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Nukemarine Member
From: 神奈川 Registered: 2007-07-15 Posts: 2347

Hey all, looking into what people out there think are really useful resources for learning/studying Korean. Just like Japanese, I doubt an "all in one" site will do it, but intelligent use of different sites will make a more powerful learning tool.

I'll top post links and categorize by subject.

Courses/Guides
Berkeley Intermediate Korean
ハングルの森 Basic Grammar and Vocabulary, available in Japanese
Songang Korean Program Beginner to Intermediate
Fukuoka Univ Korean Program In Japanese, beginner to intermediate

Hangul
Hangul Tutor

Grammar
Guide to Korean Grammar Blog pdf of the guide is here
韓国語1年生 Korean Grammar in Japanese
Learn Korean Language Basic Korean Grammar
Korean Grammar Bank Available, but developing
Korean Grammar Wiki articles are not organized
EZ Corean All-around Korean language portal

Vocabulary
Smart.FM Korean Goals
Word Showers Vocabulary Lists
Basic Vocabulary From Indiana University,

Dramas/Movies



Subtitles
D-Addicts Korean Subtitles


Manga/Books
Children's Bible stories
The Little Prince
Yahoo Kids Stories
Naver Children Fairy Tales
Korean song lyrics and videos w/ Japanese Translations
Naver Online Comics
Naver Blogs sorted by topic

Misc. Resources (Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Etc.)
Yahoo! dictionary E-K J-K K-K
Korean Hanja dictionary
Naver J-K Dictionary

Last edited by Nukemarine (2010 December 30, 6:06 pm)

Nukemarine Member
From: 神奈川 Registered: 2007-07-15 Posts: 2347

Yep, completely missed them or just forgot they existed. I'll try to consolidate the links into this post though.

Right now, I'm converting the Hangul Tutor into an Anki file as I like the way he teaches it almost like Remembering the Kana was taught (intuitive versus dictionary order). This will include any sound files he offered for each consonant/vowel, syllable or word.

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howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

korean subs are really easy to get from clubbox but i don't know if subs  are readily available for korean stuff but korean subs for foreign stuff is easy to get (like japanese/american stuff).

http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?p … 04#p121504

and d-addicts has some korean subs for drmas:
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/subtitles.php

gyuujuice Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-09-24 Posts: 828

I might as well post this again:

Textbook:
Integrated Korean
-Really nice textbook designed for college students but get the NEWER edition. The audio for the old text sounds like someone is dying of constipation. But then again I think there is more vocabulary in the older versions as I have the first book as a new edition and the second as an older.

Websites:
TTMIK (http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/)
-This is the place to learn Korean. A group of students have put up audio lessons and videos for anyone hwo wants to learn Korean. The Core lessons are free but there is a shop and a donation box. wink

KWTD (http://koreanwordoftheday.blogspot.com/)
-Increase your vocabulary one word at a time.

Here is another page of links and books etc:
http://sites.google.com/site/soyouwantt … age/korean

Dictionary (http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-korean/)
-There are very fe good online dictionaries for Korean so this is all I got. It seems to work but I would have liked examples. (I use google to search for them so it's not all that bad.)

buonaparte Member
Registered: 2010-11-25 Posts: 795

Kim Il Sung's biography.
Here are all the books from his biography online.
http://www.chongryon.com/k/mc/index.html#
The audio for the books can be found here.
http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/audio/main.php

These come with parallel Korean-English texts + audio.
http://gloss.dliflc.edu/search.aspx
http://www.scola.org/Scola/Default.aspx
You need to get a pass for scola.org, but they are not difficult to find.

Is there such a list for Mandarin resources?

Last edited by buonaparte (2011 January 02, 7:08 am)

howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

does anyone know any sites for news that we have for japanese like fnn-news  (where there's like a video and text that matches it) or even just video.. cause i'm sure i can find the article from googling some phrase i read onthe screen lol.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2011 January 31, 6:09 pm)

NoSleepTilFluent Member
From: The Dirty Jerz Registered: 2011-02-07 Posts: 358 Website

ありがとうございます

I was procrastinating and decided I wanted to look up korean resources to at least be able to read Korean. Now I have work I can do between reps for fun. I also appreciate the Korean -> Japanese sites because I don't plan to really study any korean until after I get back from study abroad so Fall 2012.

Reply #10 - 2011 June 05, 10:14 am
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

I googled rikaichan for korean but all i found was this post
The Naver Toolbar will do this exact function for you found here: The function is called 툴팁사전

http://toolbar.naver.com/home/index.nhn


Or, if you want this functionality outside of the Internet Explorer, you can download 야후미니 which is a small program that places a red marker on your screen. You can move this marker over a word and it will automatically look it up for you. It also has the 툴팁 functionality that is the same as the Naver toolbar except also works outside IE.

http://kr.dic.yahoo.com/

on this forum.
http://www.koreanclass101.com/forum/vie … 3383#13383

BUT I think it only works english-> korean
anyone who can read korean/kind enough to install this stuff see whether it does work korean -> english or korean->japanese.

I tried installing them but only the first one works but only for enlish to korean. the pen doesn't work for me ... i dont' know why. I can't underline/look up anything with the pen.

my contribution to this thread!
it's really useful and helpful for learning all the kango words (words made up of kanji in korean) WHEN you already know Japanese:
http://korean.nomaki.jp/site_j/kanji.html

there's also other sections in this site that are very helpful as well so I really recomend checking it out since it's free and helpful.

Naver dictionary if you want the definitoin in japanese
http://jpdic.naver.com/mini_entry_forei … ryId=26794

I also find google translate (doing K->J) helpful since the grammar order is the same.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2011 June 05, 10:31 am)

Reply #11 - 2011 June 05, 12:06 pm
nest0r Member
Registered: 2007-10-19 Posts: 5236 Website

You can just add Korean dictionaries to Stardict and Lingoes, e.g. http://www.lingoes.net/en/dictionary/di … ?cata=1.ko and http://www.freshports.org/korean/stardict2-dict-kr/

Reply #12 - 2011 June 07, 12:04 pm
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

nest0r wrote:

You can just add Korean dictionaries to Stardict and Lingoes, e.g. http://www.lingoes.net/en/dictionary/di … ?cata=1.ko and http://www.freshports.org/korean/stardict2-dict-kr/

yeah it works but it's dumb.
Like if a particle is attached it's not smart enough to look it up without the particle ( you know how rikai-chan shows you the result that matches closest... it only shows exact match).
ex. something는 just b.c. of that it doesn't find it cusa eit searches word + n. like rikai-chan doesn't do this. I tried t osee if there's a way to fix it but i don't think there is so i guess i have to manually put in spaces to separate particle from word when i want to look it up. I can understand if it doesn't unconjugate the verb for me and look it up... yea hmaybe that's a pain in the ass in the program in.. but the particle thing is just silly.

ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION:
subtitle site :
http://20woo.com/
1) Go to the homepage of http://www.20woo.com
2) Choose the link 영화대본 at the top left
3) When the new page comes up, scroll down to the Zeroboard search box near the bottom, (but NOT the Google search box at the very bottom)
4) Into that box type (or paste) 미남이시네요 and click “Find it”
5) In the results screen, find the line [re] 미남이시네요 대본 구합니다. and click on it.
6) The download link you want is in the heading of the article that now comes up, labelled File #1 and named 미남이시네요.zip

When you’ve downloaded the zip, don’t try to unzip it using either Winzip or the built-in Widows zip file opener. Unless you are running Korean Windows, either of those will tell you the file is corrupt. It isn’t. It was just created by someone who doesn’t realize there is a world outside Korea where people use different languages. So you need to use 7-zip (WinRar won’t handle it either) to unzip the contents, since it has a way of handling garbage fileneames. The scripts will unpack to your filesystem with nonsense characters in the titles, but you will see the episode numbers plainly enough (the one without a number is the final episode, originally labelled 최종회).

Then (but this will be no surprise to longstanding lurkers here) you’ll discover all the files are *hwp format, so everything said elsewhere on this page about that format applies.

drama beans scripts:   http://www.dramabeans.com/about/kdrama- … ent-page-6

the stuff in the comments are helpful too.
movie scripts: http://www.cineast.co.kr/bbs/board.php? … sd_caption

also you can find it possibly by seraching in google the name of the drama + hpw + 대본
which means daihon in korean smile

lots of .hpw files here!
click on the right links and you can just direct download
if you click on this other link for download it tells you to login into naver... which i don't have an account for lol.

movie scripts
http://blog.daum.net/_blog/BlogTypeView … _history_3

drama scripts
http://blog.daum.net/_blog/BlogTypeView … story_home

http://binlove.tistory.com/58
http://www.mediafire.com/?o6by0jpn29v41

Has scripts for 성균관스캔들(1-8) + 대본_거침없이 하이킥(1-10) . the second one I really like cause it's a good famiyl comedy big_smile
http://blog.naver.com/PostSearchList.nh … =0&y=0
moreunstoppable high kick on this blgo
http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blog … eCall=true

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2012 January 04, 6:16 pm)

Reply #13 - 2011 June 19, 2:26 pm
arnaldosfjunior Member
Registered: 2011-03-05 Posts: 121 Website

Any korean subtitles that matches k-drama exactly?

Last edited by arnaldosfjunior (2011 June 19, 2:27 pm)

Reply #14 - 2011 June 19, 3:43 pm
chamcham Member
Registered: 2005-11-11 Posts: 1444

arnaldosfjunior wrote:

Any korean subtitles that matches k-drama exactly?

Probably somewhere on clubbox.
You've probably never heard of it unless you have Korean friends.
You can find almost everything there.

Dramas, subtitles, whatever.....

Reply #15 - 2011 June 21, 9:24 am
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

arnaldosfjunior wrote:

Any korean subtitles that matches k-drama exactly?

i don't think it's on clubbox -- .smi files for foreign ( non- korean stuff) are usually there but not for korean subtitles since korean people understand korean...

Just check out the post I posted about dramabeans and hwo to dl scripts and just downoad them and see for yourself

the scripts to the dramas are pretty exact though. The links put up to dramabeans and info on finding scripts. just try it out for yourself to see if it matches exaactly... it probably does or for the most part.

the person on drama beans said:
These may differ slightly from the aired versions of the dramas. The reasons are many, but include last-minute editing changes, reordering of scenes, actors ad-libbing, or final rewrites. Use these as a language tool, but don’t get too confused when the written page doesn’t follow the dramas word-for-word.

I haven’t read through them all, so let me know if something needs to be fixed.

BUTTTTTTTTT I tried with one of the dramas and so far i've found no diferences in what they say what is written in the script (I only did the first 10 moinutes). it depends on the drama and how mjuch they improvised or changed or whatever. but i think for the most part it'll exact/same.

secret garden all episode scripts - docx format
direct link
http://www.mediafire.com/?7988ag87gvcm1q7

I got it from the sites I posted above smile

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2011 December 17, 4:07 pm)

Reply #16 - 2011 June 23, 1:50 am
arnaldosfjunior Member
Registered: 2011-03-05 Posts: 121 Website

howtwosavealif3
thank you; Worked well.

Reply #17 - 2011 June 24, 2:59 am
arnaldosfjunior Member
Registered: 2011-03-05 Posts: 121 Website

howtwosavealif3 wrote:

I tried installing them but only the first one works but only for enlish to korean. the pen doesn't work for me ... i dont' know why. I can't underline/look up anything with the pen.

the pen works.I tested in opera browser and in the Haansoft hangul (same as the Microsoft Office by the koreans);on firefox didnt work in all cases, dont know why.It does translates korean to english.

Last edited by arnaldosfjunior (2011 June 24, 3:11 am)

Reply #18 - 2011 July 19, 8:07 am
mezbup Member
From: sausage lip Registered: 2008-09-18 Posts: 1681 Website

http://kajiritate-no-hangul.com/KENTEI/TOPIK_data.html

Tonnes of past test for TOPIK. Epic resources if u wanna nail the test.

Reply #19 - 2011 July 21, 12:05 am
tnall Member
From: Arizona Registered: 2010-07-19 Posts: 69

I highly recommend Bae Yoon Jong to Manabu Kankokugo DS:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/D3-Publisher-%E … amp;sr=8-4

And all of the other games associated with it. I've been continually disappointed by language-learning video games and this is the first that I've found that makes me want to play it every day, it's just that fun. Also, you'll learn a pretty solid base of Korean vocabulary and grammar since the game is in Japanese and highlights the similarities between the two. Definitely check this game out if you're beginning your Korean studies~

Reply #20 - 2011 August 22, 7:33 pm
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

does anyone have a copy of the korean-japanes dictionary from lingoes
http://www.lingoes.net/en/dictionary/di … 9DA8CCF049

if so could you upload it to mediafire..

none of the ilnks for download work for me. the sky drive doesn't do anything... I just click and nothing happens and  the chinese one won't let me and the 3rd link is dead

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2011 August 22, 7:36 pm)

Reply #21 - 2011 August 22, 8:27 pm
Omoishinji Member
From: 埼玉 Registered: 2011-07-12 Posts: 289

howtwosavealif3 wrote:

does anyone have a copy of the korean-japanes dictionary from lingoes
http://www.lingoes.net/en/dictionary/di … 9DA8CCF049

if so could you upload it to mediafire..

none of the ilnks for download work for me. the sky drive doesn't do anything... I just click and nothing happens and  the chinese one won't let me and the 3rd link is dead

I suggest that you restart your browser or computer, then try again.

Reply #22 - 2011 August 23, 7:25 am
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

hmm maybe it's my other computer cause on this computer it works fine... the skydrive wink

Reply #23 - 2011 August 23, 6:17 pm
mezbup Member
From: sausage lip Registered: 2008-09-18 Posts: 1681 Website

http://www.google.co.nz/url?q=http://it … H1dpcxzUSw

韓国語組み立てタウン is an AWESOME "game" for iPhone/ipad. It has 200 grammar points from the 入門 to 中級 level, each grammar point has 5 example sentences WITH AUDIO. making for 1000 sentences with audio, perfect for the complete beginner. The aim of the game is to build ur town by progressing through the game by answering all the questions right. You get given a Japanese sentence and then the words in Korean, it's then ur job to put the sentence together in the right order before the time runs out. It's highly addictive and u learn lots.

I'm keen to make this to an anki deck. It's better than what I've been using for Korean so far and the level leads me right in to the next material I have. If anyone wants to get it and help me that'd be real cool.

Last edited by mezbup (2011 August 23, 6:18 pm)

Reply #24 - 2011 August 24, 5:00 am
Seizar Member
From: Rome, Italy Registered: 2009-05-23 Posts: 38

@mezbup
Do you still need it? I got the app and made a deck with the sentences (front:korean back:japanese and audio), I don't think I should post it here so send me an email if you need it.

Reply #25 - 2011 August 24, 4:45 pm
louischa Member
From: montreal Registered: 2010-09-06 Posts: 132

Does anyone knows if there is a free hangul text editor like
JWP/JFC by Rosenthal? I still haven't figured out what editor to
use to type hangul words to input into Anki.