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Well, why do we say six rolls of film and not six films? English has counters.

Edit: I'm not a linguist. Since posting this I've realized there's a difference between measure counters and classifiers. English doesn't really have many classifiers in that sense [head of cattle] but we do have a lot of measuring ones [cups of water, blades of grass].

There are many aspects of languages that just... are. It's like asking german speakers why the second verb in a sentence goes at the end, or why their grammatical ordering is Motion -> Time -> Place. (I think, it's been a while). Or asking English speakers why we have a specific adjective type order.

I have this one

https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Stories-Language-Learners-Traditional/dp/0804850038/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=korean+folktales&qid=1559590362&s=gateway&sr=8-1

It does the story in korean, then the same story in english, then a list of vocabulary afterwards. It's pretty good, very basic beginner level.

I am still a beginner, but I found that Write It! Korean helped a lot with learning how to write in Hangul and helping a bit with pronunciation. It was a great study tool for me since I have my phone with me all the time and I can learn in short chunks then be tested on it later.

The best thing I have paid for so far is Talk To Me Korean's Learn to Read and Write in Korean. Since I started with Write It!, I already had a pretty good idea of the alphabet, but having the video to help rationalize and reinforce what I learned has been an immense help. Also, with English being my native language, I was having issues pronouncing the double consonants. However, the explanations in TTMIK helped a lot in trying to pronounce ㅁ, ㅂ, and ㅃ.

A big suggestion I have is don't stick to just one website, app, or workbook. Try out Duolingo, but also try out LingoDeer as well. Give TTMIK a try, but also try How To Study Korean. I say this because maybe one app or website just is not explaining something well and another one will explain it better.

TTMIK has a free app. It has the audio and the pdfs, as well as their 이야기 series.

iOS

android

I’ve been using the Integrated Korean textbooks by Klear. They have lots of grammar and vocabulary, plus they have workbooks you can get (which I recommend) to practice all the stuff you just learned. They’re like 25$ each on amazon. Here’s a link for Beginning 1

Yes! Hear 그 all the time. Even one of my Korean students seemed to have translated that habit into English. He always stammers before sentences or clauses and says "That... that.. that."

I also hear a lot of phrases with "뭐.." when thinking about what to say. Like "뭐라 해야 되지..." so I looked it up: https://hinative.com/ko/questions/11712321

Let me recommend you my free (and ad-free) app Babo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stebtech.learnersdictionary) that has the most correct conjugation tables (checked by natives) and 1000s of other functions. :)

For example, simply copy-paste a Korean sentence and it will tell you the conjugations used.

/u/jina100 explained it perfectly, but please let me add two more things:

예쁜다고(X) --> 예쁘다고(O)

https://hinative.com/ko/questions/439850

And in this case 해명 doesn't sound right. 설명 fits better. https://www.italki.com/question/223037?hl=ko

I can't speak for mango languages, but duolingo for Korean is not very good at all. Lingodeer is a popular choice, and there's also the Sejong Institute apps. Check the sidebar as well, as apps only take you so far, and you'll need more study materials after you've finished with them.

I don't like Memrise for vocabulary acquisition because it doesn't handle synonyms very well. You need to answer with the exact correct synonym in order to advance the card. If you answer with the incorrect synonym, then the card resets to back to 0.

This isn't a problem when you're a pure beginner and you don't know any synonyms. The problem grows as you advance in the language. You can try to fix this by making your own decks. But if you're going to do that, then you might as well use Anki, which offers so much more flexibility when it comes to making flash cards.

However I do like Memrise for pronunciation and typing training. I highly recommend this course: https://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-10/

This same developer has an Easy Japanese News app that is for both iOS and Android(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.eup.jpnews). Since the Korean app is new and only for iOS now, I’m assuming they’ll release an Android version sooner or later.

You could try out the Beelinguapp. Most of the texts seem to be folk tales, so maybe a bit difficult if you're very much a beginner.

Recording is awful on my computer, and vocaroo doesn't like my phone's audio file, so I'd have to be a dissenter and use another voice recording site, heh.

I wanted to redo these (and actually did), but I felt like the first time I recorded both were much better. I have this (unfortunate) habit of my^voice^going^up like^a^question whenever^I^pause, which is annoying and I need to stop it, waugh. ;A;

https://clyp.it/a40zdn0j for both files. :D

Time to fluency varies widely depending upon your background and your experience learning languages. If you're already fluent in Japanese, then you'll be at the bottom of the range, and if Korean is your first foreign language, then you'll be at the top of the range.

A1-A2: 300-900 hours

1. TTMIK 1-5, read the PDFs and then go through this course: https://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-10/
2. Buy TTMIK's "Korean Verb Guide" and transcribe all the sentences.
3. Buy Gabriel Wyner's "Fluent Forever" and also his "Korean Pronunciation Trainer".
4. Learn 1000 high frequency words with Anki and mnemonics.
5. Buy Darakwon's "Korean Grammar In Use: Beginner", and turn all the example sentences into cloze-deleted flash cards in Anki.

B1: 600-1800 hours

1. TTMIK 6-10.
2. Buy TTMIK's "My Weekly Korean Vocabulary" (48 week set) and transcribe all the sentences.
3. Buy Darakwon's "Korean Pronunciation Guide" and shadow all the dialogs for intonation.
4. Learn 2000 more high frequency words (total 3000) with Anki and mnemonics.
5. Buy Darakwon's "Korean Grammar In Use: Intermediate", and turn all the example sentences into cloze-deleted flash cards in Anki.
6. Do language exchanges with native Korean speakers and get corrections on your speaking/writing.

B2: 1200-3600 hours

Learn by intensively studying native materials. Read books, listen to podcasts, write journals, speak with native speakers, consume native media.

C1: 2400-7200 hours

Learn by extensively studying native materials.

Go to here and you should be able to switch to the course.

Also remember that since this is english for korean speakers, it will change the entire duolingo website to be korean if you change courses. To get back to english, mouse over the english flag, click the bottom most words, then click the dropdown bar in the top right and select the top entry in the dropdown. Then if you switch to any of those courses the website will revert back to english.

I personally don’t like them that much but that’s because I’m Korean American and already have some running knowledge. I have the TTMIK level 5 grammar book and there’s too much white space and not enough content! My favorite series that I’ve found so far is Korean Grammar in Use, which consists of 3 traditional style textbooks: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Nothing fancy but chock full of well organized exercises and explanations, with colorful pictures to make it less boring! Though it may be too dense for you if you’re looking for a light introduction?

Korean Grammar in Use_Beginning (English ver.) https://www.amazon.com/dp/8959951986/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_01PDM3ACFXRSC7PXFGJJ

They're from a korean learning game! Let me see if I can find it again...its definitely in the Play store.

ETA: found it! Its called Popping Korean Conversation. Here is the Play store link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.kr.co.eduhansol.poppingKorean2

Are you using duolingo in the app or on the web? If you go to the site in a browser, each step has tips.

The tips for Basic 1 answers some of your questions: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ko/basics-1/tips-and-notes

Verbs 1 also covers subject and topic particles: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ko/regular-verbs/tips-and-notes

Unless you already speak a language like Japanese and have a lot of experience mastering unusual phonemes, you won't get almost anywhere in 1 month. The term "fluent" doesn't belong in this conversation. The only thing you can do in a month is learn a bunch of phrases, if your goal is to land in Korea and be able to do simple things like order at a restaurant.

Use Anki instead of physical flashcards. Much easier and it spaces them out based on how easy you find them to remember. You can customise it too (add notes, verb conjugations etc as different fields). Download the PC version first and then put it on your phone. I hope you have an Android phone because the iOS version of Anki will set you back 31,000 won (US$24.99). But it's worth it.

http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/　has a bunch of lessons.

And if you go to https://sites.google.com/site/soyouwanttolearnalanguage/languagee-books3 and scroll down to the Korean section, you'll find a huge list of free e-book resources. You can go through them and see if any of them are useful for you.

In Korean, there are two different ways to count; 하나, 둘, 셋... and 일, 이, 삼...

Those two are called native Korean and Sino-Korean numbers, respectively. First one is used to count most objects, hours (eg. it's 1 o'clock -> 지금 한시예요), ages and the like. The second one is for measurements, minutes and seconds (eg. it takes 3 minutes to get there -> 거기까지 삼분 걸려요).

It get's annoying that when having to tell someone the time, you have to use both counting systems, but overall you get used to it pretty quickly.

Japanese speaker here. I used a roundabout way to find a hanja that fits the meaning you gave plus the pronunciation, through Daum dictionary and Denshi Jisho. Here are the two links: http://dic.daum.net/word/view.do?wordid=kjw000088569&q=%E5%A4%A9%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%9D

http://jisho.org/words?jap=tenkan&eng=&dict=edict

You want the second entry and fifth entry, respective to the links.

The hanja 漢 is read as Han in Korean, and forms part of the Japanese and Korean words for milky way as the second Chinese character. 天漢, or "cheonhan" in Korean and "tenkan" in Japanese both mean Milky Way. I double checked in Japanese for accuracy because I trust my accuracy in Japanese far more than I do in Korean.

Again, super roundabout way, but it's possible your first name in Hanja is 漢石. :)

You may want to check out this book. It has stories ranging from beginning level to more advanced levels. It also has translations, Vocab, and comprehension questions as well.

Another good source is this book. It’s made by TTMIK. I practiced a lot with this book when I was lower level, but it mostly just caters to beginners. It offers pronunciation guides and vocabulary as well. Even little snippets of cultural things in English as well.

태백산맥, 토지, and 난장이가 쏘아올린 작은 공 are all very influential. These three are THE Korean novels to read, but the first two are very long.

The thing about learning Korean is that a lot of Asian literature have shit English translations but have ok/good Korean translations. 삼국지 is originally Chinese and is basically read by everyone in Korea. You could also pick up 초한지, 수호지, and 손자병법 (The Art of War).

Short stories/novellas are also a good place to look since middle and high school Korean classes tend to focus on those. This website has a lot of them, I'd start with 강아지똥 (since that's a children's book). I'd say the average college student has read about half on that list.

The Google Korean Input application can be used as an IME for Korean and as a keyboard for English, remembering which layout was used last in it, regardless of other input methods. I use it with Memrise without problems.

What I have found has had a profound effect on my ability to retain grammar and words is hardly a sexy approach. The simple strategy I chose to employ for nearly three hours a day consists of the following two steps.

1. I read and write basic notes on one-two grammar lessons that I source from Talk to me in Korean which takes around 30 minutes. I will remember very little from this 30 minutes but I just ensure I understand what is being taught. Following completing the grammar component of my study regime, I move onto step 2.
2. I input everything I want memorized into Anki, an open source flash card software. I make sure to have the front facing card include the english expression or rule and following flipping the card the Korean text is revealed. (I am not an advocate of the reverse as its obviously much easier.) If I cannot write it out in korean in my notebook prior to flipping the card, I note in Anki that I failed to recall or made spelling errors on the text. Anki is free, will never require you to pay, and offers some pretty intelligent software.

I have tried many apps and different learning strategies but I have found the pen and paper to trump them all. It's not sexy, but it works. Of course, speaking comprehension is another animal.... I vouch for talking to myself in the shower.

Someone posted a while back on here something that I found to be really useful, especially in the case of ㅅ vs ㅆ which is probably the hardest for me, personally. If you notice, when people say the double consonants, they say them louder (or higher pitch? I'm not sure the proper term) compared to the single consonant. If you have access to forvo, listen to heechang2 pronounce 사 vs 싸 for a really good example.

사

싸

I grew up with this book. I loved it.

Two Brothers and Their Magic Gourds (Korean Folk Story for Children, Series II) (1993-05-04) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01FGPAIWI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4.aNCbY77B2QD

I have an app from the play store literally called Learn Korean. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boreumdal.voca.kor.test.start Not sure this is what you want but it has an unlock test feature.

This isn't what you asked, but you might appreciate knowing in case you mistakenly downloaded something different from what you intended.

When people talk about Anki they're referring to a specific application, the true and original Anki. AnkiApp is a knockoff taking advantage of Anki's name recognition. Here is Anki's official website, which includes download links.

The real Anki app show you a certain amount of cards per day, determined by their algorithm. Once you're done with them you shouldn't review anymore. It shows you only what you need in order to make learning more efficient.

Here we go: https://soundcloud.com/checkitonetime/korean-contest

I just noticed that I made a mistake where I said 한국 instead of 한국어, which is such a silly, simple error to make but I just can't be arsed to say all that again! Haha.

/walks out to the tune of Winner Takes All.

크로스 카운터!!
I don't know the exact translation, but seems like images with the 크로스 카운터!! text where people are punching each other are a thing there. Google translates it as <em>cross-counter</em>, ~~so I assume it could be counter punch~~.
Edit: Yeah, seems like cross-counter is indeed the correct translation. Thanks, hc5duke!

아 제가 많이 늦었네요 ㅠㅠ

What I did is recorded my reply and transcribed it afterwards. I feel like I messed up in ~~all of it~~ some parts ㅠㅠ ~~do I even make sense...?~~

https://clyp.it/gk4lt0mh

좋아하는 음식이라... 사실 좋아하는 음식은 없어요, 그냥 이것저것 시식하고 맛있으면 계속 먹어요. 근데...싫어하는 음식은... 원래 엄청 많았었죠. 뭐... 남새 강하고 이상하면 안 먹고 야채를 많이 넣으면 안돼요. 특히 마늘 그리고 양파! 근데 시간을 지나면 이상하게 그 싫어하는 음식들은 점점 좋아졌어요. 이제 아무나 먹을 수 있고 야채도 많이 먹어요!

~~Now that I finished transcribing it, I guess I didn't really answer the question OTL~~

TTMIK isn't comprehensive, but I've gone through 9 units and I'm reading novels meant for native speakers sooo it'll get you pretty far. I really like using this memrise course for memorizing grammar sentences which I think is much better than trying to memorize rules. I think the Evita sentence deck for anki takes a lot of sentences from TTMIK too if you'd prefer to stick with anki. Admittedly, memrise can be a little frustrating but I'm still using it instead of switching fully to anki because I already did so much of the TTMIK deck by the time I was reminded anki exists and didn't want to redo it.

9 units of TTMIK works out to roughly halfway through the Korean In Use intermediate textbook. I plan on switching to KGIU for more advanced grammar after I finish unit 10 of TTMIK.

TTMIK also doesn't have very much vocab, so that's a separate thing to worry about... I use the Evita vocab deck and find other random words in books and webtoons.

I highly recommend using this memrise course along with it! It has the audio for example sentences from the different lessons. I ignored all the vocab cards and ones without audio but there are still like 3000 after ignoring those that have been great for memorizing grammar sentences for me.

After getting through 9 units of TTMIK, I've started reading a novel and I've only had to look up grammar a couple times in nearly 100 pages! Of course vocab is another matter haha

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

It's a bit hard to use at first, but you can look up guides online. check out /r/anki too.

You can download it to your pc, or use it in your browser. .

You can also get it on your phone/tablet. free for android users, but ~20 dollars on apple devices (sounds like BS to pay 20, i know, but anki is open source and the two apps have different devs). 20 sounds steep but it's worth it.

I'll second what the other poster said about hanja too. People will say hanja is not needed, or only for advanced users, but it's very helpful for getting you to think about the vocab more holistically, because the same hanja will appear in different words a lot.

It's much easier to remember the difference between 시내 (inside the city) and 시외 (outside the city) if you know that 외 is the same hanja as in 외국 (outside nation/foreign nation). It's kinda cool to be able to recognize the character by sight (外 in this case), but you don't really need that. Just knowing the hangul and the pronunciation is okay.

I'd say to start learning hanja when you have about 500~1000 words maybe. Learning 1 or 2 a day is probably fine.

I also recommend the book "my first 500 korean words" by ttmik, which is designed to teach you 10 very basic, very common words for 50 days. (stuff like "man" "woman" "house" "talk" etc) I knew about 10 or 20 words when i bought that one, but when i finished it 50-ish days later, I could actually express myself in basic ways.

every day I would learn the words, write them down, and then add them to anki.

I'm a native speaker and I feel positive of them, but I wouldn't be here if I felt otherwise in the first place. Maybe you could ask this question in r/korea instead for example?

I personally love those who started it just from their love of kpop or kdramas, but from my experiences helping them at hinative.com, majority of them usually just want their oppa's tweets translated and don't genuinely seem to be interested in learning it.

It's worth noting that colloquially (especially younger, female speakers) 오 vowels can sometimes become 우 vowels. This can add a cute or friendly tone to the sentence. For example, instead of 그래도, some people will say (and sometimes even write) 그래두, or 그리구 instead of 그리고, or 한다구 instead of 한다고. It usually happens on these types of conjunctive adverbs or on sentence endings (not just some random 오 vowel in the sentence). I wouldn't recommend doing this yourself quite yet if you're just starting out, but just noting it because it could be where some of your confusion is coming from. For more info, here's a thread about it: https://hinative.com/ko/questions/381678

If you have (or can get ahold of) a digital copy of the book, you might want to check out Readlang (http://readlang.com). It is an e-reader designed for reading content in foreign languages. You can click on words and phrases to translate them and it’ll automatically turn them into flashcards (which can also be exported to Anki). It also has a built-in dictionary (although I recommend replacing the default with the Daum mobile dictionary for better formatting).

There are definitely memrise courses than only use hangeul. I don't know what sort of course you want but this is one I've used for vocab

I don't know about Memrise's introductory Korean course, but I have been using several user-created vocab courses as a supplement to my learning and I have been happy with them. Personally I have found that this 1000 Most Common Korean Words course has had more helpful words for me in it than most of the other common Korean word list decks. And by that I mean I have encountered more words from that one in real life than from the other lists I've tried. It's also nice because it gives the Hanja when applicable, which is convenient after you have been learning for a while and might want to start learning common Hanja syllables.

In any case you will definitely want to branch out and use various different tools to help you with learning, because you can't learn with just one single app. But Memrise isn't a bad start if it keeps you motivated--you will just have to include more resources eventually because Memrise is mostly just designed for vocabulary. Have a look at the Beginner's Resource Thread.

Edit: Almost forgot...HiNative has been a really useful app for me.

Personally, i am using 2.

1st: HTSK 1209 words!

2nd: 1000 Most Common Korean Words!

There have been a bunch of websites/apps that you could access for free, but some of them are offline, where you could practice numbers in korean.

The best app left, i found is called Rieul "Korean" and is only available on android.

You could install bluestacks on windows and run that app, if you dont have android like me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rieul.rieulkorean&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US

It has various exercises to practice numbers, with multiple, choices, audio, etc.

I'm in Korea and I bought this https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Standard-Learning-Elementary-student-1/dp/B01M71LHOF/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=isbn+9791186610749&amp;qid=1624706830&amp;sr=8-1 I've given up on adult books giving the basics...I guess if i want to practise writing I have to go back to elementary school!

This post is perfect for me, thanks for it!

For writing and some basics in Hangul I bought a book on Amazon that had good ratings. Not sure if this sub will love or hate it, but it has given me a lot of practice in how I should actually write out the characters when I do them: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1497445825/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I would recommend Handbook of Korean Vocabulary by Miho Choo and William O'Grady (Amazon). It's not exactly a dictionary but it lists root words alphabetically and breaks down that root in words (native or Sino-Korean) with a rough English equivalent. It also gives the 한자 for Sino-Korean roots, if you're into that. For example, 생(生) - be born, life, student, etc. would list 생일 - birthday [~day] [~日].

I find it helps me if I learn a new (unfamiliar) vocab word to put it into context with words with similar roots which increases meaningful prediction of future vocab. You can do more or less that same thing with Naver but requires a little more effort.

I just got this book on Amazon called Korean Stories for Language Learners. I like it a lot because it has traditional folktales. For each short story, it has its English translation as well as some vocabulary, culture notes, and comprehension questions! I would definitely recommend getting a good grasp on some grammar first, as the stories difficulty scales with each one. It also comes with a CD!

hi! first, awesome of you to learn kor for her :] i started studying properly last year, so far the app that helped me the most and had the best, proper grammar and structure explanations is lingodeer. i can't recommend it enough! it has a v good hangeul explanation too, a whole chart with pronunciation recordings from native speakers!

edit: here's the android link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lingodeer

This app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=schoolview.dcn.com.kingsejong&amp;hl=en_CA is a vocabulary building program that has a pronunciation feature. You can listen to a native speaker and record your attempt to repeat it. It gives feedback on how well you did.

Unfortunately this does not work on all phones, including mine, so I do not know what it is like in use. The app is free so you can try it out and see if it works for you.

(I still use it in spite of this glitch because I like other things about it.)

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there are a couple on the google play store, but since you're on an ipad that doesn't help. I'm sure there's something

here is one that I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.kor&amp;hl=en

I know you said you plugged in the text underneath into Google Translate but I thought I'd give it a go for my own practice:

"Design Lessons for Hackers" is a translation of David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers". I would read his blogs and postings and felt that his approach to design was fresh, so I decided to translate the book. I thought that above all, this is a design book where readers would find the insight amusing/interesting. If you look at his foreword, he says he submitted the manuscript to many publishers and failed to get picked up. But the print run by Wiley Publishing reached #18 on all of Amazon, so the author seems to be pleasantly surprised. [I'm either translating this wrong or the blogger didn't understand the Kickstarter campaign?] (Not the bestselling in the computer category list, but bestselling overall list!!)

After that I can't really understand the discussion of design because I don't have the Korean vocabulary... Hopefully someone else can translate?

This app called Rieul Korean is great. It has a dictionary among other things and combines the Naver and Daum online dictionaries.

The creator /u/RieulKorean is also on reddit.

They also have an iOS app and Android app.

I have used this for a couple of years now.

If you've got an Android phone or tablet, you could try my app Rieul Korean, which features, among other things, a conjugation quiz.

Screenshot

Play Store link

>NUANCE

>a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound, etc.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nuance

Now for how it might be used colloquially in your area, I have no idea, but what I told you was true, from a certain point of view

It's a language at the first place. There are supposed to be some. As a native Korean, I'd say there are. There definitely are some usual (“natural”) orders for placing adverbial phrases, subjects, and objects, like English. Especially when you omit subject/object markers 은, 는, 이, 가, 을, or 를. If you shuffle it wrong, it could go beyond the slight differences of connotation and sound (totally) off: e.g. 뭐 식당에서 이따가 넌 먹을 거니?.

It's so natural that it's quite hard for me to tell you the detail; just make sure:

• the objects and predicate altogether being at the end of the sentence.
• things to emphasize being at the front.

Then it would sound natural:

• [넌] [식당에서] [이따가] [[뭐] [먹을 거니]]? What would you have in the restaurant later?
• [넌] [이따가] [식당에서] [[뭐] [먹을 거니]]? What would you have later in the restaurant?
• [이따가] [넌] [식당에서] [[뭐] [먹을 거니]]? Later, what are you going to have in the restaurant?
• [이따가] [식당에서] [넌] [[뭐] [먹을 거니]]? Later in the restaurant, what are you going to have?
• [식당에서] [넌] [이따가] [[뭐] [먹을 거니]]? In the restaurant, what are you going to have later?
• [식당에서] [이따가] [넌] [[뭐] [먹을 거니]]? In the restaurant later, what are you going to have?

Using Spanish with the Mexican flag is a compromise between being exact and the site (menus etc) being simple. I initially had "Mexican Spanish", but I'm not also going to add every variation of Spanish, so I decided to just use Spanish, and with the Mexican flag so that people know it's the Mexican variation. "Spanish (Latin America)" would be good but it's long for the menus, though when I add Spanish from Spain I will need to address this.

I'm not a Spanish speaker myself but I showed the site to a friend from Spain and they found some differences in the vocabulary. For example just as in the UK it's 'ladybird' and in the US 'ladybug', in Mexico it's 'catarina', and in Spain 'mariquita'.

(http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=ladybug)

Check out some free resources at http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons for Korean such as http://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/korean-basic-course.html

You've got a strong incentive to learn this language, and a chance for immersion, which you'll need both in strong measure to gain fluency in this very challenging language as a native speaker of English!

I would think you'd have the best luck with Calibre; that's what I use for ebook conversion.

Other help with Calibre

Thank you. These days, I'm trying to make videos for beginners, so I cannot write much for intermediate to advanced learners. However, I will do my best to write more.

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It's possible to do it, but you'll need to do a bit of configuring.

Start off with the linux script, copy and paste to a file that ends with .sh and save to the folder you’re going to be downloading your audio to.

Open terminal, and download homebrew if you don't have it. You’ll need to download wget after that: type in “brew install wget” into the terminal. Navigate to the folder you’re downloading audio to using the terminal (quick rundown of how to do so using commands, scroll down a bit) and turn your .sh file into an executable. [go to the folder that the .sh file is in and type in: chmod +x file_name.sh]. Type in ./file_name.sh [word you’re searching for] and you’re set!

(If you're getting "cannot link" errors, update your computer to high sierra)

The problem I have is I haven't had good examples of how they are different. From my ear, it sounds like it isn't so much the pronunciation is different but how you stress it and how long say the syllable that it is a part of.

See http://www.forvo.com/search/%EB%B9%B5/

vs

http://www.forvo.com/search/%EB%B0%A9/

Placement also seems to change the pronunciation, but I can't find an example now. Just my observations as accurate or inaccurate as they may be.

못 is like describing a lack of ability to do something, 을 수 없/있다 is a literal physical ability to do something.

I hope that makes sense? There isn't a totally hard and fast definition afaik.

못 만들었 I am bad at making/I can't make~ (because I don't know how)

만들 수 없다 I can't make~ (because I lack the parts needed, for e.g.)

check this link which may help you more.

Also worth pointing out the 구 in 보구 is bad grammar. Pretty sure it should be 보고 but to sound cute that person is typing like that.

Personally I don't use it, but then again I mostly interact with adults in Korean in professional settings. Also I've been told by friends it makes you appear uneducated to type like that.

Here's an explanation

https://hinative.com/ko/questions/206976

Here is something, for reference:

>~것 같다
>
> 그냥 추측.
>
>~것만 같다
>
> 두려움, 걱정 내포.

https://hinative.com/ko/questions/4335097

I found a great resources for sentence examples here. https://glosbe.com/

It works best if you enter in a word that you would like to see in a sentence example, and pulls up a LOT of examples from different contexts.

Yeah it would be extremely rude to curse when talking to strangers. Totally fine with people you are close with as long as they're also okay with it. I hear a lot of people use it on the street when they're talking with their friends. Some people seem to like throwing it in after almost every other word.

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It works pretty similar to the English version in that it fits in with a lot of grammatical situations, and can be used as a variety of different parts of speech.

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If you scroll down this dictionary entry, there are lots of usage examples.

Ah, I shared that one: http://readlang.com/library/5a351b15dbea65001ff34d14/scroll/0

I was happy she included subtitles! I imported it into Readlang with an app I’m working on (https://youtube2readlang.ryanbrainard.com).

If you fell into the kpop hole, try learning some of your favorite songs as a routine! Music is great because you'll naturally listen to it several times, so if you do the initial work of figuring everything out (which can be complicated), the learning eventually does itself.

Songs are really great for beginners because whereas a novel is a few hundred pages long and dramas involve a huge scope of vocabulary, most songs are just a few stanzas of lyrics and have a lot of repetition. Even if you're a total beginner, the end will be in sight, so to speak.

I actually wrote a whole post about learning with music a couple years ago -- if you scroll about halfway down, there's a section entitled "why music is the perfect place to start improving your listening comprehension."

As others have said, ㅇ only makes an "ng" sound when at the end of a syllable - all other times it is silent.

Where have you been learning to read Hangul? As another near-complete newbie I struggled to get to grips with pronouncing the alphabet until I used the Talk To Me In Korean introduction series which was a huge help! The Lingodeer app is also really comprehensive at demonstrating the sounds of each letter combination using their alphabet charts.

Hopefully those give you some answers beyond your original question, which seems to be pretty comprehensively answered now!

http://talktomeinkorean.com/curriculum/ https://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-10/

I have been going through each of the TTMIK lessons pdfs starting from lesson one, and following with the memrise course based on it. It has allowed me to binge study in a more structured format than any single app alone. Plus there is a heavy amount of content for this method.

Also listening to korean audio with transcripts repeatedly has probably the most helpful thing I wouldn't have expected.

I’ve got the opposite problem. I’ve got no problem learning heaps of vocab quickly with Memrise’s SRS, but reading grammar can be a chore for me. I used the user-created Memrise course for all the vocab in Korean Made Simple 1. (I also use it with a script I’ve found that makes it so that only it only shows the ‘type the Korean translation’ exercises instead of MCQs. This forces me to actively recall the word instead of just recognise the answer.)

Oh, I actually only used the Memrise deck for the Intermediate book. For that I used https://www.memrise.com/course/469953/2000-essential-korean-words-intermediate/. I actually ended up importing all those into Anki and enhancing with examples, images, etc.

Personally I follow TTMIK's lessons, because they combine both vocabulary and sample sentences. The first ten TTMIK-levels are on Memrise in this course, using hangeul. https://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-10/

No problem. Between the classes and ohmykorean and a few listening resources you should be all set.

Yeah, 3000 is actually a goodamount. Right now I am going for 2000, I tried to do a giant deck but at the end I felt pressure and it was completely stressing me out. My deck is imported from Memrise and I try to get 40 new words everyday (which is kind of insane). When you have about 3000, I am sure you will be able to just go with native material and begin to collect your own words.

If you use Discord, we have a very friendly "Let's Learn Korean" server with natives, 교포s, and learners of all levels from around the word. Here you have the invite link, just in case.

And for sure, I invite you to keep us updated with your learning, maybe in a blog or right here on the subreddit! :)

Using TTMIK and memrise is a good combo. Might I suggest you use the TTMIK course on memrise which is also based on the TTMIK lessons: https://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-10/

Your assumption is correct about the two ways of saying thank you, but the fact you would need to ask and not do your own research is rather concerning. Perhaps you should get a good textbook to fill in the gaps.

It sounds like you need KGIU beginner. KGIU beginner roughly corresponds to TTMIK levels 1-5, but it's not a perfect match. There is still a lot of content in KGIU beginner that isn't covered until much later in the TTMIK curriculum, like around level 7 or 8. But the KGIU Intermediate book assumes that you're already solid on everything in the KGIU beginner book. It's tough to start any given KGIU book because they are not written progressively; in the very first section they use example sentences that include grammar points from later sections in the same book. So you shouldn't work through KGIU progressively, instead you should attack the grammar points that you are most interested in.

Honestly it's worth getting the KGIU beginner book. Because even if you already feel pretty good on the beginner grammar, the sample sentences are still really good reading practice. And seeing the grammar from a different perspective helps solidify it. Usually I need to hit a grammar point in TTMIK, KGIU, and a third source (either howtostudykorean.com or Youtube) before I start feeling comfortable enough to experiment with it in my speech.

As far as vocabulary goes, yeah you need to supplement with an SRS like Anki to quickly push through the beginner phase. I also recommend going through this Memrise course to get some pronunciation training: https://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-10/

Hey /u/commonBambus! I made the Hanja Explorer:) I also had the same intuition as you when I was studying Korean, so I did the scraping and the visualization.

The graph is fairly large, so instead of displaying all of it, I allow users to explore it on their own. I made it available online too(https://github.com/pabloem/hanja-graph/raw/master/test_data/korean_unip_projection.graphml) and you can visualize it using Gephi (http://gephi.org), in case you want to check it out on your own.

Cheers!

Let's learn Korean daily expressions and grammar while watching Korean Drama.

You will find the grammar analysis list here, What I learn from K-Drama.

1. 멋있지만 너무 위험하고. - Descendants of the Sun
2. 한순간일 테니까… 친구. - It’s Okay, That’s Love.
3. 인도 속담에 그런 말이 있대요. 잘못 탄 기차가 때론 목적지에 데려다 준다고. - Crash Landing on You
4. 죽음을 찾지 말라 죽음이 당신을 찾을 것이니. - Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.
5. 안 좋은 추억이 가슴에 더 오래 남는데요. - It’s Okay to Not Be Okay
6. 갑자기 어떤 것을 깨닫게 되는 순간이 있다. - Do You Like Brahms?
7. 눈을 왜 그렇게 뜨지? 달리 어떻게 뜨지? - The King: Eternal Monarch
8. 내 마음을 놓고 갔어. - Lovers in Paris (2004)
9. 건투를 빕니다. 이번 생은, 어차피 모두 처음이니까. - Because This Is My First Life
10. 춤추라, 아무도 바라보고 있지 않은 것처럼. 사랑하라, 한 번도 상처받지 않은 것처럼.

노래하라, 아무도 듣고 있지 않은 것처럼. 일하라, 돈이 필요하지 않은 것처럼.

살라, 오늘이 마지막 날인 것처럼. - My Name Is Kim Sam Soon

I personally think it's worthwhile for everyone to learn Korean from Korean Drama since not everyone has the chance to talk with Korean.

This is the best drilling app i found for numbers.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rieul.rieulkorean&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US

You can test for dates, time, money, age, etc. with audio, typing or multiple choice, etc.

If you dont have android, you can install bluestacks for instance on your computer.

Its also nice for conjugation and pronunciation, etc.

Hangul by Tengulogi.

I'd also recommend finding a YT course you like, see the Ultimate Beginner's Resource Guide for recommendations. One of which is Go! Billy's Beginner's Korean course, which starts with 한글.

Not to steal your thunder, but I recall looking for an official TTMIK app a while back and finding that something like this already exists: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greensuitertech.korlink&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US

okay so I'm not sure that this is close to what you're looking for, but i decided to reply on the off chance that it could help! this app has a lot of already made decks but it's also possible to make your own, and the dictionary is quite extensive from what i can tell

I don't know if you have an Android or an iPhone (this is only on Android at the moment), but I use this amazing app called Hanji! It can conjugate any verb, also with the honorific forms!!!

I highly recommend 타자의 다린! It has 3 activities. 1. You type the word on the screen 2. You type the sentence to make your character run in a race 3. Words fall from the sky and you need to type the word before it hits the bottom

Its addictive for me lol

Here's the link to the android ver: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cometstudio.typingmaster

Yes, they also have workbooks. I actually have the Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1 workbook (link below). We were told to buy it for our university intermediate Korean class, but one the first day of class the professor said we're not using it, take it back for a refund. I had bought it online and the return date had passed, so I kept it. It's in brand new condition. I'm trying to get rid of it for the cost of postage and shipping.

https://www.amazon.com/Integrated-Korean-Workbook-Intermediate-Textbooks/dp/0824836510/ref=pd_sbs_6?pd_rd_w=no2a9&amp;pf_rd_p=965b754e-4670-4322-863d-d4929773ec49&amp;pf_rd_r=53J006JS0CCKVA14R2MS&amp;pd_rd_r=57a67387-052e-4ed5-9c7d-a9bc7ebddf1e&amp;pd_rd_wg=vmnos&amp;pd_rd_i=0824836510&amp;psc=1

The app I used will display the Hanja along with the 한글 if that's a Sino-Korean word. I think it's a much more efficient way to learn the words. Personally, I feel like the English Korean textbooks should add all the Hanja as well, even if people don't understand them, with the time goes by, the shape of Hanja might somehow clicks into your mind and help you understand the relationship between different words.... Just some personal opinion.

I did see some books using this approach. I'm currently using the book Routledge Intermediate Korean Readers (link) to practice my Korean reading. This book will mark all the Hanja along with the 한글 for all the Sino-Korean words.

Hey, I was able to create and publish that widget if you'd like to check it out! I know you might have solved your issue with your current widget, but in case you're still interested, here's the link to the app. DM with any questions!

That would be awesome!

Here's a link the app I'm using at the moment.

>Hangul Text Clock widget

I've also been looking for a widget that displays the current date in Korean but I haven't found one yet. Maybe that would be another nice feature if you decide to make an app :)

Korean Conversation - just made a thread about it since I've realized I never saw it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Korean/comments/dya0iv/psa_korean_conversation_for_android/?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cudu.conversationkorean&amp;hl=en_US

If you haven't tried 떡볶이 yet and want an easy version, I recommend this. I only had 떡볶이 once when I was in 한극 so I don't remember enough to know if this is really authentic, but it is similar enough to fool me. :-)

Also if you are interested in simple Korean recipes I recommend making 두부김치. It is really delicious and doesn't require too many different ingredients!

I also learn hanja just like you to make connection between words of the same lexical field.

for hanja I use Naver but I also own a physical dictionary that contains the 1800 hanja taught at school with pronunciation, meaning in english and related words and for now this has helped me a lot !

Available for free on Amazon Canada too!

The offer is U.S. only at this time, but it's going to be available internationally via in-app purchase very shortly as well.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pimsleur-language-learning/id1405735469?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simonandschuster.pimsleur.unified.android

While we currently only sell subscriptions to U.S. consumers from our site, you can still get the same subscription via in-app purchase in our app (the same app you would use if you purchased directly from our site.)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pimsleur/id1405735469?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simonandschuster.pimsleur.unified.android

There are tons of materials and lessons out there. But after you read, you need to practise. Otherwise, you will forget everything within a week. I found playing matching picture with Korean helps me memorize alot.

Example Android apps, since I use android:-

Learn Memorize Korean

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wonju.babydongwha

Here's an app for some children's stories. And honestly, pick a topic you like for news stuff. I like tech and science, so I use those articles a lot when studying

Feynman is a fantastic guy all around. I recommend reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" if you haven't already. It's just a neat personal view into his experiences exploring whatever seemed fun at the time.

Sorry to hear about your experience in engineering mathematics, but I'm surely you're past it. I appreciate the effort you put in your response. It covered everything I would've come up with. Reading fractions "backwards" is a neat element which is sure to save any baking experiences I have later in life, and for that I thank you.

I would recommend this book: The Sounds of Korean: A Pronunciation Guide.

Here's a link:

Amazon.com link!

There is accompanying audio - When I bought it from Amazon, the CD wasn't included, but you can download the audio files from the publisher website.