I will be taking Korean for 5 quarters or so in a row starting this summer. I wanted to put off Korean until I left for college but since I live in a community with a huge amount of Korean people and classes I thought it would be wise to take it now. Korean classes are not very common state-wide so I may never get this chance again.

I bought "Integrated Korean" 1 and 2 and I am on lessons 1 and 2. (The first 2 lessons cover 200 words, 한굴 and basic BASIC grammar.) I have friends offline and online helping me but I don't want to rely on them completely.

Does anyone have any experience shifting from Japanese to Korean?

I'm still searching for an online dictionary. Right now I use Yahoo. (http://kr.dictionary.search.yahoo.com/se...ubtype=eng)

Does anyone have any good resources or materials?

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Mmmm... resources....

If you could find those I might once again pick up this language I abandoned so long ago.

I think a marriage of Rhinospike and Smartfm is in order.

There is an old thread about Korean learning resources:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3695

I started studying Korean seriously about 6 months ago and most of the materials I use are in Japanese (not that my Japanese is amazing, probably around the old 2kyuu level I guess) - as far as online resources go, it's true there's not as much for Korean as Japanese but there are definitely a few gems out there.

Check the sites listed in the other thread, but also check out http://www.talktomeinkorean.com - it launched late 2009 and is the brainchild of the almost impossibly productive Hyunwoo Sun who used to create lesson content at http://www.koreanclass101.com (which is basically the same as japanesepod101 if you've had experience with that). It's all in English/Korean but if you don't mind that the lessons are quite engaging and the hosts are quite passionate. I wouldn't say the course there should replace your textbook, but it'll definitely make your studies more enjoyable if you do it on the side.

The word of the day series they produce (http://koreanwordoftheday.blogspot.com) is also good as they provide a sample sentence with audio for each word - it's easy to start building an Anki deck with sound this way if you're so inclined.

As for dictionaries, if you have an iPod touch/iPhone then the YBM J-K-J or E-K-E are good value for money. If not, the best online dictionary I've found and the one I use most often is Naver - http://jpdic.naver.com or http://endic.naver.com . Incidentally, if you're doing a web search in Korean, Naver is probably a good choice cos it's used more widely in Korea than Google.

열심히 하세요! 저도 아직도 초보자인데 질문이 있으면 물어줘요!　(Good luck! I'm still a beginner myself but ask me if you need any help!)

Thank you everyone! I wrote a long post but then safari quite on me unextpectantly.

kazelee, Thanks I found audio reviews for my textbook specifically. Of course lang-8 and Rhinospike are going to be my best friends.

chamcham, Thanks Chamcham. I will look into it soon. :>

thatkidpercy, "TTMIK" seems really neat without the ridiculous pricing. "KWOTD" is also really neat. I like the shortness of each video.

Thank you everyone so much!
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