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Picaboo
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Re: Korean resources?

Postby Picaboo » Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:11 pm

"Korean Grammar in Use" is really good. Once you are past book 1, it's matter of preference. Personally, I just pop a new type of sentence into https://mirinae.io/#/ and learn that way. That way I answer my own curiosity and understand one grammar point at a time, rather than have a huge list of grammar points to memorize.

I started out with Integrated Korean and Professor Yoon on YouTube to explain anything I didn't grasp. It was fine.

My only advice would be to read and listen to the dialogues and stories in as many beginner textbooks as you can because there is not that much in the way of true Beginner material in Korean.

Many of them are available for free. For example, King Sejong and Integrated Korean have their listening/reading resources on the web for free.
https://nuri.iksi.or.kr/front/main/main.do
and
https://kleartextbook.com/a_about-klear ... -edition/#
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Ichiro
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Re: Korean resources?

Postby Ichiro » Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:22 pm

Asarena wrote:
Assimil le coréen sans peine
The Assimil method needs no introduction in this forum. Broadly speaking, ratings on Amazon.FR of the entire Assimil product line are quite high. So, I was rather surprised by the lower-than-average rating of the “Assimil le coréen sans peine” course. Although, quite often, I have found Customer Reviews on Amazon.FR tend to be limited to rather terse comments expressing no more than the reviewer’s like or dislike of a product, in this case, a few reviewers have taken the publisher to task in greater detail. Nonetheless, having read and re-read the negative reviews, it is not clear to me whether or not the reviewers were actually aware of the challenge that learning an Asian language represents for a native speaker of an Indo-European language. That is, while the reviews are indeed negative, it is possible that the individuals associated their difficulties of learning the Korean language with the Assimil method itself and concluded that their lack of progress was due to the approach adopted by this highly-respected publisher … qui sait? I would assign more credence to a review submitted by an experienced independent language-learner on this forum than some unknown individual whose first attempt at learning a foreign language may have debuted with Assimil Korean.


The old Assimil course is not their best effort. It is 71 lessons long and the weekly review lessons don't have audio, so there are only 64 spoken dialogues in the course, it's a candidate for being their shortest basic course (the old Hindi course had 55 lessons, but they were each very long). Even though you don't get enough coverage in the basics to really assimilate, they still introduce some very high-faluting grammar is introduced up-front, where it's just confusing.

That said, in the Assimil way, some of the course was very funny. The only language course where I've been able to show parts of it to my (Korean) wife, and have her laugh out loud!

The new Assimil Korean course is much better, a really comprehensive, quality piece of work, in my opinion.
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