This is, of course, God willing and money-for-books having, but I've devised a tentative schedule for next semester, with plenty of answers to the what-ifs. So, here goes
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Even still, there is the time issue. Plus, you probably work more hours than I do. But beyond that, I have heard that Korean (community college or not) is a very challenging language. But, yea, mad respect goes out :)
Well, bout the work, don't have a job at the moment. If I can pick up even 20 hours a month I'll be set for rent and utils. Not sure why Korean would be so difficult, especially after Mandarin Chinese & Vietnamese. :D Gracias anyways, and you still need to respond to my reply to your posty thingy from a couple days ago. ^_~
Well, how many years of Mandarin and Vietnamese do you have? In my own study of language, I have found the first year to be 50-70% easier than the second year, and then there is the immensely more difficult challenge of gaining reading fluency :P
One semester of each, so half-year in all truth. In high school I took two years of German but that only qualifies as one year in college, so I've never been quite as far along as you.
Vietnamese is not something I'll be continuing, no chance. Mandarin, on the other hand, is actually a pretty darned simple language. It's the characters that kill me, which could be a potential hazard of Korean. Nearly all consonants have a vowel attached (the little lines to the sides/bottom of a character), but to my limited awareness there are no tones, which is a killer in Vietnamese. Plus, Koreans talk so fast! At least in the few TV series I've watched, it's much harder to follow than Japanese or Chinese...
Yea, it was actually a Chinese friend of mine (who speaks Mandarin) who told me about how difficult it is to learn, seeing as how each character is a unique representation, and there is no alphabet. For that reason, he said, it isn't very often that anyone comes across a Westerner with fluent knowledge of Mandarin. My comment on Korean was really based on an assumption that most of the Asian languages were similar in that respect.
Ah, now you see, here comes the amusement. Between the two Chinese dialects that are most prevalent, I heard from the Cantonese speakers in my class that it is more difficult for a Cantonese speaker to learn Mandarin than it is for a Mandarin speaker to learn Cantonese
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Vietnamese is not something I'll be continuing, no chance. Mandarin, on the other hand, is actually a pretty darned simple language. It's the characters that kill me, which could be a potential hazard of Korean. Nearly all consonants have a vowel attached (the little lines to the sides/bottom of a character), but to my limited awareness there are no tones, which is a killer in Vietnamese. Plus, Koreans talk so fast! At least in the few TV series I've watched, it's much harder to follow than Japanese or Chinese...
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