I just started learning Korean about 2 weeks ago and it's a pretty nice site. I wouldn't be half as far as I am now without it, that's for sure.

The best way to study (at least for me) when I'm picking up a new language is to get an English to whatever language dictionary and go to town. Writing out new words BY HAND (typing just doesn't do it for me) and saying them aloud helps it sink in. Practice writing sentences and just have conversations with yourself, it'll go a long way.

OP, as a native english speaker, how easy or hard was it to pick up Hangul and learn Korean vocabulary and grammar?

>>4711499

Not OP but Hangul is easy as piss. I'm not exaggerating when I say you can learn it in an hour.

>>4711502

My friend linked me to this site a while ago? Would this be a good guide

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Learn_hangeul

>>4711508
Looks alright

I messed up a little. It's 여러분. Not 여로분.

>>4711499

Learning the sounds for each letter takes like 2 days. It's very easy, but it takes a lot of time to get used to reading things in Korean. You'll probably be frustrated to hell at first, but you should get over it after 1-6 months depending on how hard you study your ass.

Grammar. Holy fuck. This one will just continually blow your mind. There is a reason why many my English students at my school have trouble speaking and writing. The grammar differences are worlds apart essentially. Even now, I understand the basics, yet when sentences get complicated, I have trouble thinking backwards. Korean syntax and clause order is backwards compared to English.
Ex.

"That person does not have a steady job, so he lives off of a part-time job"

그 사람 일정한 지겁을 없어서 아르바이트로 먹고살아요.

If translated one word at a time and pieced together it sounds like this:

"That person steady job because he does not have part-time job he eats and lives."

It's all a matter of efficient study and lots and lots of time.

여기 누가 한국어 배우는 학생들 입니까? 2년차 인데 갈수록 잘 하고 있어요. 여러분 Talktomeinkorea을 사용해서 공부 해 보세요! 다른 4chan 한국어 학생들은 어떤 방법을 쓰고 있습니까?
Fixed that for you. You're doing a good job, and keep it up.

>>4711527

I took Latin classes in middle / high school, so I'm hoping that will help me with word order / grammar. When sentences start getting long and have more than one possible subject, thats when things get tricky.

나는 한국어 배워요.
thanks bro. talktomeinkorean looks nice.

>>4711530

고마워요. 때때로 저는 쉬는 단어 잊는데 요즘 천전이 가는 제일 방법 배우고 있어 요. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

A word of advice for you from a Korean-focus on the suffixes a lot. They throw off a lot of foreigners, and even Koreans themselves when they really think about it doesn't know its proper usage. I'm talking about ~을/를, ~가, ~이, ~해서, ~처럼 etc. They function as all adverbs, adjectives, and prepositions that are under separate categories in Western languages.

Also, there was a famous folk singer named Kim Kwang-seok who can slap the little bitch out of any contemporary KPoop shitcrapnoise musically , and he's renowned for being incredibly articulate and comprehensible in his pronunciations. Find him on Youtube and try listening to him. Not only it's a really helpful pronunciation and listening guide, but a great (I daresay one of the greatest of modern Korean music) intro into the popular Korean culture, too.

>>4711554
>>4711554

다 물건들이 정말 중요합니다. 한국인들이 언제나 "는" 모둔것에서 있는데 "은"이랑 "는" 어렵는 것 같아요. 힘들어......

shameless bump

I've been learning for a few months. I started off with TTMIK, then went through the textbooks "Elementary Korean" and "Continuing Korean" and now I really need a new one.

I use Anki errday, I've got about a 1700 word vocabulary so far. I learn pretty much everything by watching K-variety, seeing words in the subtitles and looking them up on Daum (it's a damn good thing they have on-screen Hangul subtitles for most things, you never see that in English/Anglosphere TV). I'm aiming for 6000 words by the end of the year.

>>4711554
I really like 부치지 않은 편지 ever since I heard it in JSA. Haven't listened to anything else of his yet, I'll give it a go. Any song recommendations in particular?

>>4713366

good shit bro. How's grammar coming along? All the verb endings like ㄴ대, 편이다, 느라고 kill me when spoken to me. You use only flash cards?

>>4714580
Yeah, seeing words again and again in Anki and on TV is the only way I remember them. I practise writing online, but I've never spoken to anyone or heard anyone speak in Korean IRL so yeah...probably couldn't hold a conversation.

Grammar's not too bad. The only thing annoying me is the uses of +니까 and the many retrospective endings (던데 etc).

I would like to learn korean. Is this site really good?

>>4715352
It's the best free Korean site out there.

Make sure you learn Hangul first (this is their sister site): http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Learn_hangeul

>>4715363
Thnks man. After i complete my chinese lessons i would like to learn korean

>>4715379
>complete Chinese lessons

Learning Chinese is something that never ends. Choose one or the other, dude.

>>4715391
I like asian languages man. I believe in thid reencarnation i will finish

Wow. Thank you all for this information.

I am currently living and studying Japanese in Japan, but I went to Korea over christmas break. Wow, honestly, myself and everyone who went on the trip wishes we would have studied Korean as opposed to Japanese. Seoul is an extremely exciting city and Korean cultures is just as different and complex as Japanese. Seoul is a whole other world. Also, there are so few Korean speaking westerners. So it's a good time to get on it! I really would love to jump in to Korean full-time, but maybe after I get by Japanese to the level I want it at.

>>4715414
Glad you are finally seeing the light! Stop being a weeaboo when it's still possible.

Any Windows users mind screen shotting some Hangul for me? I'm a Linuxfag and it looks smooth and awesome but I've seen screenshots of Hangul in Windows and it looks all blocky and horrrific.

http://me2day.net/21dara

Pic related, it's what I see.