I hope you don't mind me posting, I'm just curious about others and how long you all have been learning and how you were taught.
I started learning Korean by myself exactly about a year already, but I haven't been at it constantly like I would like to, and although I can understand how it works, my grammar still needs to be worked on.
First started learning how to write, read, and pronounce Hangul with various webpages, then I turned to apps for iPhone and Android.
I learned to write Hangul using Korean 123 Reading/Writing Practice (iOS/Android). It's a childish app, but very helpful. I liked it, and for the numbers it pronounced both Sino and Korean.
After I learned Hangul, and pronunciation; I learned most about syllable blocks with this lesson from KlearTextbook. And for numbers I usually refer to Omniglot and read from the Hangul, not romanization.
I learn different words everyday by either translator, shows, and asking Korean speakers. Then I try to make a sentence with what I know about grammar and particles, which I also learned from the KlearTextbook lecture slides, then I ship off my sentence to a Korean speaker, and they correct me on it; because I've made sentences that translated well in Translator, but when I showed it to a Korean speaker they couldn't understand the sentence at all.
So it's pretty helpful to have a chat buddy (and KakaoTalk).
You can find people for language exchange easily at Sharedtalk.com, but most of them are wanting to learn English, but you'll get the ones who like to share their knowledge on Korean culture and are willingly to help you from time to time. Other places you can chat with Koreans are Dokidoki Postbox (iOS/Android) and Fav Talk (iOS/Android).
Then once your vocabulary is pretty good you can try having a nice (or hilarious) chat with a Korean bot like SimSimi or FakeTalk (Android)
FakeTalk Chats
I started learning Korean by myself exactly about a year already, but I haven't been at it constantly like I would like to, and although I can understand how it works, my grammar still needs to be worked on.
First started learning how to write, read, and pronounce Hangul with various webpages, then I turned to apps for iPhone and Android.
I learned to write Hangul using Korean 123 Reading/Writing Practice (iOS/Android). It's a childish app, but very helpful. I liked it, and for the numbers it pronounced both Sino and Korean.
After I learned Hangul, and pronunciation; I learned most about syllable blocks with this lesson from KlearTextbook. And for numbers I usually refer to Omniglot and read from the Hangul, not romanization.
I learn different words everyday by either translator, shows, and asking Korean speakers. Then I try to make a sentence with what I know about grammar and particles, which I also learned from the KlearTextbook lecture slides, then I ship off my sentence to a Korean speaker, and they correct me on it; because I've made sentences that translated well in Translator, but when I showed it to a Korean speaker they couldn't understand the sentence at all.
So it's pretty helpful to have a chat buddy (and KakaoTalk).
You can find people for language exchange easily at Sharedtalk.com, but most of them are wanting to learn English, but you'll get the ones who like to share their knowledge on Korean culture and are willingly to help you from time to time. Other places you can chat with Koreans are Dokidoki Postbox (iOS/Android) and Fav Talk (iOS/Android).
Then once your vocabulary is pretty good you can try having a nice (or hilarious) chat with a Korean bot like SimSimi or FakeTalk (Android)
FakeTalk Chats
You can see how much my Korean is limited, hahaha.
