Thread: Tell me your way of learning a language

I know Portuguese and English (both native), and a bit of French. I took a class on Japanese at my Uni, but have since then decided to learn Korean. I am a Software Engineering student, and am only learning a language during my spare time. With that, I need to find ways to study at home and by myself.

Korean is completely different from any Latin based languages, so finding what and how to study is a bit different for me now

What are your methods of learning a new language?

Well, I'm learning japanese and Kanji, so I just write and read it over and over.

That's the method my friend used when he took the Japanese class. I guess I can give that a try, but the real issue with Korean is the speaking ;o

True, I'm not even close to putting together sentences.

learning conversational languages just takes some time, learn basic greetings, numbers, the definitive and infinitive articles etc. Basic word order, question words and how to pluralise are also important, they should get you some basic know how

other words like, and, but, want, would like, etc also help

fluency requires a lot more effort and time though

Have you ever heard of BYKI by transparent languages? Its a very good program for building vocabulary and they have a free lite version with no spyware or anything and they also have an area where other users can post there own Lists , it might be worth a try

If you can, stock up on Korean movies/shows/cartoons, anything like that. Even if you can't understand it, hearing it will help, and each time you watch something, you'll be able to catch more and more words. I too am thinking about learning Korean.

Originally Posted by Thatperson

learning conversational languages just takes some time, learn basic greetings, numbers, the definitive and infinitive articles etc. Basic word order, question words and how to pluralise are also important, they should get you some basic know how

Actually if im not wrong, The Korean language does not utilize articles.

And im rather puzzled why anyone would study Korean, they are not known to have the best looking girls