I tried making flash cards but I can't seem to remember them. Writing out sentences seems to work best for me. I just want homework type questions and answers, though I do have an italk account. Not a huge fan of it though.
Yeah, the Integrated Korean textbooks aren't too great for the question/answer area of homework. If you can get your hands on the Sogang University Korean textbooks & workbooks, they have good writing and listening comprehension portions in the workbooks! I think you can get them on Amazon or on Hanbooks for not too expensive.
I have the Integrated Korean workbooks and believe me, they don't really help all that much. If you have the Integrated textbooks, those will do fine--what's on the workbooks are just a few more sets of the same questions and then some.
What I would suggest would be to go to sites like Lang-8 where you can post entries that native Korean speakers can correct. Or you can try finding a Korean pen pal. Personally I'm not that active on Lang-8 (no time!), so most of my current studying involve just reading articles and webtoons on Naver/Daum or watching dramas (hahaha), or writing short paragraphs on what happened today, like a journal, only in Korean. :)
I don't know enough to have a Korean penpal, imo. Or maybe I just don't know how that would work exactly. Guess I can try it out! I've tried sites like Lang-8 and they just don't really seem to be my thing.
I love the idea of reading webtoons/Naver/Daum but because I'm a complete beginner I need to start small. Did you jump into those when you were first starting to learn?
I pretty much exclusively watch kdramas, I've got that one covered. haha
If you're a complete beginner, I would think having a penpal would overwhelm you, especially if said penpal is already at an advanced level of English. However, it's still a learning experience! :)
Oh, I tried reading webtoons when I started but I understood next to nothing, haha. XD I think you can try it and gauge where you're at. Also, there are some webtoons out there that get translated into English (webtoonlive.com translates quite a few), so what you can do is try reading the Korean, make note of words you don't know, look them up in the dictionary, and then try to make sense of the dialogue. Once you've done that, you can switch over to the translated version and see if you understood it correctly. The translations won't be 100% accurate but it'll give you a basic understanding of common speech (depending on the genre, of course).
Yeah, k-drama watching is great! I feel like I absorbed so much vocab that I couldn't "actively" take in by reading textbooks. XD
Awesome, I really like the webtoon idea!! Will definitely have to hunt that out.
I started watching Kdramas before even wanting to learn the language (okay, I may be addicted to Asian dramas in general. Have been watching them for YEARS). So it's helped a lot with my pronunciation and basic words that always show up. There are definitely things that textbooks can't provide and dramas always help me (at least it greatly helped with my Japanese).
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I tried making flash cards but I can't seem to remember them. Writing out sentences seems to work best for me. I just want homework type questions and answers, though I do have an italk account. Not a huge fan of it though.
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What I would suggest would be to go to sites like Lang-8 where you can post entries that native Korean speakers can correct. Or you can try finding a Korean pen pal. Personally I'm not that active on Lang-8 (no time!), so most of my current studying involve just reading articles and webtoons on Naver/Daum or watching dramas (hahaha), or writing short paragraphs on what happened today, like a journal, only in Korean. :)
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I love the idea of reading webtoons/Naver/Daum but because I'm a complete beginner I need to start small. Did you jump into those when you were first starting to learn?
I pretty much exclusively watch kdramas, I've got that one covered. haha
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Oh, I tried reading webtoons when I started but I understood next to nothing, haha. XD I think you can try it and gauge where you're at. Also, there are some webtoons out there that get translated into English (webtoonlive.com translates quite a few), so what you can do is try reading the Korean, make note of words you don't know, look them up in the dictionary, and then try to make sense of the dialogue. Once you've done that, you can switch over to the translated version and see if you understood it correctly. The translations won't be 100% accurate but it'll give you a basic understanding of common speech (depending on the genre, of course).
Yeah, k-drama watching is great! I feel like I absorbed so much vocab that I couldn't "actively" take in by reading textbooks. XD
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I started watching Kdramas before even wanting to learn the language (okay, I may be addicted to Asian dramas in general. Have been watching them for YEARS). So it's helped a lot with my pronunciation and basic words that always show up. There are definitely things that textbooks can't provide and dramas always help me (at least it greatly helped with my Japanese).
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