I’m 13 and I watch alot of kdramas and variety shows. I don’t want to learn how to speak it, write in korean or read Hangul but i just want to watch kdramas without subs about how long would it take?
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I have no idea but Korean has been said to be the most difficult language for any foreigner to master.
Without any interaction, I’d say it’s impossible to learn that way if you don’t speak any of the language right now.
You should at least get something to help you and learn Hangul.
Rosetta Stone works. I only did a little of the Korean one (about a week) and I was on the bus today and there was this old Korean lady on the phone with her mom and I understood a lot of what she was talking about.
Ok, let’s be serious. If you want to learn a 2nd language, you would expect lots of things or whatever you want to extract from it. It really doesn’t matter if it’s Korean or Chinese, Japanese, French. It’s really like learning a new music instrument (guitar, drum or trumpet) when you get old enough. Now, if you really want to learn something, then the best way is to get together with the real people who’s using it all the time. Like the gentleman said above, the old Korean lady might be the best way to learn the language from. But in reality, I’d recommend you to go to Korean church near your place, and attend Sunday service regularly. And then ask any of those to get together for anything, such as lunch or small cell group meeting. Then you will gradually get to know what they really watch on TV and talk about and start to pick up the words and expressions as you wish. Remember, no pain no gain. So keep it up. Thanks.
Korean is one of the most difficult languages for an English-speaker to learn. It would take at least a year and a half of intense study to meet any kind of fluency.
Language learning is a serious undertaking and requires many hours – even years – of work. Some would even say that it takes a lifetime. Are you willing to devote the time and effort?
hey i’m a korean and frankly speaking, you cant understand korean when you don’t even know how to read, write or speak it!
Its not like your brain is divided into four sections and each section is in charge of listening, speaking, writing and reading respectively. All the four parts are closely related with one another and overlap. You can’t master just one part-that’s absurd.
there are some steps you need to take in order to learn a new language. most importantly, you need to be able to know korean letters (hangul) and read korean! That is the basics. you cant just skip the first and most essential step and expect to understand korean!
By the way, korean may be really difficult for foreigners because you need to know a lot of idioms and expressions. There are also so many words to express the same thing but all the words have subtle difference- it’s difficult for foreigners to grasp the nuance.
China had some major influence on Korea in the past, so 70% of korean are based on chinese(this is really difficult to explain. it would take ages…). Although written in Hangul, many of korean words have chinese origin. Therefore you also need to learn some chinese!
See… korean is just not that easy. i dont want to break your hope but that’s the fact.
How long would it take? I started studying intensely 2 months ago. I first learned to read and write because it’s very difficult to learn that language if you do not know how to read and write first. You’ll understand when you get into it. Romanized korean is pretty much impossible to read and the worst example on how to really pronounce things in korean.
Basically. I’m already speaking basic korean and have about 200 words in my vocabulary. For you to really understand conversations though you’re going to need at least 2,000-3,000 words in your vocabulary. There are a lot of good books to get started with to see if you really want to learn the language. If I was you, I’d start with something like the books Your first 100 words in korean and Read & Speak korean for beginners. Getting an english-korean dictionary will be a must also. Good luck!