Sometimes, but you can hear a lot of 해요체 in restaurants or stores too. The easiest place to hear 합쇼체 reliably is probably the news. It is not...
And as far as politeness levels go, the actual most polite form (하소서체) is effectively defunct. I have only heard it used in historic dramas and in...
This was also my initial experience. Part of it is pronunciation (like you said, the sounds slur together and syllable-boundaries shift, and that...
That's interesting. Korean is also an agglutinating language in a mode similar (though slightly less extreme, I think) to Turkish, and I haven't had...
In your opinion, could one just as easily do this with a more distant foreign language? I completely believe that you were able to acquire...
Well, kind of sort of. I did not in fact delete my Anki deck, but I've recently started to use it differently. I refuse to mark words as "failures"...
I used the Integrated Korean series. It was reasonably effective. Decent audio, good reading, reasonably good pacing on grammar point integration....
A number of Arabic-speaking countries are quite rich, but it's a different kind of wealth than that which you'd find in, say, the United States, or...
The Wikipedia description of A1 is: That seems to perfectly describe him for listening & speaking: he was able to cope with a few basic questions...
Well, take an example from the fellow's "final conversation" at the end of the 90 days. It was mostly him talking and the girl saying, "Yes, yes,"...
Okay. I have to admit I don't know much about British media in general. But I do know the BBC, so here's a link to the BBC talking about the same...
Is the Daily Mail a disreputable newspaper? This is a story I heard about sometime back, and when I Googled it for a link today, the Daily Mail...
Well, for the sake of optimism, this girl says she learned Korean to a high speaking level outside the country, and in just a few years, though it...
Well, I don't really watch Korean dramas, but I saw the first episode of 상어 and it seemed okay. Here's the Wikipedia synopsis: I don't know if...
To be honest, I like Skritter in principle, being essentially an Anki-variant for Chinese which is both more fun to use and for which it is easier to...
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