Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Continue or start your personal language log here, including logs for challenge participants

Will he make it?

Yes
58
74%
No
20
26%
 
Total votes: 78

Sayonaroo
Green Belt
Posts: 256
Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:13 am
Languages: English(N), Japanese -fluent?, Korean - advanced?, Spanish (b1?)
Language Log: http://choronghi.wordpress.com
x 319
Contact:

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby Sayonaroo » Thu May 11, 2017 8:26 pm

leosmith wrote:Things you will find in many Korean dramas that you may not find elsewhere:
Slow motion, multiple instant-replay kisses.
Kisses that are incredibly lacking in passion.
Somebody will try to kiss somebody while they sleep, or just get in their face and do goofy stuff.
During the kiss, one person is surprised, their eyes bug out, but with time they relax and close their eyes.
People passing each other in slow motion.
Someone will grab the wrist of their lover as they pass by, and pull them back.
A sleeping or hospitalized person will grab the wrist of the observing lover.
Everybody gets at least one turn in the hospital.
Flashbacks of scenes that were not previously shown are frequently used to explain current scenes. This technique is used much more often by Korean dramas than any other place I’ve seen.
Men crying buckets.
A girl will accidentally fall into the arms of her future lover.
A beautiful poor girl will hook up with a handsome rich dude.
When there’s blood, it will stay caked on for a long time. A lot of attention paid to open wounds, scabs and eventually scars, but it progresses much faster than real life.
Blatant advertising, often Subway.
The drama will start by showing a scene from the last episode, or an episode will start by showing a scene from later on in the same episode.
Very little smoking.
Way too much drinking.
Some dude will have an afro.
Lots of dudes will have bangs that are way too long.
A very tough woman with incredible martial art skills in one scene will turn into a weak little girl in another scene.
Often an actor who is in an earlier timeline doesn’t look or sound anything like the present day timeline actor.
The silverback(old dude with a full head of silver hair) is the bad guy.
A lot more emphasis on CCTV and less on forensic medicine than you might expect.
To disguise someone a baseball cap is almost always used.


lol thank you for this write-up. I never watch korean dramas but when I do, I fastforward liberally, then start skipping eps, and next thing I know I'm on the last ep
2 x

User avatar
leosmith
Brown Belt
Posts: 1341
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:06 pm
Location: Seattle
Languages: English (N)
Spanish (adv)
French (int)
German (int)
Japanese (int)
Korean (int)
Mandarin (int)
Portuguese (int)
Russian (int)
Swahili (int)
Tagalog (int)
Thai (int)
x 3103
Contact:

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby leosmith » Sun May 14, 2017 5:45 pm

Transcripts for Korean Drama 도깨비 (Goblin).
2 x
https://languagecrush.com/reading - try our free multi-language reading tool

Sc27
White Belt
Posts: 21
Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:19 am
Languages: English (N), Korean (?, not a beginner for sure)
Language Log: viewtopic.php?t=5526
x 17

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby Sc27 » Sun May 14, 2017 5:55 pm

Thank you very much for the transcripts, leosmith. ;) Just wondering, where did you get them?
1 x

User avatar
Sol
Orange Belt
Posts: 176
Joined: Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:56 am
Languages: (N) Bulgarian, English
Learning: Greek, Korean
Future: French, Italian, Russian
Paused: Spanish
Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=18342
x 198

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby Sol » Mon May 15, 2017 9:41 pm

leosmith wrote:Things you will find in many Korean dramas that you may not find elsewhere:
Slow motion, multiple instant-replay kisses.
Kisses that are incredibly lacking in passion.
Somebody will try to kiss somebody while they sleep, or just get in their face and do goofy stuff.
During the kiss, one person is surprised, their eyes bug out, but with time they relax and close their eyes.
People passing each other in slow motion.
Someone will grab the wrist of their lover as they pass by, and pull them back.
A sleeping or hospitalized person will grab the wrist of the observing lover.
Everybody gets at least one turn in the hospital.
Flashbacks of scenes that were not previously shown are frequently used to explain current scenes. This technique is used much more often by Korean dramas than any other place I’ve seen.
Men crying buckets.
A girl will accidentally fall into the arms of her future lover.
A beautiful poor girl will hook up with a handsome rich dude.
When there’s blood, it will stay caked on for a long time. A lot of attention paid to open wounds, scabs and eventually scars, but it progresses much faster than real life.
Blatant advertising, often Subway.
The drama will start by showing a scene from the last episode, or an episode will start by showing a scene from later on in the same episode.
Very little smoking.
Way too much drinking.
Some dude will have an afro.
Lots of dudes will have bangs that are way too long.
A very tough woman with incredible martial art skills in one scene will turn into a weak little girl in another scene.
Often an actor who is in an earlier timeline doesn’t look or sound anything like the present day timeline actor.
The silverback(old dude with a full head of silver hair) is the bad guy.
A lot more emphasis on CCTV and less on forensic medicine than you might expect.
To disguise someone a baseball cap is almost always used.
Rain suddenly starting to fall is used for dramatic effect a lot.


As an avid watched of dramas I laughed a lot at these! :D You forgot to include the music playing at scenes where someone says something dramatic or a secret is revealed. As you've watched Boys Over Flowers I'm sure you're familiar with "ALMOST PAAARADIIISE" :D
2 x
Korean
TTMIK: 45 / 305 (45/305 lessons)
SC22-23 Books: 3 / 5000 (3/5000 pages)
SC22-23 Films: 2260 / 9000 (2260/9000 minutes)

Greek
SC22-23 Books: 22 / 5000 (22/5000 pages)
SC22-23 Films: 0 / 9000 (0/9000 minutes)

User avatar
leosmith
Brown Belt
Posts: 1341
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:06 pm
Location: Seattle
Languages: English (N)
Spanish (adv)
French (int)
German (int)
Japanese (int)
Korean (int)
Mandarin (int)
Portuguese (int)
Russian (int)
Swahili (int)
Tagalog (int)
Thai (int)
x 3103
Contact:

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby leosmith » Fri May 19, 2017 7:01 pm

Finally finished TTMIK's iyagi 100 the other day. That's a bit of a landmark, although there are 149 in total. Since I have nearly 4 months to go, I'm doing one iyagi every other day. I use the news and drama scripts to make sure I get in at least an hour of reading every day. At this point I have 13456 "known" words in lingQ, and I'm shooting for 24550, so I'll have to average around 100 words a day to achieve that. It could be the only metric that I fail.
3 x
https://languagecrush.com/reading - try our free multi-language reading tool

Snow
Orange Belt
Posts: 120
Joined: Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:23 am
Languages: Tagalog (native), English (advanced), Spanish (intermediate), Korean (upper beginner)
x 119

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby Snow » Fri May 19, 2017 7:54 pm

How do you use the Iyagi series? Do you add them to lingq with the audio and do L-R?
0 x

qeadz
Green Belt
Posts: 298
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:37 pm
Languages: English (N), Korean (~A2)
x 400

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby qeadz » Fri May 19, 2017 8:19 pm

I don't suppose your uploaded Iyagi course is shared somewhere on LingQ?

I have 40 or so lessons in mine but I created it as 'private' and I don't immediately see a way of making it public. But I could stop adding to mine if someone else had... say... 100 in theirs :-)
0 x

User avatar
leosmith
Brown Belt
Posts: 1341
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:06 pm
Location: Seattle
Languages: English (N)
Spanish (adv)
French (int)
German (int)
Japanese (int)
Korean (int)
Mandarin (int)
Portuguese (int)
Russian (int)
Swahili (int)
Tagalog (int)
Thai (int)
x 3103
Contact:

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby leosmith » Fri May 19, 2017 8:28 pm

Snow wrote:How do you use the Iyagi series? Do you add them to lingq with the audio and do L-R?

1) listen to the audio
2) read it with lingq
3) listen to the audio again

qeadz wrote:I don't suppose your uploaded Iyagi course is shared somewhere on LingQ?

I've never made anything public, but I don't have a problem doing it if it's easy. But mine don't have audio, so you may not even want to use them.
0 x
https://languagecrush.com/reading - try our free multi-language reading tool

qeadz
Green Belt
Posts: 298
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:37 pm
Languages: English (N), Korean (~A2)
x 400

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby qeadz » Fri May 19, 2017 8:32 pm

leosmith wrote:I've never made anything public, but I don't have a problem doing it if it's easy. But mine don't have audio, so you may not even want to use them.


Oh. Nevermind then :) I do all of my listening through LingQ too...
0 x

User avatar
Xenops
Brown Belt
Posts: 1444
Joined: Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:33 pm
Location: Boston
Languages: English (N), Danish (A2), Japanese (rusty), Nansha (constructing)
On break: Japanese (approx. N4), Norwegian (A2)
Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16797
x 3559
Contact:

Re: Korean - from scratch to B2 in one year

Postby Xenops » Sun May 21, 2017 11:38 pm

Congrats on getting that B2 in Korean. :) Did you ever happen to make a log recording your Japanese learning? I'm not finding it here nor on the HTLAL site.
0 x
Check out my comic at: https://atannan.com/


Return to “Language logs”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests