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| My dearest for Korean changed my take away heed virtually learning languages. (Emilia Atanasova) |
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Emilia Kircheva
I retrieve my offset encounters amongst unusual languages. I was really little. All those unfamiliar letters on the labels of the candy bars I ate, or on the juices I drank, seemed thence pointy, disproportional together with by together with large ugly, piece the Cyrillic alphabet that I knew was round, harmonious together with pretty. The notion that inwards these unknown letters hid a message that was unobtainable yesteryear me because I didn't know the subway scheme to agreement them got me frustrated. I wanted to know all the letters together with their meanings. Whenever I heard unusual linguistic communication on TV, it gave me a shock. They were people, exactly similar the ones I encountered every day, but the unfamiliar words they spoke made them thence distant together with unreachable, almost alien-like. Because I wanted to move able to empathise together with know everything, the boundaries laid yesteryear my express noesis of languages were maddening.
As I grew older, this burning childish curiosity toward the unfamiliar together with all of its secrets started to speedily fade. I industrial plant life that it takes many years to acquire exactly a unmarried i of those languages, inwards which the labels of products that astonished me thence much were written; like, 5 or fifty-fifty to a greater extent than years! That was one-half my life at that fourth dimension together with seemed similar an eternity.
I started to acquire English. All of my teachers assured me that this was the most of import linguistic communication to learn. Every self-respecting individual was learning it or already spoke it, thence if I knew English, I basically didn't demand to know whatever other linguistic communication to empathise everything of import exterior my woman nurture tongue. At that time, this seemed unbelievable inwards a dandy way. All of my fears virtually non existence able to encompass all I wanted to were reconciled yesteryear this i mighty linguistic communication that ruled them all. Finally, I industrial plant life myself somewhat at peace. I was on the route toward obtaining this i powerful tool for decoding the footing exterior my comfy woman nurture tongue.
Later, I started to acquire German. To move honest, at nowadays that I consider it, that was to a greater extent than out of vanity together with because everybody else was learning a 2d unusual language, too, than for whatever other reason. English linguistic communication did give me a cardinal to most things I wanted to know, thence I even thence couldn't acquire my caput some why I demand to acquire a second, 3rd or 4th language. My regard toward linguistic communication learning was similar that for a long, long time, until I got a wake-up call.
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| I actually wanted to fully empathise what made Koreans tick, non exactly empathise the Korean words through subtitles on Korean TV shows. (Dramacool) |
I got this inwards the most unusual place: no other place, but through a Korean lather opera! One sunny day, I cruel inwards dearest amongst all things Korean together with started listening to Korean popular music, together with watching a lot of Korean lather operas together with other Korean TV shows. After some time, I noticed something was different. There were subtitles together with I did empathise the grand ideas virtually everything, but something sparse together with precious was slipping through my sight. I started searching on Google similar crazy. Why are Koreans addressing i some other similar this or that? Why produce they acquire offended yesteryear this or that? How rigid is this give-and-take inwards Korean?
Then it hitting me! Language learning is non virtually but existence able to empathise the words, but virtually truly, madly, deeply perceiving i monastic enjoin through written together with spoken speech. I would never move able to genuinely empathise the lyrics of my favorite songs, acquire the jokes of my favorite celebrities or move able to acquire the truthful feel of Korean literature. The essence of Korean would move sealed off from me until I learned the language. I wanted to produce those things together with consider the truthful colors of Korea thence badly!
So my journeying began. I tin personally evidence that learning a novel linguistic communication together with the whole civilization sitting behind it is difficult together with fourth dimension consuming. However, where's the rush? If y'all don't demand the novel linguistic communication noesis for a undertaking seat immediately, thence why hurry? The 22-year sometime me sees the language-learning-takes-time dilemma quite differently from the 10-year sometime me. Even inwards the worst representative scenario, if it takes me 10 or to a greater extent than years to acquire a novel language, for the residue of my life I tin even thence acquire half dozen to a greater extent than languages, on top of the 3 I already know! How amazing is that?
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| The message on the concealment of my notebook says, 'Change your thoughts together with you`ll alter your world.' (Emilia Atanasova) |
Here I am now, i twelvemonth since my dearest for Korean changed my take away heed virtually linguistic communication learning. My handwriting isn't the best, but I'm on my way to finishing my 2d notebook. It's truthful that passion tin produce wonders for learning. I decided to seek my best on my own. I researched all the possibilities to acquire Korean alone, together with approximate what? They were countless! Also, they didn't lose their value because they aren't based on a classroom. Before, I had this prejudice that online learning somehow is non really reliable, but at nowadays all of that is gone.
I started amongst an introduction course of report that's provided yesteryear Yonsei University (Korean" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-Korean). I can't tell y'all how happy I was that inwards a way I was existence tutored yesteryear such a renowned Korean institution. People state that it's difficult to acquire on your own, without whatever supervision. I believe that this only way they are non driven plenty to learn; their passion toward the dependent plain is non dandy enough. I finished the course of report amongst a degree of 95.7 percent.
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| I managed to report Korean on my own, online. (Coursera) |
Then I started the 2d business office of the course, which is focused on speaking (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-speak-korean1/home/welcome). Although the course of report was over again great, inwards the middle of it I decided I wanted to acquire to a greater extent than grammer together with thence come upwards back, this fourth dimension to genuinely empathise how the words I'm speaking are formed together with why. I tried unlike textbooks, industrial plant life an amazing website where I tin acquire grammer together with produce listening (https://www.howtostudykorean.com) together with combined that amongst a website focused only on learning words, yesteryear implanting them inwards my long-term retentiveness (https://www.memrise.com/home). I'm even thence constantly looking for novel sources and, of course, popular off on to take away heed to Korean music, spotter lather operas together with TV shows, together with seek to read the posts yesteryear my favorite idols on social media. I seek difficult to select handle of every bit many words every bit I can, together with to actually encompass their meaning.
The immediate goal of my journeying inwards learning the Korean linguistic communication thence far has been my endeavor to obtain TOPIK 1 certification. Although I don't acquire via a "regular" program, which provides the noesis specifically necessary for the exam, when I heard the examination was existence held inwards my hometown I signed upwards without hesitation. I think it went well, but the sole fact that I was in that location made me thence happy. The residue doesn't thing that much. If it turns out I didn't pass, that would move OK. I tin acquire side yesteryear side year, or the twelvemonth later that, because I'm doing this for myself together with at my ain pace.
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| I took the TOPIK every bit business office of my journeying toward learning the Korean language. (Emilia Atanasova) |
You know what? Six months agone I signed upwards for a French course of report at my academy together with I also direct maintain my oculus on a beginner's course of report for Standard Mandarin together with simplified Chinese writing. We shall see.
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