Hi, wonder can add audio to everyday word of the day ?

regards,
bee muan

This is something we are hoping to add in the future. We also hope to be adding audio to the flashcards as well in the near future.

Hi,

i have been learning from this web for more than a month going to 2 but still at the stage of beginner,Lesson One
Essential Verbs Vocabulary
Greetings Conversation Vocabulary .

now i feel abit of diffculty and not very sure how to move on effectivly....

shall we learn how to write hangul language? know of their meaning (put in effort to memorise?) or learn how to speak will do?

at my stage it still take me sometime to figure out how to read hangul and if without audio...i really don't have confident whether i get it right....

and even i can read i also don't understand what they mean.....

so wonder is there any effective way of learning?

to learn to speak first or to learn how to read and write and understand hangul first?

can pls kindly advise?

We highly recommend that you learn Hangul first, as the rest of the website uses Hangul to teach Korean. Hangul is actually not as difficult as it first appears, and it is one of the easiest alphabets to learn. We have a full section for Hangul here on the site, so try going through those lessons first, and then return to where you left off in the Beginner's section.

We chose to do it this way because it is much easier to learn Korean when using the native alphabet than it is to try and learn it using the English alphabet, and the Korean alphabet is not difficult to learn.

Essential Verbs Vocabulary

sorry.......meaning for example , i need to know how to write these verb and also understand what they mean? slowly pick up hangul ? becos i feel not easy to remember ..... (-.-")

Well, it's up to you on how you tackle it. You can learn speaking only, but we find that can be difficult, especially when you try to really learn the language and cover large amounts of grammar and vocabulary at once. It's best to be able to write the info down and study it and review what you need to review along the way. However, in order to do that, you need to be able to read and write in the language.

Here on this site, there is an initial learning curve that takes a bit of effort to get over. First, users should learn the materials in the Hangul section, which is a few lessons on the alphabet. This generally has been easier than expected for most members - Hangul is just an alphabet, even though it looks very complicated and foreign. There are vowels and consonants, just as English has. Learning the vowels is quite simple, as you really only need to memorize less than 10 letters, and the rest are built off of the basics. For consonants, there are more, although if you study a little bit each day you should be able to read all characters within 1-2 weeks. Perhaps slowly, but you will be able to read and write in Korean, which is a HUGE step towards mastering the language. In the long run, a couple of weeks to be able to read and write a language using the native alphabet is not long at all. After that, it's just a matter of learning WHAT to write, rather than how to write.

After that, the first couple of lessons on verbs is a big learning curve - probably the biggest. Verbs are extremely important in Korean, and as such they are introduced very early. It is a large lesson, but once mastered this is once again a HUGE step towards mastering Korean. This is also the time when you will begin to read faster, since at the end of the Hangul section reading might be slow.

After the verb lesson, it's all easier

But overall, we find that if you just put forward the effort to knock out Hangul and the lesson on verbs, you will find yourself well ahead in your studies than many other people. When you can read Hangul, you can learn new words and grammar easier and faster, and knowing verbs is key to learning Korean.

You could always skip some of the initial grammar on verbs and Hangul, and jump ahead to where sentences are introduced and start listening for patterns in the audio, although we feel it would be easier if you did learn Hangul first and learn some of the grammar behind verbs as well. While learning patterns in sentences is useful initially, it soon becomes a limiting factor and leaves you with a poor grammatical foundation of the language and as such you will hit a wall and not be able to learn much more until you go back and study the grammar.