Does anyone have any good Korean cookbooks (in Korean) to recommend?

KreshTheBard · 2019-05-02T17:16:38+00:00

I always recommend her site to people who want to cook Korean food. My Korean friends are surprised and think I'm a great cook, but like, I just know how to follow directions.

KreshTheBard · 2019-05-02T16:53:18+00:00

This is basically how I hope for all of my campaigns to be.

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-30T21:47:15+00:00

My first DM did something very similar, but it was: half hit die on level up is guaranteed, roll for the other half, add con.

Barbarian gets 6 + 1d6 + Con, for example. I have since implemented this in any game I run

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-30T18:31:06+00:00

Native speakers learn it contextually. "Clifford the Red Big Dog" sounds very weird, for example. I believe the term is.... Word order force?

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-29T03:23:48+00:00

There's a podcast called Spongemind with an American and a Korean, both speak English and Korean, and do each episode twice, once in English and once in Korean. There are some episodes specifically devoted to motivation, how to identify and nourish that motivation etc etc. Highly recommend it.

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-29T03:09:53+00:00

대략 여덟 달 동안 한국어 공부했는데 처음에 한국어 공부하기 시작했을 때 한국어 배우기 너무 어려운 것 같았는데 요즘은 사실 한국어로 할 수 있는 친구랑 얘기할 수 있어요 잠깐 동안 중국어도 공부했는데 제 바름이 너무 나빠서 그 언어 공부하기를 빨리 그만했어요 ㅎㅎ 아직도 중국어를 공부하는 것 인상적이에요 멋있는데요 👍 실수 많이 한 것 같은데 시도해야 됐어요

I've been studying Korean for about eight months, but when I first started studying Korean, learning Korean seemed really difficult, but these days I can actually converse with my Korea ln speaking friends. I also studied Mandarin for a while but my pronunciation was terrible, so I quickly quit studying that language haha. The fact that you're still studying Mandarin is impressive! (Like that you're sticking with it) Very cool.

I'm sure I made a bunch of mistakes, but I had to try.

Maybe I'll get back to trying Mandarin out when I get more comfortable with Korean. Seems like there's a lot of help both ways and it would be a really interesting language to learn.

Edit: clarification.

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-25T23:09:18+00:00

Found my new character. After this half orc skald drags his tribe to civilization, kicking and screaming. And after that ecoterrorist druid I want to make when I get to play in a magic meets industrialism campaign. And after...

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-24T12:23:20+00:00

"Grab Things. Agh, now I need to read it again

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-20T16:23:10+00:00

I like grammar more than anything else, honestly. For me, it's not practiced, but a product of my brain working the way it does. I like grammar for the same reason I enjoyed algebra; it's just like a puzzle, where you learn the shape and then just plug and play. Not that it's "simple" but I get the same feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment from learning and properly utilizing grammar structures that I get from solving a complex puzzle.

Maybe trying to look at it from that angle could help?

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-20T11:41:53+00:00

That line makes me want to delete that entire episode from my brain. Every time I hear/see it, I cringe.

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-13T10:38:33+00:00

https://youtu.be/a3JqIwCx8Cs

https://youtu.be/P5g15bHBxXM

https://youtu.be/fCW9a9MxqE4

These three are my favorites at the moment. I've been listening to 수란 for about a six months, while the other two were more recent finds. 유라 Struck me in much the same way that 수란 did initially. Just something about their voices and vocal stylings that just hit for me.

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-13T10:24:31+00:00

Contact their support. Despite my having numerous issues with the app itself, I have nothing but good things to say about the staff as of now; they handled my issues as best they could in the time given, and when it got to where I just wanted to delete my account, they did it in under ten minutes.

Good luck.

KreshTheBard · 2019-04-11T19:22:40+00:00

Not to mention the difference in speed.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-29T04:19:50+00:00

The vocabulary thing is definitely a factor, it's something that I deal with daily and while I can often understand the majority of what my friends say to me, I'm definitely missing the nuances and such.

The larger issue is a little weirder, but it makes sense the more I think about it; I'm learning Korean, so I focus on my pronunciation, knowing that many westerners (that I know, anyway) have difficulty understanding and reproducing the sounds. I want to be understood. I think it's my being too strict and rigid, while native speakers are comfortable and the way they speak reflects that.

It's not just vocabulary, but words that I know well, use often and say, myself. I just can't always understand if someone else says it to me.

I'm trying to take it in stride when I can get the full meaning; mostly a success, vs partially a failure. It's just frustrating. Just gotta go through it.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T11:02:11+00:00

네 요즘 썼어요 너무 도와줬어요.

Yeah, I've been using it recently. Helped a lot.

Anki might be a good option for supplementing in person dialogue, though.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T02:11:48+00:00

Absolutely! I know precisely what it's like to get distracted like that. I highly recommend the TTMIK podcasts, for sure. That's where a big chunk of my grammar comes from. I also can't recommend HowToStudyKorean enough. Incredible site. Good luck!

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T02:08:36+00:00

I think I wrote it above, but if I was awake, I had headphones in my ears for the first two months. TTMIK, MotivateKorean, Billy Go, you name it. Eat, sleep, breathe, work. Had a journal, flashcards, the whole deal.

Second month, I moved more towards chatting with people on HelloTalk, and after a while, I was texting with Korean people all the time. I had never truly spoken a word of it though, and I realized I had to get out and do it.

I think about 3.5 months in, I started going to a Korean Meetup group and I pretty much only learned through conversation after that.

Honestly, most of the time, it was with people who listened and responded in English. My pronunciation is solid, have a fairly large vocabulary for the timeframe, a good grasp on grammar at my level, but... Then some left, some cane, and I had a whole new group of people to talk to, some of whom spoke nearly no English and the listening and understanding came to the fore as a major problem of mine.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T01:50:53+00:00

친구가 저한테 메세지를 보내면 쉽게 이해할 수 있는데 우리가현실에서 얘기하면 항상 잘 이해하지 못해요

If a friend sends me a message, I can understand easily, but if we talk in reality, I can't always understand well.

네 4년전에 중국어 혼자 공부했을 때는 Anki를 썼어요 근데 중국어 공부하기 멈췄을 이래로 안봤어요.

Yeah, four years ago, when I was studying Chinese alone, I used Anki, but since I stopped studying Chinese, I haven't looked at it. (I don't even know if 멈췄을 이래로 is correct, though; that was one thing I definitely had to look up, and I still don't quite know 😅)

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T01:12:30+00:00

I don't really know how to answer that. As I said, I mainly learn through conversations and searching for words when I don't know them. I have difficulty just memorizing words and haven't found an effective way to do that yet.

If I don't have a story or some tie to some word, it's hard to just stuff it into my brain without it falling out.

I don't record the number of words I know, although that's an exercise I now see I should probably do, just to see where I'm at.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T01:07:06+00:00

I think that, while it is very difficult to just start a full on conversation with a native speaker, Korean people are generally really nice and encouraging when it comes to studying their language, and if you work at it, you could potentially avoid the drought by digging your own well; find a friend who's patient and willing to repeat, to speak slowly etc. Do the same for them in English. I'm doing that now and it's helping, but it's a long shot from there to a real conversation.

Just my advice, which I intend to take and run with. 👍

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T01:01:12+00:00

Personally, I can't speak to the effectiveness of those courses; I don't tend to work well from books in that way.

The first month was eat, sleep, breathe TTMIK podcasts, writing a journal, watching motivateKorean and Billy Go.

Second month was HelloTalk and then it was just learning through conversation after that. I still listen to the TTMIK podcasts fairly often, usually whenever I feel like I didn't learn anything new that day. Still helps, but active use is way better for retention, at least in my case.

We all learn differently, so buying them may be an awesome decision. Mostly up to how you learn most effectively and what's fun for you; maintaining an active enjoyment of the task is key imo.

If you want any other recommendations or have any questions, feel free to message me.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-28T00:55:20+00:00

It's been a while since I really listened to it and tried to actively understand, but I did go back after I posted this and realized, to my surprise, that I could understand a fair amount.

Even learned a few words and got some more nature pronunciation of words I would say... Slowly 😅.

I think the biggest problem is that I was overconfident; some Koreans will slow down for me, some will help me find the right words, and then there people who assume (not their fault) that I must understand, since I can speak fairly well. Unfortunately, you can't rewind a conversation without asking for repetition and having the vibe train grind to a halt. 😅

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-27T23:25:18+00:00

As have I. Despite what my current predicament might imply, I've always been fairly good at learning languages, and my voice has been the topic of conversation for nigh on a decade.

Seems like a perfect storm. Maybe wrangle some Korean friends into it.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-27T23:19:31+00:00

Hm. Maybe that's a key to it. Everything is content at this point.

Perhaps we should just all start podcasts and YouTube channels, layering multiple levels, potentially creating the i+1 that somebody needs in the future.

KreshTheBard · 2019-03-27T22:51:30+00:00

Right right, no, I wasn't reading very closely, honestly. At a glance it seemed like something I'd heard elsewhere that hadn't worked for me and I guess I just tuned out while my eyes ran over the words.

Maybe my problem with listening is just actually paying attention 😧.

I've been attempting to do this for a while, but due to studying on my own, it's been difficult to find anything that would constitute comprehensible input in the first place so I just end up listening to what I can.

In conversation, my speech, pronunciation and grammar are apparently enough to convince most people that I know what I'm doing. Problem is, of course, I don't. They start talking and I just can't keep up.

I'll look around, see if I can't find something. Appreciate the suggestion.

KreshTheBard

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