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Re:Looking for a friend and pratice with my Korean...
Hi Shronda,
I am Jaewoo, Korean. Very nice to meet you.
I have checked your profile briefly and I've found you are also interested in Chinese and Japanese. As you know, almost all Eastern Asian languages have their own letters (or scripts) and you cannot stress too much the importance of mastering or memorizing the letters first. So, I suggest you that if you do not read/write the Korean letters (Han-Gul, ÇѱÛ), it would be better to do first.
If you already master them, actually it is not very hard to improve your Korean. Though its grammar, vacabulary and pronunciation are totally different from those of English, your mother tongue, once you can read Korean, then I am sure that it is just the matter of time to advance your language still.
I think, it may be not difficult to find a good web-site for learning Korean letters.
Secondly, after learning the letter, you need to understand the concept/differences of the polite(or formal) form and the familiar(or informal) form in Korean. As you know, there are specific forms of grammar (verb-changing, using special nouns, etc.) for expressing respect, reverence or politeness in Korean. It is very subtle and difficult ot catch it to non-native speakers. But, in my opinion and based on my experience of teaching Korean for foreigners, it is very essential to perfectly understand those things from the first time.
I would like to help you out to improve your Korean, whenever! In return, I could improve my English, too. But, I am not a Gold-member, and I don't know how to contact you directly because in this site we cannot exchange our email addresses by the rule.
Anyway, good luck! Don't worry about the complexity of Korean grammar!
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Language pair: Korean; English
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