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Learning Korean to better communicate with my GFs family and take advantage of _finally_ having real motivation to learn another language. I'm really enjoying

Learning Korean to better communicate with my GFs family and take advantage of _finally_ having real motivation to learn another language. I'm really enjoying having a different type of challenge than I'm used to. Mostly approaching it with Duolingo and Anki vocab cards with moderate success so far. We both have our own careers, kids, various responsibilities...so I don't get much time to practice with her. And practicing memorization at the end of a long day is tough, so I'd love to hear any tips you all may have to improve my memorization techniques and mnemonics.

zweice 3y ago
Practice in the morning
Ilasky 3y ago
Kind of in a similar boat! Been learning Korean to speak more with my girlfriend’s family, especially since we’re going to Korea soon. My biggest waves of improvement have come from reading aloud the Talk to Me in Korean books. I’ve found that getting the structure of the sentences has helped me and then I learn vocabulary by using what I interact with on a day-to-day basis. There’s also a Korean slang book by Talk to Me in Korean which is really great too! Helps break out of the “learned it from a textbook” sound.
orlandohill 3y ago
Focus on acquiring the language through meaningful input, rather than rote memorization. Favor listening comprehension over reading comprehension. The Refold guides, YouTube channel, and Discord server are good resources for language learners with busy schedules. https://refold.la/ https://refold.la/
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second_brekkie 3y ago
Get Korean teacher irl or on italki. At least once or twice a week.Try to speak and listen to much Korean as you can. Watch Korean kids tv shows on Netflix with Korean & english subtitles (I use language reactor chrome plug in) Real life Korean conversations for beginners by Talk to me in Korean is good. When you get to an intermediate level (TOPIK level 3ish) the iyagi podcast is GREAT. Ive been going through the sejong institute practical Korean textbooks. You can get them for free online. They focus on understanding and expressing youself in spoken Korean. The audio examples emulate Korean speech much more than other Korean textbooks I've used. The sejong institute also to free Korean online courses with weekly zoom lectures. How to study Korean, sells anki flashcard decks with audio attached. The lessons are free. They're quite dense but are BRILLANT as a reference to grammar you have forgotten or want to know in more nuance. Vocab-wise when you do flashcards have two for each direction KOR<->ENG. Learn the words for 3 days before putting them into an Anki deck (e.g. 30 words a day, but every day 10 words 'graduate' to the anki deck) I find Anki good for keeping words memorised but not learning them. When you are looking at the korean word play the audio, it helps SO much! Remember Korean is one of the hardest languages for a English native speaker to learn. There are times when you will feel you're making no progress. Then one day you will realise you actually understand what you MIL is saying. Have a sacred time every day where you do some Korean. Ideally at least an hour, anything less you will not improve quickly enough to re-motivate you, or thats at least how it was for me. Good luck 파이팅!

zweice 3y ago

Practice in the morning

Ilasky 3y ago

Kind of in a similar boat! Been learning Korean to speak more with my girlfriend’s family, especially since we’re going to Korea soon. My biggest waves of improvement have come from reading aloud the Talk to Me in Korean books. I’ve found that getting the structure of the sentences has helped me and then I learn vocabulary by using what I interact with on a day-to-day basis. There’s also a Korean slang book by Talk to Me in Korean which is really great too! Helps break out of the “learned it from a textbook” sound.

orlandohill 3y ago

Focus on acquiring the language through meaningful input, rather than rote memorization. Favor listening comprehension over reading comprehension. The Refold guides, YouTube channel, and Discord server are good resources for language learners with busy schedules. https://refold.la/ https://refold.la/

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second_brekkie 3y ago

Get Korean teacher irl or on italki. At least once or twice a week.Try to speak and listen to much Korean as you can. Watch Korean kids tv shows on Netflix with Korean & english subtitles (I use language reactor chrome plug in) Real life Korean conversations for beginners by Talk to me in Korean is good. When you get to an intermediate level (TOPIK level 3ish) the iyagi podcast is GREAT. Ive been going through the sejong institute practical Korean textbooks. You can get them for free online. They focus on understanding and expressing youself in spoken Korean. The audio examples emulate Korean speech much more than other Korean textbooks I've used. The sejong institute also to free Korean online courses with weekly zoom lectures. How to study Korean, sells anki flashcard decks with audio attached. The lessons are free. They're quite dense but are BRILLANT as a reference to grammar you have forgotten or want to know in more nuance. Vocab-wise when you do flashcards have two for each direction KOR<->ENG. Learn the words for 3 days before putting them into an Anki deck (e.g. 30 words a day, but every day 10 words 'graduate' to the anki deck) I find Anki good for keeping words memorised but not learning them. When you are looking at the korean word play the audio, it helps SO much! Remember Korean is one of the hardest languages for a English native speaker to learn. There are times when you will feel you're making no progress. Then one day you will realise you actually understand what you MIL is saying. Have a sacred time every day where you do some Korean. Ideally at least an hour, anything less you will not improve quickly enough to re-motivate you, or thats at least how it was for me. Good luck 파이팅!