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Offline notinKS

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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #100 on: July 06, 2011, 09:51:04 am »
Quote from: ruraljeolla on July 02, 2011, 05:47:19 am
When I was learning German, having pocket dictionaries readily accessible was helpful for gradually building up my vocabulary.

Eventually I had small pocket dictionaries in the bathroom, in my bedroom, in my shoulder bag.  Anytime I had a free moment, I could reach for a pocket dictionary and learn a few new words.  Only after several years did I finally get a large English/German-German/English dictionary with thorough coverage of words and usage.

I've been in Korea over a year and am finally putting effort into learning the language and will be looking for my first pocket dictionary (small;  not a regular-size dictionary).  I do not mean an electronic dictionary, but a real hard-copy for a something-I-can-hold-in-my-hands-and-flip-through-pages-at-my-leisure type of experience.

Any recommendations?

I've been using the 6000 Essential Vocabulary pocket dictionary from Korean Language Plus. Love love love love it. Not only does it list 6000 different words, but it rates them A, B or C according to how common they are. I always have it with me because it's always in my purse or my backpack, and it's easy to sit down, thumb through it and pick up a few words whenever I have a chance.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #101 on: August 23, 2011, 01:59:29 am »
Quote from: notinKS on July 06, 2011, 09:51:04 am
Quote from: ruraljeolla on July 02, 2011, 05:47:19 am
When I was learning German, having pocket dictionaries readily accessible was helpful for gradually building up my vocabulary.

Eventually I had small pocket dictionaries in the bathroom, in my bedroom, in my shoulder bag.  Anytime I had a free moment, I could reach for a pocket dictionary and learn a few new words.  Only after several years did I finally get a large English/German-German/English dictionary with thorough coverage of words and usage.

I've been in Korea over a year and am finally putting effort into learning the language and will be looking for my first pocket dictionary (small;  not a regular-size dictionary).  I do not mean an electronic dictionary, but a real hard-copy for a something-I-can-hold-in-my-hands-and-flip-through-pages-at-my-leisure type of experience.

Any recommendations?

I've been using the 6000 Essential Vocabulary pocket dictionary from Korean Language Plus. Love love love love it. Not only does it list 6000 different words, but it rates them A, B or C according to how common they are. I always have it with me because it's always in my purse or my backpack, and it's easy to sit down, thumb through it and pick up a few words whenever I have a chance.

You may also like Survival Korean Vocab.

http://www.seoulselection.com/bookstore/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=1444&category_id=20&keyword=survival+korean&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53

Also has 6,000 words (some different than the pocket book). While not portable,  what I like about is that for many words, it shows you how they're used in context. So, you'll learn a lot of expressions such as, "Put yourself in my shoes," "Don't judge a book by its cover," etc. Additionally, it has English translations so hypothetically a Korean could use this book to study English. Finally, double and single asterisks are used to highlight very common and common words, respectively
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #102 on: August 29, 2011, 10:13:03 am »
Yes, I have been using "talk to me in korean" as well and can second a reccomendation!
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #103 on: August 29, 2011, 05:40:43 pm »
Quote from: CPM on August 29, 2011, 10:13:03 am
Yes, I have been using "talk to me in korean" as well and can second a reccomendation!

If you want to support Talk To Me In Korean, please consider purchasing some items from their store.  Most stuff is only $0.99 or $1.99.  I got one of the audiobooks and it is great.  The audio is entirely Korean, but it comes with a PDF that has sentence-by-sentence translation.  Actually, it's probably better listening practice than the Iyagi section.  (I like the Iyagi, but it is still a little too advanced for me).

No, I don't work for TTMIK.  I just want them to continue doing what they do. 
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #104 on: September 03, 2011, 05:57:27 am »
No shortage  o material here. Golly. ..I'd also recommend:

1. Free Saturday afternoon Korean class at Sukmyeong Univ. ( I assume they still have this...start time used to be 2pm)

2. If your feet are already wetted then the TOPIK test prep books and old tests located on their site http://www.topik.go.kr/ are very useful for practice resources (no explanations though)  even if you don't intend to take any of the tests.

3. If your feet are completely soaked and you can't stop studying Korean no matter how hard you try: Korean Grammar for International Learners. A great resource for grammar. There is an exercise book as well.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #105 on: September 14, 2011, 03:03:57 pm »
I've found the Teach Yourself series very useful for language learning and their Korean course (authors – Mark Vincent and Jaehoon Yeon) is no exception.

Also, I know it's already been mentioned but I found this website very helpful http://langintro.com/kintro/, especially for learning the basics of Hangul. Be warned though, it's not very pretty!
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #106 on: October 24, 2011, 11:45:01 am »
The Seemile grammar videos are awesome. (I don't know if anyone posted them yet)
http://seemile.com/renewal/package_list.jsp?pkg_no=21
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« Reply #107 on: October 27, 2011, 06:59:22 am »
I updated the original post (which has since been changed from online Korean courses to Korean books for self-study) to remove dead links and add a couple others.  There are a ton more resources---online and in bookstores---for learning Korean than there were back when I originally posted this in 2006.  Here's another good one:

The University of Hawaii has resources online for beginners (part 1 and part 2), low-intermediate ( part 1 and part 2), and high-intermediate (high-intermediate) learners.  Readings, grammar, dialogues, listening practice, activities, etc.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #108 on: November 01, 2011, 08:12:32 am »
Thanks Brian! I have been using this series for a while now. The sad part about these files is that they are in .ram (real player) and thus I am trying to convert them to mp3.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #109 on: November 04, 2011, 09:23:12 am »
THis a great post thanks for all the information
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #110 on: November 21, 2011, 03:11:56 pm »
Quote from: Brian on October 27, 2011, 06:59:22 am
I updated the original post (which has since been changed from online Korean courses to Korean books for self-study) to remove dead links and add a couple others.  There are a ton more resources---online and in bookstores---for learning Korean than there were back when I originally posted this in 2006.  Here's another good one:

The University of Hawaii has resources online for beginners (part 1 and part 2), low-intermediate ( part 1 and part 2), and high-intermediate (high-intermediate) learners.  Readings, grammar, dialogues, listening practice, activities, etc.

nice find
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #111 on: January 03, 2012, 10:43:32 pm »
Quote from: cristenroyce on October 24, 2011, 11:45:01 am
The Seemile grammar videos are awesome. (I don't know if anyone posted them yet)
http://seemile.com/renewal/package_list.jsp?pkg_no=21

this guy is pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/user/KoreanSimplyPut
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #113 on: February 07, 2012, 09:11:09 am »
Ah, that one looks great! Thanks for finding it. I'm going to take a class in May but this will give me something inbetween.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #114 on: February 14, 2012, 09:05:33 am »
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #115 on: March 02, 2012, 08:54:00 pm »
I use Talk to Me in Korean. It's explained to you fairly well and broken done so you can learn something every day in as little as 5 minutes.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #116 on: March 08, 2012, 11:12:43 am »
Thanks so much this is very helpful. I thought I didn't need to learn Korean hoping I could wing it, but man I need to at least know the basics especially when travelling, not knowing Korean can be so frustrating :-\.
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« Reply #117 on: March 11, 2012, 05:04:12 pm »
Rocket Languages (Korean)....is a great online resource and its fairly cheap (compared to Rosetta Stone!). I glanced through the posts and didn't see it but maybe I didn't look hard enough. I studied on and off for over two months before I can and learned a lot of great phrases and its made my transition into Korea slightly less overwhelming. Some seem unpractical but I've come to find them all very useful and it focuses on cultural context! Byki is also another great program to learn phrases but its flashcard only system is sometimes limiting.

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http://www.rocketlanguages.com/korean/premium/
http://www.byki.com/
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #118 on: March 12, 2012, 02:11:13 am »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXBQ0GfI-x8&feature=related

This Youtube channel is great for the people who are taking the lower levels of TOPIK.
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Re: Books for Learning Korean (Self-Study)
« Reply #119 on: April 04, 2012, 11:57:50 am »
Arirang TV is also good to learn Korean.

They have Korean learning show and so on.

http://www.arirang.co.kr/Index.asp
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