume, I think GFBR ordered it from G-market ;) And if GFBR did write about it in her blog, you wouldn't find it now, because it was in her past blogging life. GFBR has only been around for a few months. Just sayin'...<br /><br />Also, I asked the name question. I get the same answers, "Just because", but I figured if there were a more in depth reason, you would know. ^_^Kelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07026028648969726274noreply@blogger.com