#hanguel

[diy-languages]

Free Korean Learning Courses! : Part 1

-> These are some free resources I used or heard about a lot to learn Korean and what they include, there's probably way more! I'll make more parts in the future. There's also ratings and pesonal notes about each one, but again they're 'personal' so it might not be the same for everyone! That's why you should always try it yourself first.

-> These resources are or were fully free when I used them, if anything changed and they're no longer free I do not take any responsibility for possible accidental purchases, I recommend to always check first before processing with it.

Here we go:

GoodJobKorean — Full free Hangul Course, 12 Lessons, Videos (with pronunciation, etc) + Pdf Practice sheets (with some vocabulary) + Quizes to see if you understood each lesson.

Rating: 100/10 I tried and loved it, easy to understand and explained nicely. Really useful for beginners learning hangul!

A/N: You may have to rebuy it after a month (not sure because I finished it in less then a month and never logged back in) but It's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again)

GoldenKeyKorean: Free Hangul course, pronunciation + 2H long master course (advanced and basic levels) with 2 pdf books

Rating: I personally did not try this one, but I'm pretty sure it's fully free (at least that's what I've seen), but he often does limited editions/limited time special free courses so it's better to check if the offer is still active and follow his instagram for future updates and courses.

Now Korean Class: Fully free 9 Korean courses with different levels (1-9) with multiple videos for each, explains sentence structures, grammar, counters, numbers, and way more.

Rating: 100/10, It really is free, multiple levels, sooo many different things to learn I absolutely loved it!!

A/N: You just have to rebuy it after a month but I'm pretty sure it's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again). I recently lost acess to it, idk why I think my phone is lagging... It tells me something went wrong to try again later, lol, just in case some content changed etc I wouldn't know.

Koldoristudy: 3 different Free Korean PDF study sheets, 1 Hangul, 1 Vocabulary and 1 winter study, includes Grammar, stroke order guides and syllable blocks,

Rating: 10/10 Loved it, I thought it would be just some pdf files to boringly write hangul/words but It's actually way more! it explains grammar and some useful language rules!

Talk to me in korean: Multiple free podcasts on different platforms + PDF with grammar and vocabulary explained for different levels of learners, 7 days free trial with possible cancelation

Rating: 9/10 It's really good, I'm just not a big fan of podcasts as I have a short attention spawn LOL. I personally didn't try the 7-days free trial but they do have LOTS of different lessons and videos that seem to be amazing and useful.

A/N: personally I find their website really confusing, to make things easier you can try things like just typing "Talk To me In korean (Pdf level _)" on google and the first link should be the free pdf file, etc etc.

Loescen Learn Korean Website: Free Interactive web-based learning, important vocabulary, pronunciation beginner to intermediate level, basic conversation courses and dialogues

Rating: 8/10, so good!! It surprised me, I just wish it went more in deep about things like sentence structures and grammar instead of blindly learning dialogue lines or words without breaking them into steps for deeper understanding of the language.

A/N: works for other languages too!!

Live Lingua: Multiple free ebooks and audio files lessons, grammar, vocabulary, hangul, etc, beginner to advanced,

Rating: 9/10 Covers up a lot of different things like I said, grammar, vocabulary, etc etc, but AGAIN each course covers many subjects and it quickly feels heavy and too long/complicated/takes too much time (personally for me, as an individual with ADHD)

How to study korean: LOTS of grammar and vocabulary, beginners to advanced, multiple lessons, linked YT videos to reinforce lessons, PDFs, etc

Rating: 100/10 explains really well, SO MUCH STUFF, different levels, it's really awesome! Lessons are available in multiple languages and not just English!! However again I find it a bit intimidating as it really has LOTS of things to learn which make it seem hard and heavy...

A/N: Personally I find the website complicated to navigate 😭 just type "how to study korean lesson _" for easier access if you want and It should be the top results

Udemy TOPIK grammar through 100 patters: TOPIK vocabulary, grammar and conversations, 100 grammatical patters koreans use a lot

Rating: 8/10 really good, well explained, but again personally it feels pretty heavy and long, videos in Korean with English subtitles, however there are no English subtitles for "example sentences" which sucks, you need to know some basic vocabulary to really understand the example sentences used there.

Tomi Korean: Free PDF with 430 basic korean vocabulary (words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc) with audio files, free PDF Worksheet for hangul learning

Rating: 8/0 Love it, really nice for useful vocabulary but you'll have to willingly study the words cause the pdf only makes you write it once and it's really just Korean-English translations, but it has images so its good for visual learners too! Personally I also found it takes a lot of storage to download everything lol.

A/N: I did not check the hangul worksheet as I can already write and read hangul but little personal opinion/tip; I think GoodJobKorean is the best option to learn Hangul here, specially compared to this one. Yes I did not try this Hangul Worksheet but I believe GoodJobKorean offers more variated content and help (videos, quizes, etc) than what a PDF sheet has to offer, that's my opinion.

That's all so far!

Many of these courses have social media accounts where they post different content and tricks to learn, I'll be making a post about those in the future too!!

If anything changed since I first used these resources or if there's any misinformation in this post, please let me know!

[salanaii]

Learn Korean with me - Week 34

Day 1 - 3: Vocabulary - Time

** Don't forget your journals and of course Netflix.

morning 아침 achim

afternoon 점심 jeomsim

evening 저녁 jeonyeok

night 밤 bam

midday 정오 jeongo

midnight 자정 jajeong

What time is it? 몇 시예요? myeot siyeyo

It’s nine o’clock. 아홉시예요. ahopsiyeyo

It’s quarter past nine. 아홉시 십오분이에요. ahopsi sibobunieyo

It’s half past nine. 아홉시 반이에요. ahopsi banieyo

It’s quarter to ten. 열시 십오분 전이에요. yeolsi sibobun jeonieyo

It’s 10 a.m. 오전 열시예요. ojeon yeolsiyeyo

It’s 5 p.m. 오후 다섯시예요. ohu daseotsiyeyo

It’s 17:30. 십칠시 삼십분이에요. sipchilsi samsipbunieyo

When…? 언제…? eonje…

… in 60 seconds. 육십초 안에… yuksipcho ane…

[bieups]

People online: Hangul is the easiest writing system! You can learn to read it in a day!

Hangul in real life:

[A handwritten note from a realtor to me]

임차인은 에어컨, 어닝, 가스렌지를 인수받고(무료) 도배 장판 10만원은 지원해드리며 장판은 [본안??]으로 새로 한다

[goawaywithjae]

King Sejong invented Hanguel in the 15th century. His goal wasn’t to inflict another language on his subjects. Rather, he created a 28-letter alphabet that was simple enough for even the lower class who didn’t attend school to learn. (Four letters were eventually dropped to its current 24-letter count.) Until then, most books and documents were written in classical Chinese, which was complicated and accessible primarily by the privileged upper class. He wanted everyone to be able to read, write and communicate in a common language. Knowledge would help equalize his people.

Of course, some of the nobles were angry about this. They were afraid the peasants would be able to figure out that they were being taken advantage of.

[helenstudies]

I hope I'm not being rude but how did you have the time to do everything on your bio when you're only 24? Can you share how you learnt a lot of languages?

It's fine. Believe it or not, people ask me that A LOT.

I'm born in Myanmar and only spoke Burmese until I was 10 and my mom decided her children should be able to speak English. She sent me and my sibling to an English Summer School and then started speaking English at home. I've been bilingual since then. Burmese people are very good at English (read: we were colonized by the British) I started learning Chinese at age 12, I think. Then at age 14 and 15, while writing novels and fanfictions, I taught myself how to read hanguel (korean script) and hiragana/katakana (japanese script) then started studying formally after graduating highschool.

In Myanmar, until a few years ago, high school students used to graduate at age 16 and go to the university. So when I graduated high school, I went the distance education route in University and became a freelance translator and interpreter. I also did some transcribing and content writing. Then I went to Korea and studied in a language program. I came back after nine months and at age 19 I just started taking things seriously and self studied everything to pass all the language certification exams.

In 2021, because of the military coup, I dropped out of high school, realized my freelance translator job is not really going well due to the dictatorship, so I started to branch out. Now I read tarot and interpret astrological birth charts, teach classes and tutor people, sell books and ebooks. That's just how freelancing is. I think.

Anyways, all these things seem a lot until you realize I just spent a decade of my life just doing things I want. A lot of people tried discouraging me of course They're always like "choose a language!" "choose a path!" but I just don't like to listen to people. Hopefully, a few more decades and I might become a jack of all trades. And learn a few more languages. And read a few more books. And get into a few more hobbies. Yeah.

[susangarcia338]

I made a drawing of wooden blocks with Hanguel letters on them, I also wrote the word for wooden blocks in Korean.

[aventurasdeunatortuga]

Monday, July 8th

I’m way behind on posting so I will attempt to catch up today.

Monday and Tuesday there was a literal monsoon in Korea so most outdoor activities were a no go. Luckily Korea has an excellent public transportation system that requires minimal walking on the sidewalk, but lots of time underground in the metro. The ceiling or ac unit or something was leaking on the subway so even inside the train I couldn’t escape the rain. I spent these two days visiting museums as part of my quest to learn more about Korean history.

The first museum I visited on Monday was the National Museum of Korean. It is considered the top museum in Korea, and was enormous. It went through the entire history of Korea pre 20th century, starting with the Three Kingdoms (Baek, Silla, and Goruyeo) who competed with each other for centuries until the Goruyeo kingdom took charge. This evolved into the Joseon Dynasty that lasted from the middle ages until the end of the 19th century. This is considered a golden era in Korean history, with an over 200 year era of peace. Korea interacted a lot with Japan and China but fought fiercely to maintain their independence from these two competing powers as well as Russia. They resisted any western influence and were known as the “hermit kingdom” by the west for their refusal to engage. There was huge flourishing of arts and culture and the hanguel alphabet was developed by King Sejong the Great in the 1440s, who wanted to create a Korean alphabet that was intuitive and easy to learn, previously they had been using Chinese characters to write which are very difficult to learn to read and write. He based the alphabet off of the literal positions of the tongue in your mouth when specific sounds are produced. The linguistic nerd in me found that very cool.

In the 1880s due to military pressure from western powers they begrudgingly opened up diplomatic relations with the west, which resulted in a huge influx of foreign influences. Joseon was very strictly divided based on social class, wealth, Confucian social hierarchy, and status, and there was an enormous gap between the rich and poor. Western powers came in with egalitarian ideas of democracy and equality, which were very appealing to people of the lower classes that had been oppressed by the wealthy for so long. There was a big internal conflict between the wealthy who wanted to maintain tradition and protect Korean culture and the poor who wanted social advancement and rights, were interested in the advancements the west had to offer, and demanded social revolution.

Korea was put in a difficult situation with a lot of pressure from surrounding countries. The King of Joseon, King Gojong, declared that he would make a new government called the Korean Empire, in 1895, in order to assert their independence to competing world powers.

The Japanese, Russians, and Americans took advantage of the social unrest in Korea and slowly began encroaching on Korean society. For example, the Japanese eagerly began building railroads throughout Korea, which people were excited about but resulted in the Japanese slowly getting more and more control over the Korean economy and infrastructure.

In 1904, Russia and Japan fought a war to assert dominance over Manchuria and Korea. Both countries wanted to invade these areas. Japan won in 1905, and that is when the Japanese Invasion of Korea began.

This is where the museum ended, tomorrow I’m visiting Korea’s Independence Hall which goes into what happened next.

The museum was really cool. They had a lot of artifacts but they emphasized again and again that most of the historical artifacts pre Japanese invasion had been destroyed by the Japanese, and the only way these artifacts survived was through ordinary people hiding them and protecting them for decades.

The museum also had a cool virtual reality room where they took ancient Joseon art and made it into an immersive experience which was really cool. One of them recreated a painting of a rainstorm, can’t escape the rain even in the virtual reality experience.

Afterwards I went to Dongdaemun Design Plaza, which is a really cool looking modern building that had a lot of modern art exhibitions. I don’t really get modern art, but the building was really cool. I went to a Hello Kitty exhibit that was going on.

For dinner I had pajeon, potato pancake, it is tradition to eat pajeon in Korea when it rains because when it’s cooking it sounds like rain.

Until tomorrow,

[kartriderville]

I am learning, slowly. I know only a few words, but I am comfortable reading/writing Hanguel!

doodle is from my page of writing practice; a Tabby for moral support!

[kangaracha]

changbin + charmer

'SEO CHANGBIN: THE FACE OF HIPHOP, AND HOW IT FEELS'

Cold. Exhilarating. Lonely.

Like flying, only these days, he's looking down and he doesn't know where to land.

The magazines sit just inside the door to the corner shop, staring out at him - his own face, but different eyes, tinted a strange colour by whatever lenses they'd handed him on the day of that shoot. He's on the TV behind the counter too, head bent over a microphone in a music video he shot three months ago. When he turns, there's a small rack of albums against the other wall, his name scripted out across the top of the rack in a font of cursive hanguel.

Behind the counter, the cashier squeaks, a half-strangled noise that she just can't control.

Inwardly, he sighs. Ducks his head and disappears down an aisle, searching the shelves for the snack he wanted with the speed of a blind man trying to search with his eyes. He'd known this would happen, even if he'd told himself it wouldn't. He doesn't go anywhere these days, cap and mask or otherwise, without someone saying his name - he could swear a cat on the street the other day had looked and him and known who he was.

Even if he doesn't say it, lest he be called stuck up or egotistical, the numbers don't lie; he is the face of hiphop, the most successful rapper in the country. The top of the billboard belongs to him, except for a rare month when he might take some time off of producing or touring or promoting, whatever it is someone has teed up for him next. #we'regoingup, he'd written on all his content when he'd first started out, and now here he is - so high, he blocks out the sun over Korea, so bright that even when he walks down the street, people can't help but stop and stare, and he doesn't know why.

And it's not that he doesn't appreciate it, it's just- just for once, he'd wanted to buy a packet of chips and stand out on the street in the sun and eat them, without having to paste a smile on his face and politely greet someone with a name and a face that he would have no hope of remembering an hour on.

Sighing, he takes the chips he'd spotted three minutes ago, and wanders around to the counter, face deliberately turned away from a man that has just entered the store. The girl behind the counter gasps, her hands moving in slow motion as she rings him up. Her mouth opens, but nothing comes out; he takes advantage of that shock, slides the money across the counter and backs away with his chips, thanking her oh so politely as he tries not to abjectly run away.

Outside, alone, he watches a car speed past and pulls in a breath of fresh air, his feet soft against the pavement as he walks away. He gets five steps of freedom before the man in black falls in place on his tail, his hands in his pockets and his eyes sharp like a hawk, scanning the street from beneath a fringe of black and brown.

[the-oddest-inkling]

I started to learn korean, because for some reason it's easier to learn than japanese. I hope to get the korean hanguel workbook for christmas.

[multilangual]

Some notes from Duolingo -

- Hanguel -

Part 1v

[salanaii]

Learn Korean with me - Week 46

Facilities/Public Places/Home

** Don't forget your journals and of course Netflix.

[bookwormcheerleader]

In trying to learn korean, focusing on hanguel rn. And i have been having more and more hearing/processing issues lately. Trying to hear the difference between aspirated, lax, and tensed consonants. Is so hard right now

[oceanamethyst]

having more trouble pronouncing hanguel letters than learning how to roll my r's

[alexandriahephaestrin]

Language journal:

Entry 1

31 May 2023

I am learning German and Korean right now. I practise my German speaking and listening skills with elder people. I like talking with them. They are more patient and a lot to talk about, and they need someone to talk to.

For my Korean, I am using the Duolingo and Drops app to practice. I am still not very familiar with the hanguel. I guess I need more practice.

[cilginfillermigoruyorumne]

Yıllardır Hanguel ile içli dışlıyım ama anca bugün Yunanca dersinde Korece'de büyük harf olmadığını fark ettim.