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King Sejong Institute Self-learning Korean Courses

The King Sejong Institute  website  provides "Self-learning Korean courses" covering some of the material from the  Sejong Korean Conversation  series. (To use them, you'll need to register/login. Also note that the site may be a bit slow to respond...) They seem to me as if they'd be mostly useful for grammar review and some listening practice of the material in the four volumes of  Sejong Korean Conversation . On the main site, mouse-over "Learning" and select "Self-learning Korean courses", then click on whichever book you want to review (Sejong Korean Conversation1 etc.). Then choose "Permanent Opening Curriculum" with the appropriate language, then "Apply", "Confirm".  Each chapter seems to consist of four short videos consisting of conversations demonstrating a grammatical point, followed by the teacher's explanation, with everything accompanied by bilingual subtitles.   After you've finished viewing t

Finding textbooks, workbooks & audio files on the Sejong Hakdang Website

The Sejong Hakdang Website has recently been redesigned, and new materials have been added. Go to https://nuri.iksi.or.kr/front/main/main.do Login Click on the menu icon ≡ in the upper left-hand corner. Click on "Learning", and on the drop-down menu choose "Text Books".  Click on the image of a book to see its links. While the textbooks can only be viewed online ("E-Book"), there are also links to downloadable audio files (labelled "Learning Support"). New workbooks accompanying the Sejong Korean Conversation texts can be downloaded in .pdf form and they also have audio files. For those using the Sejong Korean Conversation series, see also " Self-learning Korean courses ".

Sejong Korean Conversation 1-4 (세종한국어 회화 1-4) and Sejong Korean 4-7 (세종한국어 4-7) vocabulary flashcards

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I have prepared sets of vocabulary flashcards based on the glossaries of Sejong Korean Conversation 1-4 (세종한국어 회화 1-4) textbooks as well as flashcards for Sejong Korean 4-7 (세종한국어 4-7). To use them download the anki app  (the desktop versions for Windows, or Mac OS, and for Android devices are all free, but the app for iOS costs $25). Then download any of the decks  mentioned.  These vocabulary flashcards typically first present the Hangul of the item with an audio recording, which looks like this on the mobile (tap the black arrow to hear the audio repeated): Tap "show answer" at the bottom, and the other side shows up: The idea behind these cards is "spaced repetition", so depending on how well you remember the item, you tap on one of those colored boxes to determine how soon it will be shown to you again. The card later shows up with the English side first. The default is ten new cards a day, but after several days you'll probably find you'

Korean study aids

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Below are some items I've found useful as a student of the  King Sejong Institute The King Sejong Institute Foundation has an e-book version of their textbooks, including the  Sejong Korean Conversation (세종한국어 회화) series available to be viewed online (but not downloaded or printed) at their website: https://nuri.iksi.or.kr/front/main/main.do   Further details here The Sejong Korean (세종한국어) textbooks are also available online: Two other  Sejong Institute apps can be downloaded and  are partially functional offline.  The "Sejong Korean Conversation - Basic"  app  ( Android ; iPhone ) is a supplement for  Sejong Korean Conversation 1  (세종한국어 회화 1).  The icon looks like this: This app offers some  help in practicing dialogs  but  doesn't have all the vocabulary from the  Sejong Korean Conversation 1  book.   The "Sejong Korean Vocabulary" app (" Beginner·Intermediate " for Android; " Sejong Korean Vocab

Papago's unreliability

It seemed such a nice thing that Papago had the option to translate English into Korean using the honorific, but of this writing, sometimes the honorific is switched with the non-honorific.