I was hitting Rosetta stone nice and hard for the past week spending over two hours a day on it. Out of my last core lesson, there are things I retained. 냄사-Scent 우유-Milk 범-Spring 여름-Summer 십팔- 18. Those are the words that suddenly came to mind, and I think I was given 30+ Vocabulary words. Some of which I knew already, most of which I didn't. That's a little frustrating, considering how much time I spent.
I even memorize pretty well! I can manage fairly well in most classes without taking extensive notes or studying a whole lot. It just sticks after I hear it a few times. But words are different. It's harder for Korean words to stick with me, and I'm embarrassed to admit to that. Japanese sticks well, Serbian sticks the worst. I don't know why, but it's frustrating!
So, today, a gift arrived! I was given the two levels of Pimsleur Korean! Which is about 60 lessons, give or take. They got the program from their work, but never really used it. My friend gave it to me, and she's going to regret it too. It works really well! I can't say anything about the ten day rule yet, since I've only done one lesson, but wow, it really did stick!
I can't write much down from what I learned, since the approach scratches writing.
Basically, I'm not sure if you two have ever heard of Paul Pimsleur, but he didn't like the way language was approached systematically like math or science. When we're kids we learn languages by listening, and he thought that's how we should do it when we're older too. We don't learn to write before we learn to talk, so it doesn't teach you reading and writing until level two. I know how to do that in Korean, but the spelling can be tricky.
The video up top will explain better than I will, but it really does make a difference! I started on level four, since I do know some Korean already, and so that left me in a sticky spot with one or two sentences, but I picked up on them quickly enough. It repeats the words backwards for your, splitting them up, and it'll ask you stuff from the previous lesson. I'm about to do lesson two even though you don't have to do more than one a day.
They have a 10 day course to start off with available for 10 dollars in 16 languages (no Finnish :c But there is Russian!) and I really recommend you both check it out! The full entire course is around 200 dollars from what I can see, but the basics of the language will be covered in level one, and then level two is for conversational level. They do have Finnish, shockingly! And I'm sure you can find it cheaper than 200 dollars if you shopped around. (You could even find it free without much trouble, but that teeters on the edge of illegal activities hehe) Which I was shocked to see, really! I mean that's a almost a third of the what one level of Rosetta stone costs.
It's interactive without a fancy software, meaning it can be listened to and practiced anywhere, and you don't have drill after drill after drill. Though drills are good! I think both methods can be used in each other. Anyway, I'll see how Pimsleur takes me over the next few weeks! Who knows, I might be speaking much better Korean by the time we have another meeting of the minds!
Speaking of which, since I've been cooped up inside all summer long, this idea of meeting for lunch sometimes sounds really nice! Typing and reading is invigorating, trust me, but it'd be nice for us all to converse about our summer shenanigans in person, no?
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