Let's Learn Korean - Chinese Pod

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Chinese Pod is an amazing learning resource for Chinese. There really should be one of these for Korean learners, but I haven’t been able to find one. If anyone knows some good Korean listening resources I would be eternally grateful.

If someone were to start a Korean podcast for learners they would be well advised to check out this review by Mark including comments. Also Sinosplice has a post up with 60+ comments and finally A Glimpse of the World has a lengthy review.
hat tip to Gord.

*update* added a poll - if you know where to find some Korean MP3s for listening please comment.

Posted by 王音癡 on Monday Apr 24, 2006 in META | |

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Good idea. I listen to podcasts that I have others make for me. If I find an interesting book, I record a Korean friend reading it.

It would be great to start a collection of MP3 files here. I’m always looking for more.

Posted by scott on Monday Apr 24, 2006 at 09:53 PM
Scott,

If you would like to share the books that you have had your friend record I would gladly post them here. One of my friends has suggested doing that as well.

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호랑이 굴에들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

Posted by 王音癡 on Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 at 06:01 AM
Since moving to Tawian, I’ve often been frustrated at how much fewer and poorer the resources for Chinese learners are compared to those for Japanese learners. Don’t be fooled by the rating I gave Chinese Pod in my review. While I wouldn’t recommend throwing your textbooks and CDs out the window for it yet, there’s no doubt that CPod has amazing potential. It’s still in its infancy

My guess is that resources for learners of Korean are even more sparse. What percentage of the foreigners you meet in Korea are there for language learning?

Posted by Mark on Thursday Apr 27, 2006 at 02:09 AM
Mark,
If you mean foreigners who came with the primary purpose of learning Korean - I know of zero. I’m sure there are a few, but none that I am aware of. Of the long term expats many are not interested in learning anything beyond a few stock phrases.

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호랑이 굴에들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

Posted by 王音癡 on Thursday Apr 27, 2006 at 06:30 AM
Wow, that really is a stark contrast. In Taiwan, I’d say about 20% of the foreigners I’ve met have come here specifically for learning Chinese. At my old school, Shida, there were over 4,000 foreigners studying during any given semester. I know of literally 15 other schools for CSL learners in the same city, too. They’re outnumbered by the SE Asian brides and the English teachers, but there are still a lot of people who come here to learn Chinese.

Posted by Mark on Saturday Apr 29, 2006 at 01:47 AM
Sinosplice! That was it!

Posted by 강미 on Saturday Apr 29, 2006 at 08:36 PM
what kind of listening resources do you need?
any kind?

try this.
this is a follow-up web service for a book for Korean learning called ‘Korean mad easy’

you may need the book to study with this resource but still it does have some listening resources.

or if your Korean is above certain level, vod service from many broadcasting companies might be helpful.

If it doesn’t have to be online resources, there are some audiobooks available. If you can’t find any, let me know.

Posted by future-kteacher on Sunday Apr 30, 2006 at 04:58 PM
added to the post above

I couldn’t post the message with the web address for ‘Korean made eaasy’
If you are interested, visit my blog by clicking my id.

Posted by future-kteacher on Sunday Apr 30, 2006 at 05:02 PM
future-kteacher,

I listened to a couple of those files and they are too easy for me but would be good for beginners. Thanks for dropping by and I hope you continue to come here.

The page you tried to link to gets blocked because it contains common terms from spam referrers; i.e. M P 3

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호랑이 굴에들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

Posted by 王音癡 on Monday May 1, 2006 at 09:28 AM
http://naerimallrim.com/bemarket/shop/index.php?pageurl=page_goodsdetail&uid=211

이번에 소개하는 곳은 오디오북 회사의 홈페이지입니다.
This link is for an audiobook company.

돈주고 책을 사야하지만 여기서 샘플 듣기를 할 수 있습니다.
You have to buy the books with cd or tape but you can listen to some sample strip.

한 번 보세요.
Have a look.

http://naerimallrim.com/becommunity/community/index.php?pageurl=board&mode=view&b_no=610&bt_code=63&page=1

This link even has the script for the audio sample.

Posted by future-kteacher on Tuesday May 2, 2006 at 04:08 PM
This one is even better for listening practice.

http://www.ebs.co.kr/HOMEPAGE/?progcd=0001327

EBS 교육방송에서 제공하는 서비스인데
문학작품을 읽어주는 서비스입니다.
다시 듣기 할 수 있습니다.
듣기 공부에 너무 많이 도움 될 것 같아요.

오디오북과 라디오 문학관이라는 게시판 두 개가 있는데
오디오북은 유료이고
라디오 문학관은 무료입니다.

라디오 문학관은 한국문학과 외국작품들이 많이 많이 있습니다.
너무 괜찮은 것 같아요.
if you have any problem in trying this one, let me know, I’ll do whatever I can to help you..
Good luck.

Posted by future-kteacher on Thursday May 4, 2006 at 12:50 PM
I have come across two resources, that you may want to know about. They are, Pyungsu Han’s Learn Korean podcast.Learn Korean and on youtube.com search for learn korean and the are 30 or more lessons, hosted by raine2x and this is the link for the Learn Korean: Lesson 1

Posted by Mebaja on Wednesday Jun 14, 2006 at 12:57 PM