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Books for learning Korean grammar in detail
My suggestion is Korean Grammar In Use series, you have to start with book 1 (beginning to early intermediate).
This book series is written in English, but the examples and practices are in Korean. ...
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Easy Korean Poems for Beginners
Okay, while @ting-choe has my gratitude for something that may level me up (my wife says I will "never understand" 김소월의 진달래꽃 - I think some "easier" poems (for my level) are in order here (and my ...
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Easy Korean Poems for Beginners
진달래꽃 - 김소월
나 보기가 역겨워
가실 때에는
말없이 고이 보내 드리우리다
영변에 약산
진달래꽃
아름 따다 가실 길에 뿌리우리다
가시는 걸음 걸음
놓인 그 꽃을
사뿐히 즈려밟고 가시옵소서
나 보기가 역겨워
가실 때에는
죽어도 아니 눈물 흘리우리다
If someone doesn't know this poem, he or she is not ...
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What is a good online resource or app (Android,PC) to start learning Korean from the very beginning?
It would be worth looking at Reddit Korean's Ultimate Beginner's Resource Thread, if you've not seen it already. I hope we'll have something similar on this site eventually.
One site that seems to ...
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Anyone know some sites that have a korean short stories?
http://18children.president.pa.go.kr/mobile/our_space/fairy_tales.php
This is the website serviced by the government of South Korea. 100 kinds of Korean fairy tales are provided. Since this website ...
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Books for learning Korean grammar in detail
The book that I recommend the most is Korean Grammar for International Learners. This book is published by Yonsei University and I feel is very high quality. I have used this book for about 8 years ...
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Korean hangul with voiced, unvoiced and aspirated or not aspirated
I can tell you right now.
(Always) Voiced: all vowels, ㄴ, ㅁ, ㅇ(final), ㄹ
(Conditionally) Voiceless: ㄱ, ㄲ, ㄷ, ㄸ, ㅂ, ㅃ, ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅈ, ㅉ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ
(Strongly) Aspirated: ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅅ, ㅊ, ㅎ
Not (strongly)...
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Online Resources for Korean Spelling and Grammar Check
For self-checking in a quick and straight forward manner, I highly recommend users to utilize the following:
Online Korean grammar engine by Busan university
http://speller.cs.pusan.ac.kr/
For ...
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Does howtostudykorean.com really do what it says?
Useful website, but quirky and unprofessional to say the least. I have read through the better part of it, and while it contains some very useful information and lots of examples, it also contains no ...
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What is a good online resource or app (Android,PC) to start learning Korean from the very beginning?
To learn hangul, the best android app is probably "Write it! Korean" by Jernung:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.kor
A funny, useful and addictive app to learn the ...
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What is a good online resource or app (Android,PC) to start learning Korean from the very beginning?
Old-fashioned: you might check Ruhr-Universität Bochum's website for links to resources. Bochum has a Korean Studies program with a good reputation.
(edited to add)
For Android:
I've heard good ...
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Is there a Korean version of Google Ngrams?
You might want to look into 꼬꼬마 세종말뭉치, or 국립국어원 말뭉치검색. If you're interested in etymology, look into 국립국어원 국어 어휘 역사.
I don't think there exists any service which shows you the frequency over time, ...
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What is a good online resource or app (Android,PC) to start learning Korean from the very beginning?
You could try flashcard vocabulary builder apps like Beginner Korean app or StartFromZero Korean app to learn the the commonly used Korean words and phrases from scratch. Both apps are free, works ...
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Books for learning Korean grammar in detail
A resource I find very helpful is The 어미/조사 사전 (전문가용):
This is a dictionary of suffixes, both noun suffixes (조사) and verb endings (어미). Make sure you get the expert version (전문가용), which is yellow; ...
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Books for learning Korean grammar in detail
If you want a clear and thorough breakdown of all but the most advanced Korean grammar in simple, clear English I recommend "Handbook of The Korean Language" (search on Amazon).
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Books for learning Korean grammar in detail
You're going to get varied answers for this, but the book used by Ohio State for their Korean program is the Klear Textbook.
The book has 8 lessons. Each 'lesson' has 3 parts(chapters), where each ...
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Besides endic.naver.com, any other good Korean-to-English dictionary site for (hangul) super-newbie learners?
I recommend dic.impact.pe.kr it's pretty good and easy to understand.
The cool part is that it also searches for your input in translated sentences so you can figure out how a word is actually used.
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What is a good digital Korean-English dictionary?
The National Institute of the Korean Language somewhat recently launched the Basic Korean Dictionary, which is a web-dictionary for learning Korean that has been compiled in Korean for Korean learners ...
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Looking for a Korean Thesaurus
Naver Korean dictionary partially supports thesaurus feature like this:
But still 'partial', so if you want to search directly for synonyms, visiting (주) 낱말 - a company offering its resources to ...
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Korean dictionary (online or offline) showing the pronunciation
The National Institute of the Korean Language's Basic(/Learner's) Korean Dictionary has pronunciation for each word in both written and audio form. For example, here is their entry for 까맣다:
This is ...
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Complete end-to-end reference guide
howtostudykorean.com is a must. Written by a Canadian who is married to a Korean woman and lives in Korea, teaching English to students.
Also talktomeinkorean.com is a must, especially for the ...
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How do you tell if a verb is irregular? What are the best dictionaries for things like this?
In more than 10 years of learning Korean, the source I've found which best explains 불규칙 (irregular conjunctions) is 'Korean Grammar in Use - Beginning' by Ahn, Lee and Han (Darakwan publishers, Seoul)....
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What are the best sources to study for TOPIK?
I don't have the privilege to take TOPIK test in Korea and there are not many Korean language books available available in my country. So, I purchased TOPIK self study package from TOPIK GUIDE. It ...
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What is a good online resource or app (Android,PC) to start learning Korean from the very beginning?
I suggest that you first learn the Korean alphabet (Hangul) as it is not possible to move forward without them. The hangul is not complicated and is logically constructed, so it won't take you much to ...
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Looking for a Korean Thesaurus
In the National Institute of Korean Language's Korean-English Learners' Dictionary, you can view the semantic relations of a certain vocabulary such as synonyms, antonyms, heavy isotopes of a word, ...
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Websites or software showing pronunciation guide of a phrase or sentence
Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools has a "KR-to-MCT" utility that shows how full sentences are pronounced:
Note, the site gives this description and warning:
KR-to-MCT: Use this to see how Korean ...
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Complete end-to-end reference guide
KoreanClass101.com has a "grammar bank" (paywalled; check it out with a free 7-day trial):
The Grammar Bank is a one-stop collection of detailed write-ups
covering over one hundred Korean ...
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Korean Subway help please!
There will be boards at each stop that say which direction a train is going (based on the final destination). If you are looking to go to Guil, the board will say the train goes to Incheon, as that ...
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Is there any keyboard in iOS or macOS that pops up a list of predictions and checks spelling?
I absolutely feel you pain. I did a quick test with my iPhone and it does have some degree of spell correction as it does for English.
But I am not sure how it exactly work. 사라써요 once gave me a good ...
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