Let's Learn Korean - No Discipline

Total words: 250

I really am a poor student. I know what I should do but always seem to fail to apply it. I’ve fallen off the reading wagon. At first it was because I was too busy, but then it was because I was too lazy and now it’s because I’m not motivated to read the material I’ve got in addition to feeling a severe lack of vocabulary.

I’ve decided that I want to improve my vocabulary. However I really dislike flashcards and other traditional vocabulary acquisition methods. The best way to acquire vocabulary is to of course read material where you already understand 90-95% of the material, but I can’t seem to find graded readers in Korean that are interesting and material for little children is just not motivating to me.

Basically that leaves me with word lists and flash cards - unless someone can point me to a resource I am unaware of. I was looking at the word/morpheme lists in the download section, but cannot seem to figure out how to sort the lists by frequency. At this point I’m most interested in learning the 2,000 most common words in Korean excluding particles and other grammatical markers. Just give me the nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and I’ll be happy.

I’ve also looked at the Korean Vocabulary List prepared by Sewing which is incredible. However it is organized alphabetically and not by frequency.

I’ve added this topic to the forum so you can respond there or in the blog comments.

Posted by 王音癡 on Tuesday Apr 18, 2006 in Self-Reflection Vocabulary | Discuss in the forums |

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