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This site is a co-production between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council. Both organisations receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access.

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We have designed this site to act in three ways:

Summary

You can search through this extensive database of Internet TV, Web TV or Net TV (whichever you prefer) stations from countries around the world and find stations broadcasting in the language you are learning.

This is a great way for intermediate to advanced learners of a language to get continuous, up-to-date exposure to the language.

Summary

This is yet another way to connect with people around the world and learn languages through the web. This site is geared towards expatriates and classified ads can be posted from cities around the world.

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Hello and welcome to expatriates.com - the community web site created for and by expatriates and internationally minded people everywhere. We invite you to:

Free Database of Multilingual Phrases

This is a good site for finding (and in some cases listening to) basic and survival phrases in many languages.

The site also has a language exchange community where you can find language partners to learn with through the web.

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Phrasebase Language Learning Resources

Your Conversational Language Learning Resource Center and Community

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KBS WORLD Radio, the voice of Korea, is the nation's sole foreign language promotional broadcast of Korea for the entire world. Its maiden transmission was aired in a 15-minute English broadcast back in August 15th, 1953 under the station name "The Voice of Free Korea". KBS WORLD Radio now broadcasts in Korean, Japanese, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic and German as well, for a total of 11 languages. The station was renamed "Radio Korea" in March 1973, and again renamed 'Radio Korea International', in August 1994, in a bid to better reflect the station's increasingly globalized mission.

Comments

This is an excellent resource for learning Korean. KBS has done a great web tutorial for Korean learners, complete with clear lessons, audio and practical things to know.

They have sections on understanding the Korean language, upon arrival in Korea and living in Korea, with such topics as airport lingo, basic conversational, at the post office, in a restaurant, in a subway, renting a car, going shopping, discussing the weather, hobbies and plenty more.

Visit Let's Learn Korean.

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A straight-forward learn Korean site, good information, strong vocabulary structure.

Choose a topic:

* The Korean Alphabet
* Basic Conversational Phrases
* Parts of the Body
* Members of the Family
* Vocabulary
* Numbers
* Asking for Directions
* Grammar

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Comments

This site has a great introduction for people learning Korean. It is good and free place to start your learning process, or brush up of some of your rusty knowledge.

As you can see in the text above from the site, there is info about a variety of topics such as members of the family, basic conversational phrases, asking for directions and numbers.

Throughout the lessons you can click on audio icons to hear audio samples of the various concepts introduced on the site.

Visit An Introduction to Korean.

From the site:

Korean, a language spoken by about 63 million people in South Korea, North Korea, China, Japan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The relationship between Korean and other languages is not known for sure, though some linguists believe it to be a member of the Altaic family of languages. Grammatically Korean is very similar to Japanese and about 70% of its vocabulary comes from Chinese.

The Korean alphabet was invented in 1444 and promulgated it in 1446 during the reign of King Sejong (r.1418-1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty. The alphabet was originally called Hunmin jeongeum, or "The correct sounds for the instruction of the people", but has also been known as Eonmeun (vulgar script) and Gukmeun (national writing). The modern name for the alphabet, Hangeul, was coined by a Korean linguist called Ju Si-gyeong (1876-1914).

Comments

An excellent overview of the Korean alphabet. Bravo again to Omniglot.com!

Visit the Omniglot.com Korean Alphabet Resource Page.