Tangpriest
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I can't recommend the Korean Cultural Center enough for their Korean language classes. $30.00 for 10 weeks, once a week, and you get book. And because the KCCLA is supported by the Korean government, they often have guests, such as pansori singers, artists - experts in their field. It's like a little mini field trip. Pretty cool.
Also, the KCCLA screens korean films with English subtitles every third Wednesday and Thursday of the month. It's free, as is parking.
Check out their site:
http://www.kccla.org
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Wow. Great resource; thanks for posting this info, Tangpriest. I've seen a couple rather brief TV "magazine" segments on KCCLA. The additional information you've provided is very helpful.
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Hiroshi66
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Wow. Korean classes are rare in LA at community colleges - only LACC offers it, during the day mostly. Thanks for the resource.
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I accidentally tuned in to Prince's First Love's last few weeks and promptly fell madly in love with Sung Yu Ri. After some research I discovered she was part of the group FIN.K.L. So now I have most of the the FIN.K.L albums and I listen to them at least once a day especially while working out at Bally's gym because of their terrific beat. That spurred me to attempt to learn Korean. I bought several books and I agree the alphabet is very simple. But the sounds are impossible. And why do they have to keep putting that circle at the beginning of words when it is not sounded in that position?
But because, after I fell in love with Kuninaka Ryoko and Churasan and immeadiately bought a foot deep of Japanese learning books I had to stop Korean for a while as it was too much trying to learn both at once.
I try to study some Japanese every day and I can actually understand almost every 30th word or so in the dramas now. If I can ever get down to every 10th word, I'll give Korean another try.
Thanks for the link to the Korean community classes down on Wilshire.
Maybe I'll go to them later this year.
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I would try a book known as "Elementary Korean". Its a big and hefty heavy hardcover textbook, but I have flipped through it in my curiosity of how the Korean alphabet works and it seems quite easy - only if you know the Korean hangeul. Which doesn't stick in my head because of the whole consonant thing. Kana is easier.
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ralphm1999
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classblockquoteHiroshi66 wrote:
I would try a book known as "Elementary Korean". Its a big and hefty heavy hardcover textbook, but I have flipped through it in my curiosity of how the Korean alphabet works and it seems quite easy - only if you know the Korean hangeul. Which doesn't stick in my head because of the whole consonant thing. Kana is easier.Thanks. I'll look for it when I'm ready for another crack at Korean. One of the Korean books I bought is 'Your first 100 words in Korean'. It's pretty good. I learned words such as 'cheemde=bed', 'chonhwagee=phone','takja=table' etc and I can even spell them in Korean symbols. However, why do so many symbols have more than one sound and which sound do you use when? For example the Z type symbol can be j or z or ch. duh? And that circle 'ng' which is silent at the beginning of a word really throws me off.
Yes. Kana is much simpler for pronounciation.
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That book is very good - ralph. Except its good for a very basic, but detailed study of elementary Korean.
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引用 (quote): Hiroshi66 wrote:
I would try a book known as "Elementary Korean". Its a big and hefty heavy hardcover textbook, but I have flipped through it in my curiosity of how the Korean alphabet works and it seems quite easy - only if you know the Korean hangeul. Which doesn't stick in my head because of the whole consonant thing. Kana is easier.
sorry, but had to use your short quotes to be use as an example.
who has time to learn, Hiroshi. method below is faster way!! hehehehehe
that is without going online using babelfish or google!
dang should have make the clock hidden! I think it can do Chinese <--> Korean or Chinese <--> Japanese as well.
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How did you do that, ralph? I use an altavista translator, but it doesn't look like that.
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classblockquoteHiroshi66 wrote:
How did you do that, ralph? I use an altavista translator, but it doesn't look like that.I didn't do it. But I too would like to know what was used.
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