Learning Korean. Announcing The LingQ 90-Day Challenge.
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2014
- Some more background on the LingQ 90-Day Challenge: www.lingq.com/90daychallenge/
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I look forward to starting my 90-Day Korean Challenge!
Timelines:
0:21 Announcing of the 90-day Korean challenge.
0:51 My Korean background.
2:16 Is this just another language learning challenge?
4:44 It’s not about speaking from day one.
6:23 Impact of real environment to speaking.
7:17 A word of advice for those who start from scratch in their language learning challenges. For example, French.
9:52 Step up your level of activity.
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It is no coincidence that you and others have chosen three months as the time limit. The "Hugo Spanish in 3 Months" course were probably the first to catch on to the idea that 90 days is a magical figure. I have often wondered if this is because (to use an old proverb) "Eternal love lasts three months". Scientists have demonstrated that passion ls a result of the brain producing the drug Phenethylamine, which keeps us focused and excited, but the effects ware off after three months. When people complain the "chemistry" has gone from their relationship, they are quite literally correct. Our passion for a new language can feel like the same all consuming passion of a new relationship, and being aware that the chemistry goes after three months can prepare us for the slump that will follow.
what a stupid comment
neptonio Your comment is the first I have ever seen that is entirely self referential.
I'm in love with German, Latin and Greek since my adolescence and recently with Russian and Esperanto. So, I don't think the language love lasts three months. But, in the case of love between people, maybe it's correct when we don't nourish it every day or something else happens.
neptonio I enjoyed your contribution.
I must say that I have never found that my passions last only three months. Leaving aside the fact that I have been married for 45 years, my interest in a language normally gets stronger the more I get involved with the language. I think the same is true with personal relationships. We are always discovering new aspects of people, some of which may appeal to us and strengthen our passion, while others may turn us off. Similarly we discover new aspects of a language and culture that fascinate us.
The reason that three months or 90 days appeals to many people, is that for most people the prospect of fluency in the language seems so far away. It seems more meaningful to focus on a shorter period of time. At least that is my view.
안녕하세요
저는 한국어 배우는 사람이에요. 요즘에는 대학교 시험 있으니까 한국어 공부할 시간 별로 없어는데 시함 다 끝나면 저도 한국어 열심히 공부할거예요.
열심히 합시다 !
I can read, but can't type an answer yet. Give me a little more time and thanks for commenting.
Great video, Steve. Thanks.
I love this guy!
Thanks Steve. I am in!
I'm going to Korea to teach this year and decided that I would prolong my arrival to spend 3 months solid studying the language. I had already spent about 7 months studying it in 2012 but have a very mediocre level. I just finished my first week and it's going great. Best of luck Steve.
I'm starting my challenge on the 13th of January in Korean. My Korean would be the same level as yours, Will see how much it can improve. Good luck everyone with your languages.
This will turn out really well for everyone. After learning basic phrases, if you focus on grammar and learning basic function words--prepositions, adverbs, etc for a month. The rest of the two months can be pure vocabulary acquisition and listening.
I'm joining the challenge in Russian! I hope LingQ does this once a year, to continue to motivate people. :)
Steve, I am joining you in the 90-day challenge to learn French. I have been reading and listening to some of the Lessons in LingQ and believe I'm on the right track. I have a strong passion for the French culture and the language and hope to accomplish my goal to become fluent.
Best of luck to you, as well as to all!
And best of luck to you. I start tomorrow.
I will start the same day as you. I believe that my Japanese is at the same level as your Korean, by how you described it, so I too will do my best to be at solid intermediate level after the 90 days are complete.
Vielen vielen Dank!
Great idea! Is there going to be any special feature at LingQ to measure the progress of the challenge?
Steve is going to be fluent in 3 months. Finally Benny has convinced him.
I'm kidding. ;-)
I love that you always reference to french as that's the language I am learning, and I am always nodding and chuckling while thinking...yeah, I had to just get over that. As you say in your book, let go of resistance to the language, that's probably the biggest problem for begginers.
Yes, resistance to the language is certainly the biggest obstacle. I know from my personal experince: although I've been living in Belgium for more than 8 years now so I should probably speak very good French by now, I can barely say a coherent sentence in it... because of my resistance to the language. I just can't overcome it - most importantly, I have a strong aversion to the sound of the language with lots of nasal vowels and unpronounced consonants (as Mr. Kaufmann mentioned in his video). I think I'll join the challenge as well, but no, it won't be French, sorry. ;-)
'The +1 challenge', 'the 90 day challenge', 'fluent in three months'. it's all the same to me !
No, we focus on getting active. There is no discussion of fluency, just focus, an attempt to apply ourselves with a little more discipline during a specific period. Not for everyone.
Hi Steve, I am planning to start learning a new language, and the challenge seems to be a great point to start at. English is not my native language, but I'm thinking to learn a new language using english books, do you think it's a good idea? Or would it decrease intensity of the process significantly? Thanks.
I'm doing the challenge in Japanese :) I debated between Japanese and Korean, since both are included in my major...but since my focus is Japanese I think i'll benefit more from Japanese.
I love setting goals! I can't wait to watch, and learn, from your Korean learning! Thank you!
Japanese would be a great choice for me too. You get to watch all the great anime without English subtitles lol. I just wish more people in U.S.A spoke it.
GETURHANDSUP916 My entire motivation to want to learn Japanese (though right now i want to do spanish)
Pimsleur is amazing. I don't know about Korean, but I am loving it for Russian. But get it from Ebay, it is much much cheaper. My grandson is listening to my half hour lessons, I think he will be speaking it soon. Some people can learn a lot of languages fast, I am a dunce, but even I am loving Russian
German for me. I'll probably post my progress on my tumblr. Starting 12 January.
I accept. French for me. Day 1 will be 11 January 2014.
Any Arabic, Swahili, Zulu, Hebrew, Maoi, Aborigene, Sanskrit, Indo-American...?
Will sub & look at your videos
I am going to be doing Russian for the 90 day challenge. I tried last year to start learning Russian and it never really took off, but now I am back at it and will see if I can make a break through by the end of this 90-day challenge. I am not looking forward to the writing part of it, though I know that writing is probably the best way to learn grammar, and if there is anything Russian has a lot of, it is grammar.
Any update Colin?
I'll be doing the same thing with French. Need to get more serious about it because I'm hoping to go to France Later this year and I don't want to use any English there.
I'll be doing French too! What level are you on? :3
ohkaryukai Somewhere between elementary and intermediate.
Is this with LingQ ?
Hey Steve! I love watching your videos and listening to everyone that I can. My problem however is that I find myself translating everything in this new language (Italian) back to my native English. Which means, when I learn new sentences, I must translate them WORD for WORD back into English, and I hate that. Plus, many sentences can't be translated word for word into English. How does one overcome this?
Keep listening and reading and you should get over that. Be prepared to leave a few things foggy and unclear, but stay in the target language.
I'll try, thanks.
I think it's time to get serious with my Italian. Because I already speak Spanish and can more or less understand Italian I'm going to take the Harry Potter approach :D Gonna post updates on Tumblr methinks. Thanks for the inspiration Steve!
Hi Cherelle ! What's the Harry Potter approach? Reading Harry Potter in the target language?? Thanks!
Yep that's pretty much it. There was a guy who learned Polish from scratch using audiobook and normal versions of Harry Potter in Polish. I'm going to take inspiration from him.
French for me and then I'll think about others.
I did the paid for 90day Challenge. What was good: lots of sentence writing to the grammatical point. A live coach (if you pay) who will read your work and comment. I hope you get a caring one. Vocabulary was usable. But vocabulary is every learner's responsibility. The course pushes you to write in the language, first sentences for each lesson, and then at the end of each Module, a writing assignment. Lots of charts. It offers a member forum.
What was disappointing: Not enough listening/speaking practice. It must be done every day, not just once a month on a basic theme for an hour. The lessons are cast in a silly captain giving soldiers orders theme. It was a real turn off for me. It became more and more annoying as I went through the course. Activities are the same, lesson after lesson. No variety. Audio vocabulary, as far as I can tell, is a computer voice. Worst maybe: frequent mistakes in the lesson, both in English and Korean, as well as instruction ambiguity. A few concepts and grammar points are actually frowned upon by native speakers. I get the feeling that this course was designed by non-native speakers. There are native speakers on staff, though. My personal coach was a native speaker, but she did not have teaching training, and could not answer Questions posed in English well. The member forum is mostly devoted to discussions (in English) of Korean music (BTS) and movies.
www.lingq.com сайт бесплатный???
Да и нет.