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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In today’s news lesson we’ll meet the host of the soon-to-be-released Korean Survival Phrase series. Keith Kim drops by the studio to introduce himself and talk about the upcoming series. Korean Survival Phrases will be produced by the same people that brought you JapanesePod101.com, but will be treated as an entirely seperate project with its own website. Today we’ll tell you more about it.
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51 Responses to “News #43 - Korea Class”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, is anyone up adding Korean to their resume?
Saturday at 7:45 pm
I’d quite like to visit South Korea, so will be taking a look at the survival phrases. However I’m already trying to do too many things at once, so how seriously I take this is a little uncertain. Tell me about some of the great things to see in Korea to encourage me
Miki-san, get well soon. お大事に。
Saturday at 8:24 pm
This should be great! I’m looking forward to the Korean version of Japanesepod101!
Saturday at 10:13 pm
Sugoi. I would love to study korean
Another Asian language to my list of 10 languages to learn. Haha
As Alan said; Miki-san, get well soon!
Saturday at 10:55 pm
I’d love to study Korean, then I could practice it with my Korean friends and they would really help me out with it!
みきさん 私は、みきさんがすぐにより良いと感じることを望みます
Sunday at 12:21 am
Hi everyone! 久々!

I’m looking forward to the Korean Survival Phrases ’cause I don’t know anything about Korean language and culture, but I’d really like to learn a lot about them.
I’m confident that JP101 will definitely come out with another great success!!!
Keith-san, がんばってください!
美樹さん、お大事に!
カルロ
Sunday at 12:31 am
That’s great! I’d love to learn korean, even though it might be hard to handle with Japanese, Mandarin, and Hebrew
Sunday at 4:07 am
That’s a really great idea !
I’ve been thinking about learning korean for some months now, but french books on korean aren’t so great, and while I tried listening to the NHK korean lessons when I was in Japan last month, all it did was mess with my head !
Now it seems Jpod 101 will (once more) answer all of my expectations ! Yeah ! I just can’t wait for next month !
Miki-san, I hope you get better real soon. Take care of yourself !
Sunday at 7:34 am
I’m already studying it. =) Please add it at all costs. The demand would be great, especially in the states.
Sunday at 8:14 am
I’m looking forward to Korean Survival Phrases!
If this develops into KoreanPod101, you really need to recruit Our Vickyちゃん™! /
™
Oh, btw みなさん、I have a new blog post on the blog page. Click the “Blog” tab at the top of the page to check it out! I’m looking forward to your comments.
Sunday at 8:16 am
Danielさん、
Wow, another Daniel who is interested in the same languages as me. Who’d a thunk it?
Why Hebrew?
Sunday at 9:09 am
This is great! I can’t wait to learn some (more) Korean! I have met a lot of Koreans in Canada, where I live.
Japanesepod101 teaches Japanese right!
Now, if I could find a French equivalent to japanesepod101.com, then I’d be set.
Sunday at 11:32 am
I’m listening to this lesson again…
Is Keith our resident Sumo expert? I recognise his voice from somewhere…
Sunday at 12:10 pm
this would be great!!!
Korean is another language i would love to learn…….
Sunday at 2:53 pm
i love korean food!!!
Sunday at 3:44 pm
Awesome. You guys are going to be filling a much needed gap in the language podcast world. I’ve been wanting to learn a bit of Korean for a long time.
I can’t wait.
Sunday at 6:12 pm
In response to Daniel’s remark: I definitely believe Korean is more difficult than Hebrew. Actually, when I stayed at a kibbutz to learn the language, I met a lot of nice people from Korea (students like me). Since I was fascinated by their language, they tried hard to teach me some basics. However, now more than ten years later, I’m reading “Ha’arets”, but in Korean I can only say “bon appetit!”…eh… mani tezeou… or “mashehu kaze”
.
I hope our new teacher Keith has even more patience than my Korean friends, so I finally will learn the correct pronounciation.
Sunday at 6:22 pm
Hey, look. Someone with the same username as me, too.
Sunday at 9:14 pm
ive been wanting to do korean too for a while now.
Monday at 1:02 am
I’ll stick to Japanese myself. One Asian language is enough for my little brain.
But I’m sure it we’ll be very nice for those who wants to learn Corean…
Monday at 9:35 am
Hi JapanesePod101.com and everyone else,
I’ve been a huge listener of the show for the past six months but this is actually my first time writing here.
JapanesePod101.com is certainly a great tool to learn Japanese with, but at the same time it’s so enjoyable and fun, and I think a lot of people will enjoy learning Korean through jp101
I’m Korean and living in Korea myself but I was in China for a couple of months when Peter san came over to Seoul - too bad because I was really hoping to meet you someday.
But if anyone from jp101 (Am I allowed to shorten JapanesePod101.com to jp101? haha) is planning to come over to Seoul, Korea in the future and needs any help, give me an E-mail
I’ll be glad to help you out, or if you already have all the help you need, why not just as a listener
?
私の日本語はまだ上手まではなかったですけれども、日本語勉強するのについて本当に大きな興味があるからJapanesepod101をずっと聞いてます。韓国語のサバイバルレスン、期待しています!
Monday at 12:15 pm
Fantastic Japanese series - this makes me look forward to
the Korean series - thank you.
Mike K.
Tuesday at 1:31 am
Hi everyone! Thanks for the positive feedback. I’m really looking forward to get this project moving going!! I’m telling you, you’ll find this project fun and easy :]
Don’t forget to tell all your friends!
Tuesday at 1:37 am
Keith, keep up the good work!! 열심히 하시고 재미있는 레슨 만들어 주세요. 이미 주변의 외국인 친구들에게 많이 소개하고 있어요
기대하겠습니다 ^^
Tuesday at 6:14 am
It’s a great idea, and I look forward to it . . . watching ‘Dae Jang Geum’ in Korean and Japanese has been an experience. Keith, no offence, but please try to have as many native speakers do the dialogues as possible, for the most authentic accent.
Tuesday at 6:50 am
Wow thats awesome. I always wanted to learn korean
wish you the best of luck!
Tuesday at 4:13 pm
I’m inspired. I’m looking for an online explanation of Hangeul, but can’t find anything that I understand… All the books in Shanghai about Korean are entirely in Hangeul, much like all of the Japanese books are in Kana…
たすけて!
Tuesday at 8:16 pm
みなさん、心配してくれてありがとう
もう大丈夫、元気です
韓国語は私も興味があります
おもしろそうですね!
Keithさん、頑張って下さい!
Wednesday at 9:58 am
みき様、お大事になってよかったですね。毎週のblogを書いてくれて有難う御座いま~す!
Wednesday at 4:46 pm
I’m really looking forward to Korean class
(= 한국어 강좌 기대할께요!!! )
Thursday at 5:53 pm
I just want to say thank you! My girlfriend is Korean, and I have wanted to learn her language for some time. Unfortunately, America has very few good resources (especially podcasts) for learning Korean. I’m sure that JapanesePod101.com’s Korean lessons will be just as great as their Japanese classes, and I really hope that the survival phrases series becomes a full-fledged language-learning course.
Thursday at 6:49 pm
maxiewawa,
I’ve used this tutorial website (in English) to learn about Hangeul: http://langintro.com/kintro/toc.htm. It has recordings of the vowels, which help me a lot, but there are no recordings of the consonants and their sound shifts. The website is just an introduction, but it goes into enough depth that I feel like I got a good start to learning Korean.
It has information about topics other than the alphabet here: http://langintro.com/kintro/index.htm. The link in the middle of the page, “Images of Seoul,” is an introduction to tourism (it’s a little outdated, though).
I hope this helps,
Dean
Thursday at 7:07 pm
The Korean survival phrases are a great idea. I hope it evolves in to it’s own JP101. I can’t wait to start learning!
Friday at 8:30 am
Hi Minnasan,
I just listened to this ‘korea class’ news. As a korean, I’m so glad that you came up with an idea of having korean language lessons! It is very very true that Korean grammar is similar to the Japanese one. Those who are learning Japanese should try learning Korean, too.
Those will see how Japanese and Korean are connected which is very interesting.:) I’ll be looking forward to the Korean language lessons.
It’s the first time I post something on here.
Minnasan, kyou mo tanoshii ichinichi wo sugoshite kudasaine! ^_^
Sunday at 4:57 pm
Hey Dean, thanks for the helpful link.
I’m trying to type in Korean though, but I find it really hard.
For instance, the Hangul which i understand to sound like ‘m’ ㅁ
is under the ‘a’ key, and ㄴ which sounds like ‘n’ is under the ’s’ key on my QWERTY keyboard.
Am I missing something? Have I just got the Hangul the wrong way? Or is it something to do with my computer set up?
Monday at 1:11 pm
No, you’re not missing anything.
The consonants are to the right and the vowels to the left on the Korean keyboard layout.
There are stickers you can buy for your keyboard.
It could get a bit tricky otherwise.
Peter in Sydney..
Friday at 3:51 am
maxiewawa,
I’m glad I could help you out!
The first time I tried to type in Korean, I was just as surprised that typing the “m” key for ㅁ did not work.
Peter in Sydney, actually, the consonants are on the left of the keyboard, and the vowels are on the right.
The other groups of letters (simple consonants, double consonants, aspirated consonants, simple vowels, diphthongs and iotized vowels [the “y” vowels]) are kept together, which made learning to type Hangeul much easier for me than if they were spread out like my US keyboard is.
I found a decent picture of a Korean keyboard on wikipedia when I searched for “keyboard layout.” Number 5.2 in that article covers typing in Hangeul. The keyboard layout that Peter from Sydney and I were describing is the Dubeolsik layout.
Dean
Monday at 6:25 am
OMG!!!! 本とにとてもたのしみぢあよね!YAY!!
Korean Too??? Japaneseのみなさん最高でした!がんばってKeithさん!よろしくお願いします!
^________^
Monday at 6:31 am
p。s Mikiさん おだいじに!^__^¥
Tuesday at 11:38 am
Sorry.
Left and right confusion! -Dean is right of course.
Peter
안녕! (-See, it works!! So, when’s the class?)
Sunday at 12:29 am
Hi, Minasan
)
It’s first time to leave a comment here.
I just wonder when and where I can get Korean classes.
I have a boyfriend who is Australian, and I want him to learn Korean. (I am not sure if he wants it also
I hope Korean classes to be as good as Japanese pod 101.
April from Seoul, Korea
Sunday at 9:18 pm
When is the Korean class starting? I’m anxiously awaiting!
Sunday at 10:42 pm
Hear Hear! We’ve been waiting so long that I’ve already memorised and forgotten all of the Hangul, and now I have to start all over again!
Tuesday at 7:31 am
Wow. This is a great development! As a Korean myself (though living abroad at the moment), I’m really happy about the news.
Typing Korean words are quite rhythmic indeed because Korean words are made of consonant-vowel or consonant-vowel-consonant so you type left, right, left, right, like that
Keith-san, Ganbatte!
Wednesday at 1:12 pm
When are these Korean courses going up? Me and my friend are taking a trip there and staying with his family and i want to impress them! http://www.japanesepod101.com/wp-images/smilies/icon_cool.gif
Wednesday at 2:13 pm
I’m looking forward to Survival Korean! My company works with a Korean company in California and it will be handy to have some basic phrases!
Thursday at 4:25 am
WOW!
Korean classes
But everyone do you still think the same after what happen at VT:???:
S_R_C
Sunday at 8:55 pm
Hi hi !!
Just wondering, when will these Korean classes be starting..? Or have they already begun and I’ve missed it..??
Looking forward to them!!
-세라
Tuesday at 8:33 pm
Mina-san, O-matase shimashita! Korean survival phrases have begun here:
http://www.survivalphrases.com
This is just the start for Korean, so よろしくお願いします!
Tuesday at 10:16 pm
は~い。
But shouldn’t we really be saying this in Japanese? Although I’m quite confident that よろしくお願いします isn’t in any language other than Japanese…
I did this little experiment with a Korean student of mine. Just kept giving her sweets to hear her say ‘thank you’. Basically I did it to reinforce lesson 1.
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=144011
Tuesday at 10:17 pm
Oops… 2nd line shouldn’t be ’shouldn’t we really be saying this in Japanese?’, but ’shouldn’t we really be saying this in Korean?’
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