I'm thinking of learning korean because I already know English and Spanish, and living here in korea town, I thought I might as well learn their language.
I have have a question, how hard is it? I heard it was hard but that doesnt say much. ANyone tried learning it before?
The really extremely difficult thing about learning Korean is the spelling. It's phonetic. So yer gonna have to remember how they spell, and alot of the words don't spell they way they sound. But aside from that, the grammer might give you a hard time, because it's similar to Japanese (Where is the restroom = Restroom where is).
Oh and hey, try not to sound like an ignorant fuck the next time you post something.
Peace.
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Anonymous2006-08-18 5:22
I'm sorry I meant it's not phonetic. My bad.
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Anonymous2006-08-19 17:59
>>1 Don't forget that Korean and Japanese have topic marker which can be a bit of painful to understand. Also the Korean language doesn't have any pitch accents.
Remember, always think of this word. NIDA.
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Anonymous2006-08-20 6:50
보스톤에서 긴 여행다음에 때때로, 또는 다만 게으른 가재가 실제적으로 (도착에 죽는)DOA이으면 말하는것은 곤란할 수 있는다. 1개의 좋은 시험은 운동을 위해 가재 눈 그리고 시계를 만진것을 이다 (총수익을 올리고십시요, 그러나 조정하십시요). 생활의 표시, 위로 아직 주지 말라! 다르게 듣는, 가재에 의하여 아직도 좋기 위하여 요리하고 있는 그것이 살아 있어야 바로 지금 너 하지 않는 것을 우리는 있있다. 그것은 더 가재가 지킨 온도, 및 통과한 기간의 사정 이다, 아직도 좋다 결정하는. 이렇게 알는가 이는가 너는 라고 할 것인가 무엇을?
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IRON.Mexi-chan!2v5gCoGIY62006-08-20 8:53
여 아직도 좋기 위하여 요리하고 있는 그것이 살아 있어야 바로 지금 너 하지 않는 것을 우리는 있있다. 그것은 더 가재
SERIAMENTE OPINO QUE NO SE PORQUE JJJAJA NONONONGDLBLBDLL OH TU ERES EL LADRON DE CEPILLOS MALDITO CERDO DEMOCRATA
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Anonymous2006-08-22 19:16
i had a really good feeling about learning korean, but im gonna be taking it during this coming fall in college. i dont want it to be a horrible time-comsuming class. man, it's so damn hard chosing between japanese and korean. one is easier, one is harder. one is more useless and the other more useful...
How would you guys rate the usefullness of learning Korean versus learning Japanese?!
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Anonymous2006-08-23 7:06
>>9
Basically, Korean people speak English while Japanese people don't. That makes Japanese quite a bit more useful to learn, unless you're a fan of Korean cinema or something.
You will spend years deciphering the moon language known as 'kanji'
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Anonymous2006-08-29 14:09
ARE YOU SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING LEARNING KOREAN RATHER THAN JAPANESE?
YOU ARE AN IDIOT AND I AM TYPING IN ALL CAPS TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT I AM SHOUTING AT YOU IN MY MIND.
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Anonymous2006-08-30 0:44
If you want to learn Korean very efficiently, I suggest you to learn Hanja (chinese characters). And mind you that you need basic knowledge on traditional Chinese characters to understand Korean fully.
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Anonymous2006-08-30 0:49
Also Korean phonology can be a dick. Easier phonology, suggest you Japanese over Korean.
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Anonymous2006-08-30 3:49
>>14
Not to mention there's no reason to learn Korean. They got only shitty games and shitty comics ripoffing from manga. Not to mention that they don't have hentai at all. They have made few good movies, but not so many that it would be worth to learn the language.
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Anonymous2006-08-31 21:04
Learn TKD. Hana Dul Set Net etc.
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Anonymous2006-09-03 1:46
Jesus Christ, OP here, the reason why I wanted to learn korean over japanese is because japs are basically extinct. There's a whole lot more korea folk out here in LA than japs. There's a big korean community here, that's why I was considering learning that language.
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Anonymous2006-09-03 1:48
>>17
but yeah, im going to be learning japanese anyways :|
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Anonymous2006-09-03 13:03
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Anonymous2006-09-06 17:00
Spanish is gay... I'm a self hating Latino... Kill me if you want... I deserve it.
Learn both. If you're going to be learning Japanese you'll have to tackle Kanji anyways, and the grammar is similar too, so just learn Hanja while you're at it. Since you have people around to get practical experience, you'll be able to pick up vocabulary as you go along. It will be especially easy since many of them will probably speak english too, so you can ask about anything you dont know.
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Anonymous2006-09-10 1:15
People who say the grammar is similar doesn't know jack.
first of all, this thread is from 2006, wtf
also, first of all, i hate korea but what is nida?
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Anonymous2009-10-18 2:48
Korea is projected to have the second highest GDP per capita in 2050.
I'm considering learning it a few years down the road after Mandarin. (Hopefully I won't be a weeaboo faggot still, because I'll probably still want to learn Japanese.)
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Anonymous2009-10-18 4:49
I'll be 70 years old in 2050. I honestly don't care that much.
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Anonymous2009-10-18 14:48
>>34
but im duncan mcleod!
i already have 250 years and i never age
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Anonymous2009-10-18 16:59
>>34
You're missing the point. It isn't going to happen over night on New Years 2050, it is going to gradually grow. It is already economically prosperous and will be even more so in the future.
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Anonymous2009-10-19 12:57
>>36
korea hahahahahahahhahaha
eat cats and die please!
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Anonymous2009-10-19 12:57
>>36
korea? hahahah
they still eat cats and dogs for gods sake ,fucking savages!
Fuck you 3+ language hobbyists who only achieve low-intermediate levels in a cornucopia of random languages. If you want to dabble in multiple language for fun then by all means go for it, but if you want to learn a language for potential business purposes then you need to be fucking good at it. Not "mediocre", not "know enough to amuse people not use to foreigners speaking their tongue", but "fucking good".
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Anonymous2009-10-22 11:37
>>40
I agree, but you sound very bitter. Failed polyglot?
I'm learning it right now, a friend is teaching me, and my American-English manner of speaking makes me terribly clumsy, I say ㅅ as ㅆ and it makes my ㅅㅐ (bird) sound more like ㅆㅐ (strong). The letters make a lot more sense than ones in other languages, but at this time I still find vowels really challenging. I'm learning to write it, though -- the next step is learning to properly type (and pronounce eventually). I try to avoid books with romanized only text -- it's not as easy to recall the pronunciations and appearances of characters otherwise.
I'm just using junk from byki.com atm (oh god please don't beat me up) but I also have the insight of a native speaker with me -- I would sound like an excessively polite and perhaps insincere foreigner otherwise. I don't expect to be perfect anytime soon, but I'm off to a better start than I was with Spanish, I think.
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Anonymous2009-10-23 21:26
>>43
I'm surprised you find 새 vs. 쌔 harder than for example 개 vs. 캐.
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Anonymous2009-10-24 0:22
>>44
I'm kind of slurry in speech. At the moment, my teacher usually tells me to say a "g" like sound for the first and a "k" like sound in the second instance. I still sound incredibly american for sure, though
I tried it, but it is hard. You will learn the 'alphabet' in a day but than you still need to learn everything else. And you will probably have trouble pronouncing the dubble consonants...
Korean is... 안 쉬워, and that is quite an understatement. Horrible honorific system, you will either talk ultra polite, or quite the opposite. It is a SOV language, 'subject object verb'...
So you need to pay attention to the end of the sentence. Aaaand there is no possible way you will learn how to talk with nk accent since every learning material is focused on sk... which is quite ignorant imo. Korean will never be as an important language as Chinese, or Japanese... I never tried Japanese but from what I understood it is a bit similar to Korean, but not phonetic. If you really want to learn something that is useful and 'easy' I would suggest French, since you already know Spanish.
Not OP, but does anybody have any good websites for learning Hangul?
I have the first 2 levels of the Ganada Korean Institute's course on the way to me, should be here soon hopefully, if customs doesn't keep hold of them for too long. I would just like to get the alphabet down though, before I start on the course itself.
I want to teach English abroad once I finish my degree and get my TEFL certificate, it seems S.Korea pays well and is pretty easy to get a job with no experience. Add to that, Europe's largest Korean community is a short bus ride away from me, it sounds like as good a place as any to start with.
What the hell are you speaking?
I'm native Korean, I think he used Google translator :-|
btw, I think It's hard to learn if you don't speak japanese...
as well as you know, It's similar with japanese, you gotta say like this "Korean learning how difficult is?" = "how difficult is it learning korean?"