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KoREa-Canada Blog 2015

a roadmap to reach these goals. More importantly, strongly believe in them and do whatever
it takes to reach them.

Having goals helps you to track your progress and gives you a sense of direction. This
in turns helps to increase motivation, and reduces your chances of giving up. Make your
goals ambitious but realistic. I wrote an entire post dedicated to the importance of goals, so
have a look through it for a more in-depth look at the importance of setting goals.

GeT a Good TeXTBooK, MeTHod
getting a good textbook with which you’ll be able to work with for the next couple of
months is a crucial step is the long and interesting voyage that learning a language is. I’ve
seen a loT of Korean textbooks and learning materials out there, and I’ve tested more than
my fair share. Below I’ve listed what, in my opinion, are easily some of the best ones out
there. Pick one or two (but no more), and go through them in a consistent, regular manner.
It’s as easy as that.

Top picks:
Elementary Korean, Second Edition, by Ross King and Jaehoon Yeon
Korean Made Easy for Beginners, by Seung-eun oh
Korean Made Simple: a beginner’s guide to learning the Korean language, by Billy go
living language Korean, by living language and Jaemin Roh
Spoken World: Korean - a Complete Course for Beginners, by living language
glossika Korean (Mass Sentence Method - for intermediate learners), by glossika

Learn HanGUL

now that you have your newly purchased, glossy
shiny textbook, it’s time to learn Hangul(한글). Yep, it’s
one of the very first things you should do before getting
too absorbed in your studies.

So what is “Hangul”? Very simply put, Hangul is the
Korean alphabet and the official script of both South
and north Korea(한국어). For over a millennium and
th
up until the first half of the 20 century, Korean was

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