Learning Korean: Tips, websites, books?

These recommendations assume you've learned Hangul. If you've already learned Hangul and think I'm an idiot for even proposing the possibility that you hadn't, then ignore this. If you haven't learned Hangul, you will get a whole lot of nowhere until you do.

Beginner/generally useful:

http://endic.naver.com/

http://wordshowers.willkern.com/

http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/

http://lang-8.com/

Upper beginner/intermediate:

http://www.language.berkeley.edu/korean/10/

http://koreanselfstudyisntlame.blogspot.com/

청개구리의 눈물 by Hye-Sook Wang

Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook by Andrew Sangpil Byon

Why don't you go to this website instead. Since you are going to Korea, you can meet Koreans before you go and make friends and that way before you get there you will already have people to hang out with! Hopefully it is not too late?! I just saw that you asked this 3 years ago. But you should def check this site out and sign up, best way to learn Korean I think is from someone whose its native language. And most use Skype or KaKao to communicate.

http://mykoreanfriends.com/invite.php?recoid=Brend...

Use that link to get signed up. So they can see I sent you. Hopefully it is not too late!

I am on there most of the time, let me know if you need any help and I can help you! See ya! ^^

Go to Asia. I find it easier to learn another language if you visit the country that speaks it. Knowing little at the start, but ending up with knowing a lot.

This site (http://www.infocobuild.com/language/korean/korean.... is useful in that it contains many online resources for learning Korean, covering various aspects required to learn the language.

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go to http://www.kosnet.go.kr/ its useful for beginners