Excellent video! Many thanks to the author of the channel for the recommendations! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.
We use this book in our beginning Korean class. Our teacher has us practice finding words in the Hangul reading - and we haven't even learned all Hangul yet. Just recognizing words. We love this book!
I love this book! Granted, I'm in my 4th year of studying the language. I don't think this book is appropriate for someone just starting out. To get this point, I must say that I am in TTMIK level 7, completed the Pimsleur App levels, finished the Memrise Korean App and most of Mondly's Korean app. I would say I'm at at the higher end of intermediate level in both listening and speaking skills. Because I can understand 85% of the grammar presented, the mechanics of the sentences and vocabulary are not intimidating.... but I had to do all the previous studying mentioned above first. Definitely not a book for an absolute starter.
went into this without any kind of textbook or grammar studying, not even able to read hangul, only knowing like 10 words... and I loved it. For disclosure, I've studied Japanese before, which has a similar grammar style, which might have helped in terms of similar grammar like at least being aware of what particles etc are. I think you don't need as much grammar introduction because you can just refer to the translated sentence and glossary - I highlighted each similar sentence in the Korean and English text with a new color and underlined words for quick reference. Reading especially the shorter stories several times, I could understand more and more each time. This book is easily accessible for beginners.
Just started this book. Do consider myself as Advanced Beginner/Very low Intermediate learner. I equate this to completing Korean 101 & 102 at the college level. I have also gone to my local community college and completed all 4 parts of Korean thru their Continuing Education program. But that is "Cont Ed" and you get what you pay for. But as he stated, I needed that much background training to be able to comprehend this book. I am not a book reviewer, but I just found a typo on page 20, where the author translated the wrong noun. Polyglot Dr. Stephen Krashen expounds the power of free reading for language acquisition. But only for advanced beginners, not absolute beginners. I will enjoy my language journey by continuing to read this book.
The side-by-side translation with only hangul characters is intimidating. Reading in another alphabet is difficult, and even though the korean alphabet is said to be very easy, my experience with it or any new alphabet is that I only get good at reading when I actually know the language very well, so I can guess what I'm reading. I would prefer to have the phonetic translation over each word, along with the english translation, otherwise I waste too much time keeping track of where I am in the texte with my fingers on each word.
Excellent video! Many thanks to the author of the channel for the recommendations! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.
We use this book in our beginning Korean class. Our teacher has us practice finding words in the Hangul reading - and we haven't even learned all Hangul yet. Just recognizing words. We love this book!
Can you please tell me what type of class you are attending? This teaching point seems very interesting to me. Thank you.
I love this book! Granted, I'm in my 4th year of studying the language. I don't think this book is appropriate for someone just starting out. To get this point, I must say that I am in TTMIK level 7, completed the Pimsleur App levels, finished the Memrise Korean App and most of Mondly's Korean app. I would say I'm at at the higher end of intermediate level in both listening and speaking skills. Because I can understand 85% of the grammar presented, the mechanics of the sentences and vocabulary are not intimidating.... but I had to do all the previous studying mentioned above first. Definitely not a book for an absolute starter.
went into this without any kind of textbook or grammar studying, not even able to read hangul, only knowing like 10 words... and I loved it. For disclosure, I've studied Japanese before, which has a similar grammar style, which might have helped in terms of similar grammar like at least being aware of what particles etc are. I think you don't need as much grammar introduction because you can just refer to the translated sentence and glossary - I highlighted each similar sentence in the Korean and English text with a new color and underlined words for quick reference. Reading especially the shorter stories several times, I could understand more and more each time.
This book is easily accessible for beginners.
Just started this book. Do consider myself as Advanced Beginner/Very low Intermediate learner. I equate this to completing Korean 101 & 102 at the college level. I have also gone to my local community college and completed all 4 parts of Korean thru their Continuing Education program. But that is "Cont Ed" and you get what you pay for. But as he stated, I needed that much background training to be able to comprehend this book. I am not a book reviewer, but I just found a typo on page 20, where the author translated the wrong noun.
Polyglot Dr. Stephen Krashen expounds the power of free reading for language acquisition. But only for advanced beginners, not absolute beginners. I will enjoy my language journey by continuing to read this book.
The side-by-side translation with only hangul characters is intimidating. Reading in another alphabet is difficult, and even though the korean alphabet is said to be very easy, my experience with it or any new alphabet is that I only get good at reading when I actually know the language very well, so I can guess what I'm reading. I would prefer to have the phonetic translation over each word, along with the english translation, otherwise I waste too much time keeping track of where I am in the texte with my fingers on each word.