Online Education

Introduction

One of the first things I want to tackle here is language. Its one of those things that we all want to do, learning another language can be sexy or at least make you seem more cultured. Learning a new language can also expand your cultural insight a lot. Imagine being able to watch all the movies and listen to all the music of another culture with different ideas, themes, and characters.

Learning a new language also opens up the opportunity to travel. With a sound knowledge of a foreign language you can enter another county with confidence and meet new and interesting people and do things you never dreamed of.

There are three main parts to learning a language:

1. Vocabulary
2. Syntax
3. Pronunciation

There are a lot of approaches to learning a new language. Tapes, software, workbooks, and even live instruction. The Internet can be just as effective and provide the materials mentioned previously. Plenty of good audio instruction can be downloaded from your favorite Bit-Torrent tracker.

The internet is also a great resource of quality information.

Recources

1. KBS World: Let’s learn Korean -  KBS offers 8 chapters covering basic structure and an additional 30 chapters of useful phrases! Each lesson offers full audio and a flash read along! This is one of the most professional sites I have found. It feels like something you should be paying for.
2. learkorean.com - lk.com offers 13 lessons of grammar and structure lessons.I was origionaly put online as a resource for a university Korean course but had been expanded and left online to aid others in their studies.
3. learn-korean.net - A well put together resource containing 15 basic lessons, a forum, wiki, and a konglish->english->konglish dictionary.
4. E-Language School - A pay service that allows guests to participate in the first 7 basic courses. Content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation license.
5. YouTube - There are quite a few videos on YouTube teaching the korean language. Some of the series have dozens even hundreds of videos. Hours of video for free kind of makes paying for audio CDs less attractive.
   • Learn Korean - Learn How to Read and Write Hangul
   • Learn to Speak Korean - Lesson 1 (1 0f 2)
   • Learn Korean: THE KOREAN ALPHABET (part 1: pronunciation)
   • Learn Korean - Picture/Vocabulary (Part1)
   • TKK: Learn Korean
   • Learn Korean Lesson 1
   • Gong Yoo Style Korean Language Tutorial Part 1 of 2
   • learn Korean part 1
   • Learn to Speak Korean - Lesson 1 (1 0f 2)
     • This series of videos has 38 lessons! At around 10 minutes each, this is an AMAZING resource that should not be overlooked.
   • EBS TV Hello Korean 1 of 130
     • 130 more lessons!
6. Korean Alphabet and history.
7. Sogang Korean Program - Offering over 60 lessons in interactive Flash.

More than enough to get you started learning the Korean language.  With all these resources available for free there is one commercial product I do reccomend. The Rosetta Stone learning software is worth the money. If you use these resources and feel like you need more, I suggest you spring for it and give it a try.

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