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Post by NanteNa
Hey folks, hopefully some of you people know about this.
I will be studying Korean at university in about two years (hopefully) for about 5 years+. I was wondering if any of you had some suggestions on books or programmes that will be useful for pre-studying? Meaning for studying before going to uni, so that I won't be all brainless to begin with.
Thanks.
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I've been using Rosetta Stone a lot for it lately--was a great help in getting the pronunciation down, and it has you repeat things a lot too, which helped me. I have some textbooks that I will probably get back to soon, but they were hard to start off with... Although, they had pages and pages of detailed explanations of how the different letters sounded, that didn't come close to actually being able to hear it on the Rosetta Stone.
I've found it to be a really good starting place.
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Post by KyleGoetz
I'm curious if anyone here has studied Korean after learning Japanese to a pretty high level of proviciency. If so, was Korean easier to learn, having already gained a mastery of Japanese?
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I've recently started studying Korean after several years of Japanese, and yes, I have found that knowledge of Japanese helps. The grammar is very similar.
A lot of the vocabulary is similar too.
Here is how you say the days "Wednesday, Thursday, Friday," for example:
Japanese: Suiyoubi, Mokuyoubi, Kinyoubi
Korean: Suyo'il, Mogyo'il, Keumyo'il
See the resemblance?
They have common Chinese roots... Knowing the Chinese characters from studying Japanese helps you recognize this. (水曜日、木曜日、金曜日）
"Airplane" in Japanese is
hikouki. In Korean, it's
pihaeng'gi. At first, it might not sound like there's much resemblance, but if you think of each of the syllables being a Chinese character...
飛 hi/pi
行 kou/haeng
機 ki/gi
So I've found knowledge of Chinese characters and Japanese words to actually be helpful in learning Korean words.
Here's an interesting one...
Pan means bread in both languages. The Japanese word comes from Portuguese (Back from the 1500's I believe). A Korean friend tells me that the Korean "pan" actually came to Korean from Japanese.